Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead – Application Maintenance & Support (AMS) - with hands-on experience for driving development, and maintenance of mission critical enterprise-grade Digital Health applications. This role involves hands-on experience for fixing defects, implementing enhancements, and ensuring high-quality deliverables. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in programming languages, web development frameworks, databases, and cloud platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Software Maintenance & Enhancements
- Maintain and improve existing applications for stability and performance.
- Analyze and resolve defects promptly using root cause analysis.
- Implement new features and enhancements aligned with business needs.
- Technical Leadership
- Define technical implementation and design for full-stack solutions.
- Hands-on Technical expertise, conduct code reviews and enforce coding standards.
- Mentor team members and collaborate with Architects, Product Managers and Program Managers.
- Development & Integration
- Build scalable, secure applications using Java, Spring Boot, and modern front-end frameworks (React/Angular).
- Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Integrate front-end components with back-end services for seamless user experience.
- Monitoring & Observability
- Implement observability measures and performance monitoring.
- Create and maintain DataDog or New Relic dashboards for application health and metrics.
- Ensure smooth handover to Cloud Operations with proper documentation and monitoring setup.
- Quality & Best Practices
- Cross functional impact analysis.
- Ensure code quality through unit, integration, and regression testing.
- Optimize application performance.
- Collaboration
- Work closely with Development team, QA engineers, and DevOps teams.
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
- Analytical thinking
- Structured problem‑solving, validating with data, and converge on fixes.
- Ability to translate product goals into measurable engineering outcomes and prioritize tradeoffs.
Key Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience
- 10–12+ years in software engineering with 3+ years as a Tech Lead, still actively coding.
- Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs.
- Front‑end experience with React, Angular, TypeScript, HTML5/CSS3.
- Cloud & platform skills: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway), Redis, RabbitMQ.
- Observability: hands‑on with DataDog, New Relic (dashboards, monitors, APM, logs)
- Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes.
- Strong problem‑solving, communication, and stakeholder management.
Work hours: 1 PM to 10 PM IST
Relocation assistance: Yes
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