Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.

Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.

Candescent is a U.S.based financial technology company that powers Intelligent Banking for banks and credit unions. The company helps financial institutions move beyond traditional digital banking by unifying data, channels, and real-time intelligence into a single, cohesive platform that delivers adaptive, human‑centered experiences across every interaction.

Staff Software Engineer (Microsoft, AI‑Assisted Development)

LOCATION: Hyderabad, India GRADE: 13

Position Summary & Key Areas of Responsibility

The primary responsibility is to develop high-quality, scalable software solutions as a contributing member of a highly motivated Agile engineering team. This role will leverage modern AI-assisted developer tools to improve productivity, code quality, and engineering velocity.

Key Responsibilities

- Take full ownership of requirements analysis, technical design, development, testing, and deployment of integration services.
- Manage end-to-end delivery life cycle including production readiness, monitoring, and support.




- Ensure that features and services delivered by the team meet performance, reliability, and security expectations.
- Maintain accountability for addressing production issues, driving RCAs, and implementing long-term fixes.
- Develop high-quality, maintainable, and reusable software components that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
- Leverage AI-powered development tools such as Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar GenAI IDE assistants to accelerate coding, refactoring, and test generation.
- Contribute to architectural discussions and ensure solutions follow best practices for scalability and maintainability.
- Support modernization of existing integration components into cloud-native, reactive architectures.
- Collaborate with SRE and operations teams to improve system reliability, observability, and operational workflows.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to secure coding and engineering best practices.
- Improve developer productivity through tools, automation, and CI/CD pipeline enhancements.
- Promote the adoption of observability, proactive monitoring, and automated quality checks.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on design patterns, testing, debugging, and production readiness.
- Contribute to cross-team design reviews and technical discussions with product, QA, DevOps, and architecture teams.
- Assist in evaluating technical risks and ensuring compliance with security and regulatory requirements.




- Stay current with AI, software engineering, and cloud-native trends , disseminating knowledge and defining best practices.
- Collaborate with Solution Management, Product, Security, and Platform teams across the organization.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

- 10+ years of experience in software design and development.

- 6+ years of experience in the preferred technology stack: Core Technologies

- Microsoft Full stack design & development

- Microsoft.NET 8.0 or above, C#, C++ :

- AngularJS, Javascript, HTML, CSS, NodeJS, Typescript, Angular 15 and above

- Object Oriented programming

- Windows programming

- API based design and development using REST & SOAP frameworks

- Experience in deployment and troubleshooting in K8 environment

- Good hands-on database on relational database like - SQL Server, Oracle :

- Expertise in design patterns like - MVC, Microservice architecture

- Deep understanding of Software Development and Quality Assurance best practices

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills

- Experience operating in an Agile environment, with a deep understanding of agile development principles.

- Distributed systems fundamentals

- Kubernetes, Docker, containers

- Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

- Familiarity with Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma Lean principles.

AI & Contemporary Engineering Skillsets (New)

- Hands‑on experience using AI coding assistants such as:

- Microsoft Copilot / GitHub Copilot :

- Cursor or equivalent AI‑first IDEs

- Code generation and refactoring

- Test generation and coverage improvement

- Documentation and API

📌 Staff Software Engineer - .NET Fullstack Architect (Hyderabad)
🏢 Candescent (Digital First Holdings
📍 Hyderabad