Role description
- Develop modern front-end experiences using frameworks such as React.
- Build backend services, APIs, and microservices using production-grade engineering practices.
- Design and implement REST and/or GraphQL APIs for internal and external consumption.
- Participate in technical design discussions and help define scalable architecture patterns.
- Use modern AI-assisted and agentic coding tools to accelerate development, refactoring, testing, documentation, and code review.
- Operate within a controlled SDLC environment, including code reviews, approvals, change management, validation, documentation, and release controls.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Key Skillsets Must-Haves
- Demonstrated experience using agentic coding and AI-assisted development workflows in a professional engineering context.
- Familiarity with frontier LLMs and modern coding tools such as OpenAI/Codex, Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms.
- Ability to use AI coding tools responsibly for code generation, refactoring, test creation, documentation, debugging, and design exploration.
- Robust understanding of prompt engineering, context management, model limitations, code validation, security review, and human-in-the-loop engineering practices.
- Strong front-end engineering experience with React, modern JavaScript/TypeScript, component-based design, and responsive UI development.
- Strong backend engineering experience with Python, Java, or comparable enterprise-grade languages.
- Experience designing and building APIs, including REST and/or GraphQL.
- Experience building microservices and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with containerized and cloud-native platforms, including Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience working with cloud platforms; Azure experience preferred.
- Strong database and data modeling experience across relational, analytical, or cloud data platforms; Snowflake experience preferred.
- Robust understanding of software design patterns, system architecture, scalability, observability, and maintainability.
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment with production ownership.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with engineering, product, business, and architecture stakeholders. Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging platforms, or streaming data patterns.
- Experience with semantic data models, analytics platforms, BI tools, or data product development.
- Experience in financial services, asset management, private markets, trading, risk, operations, or enterprise data environments.
- Familiarity with security, entitlementing, auditability, and compliance requirements in enterprise software.
- Ramp quickly into the technology stack, engineering standards, and relevant business domains.
- Demonstrate effective use of AI-assisted coding tools while maintaining strong code quality, security, and review discipline.
- Build trusted working relationships with engineering teammates and cross-functional stakeholders.
- First 12 Months
- Ship multiple production-grade features, services, APIs, or platform capabilities.
- Help establish strong engineering practices around AI-assisted and agentic coding workflows.
- Reduce technical debt and improve developer velocity through thoughtful automation, reusable patterns, and documentation.
- Operate as a reliable senior engineer with ownership across design, delivery, support, and continuous improvement. Interview Process Technical interviews will focus on full stack engineering, system design, API development, cloud-native delivery, production ownership, and demonstrated experience using AI-assisted or agentic coding tools in professional software development.
Skills
react.js,javascript,python,java,microservices,api development, About UST
UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.
📌 Lead Ii - Software Engineering (Mumbai)
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