Lead Software Engineer

🕒 February 26

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Smart Working

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

Smart Working is a recruitment service specializing in sourcing and providing top-tier software developers from around the world to meet the needs of businesses. With a robust vetting process that includes technical assessments and background checks, Smart Working ensures that clients receive highly skilled developers adept in various programming languages and frameworks. The company focuses on flexible and remote hiring solutions, allowing businesses to efficiently scale their development teams while benefiting from significant cost savings.

📋 Description

• Lead a cross-functional engineering team delivering features and enhancements end-to-end, from technical design through to deployment and ongoing support • Provide line management and pastoral care for a small team of engineers, supporting performance, wellbeing, and professional development • Take technical ownership of full-stack applications and services, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable • Drive technical design decisions, review and approve code, and resolve complex technical issues • Champion engineering best practices, including automated testing across functional, acceptance, performance, and security domains • Design and develop cloud-deployable services, continuously improving application architecture and infrastructure • Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines to support reliable and automated deployments • Collaborate closely with product, platform, and operations teams to ensure systems are observable, resilient, and operationally sound • Contribute to planning, estimation, scheduling, and resourcing to support predictable delivery • Communicate technical designs, risks, and progress clearly to senior stakeholders and non-technical audiences • Promote a strong engineering culture focused on quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement • Mentor engineers, support knowledge sharing, and contribute to recruitment and onboarding • Maintain clear and appropriate technical documentation to support long-term maintainability

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience • Strong experience operating as a Senior or Lead Full Stack Software Engineer • Proven experience leading engineers and delivering software end-to-end • Deep understanding of modern software design patterns and engineering best practices • Hands-on experience with cloud-based architectures and services • Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices • Experience building scalable, resilient, secure, and observable systems • Strong commitment to code quality, maintainability, and automated testing • Confident technical decision-maker with strong code review skills • Experience mentoring engineers and supporting their professional growth • Excellent communication skills, able to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders • Ability to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into robust technical solutions • Awareness of security, resilience, and operational risk in regulated environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Fixed Shifts: 12:00 PM - 9:30 PM IST (Summer) | 1:00 PM - 10:30 PM IST (Winter) • No Weekend Work: Real work-life balance, not just words • Day 1 Benefits: Laptop and full medical insurance provided • Support That Matters:Mentorship, community, and forums where ideas are shared • True Belonging: A long-term career where your contributions are valued