23 hours ago
Hyderābād, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, delivery, and enhancement of web solutions and platforms.
- Translate business requirements into architectures, functional flows, and technical specifications aligned with enterprise standards.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for complex components, integrations, and mission-critical web applications and services.
- Drive estimation, delivery planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, and engineering representation in project discussions.
- Govern code quality, performance, security, resiliency, maintainability, documentation, reuse, refactoring, and design-pattern practices.
- Ensure applications meet availability, scalability, extensibility, monitoring, alerting, and operational-readiness standards.
- Lead and coordinate Synchrony and vendor engineers through direction, mentoring, and alignment.
- Define team goals and track delivery, quality, reliability, and productivity metrics.
- Communicate technical decisions, delivery status, trade-offs, and mitigation plans to stakeholders and leadership.
- Support production issues and critical releases through flexible shifts or on-call availability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; six years of relevant experience may substitute for the degree.
- At least four years of software engineering experience and at least two years in a technical leadership or lead engineer role.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and React JS for complex web applications.
- Experience with modern architecture patterns, event-driven systems, highly available services, and performance-focused design.
- Preferred experience with micro-frontends and front-end architecture, including shared components, governance, and build/deploy strategies.
- Working knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native practices, including security, scalability, and cost-aware design.
- Understanding of automation, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, release strategy, SQL and NoSQL data stores, data modeling, and performance tuning.
- Understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, release management, and change/incident management, with the ability to lead technical ceremonies.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or enterprise LLMs while maintaining security, quality, and compliance.
- Strong communication, stakeholder-management, analytical, problem-solving, and technical trade-off communication skills.
Benefits
- Enhanced Flexibility allows work from home or from Synchrony regional engagement hubs in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Pune, Kolkata, or Delhi/NCR.
- Work timing is 2 PM–11 PM IST, with required availability from 06:00 AM–11:30 AM US Eastern Time for India-US meetings and flexibility for remaining hours.
- Occasional commuting or travel to Hyderabad or a regional engagement hub may be required for meetings, training, and culture events.
- The company offers employee benefits and programs supporting work-life integration and well-being, along with career advancement and upskilling opportunities.
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About Synchrony
Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) provides consumer financing and payments solutions—such as private-label and co-branded credit cards, installment loans, and promotional financing—distributed through retailer and healthcare partnerships. It also operates Synchrony Bank, an online bank offering savings products and CDs. Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, the company was spun out of GE’s retail finance business in 2014 and serves millions of U.S. consumers and hundreds of thousands of small and midsize businesses.