Promotions Platform Lead
Chennai (on-site) | Full time | 10-15 years

Wondersoft, a Chennai-based retail technology company, is hiring a Promotions Platform Lead to own the functional and technical direction of its enterprise promotions engine, which calculates offers, discounts and pricing for retail chains at the point of sale. This is a hands-on role combining product ownership, solution architecture and engineering leadership.

What you’ll do

- Own the functional and technical roadmap for the promotions platform, turning complex retail promotion requirements into specifications, business rules and acceptance criteria
- Define behaviour for stacking, priority, exclusions, free products, special pricing and discount blocking, and assess impact on existing customers
- Design solutions across the application, rule-engine, database, API and integration layers
- Guide and review development in Java, Drools, Hibernate and REST services
- Lead performance investigations (JVM memory, connection pooling, slow queries, rule-engine behaviour) on clustered, multi-node deployments
- Review authentication, SSO,



token handling and encryption across the platform
- Lead critical production incidents and root-cause analysis, and mentor engineers and testers

What we’re looking for

- 10-15 years of hands-on enterprise Java, including architecture of high-volume transactional applications
- Hands-on experience with a rule engine (Drools preferred), Hibernate/JPA, REST APIs and enterprise integrations
- Strong SQL and performance tuning on MySQL, MariaDB or SQL Server
- Tomcat, clustered deployments and JVM diagnostics
- Working knowledge of authentication, authorisation and SSO
- Proven production RCA and incident leadership, and the ability to explain trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
- Software product company experience preferred over IT services
- Plus: retail promotions, pricing, loyalty or POS domain, JSP/JavaScript/React, Jenkins CI/CD, AI-assisted coding tools

Candidates based in Chennai only.

Pay: Up to ₹2,200,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person

📌 Promotions Platform Lead (Chennai)
🏢 Wondersoft
📍 Chennai