Lead Software Engineer
Smiths Group plc3 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to multiple development teams.
- Design, assess, review, test, and implement scalable software architectures and design patterns.
- Contribute hands-on to software development and ensure systems are flexible, loosely coupled, reliable, and performant.
- Establish and improve collaborative Agile and Lean software delivery practices.
- Support DevOps automation, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and operational monitoring.
- Embed security, scalability, reliability, and performance into engineering processes and architecture.
- Measure operational metrics and validate that solutions meet customer and business needs.
- Mentor engineers, promote skill development, and drive engineering excellence through reviews and best practices.
- Engage business partners and stakeholders to align priorities, performance metrics, and technical decisions.
- Communicate architecture, plans, insights, and recommendations across the organization, including senior management and executives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Proficiency with Angular 10+, Java, Spring Boot, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern UI frameworks or libraries.
- Expertise in API design, gRPC, RESTful services, scalable web applications, web components, micro-frontends, and responsive UI development.
- Practical experience with Python and/or Golang, microservices, domain-driven design, and distributed systems.
- Experience with PostgreSQL or similar SQL databases and Redis.
- Experience with automated unit and integration testing frameworks such as Jasmine, Jest, Karma, JUnit, PyTest, Go testing, or Testify.
- Experience with Git or equivalent source control and branching strategies, Linux, networking, scripting, debugging, and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of application security, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, OWASP guidelines, and secure coding practices.
- Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, build and release pipelines, and CI/CD.
- Understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP and IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS service models.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and JIRA.
- Knowledge of software quality assurance, event-driven architectures, stream processing, real-time analytics, data democratization, and AI/ML platform approaches.
- Strong architecture, mentoring, communication, stakeholder management, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Working experience with UX is an added advantage.
Benefits
- The role requires presence in the office four days per week.
- Provides training and career growth opportunities locally and globally.
- Offers an inclusive environment with strong leadership and a focus on safety and wellbeing.
- Provides flexible benefits supporting health, wellbeing, financial, lifestyle, and family needs.
- Offers the opportunity to work for a global safety and detection technology leader in an international, multicultural environment.
Tech Stack
AngularAWSAzureCSSDockerGitGoGoogle Cloud PlatformgRPCHTMLJasmineJavaJavaScriptJestJUnitKarmaKubernetesLinuxPostgreSQLpytestPythonRedisSpring BootSQLTypeScript
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About Smiths Group plc
Smiths Group plc designs, manufactures, and services engineered products for industrial, energy, aerospace, security, and medical markets through businesses including John Crane, Smiths Detection, Flex‑Tek, and Smiths Interconnect. It sells equipment and aftermarket services to governments and commercial customers worldwide, generating recurring service revenue alongside product sales. Founded in 1851 and headquartered in London, it is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange.