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PennEngineering
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead)
Location: Bangalore, India
Employment Type: Full-time
Relevant Experience: 8-10 Years
Team Scope: Technical lead for a team of 3-5 engineers
About PennEngineering
PennEngineering offers innovative fastening solutions for a variety of applications across industries like
Automotive Electronics, Consumer Electronics, Datacom and more.
Job Summary
The Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead) is a senior technical contributor responsible for the design, development, and ongoing evolution of one of the companys digital platform applications.

This is a player-coach role: roughly 70% hands-on architecture, design and code, and 30% leading the delivery cadence of a team of 3- 5 engineers.
You will take an existing application, run and improve it in its current state, and carry it forward as the underlying technology evolves, including onto newer platforms and architectures, while setting the teams technical direction and owning its delivery. Over time the role also brings intelligent, AI-driven capabilities into the application to extend what it can do for users.
The role also owns the Scrum process for the team. There is no separate Scrum Master, so the Tech Lead runs sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives, protects the team from mid- sprint churn, and reports delivery health into the digital PMO. This is a technical leadership role rather than a people-management position; you stay deep in the code while guiding the engineers around you and ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, and aligned with enterprise IT standards.
Key Responsibilities
1. Application Ownership & Engineering
Take end-to-end ownership of a digital platform application: its architecture, code quality, reliability, and roadmap.
Design, develop, and maintain applications, services, and integrations across the digital platform ecosystem. Modernize and evolve the application as the technology landscape changes, including moving it onto newer platforms and architectures with minimal disruption to users.
Build intelligent, AI-driven capabilities into the application, from automation of routine tasks to features that reason over context and act on the users behalf.

Build and support APIs, data flows, and system integrations.
Translate business requirements into technical designs and scalable solutions.
Support web performance optimization (caching strategies, CDN, page speed improvements).
Develop and deploy cloud-based solutions within AWS environments.

Develop and maintain custom themes, plugins, and extensions within CMS platforms where the current application requires it.
Leverage automation and emerging AI tools to improve development efficiency and platform capabilities.
2. Scrum & Agile Delivery Leadership Own the delivery cadence for the team and act as its Scrum lead:
Run the full Scrum cycle for a team of 3-5 engineers: sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Own and groom the technical backlog with the Product Owner and business stakeholders; translate intake into well-formed, estimable user stories with clear acceptance criteria and a definition of done.
Decompose large initiatives, including platform migrations and re-architecture work, into sprint-sized increments that ship demonstrable value without disrupting users.
Manage sprint capacity, velocity, and forecasting; keep commitments realistic and flag scope or capacity risk early rather than at sprint end.
Identify, track, and remove impediments and cross-team dependencies; escalate blockers with clear options and recommendations.
Protect the team from mid-sprint churn and unmanaged scope change while keeping the backlog responsive to genuine business priority shifts.
Balance feature delivery against technical debt, production support, and platform modernization within each sprint.
Maintain delivery hygiene in the teams tooling (Jira, Monday.com, or similar): accurate boards, burndown, sprint reports, and release notes.
Report sprint and release status, risks, and delivery metrics into the digital PMO and to business stakeholders in clear, non-technical terms.
Run blameless retrospectives and drive continuous improvement in estimation accuracy, cycle time, code review turnaround, and defect escape ra…