Lead Developer

Overview

Lead Developer role providing technical leadership and hands-on engineering for complex initiatives, ensuring delivery of scalable, resilient, and secure software.

What you'll do

• Own technical design, development, solution quality, and delivery outcomes.
• Lead design and implementation of backend and full-stack applications using modern frameworks, cloud-native technologies, and microservices architecture.
• Provide hands-on engineering support across coding, code reviews, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and guidance.
• Drive feature ownership from estimation through deployment with risk mitigation and delivery focus.
• Lead engineering best practices including security, code quality, vulnerability management, automated testing, and maintainability.
• Oversee branch management, code integration, release readiness, and merge activities.
• Lead production issue resolution with root-cause analysis and preventive measures.

What you'll need

• 8-12+ years of professional software development experience, including leading enterprise-scale delivery in Agile environments.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile (Scrum/Kanban), system architecture, and distributed systems design.
• Experience leading end-to-end feature delivery and coordinating cross-functional teams with technical dependency management.
• Experience implementing secure software development practices and performance optimization for business-critical applications.
• Proven ability to mentor engineering teams and lead technical guidance and architecture discussions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience considered).

Details

• Location: Bengaluru.
• Work mode: Hybrid; regular responsibilities virtually and in-person at an assigned TransUnion office location for a minimum of two days a week.