Tech & Digital-Lead Software Engineer-Backend

Job Title:

Lead Software Engineer-Backend

Job Details:

Business Unit: IT

Team: Engineering

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Location: Mumbai / Bengaluru

Role Type: IC Role

Travel Required: No

Job Band Range: D1/ D2

JD Created date: 05th March 2024

Job Purpose:

Build, maintain cloud-native business applications at scale.

Develop, publish, secure cloud-native microservices APIs.

Work across enterprise environments for large programs.

Job Responsibilities:

Develop cloud-native microservices using DDD, TDD, REST.

Define, maintain central database.

Develop high performance, responsive backend.

Design, build, code, improve server, applications, databases.

Deliver in agile DevSecOps environment.

Design performant, resilient, highly available services.

Create, maintain, test, debug backend with teams.

Implement user authentication, authorization.

Translate user stories to large-scale technical solutions.

Design, develop, test, implement business function services.

Implement SOA design patterns: Saga, CB, CQRS, event-driven.

Adopt reliability measures: HA, fault tolerance.

Understand cross-platform functionality, compatibility.

Adopt scalability measures: load balancing, partitioning, caching.

Adopt consistency measures: timeouts, retries, pessimistic locking.

Deploy deliverables with advanced monitoring, debugging.

Educational Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, IT.

Key Skills:

Architecture, Cloud Native Development, Agile Practice.

Microservices, API Gateway.

Expert RESTful web services: Java, GoLang, Spring Boot, Nodejs.

Expert middleware, streaming, database: Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB.

Experienced TDD/ADD, automation testing: Junits, Cucumber, Selenium.

Cloud scaling, containerization: K8S, containers.

Service mesh infrastructure layer.

Basic front-end tech: Java, HTML5, CSS3.

Experience Required:

10+ years design, development across platforms, domains.

3+ years cloud-native microservices development, agile methodology.

Major Stakeholders:

Internal: Engineering Leads, Product Owner, Business experts, IT audit, BTG heads.

External: Partners, prospective suppliers.

Skills

minimum exp required : 11 years

Hands-On coding experience, Java / J2EE (Professional),RestAPI (Professional)SpringBoot (Professional) Caching (Professional)Microservices (Professional

About HDFC Bank

HDFC Bank is one of India’s leading private banks. The Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited or HDFC Ltd was among the first financial institutions in India to receive an “in principle” approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a bank in the private sector. This was done as part of RBI’s policy for liberalization of the Indian banking industry in 1994. HDFC Bank was incorporated in August 1994 in the name of HDFC Bank Limited, with its registered office in Mumbai, India. The bank commenced operations as a Scheduled Commercial Bank in January 1995. As of March 31, 2026, the Bank’s distribution network was at 9,689 branches and 21,172 ATMs across 4,175 cities / towns as against 9,455 branches and 21,139 ATMs across 4,150 cities / towns as of March 31, 2025. 50% of the branches are in semi-urban and rural areas. In addition, the Bank has 14,400 business correspondents, which are primarily manned by Common Service Centres (CSC). The Bank’s international operations comprise five branch

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