Lead Engineer - IT

Job Description:

Lead Engineer

Job Profile Summary

We are seeking aLead Engineer with strong hands-on engineering experience in designing, developing, and delivering scalable enterprise applications. This role requires solid technical expertise across full-stack development, API-driven architecture, cloud-enabled delivery, automation quality practices, and the ability to contribute to reliable, secure, and high-performing solutions.

The Lead Engineer will contribute to solution design, develop quality engineering deliverables, support code reviews, and collaborate closely with Technical Leads, Product Owners, architects, developers, QA engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into robust technology solutions. The role is expected to support architecture alignment, code quality, API and integration development, CI/CD adoption, production readiness, and continuous improvement within the delivery team.

Key Skills

• At least8+ years of engineering experience
• Strong communication skills, withpassion for quality and attention to detail
• Experience working across teams and driving alignment across multiple stakeholders
• Significant experience withJava (Spring Boot preferred), React JS , Next JS.
• Strong knowledge ofserver-side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG), and API-driven development
• Significant experience designing and buildingscalable RESTful APIs and microservices
• Hands-on experience withAI-assisteddevelopment tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar platforms to support code generation, refactoring, test creation, debugging, documentation, and developer productivity.
• Ability to use AI coding assistants responsibly, including validating generated code, following secure coding practices, maintaining code review discipline, writing effective prompts, and protecting confidential information.
• Strong understanding ofweb performance optimization, accessibility, and responsive design.
• Experience building applications fromconcept/design → architecture → development → production deployment
• Strong understanding of design patterns and architectural approaches such asMVC, MVVM, layered architecture, microservices, and event-driven architecture
• Experience withauthentication/authorization (OAuth, JWT, SSO)
• Good incloud platforms (AWS) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong understanding ofCI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Use/Integrate with Observability tools – App D, Splunk etc.
• Strong knowledge ofdatabase technologies (SQL/NoSQL – PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)
• Proficient understanding ofcode versioning tools (Git)

Domain Experience (Added Advantage)

Experience working with US Insurance domain (Group Benefits, Billing, Claims, Enrolment, etc.)

Familiarity with platforms or business processes related to MetLife, Sun Life or similar insurers will be a strong advantage Understanding of regulatory, compliance, and customer experience aspects in insurance systems

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Contribute and designend-to-end full-stack solutions across frontend and backend systems
• Review engineers’ pull requests and mentor them oncoding standards, scalability, and best practices
• Collaborate with UX/design teams to ensureconsistent, intuitive, and responsive UI/UX patterns
• Design and developscalable, secure APIs and backend services
• Build and maintainhigh-performance React/Next.js applications
• Lead development ofserver-side rendering and SEO-friendly web applications
• Manage application deployments across environments includingDev, QA, UAT, and Production
• Define and implementCI/CD pipelines for web applications
• Responsible forproduction support (PROD support) on a rotational/on-demand basis, ensuring system stability and quick issue resolution
• Ensure hightest coverage (unit, integration, and UI tests) and enforce quality gates.
• Ability to guide and influence test automation via AI.
• Lead the adoption ofcoding standards, architectural guidelines, and best practices
• Champion the adoption ofAI-assisted development practices using tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, and similar platforms to improve code quality, automation, refactoring, documentation, productivity, and engineering consistency
• Evaluate and recommendnew frontend/backend technologies and frameworks
• Design solutions forsecurity, scalability, and high availability
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to delivercomplex technical initiatives
• Work shift: Work in overlapping time zones with US teams on the East coast as required

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

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