Lead Software Engineer (SQL/.Net/C#/AI)

Overview

Lead the Financial Reporting engineering team, a hands-on technical leadership role building and maintaining mission-critical reports and dashboards for Fortune 500 financial enterprises.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end delivery of Reporting and BI features, from technical design through sprint execution to production, with full accountability for quality and timelines.
• Drive architectural decisions for scalable, high-performance dashboards using Oracle, BI tools, Azure and .NET/C#, creating PoCs, reviewing PRs, and actively contributing code.
• Champion AI-first development practices across the team, mandating and coaching effective use of GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or equivalent AI coding tools as a standard part of the engineering workflow.
• Shape the technical roadmap in partnership with Product, ensuring long-term architectural health is not traded away for short-term velocity.
• Run 1:1s, performance reviews, and growth conversations that support individual development and team retention.
• Enforce engineering standards including code quality gates, branch policies, code freeze discipline, and release management protocols.
• Lead code reviews and architecture discussions, raising the technical floor of every engineer on the team.
• Translate complex data reporting requirements into clean, maintainable, production-ready software.
• Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, and Customer Success to deliver releases that enterprise clients can depend on.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent demonstrated engineering depth.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience designing and developing enterprise SaaS applications on the backend, with deep understanding of databases.
• 2+ years of engineering team management with a proven record of growing senior engineers and retaining high performers.
• Architect/Principal-level deep expertise in relational databases, Oracle PL/SQL, including complex query optimization, stored procedures, performance tuning, and large-scale data handling.
• Very strong command of SQL and data modelling.
• Experience in Reporting/BI on the development side (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik etc.).
• Demonstrated, day-to-day use of AI developer tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) with the ability to coach teams on maximizing their impact.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs using .NET/C# in distributed, enterprise-scale systems.
• Solid grounding in Agile/Scrum delivery, including sprint discipline, backlog ownership, and release management rigor.
• Strong proficiency with Git, branching strategies, and CI/CD practices.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

• Experience in financial domain applications, FinTech or equity management.
• Experience with Azure Cloud.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India (Remote).