Innovate in Bengaluru

This position is based at our on-site office in Bengaluru. Lowe's offers an ultramodern work environment, complete with cutting-edge technology, team-oriented workspaces, an on-site gym and clinic, and other perks to enhance your work experience. - About Lowe’s

- Lowe’s India, the Global Capability Center of Lowe’s Companies Inc., is a hub for driving our technology, business, analytics, and shared services strategy. Based in Bengaluru with over 4,500 associates, it powers innovations across omnichannel retail, AI/ML, enterprise architecture, supply chain, and customer experience. From supporting and launching homegrown solutions to fostering innovation through its Catalyze platform, Lowe’s India plays a pivotal role in transforming home improvement retail while upholding strong commitment to social impact and sustainability. For more information, visit Lowes India. - About the team
- The Freight Hawk team is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for Lowe’s enterprise shipment visibility platform. Freight Hawk plays a critical role in Transportation by enabling real-time, end-to-end shipment transparency, improving shipment data quality, and supporting faster, more reliable supply chain decisions.

What You Will Do -

- Builds awareness and product alignment to enterprise recommended frameworks, tools, technologies, engineering platforms, and architectural design processes.
- Drives operational excellence through disaster recovery and capacity planning, performance, regression and chaos testing, observability alerts and dashboards, and reliability processes and recovery runbooks.
- Deconstructs complex problems into simple solutions that can evolve over time.
- Educates others on engineering standards and best practices, including code quality analysis,



test coverage, security principles (authentication and authorization protocols), and Agile processes.- Continuously explores and recommends new enterprise software components and technologies.
- Continuously works to simplify solutions, optimize processes, remove bottlenecks, and resolve escalated issues.

Key Responsibilities

- Own and drive the technical roadmap for Freight Hawk in alignment with Transportation’s product and business priorities
- Provide architecture leadership and define guardrails for scalable, reliable, and maintainable platform design
- Lead API, event-driven, and data-quality design standards across Freight Hawk capabilities
- Support strategic roadmap initiatives including international, collect, and prepaid shipment visibility
- Lead technical integration with Mercury and other enterprise Transportation platforms
- Drive modernization of carrier integrations, including webhook-based event ingestion and improved event latency
- Improve shipment event completeness, ETA accuracy, carrier latency tracking, and milestone reliability
- Establish observability, monitoring, and data-quality dashboards for operational and business visibility
- Guide the platform’s evolution from shipment tracking to predictive visibility and proactive shipment intelligence
- Reduce execution risk across Mercury, Nexus, DACI, carrier, and downstream consumer integrations
- Partner with product, architecture,



engineering, operations, and business teams to translate roadmap priorities into scalable technical solutions
- Lead design reviews, code reviews, testing strategy, production readiness, and incident response practices
- Mentor engineers and raise overall engineering quality across the team - Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer information systems (CIS), or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
- 7 years of experience in software development or related field
- 6 years of experience in any of the following: software engineering competencies frontend technologies (UI/UX), middleware (microservices and APIs), database technologies, DevOps-
- Hands-on experience with API design, event-driven architecture, microservices, and cloud-native engineering
- Strong understanding of data quality, observability, monitoring, reliability, and production support practices
- Experience integrating with internal and external platforms, third-party providers, or carrier/vendor systems
- Ability to lead technical design discussions and influence cross-functional engineering decisions
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to break down complex platform and integration challenges
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices across design, development, testing, and support
- Strong communication skills with the ability to partner with product, business, architecture, and operations teams

Preferred Qualifications

- Master’s degree in computer science, CIS, or related field
- 6 years of experience writing technical documentation in a software environment, developing and implem

📌 Lead Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Lowe’s
📍 Bengaluru