Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead to help evolve the Warehouse Control System (MCS) and automation platform from project-based delivery into a scalable, configuration-driven platform, providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers.

What you'll do

• Champion engineering standards that improve quality, maintainability, security, and operational readiness across all solutions.
• Establish and promote development practices that encourage simplicity, reuse, automation, and long-term sustainability.
• Work with architects and engineers to ensure solutions align with platform strategy, architectural principles, and engineering standards.
• Drive technical discussions and contribute to architectural decision-making.
• Partner with architects to define the technical roadmap for MCS and future platform capabilities.
• Drive standardisation, configuration-driven delivery, and reusable integration patterns.
• Reduce custom development through improved platform capabilities and configuration frameworks.
• Identify opportunities to simplify implementations and improve scalability.
• Contribute to technical strategies that improve maintainability and reduce long-term ownership costs.
• Design, develop, and maintain Java-based applications and integrations.
• Build and maintain event-driven solutions using Kafka and related technologies.
• Design scalable communication between warehouse automation systems, enterprise applications, and operational technology platforms.
• Develop APIs and integration frameworks that support both customer implementations and platform capabilities.
• Optimise application performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Drive adoption of CI/CD practices and deployment automation.
• Contribute to modern platform engineering and DevSecOps capabilities.
• Improve containerisation, deployment standards, and environment consistency.
• Promote observability, operational readiness, and system reliability.
• Work closely with Site Reliability Engineering to improve monitoring, deployment confidence, and operational excellence.
• Design integrations for warehouse control systems, automation equipment, robotics, and enterprise applications.
• Troubleshoot complex communication, networking, and system integration issues.
• Contribute to future warehouse capabilities including orchestration, automation intelligence, control systems, and edge technology.
• Support implementation, commissioning, and customer-facing technical activities when required.
• Embrace AI-assisted software development practices and leverage AI tools to improve engineering productivity, quality, and delivery speed.
• Identify opportunities for AI-enabled automation across development and operational processes.
• Support the broader adoption of AI-driven engineering practices within the team.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Java development experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and design patterns.
• Experience building distributed and event-driven systems.
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging technologies.
• Strong understanding of APIs, system integration patterns, and enterprise integrations.
• Experience working with SQL and relational databases.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts including TCP/IP, ports, routing, firewalls, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Docker and containerized applications.
• Experience mentoring developers and leading technical initiatives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills and fluent English.

Nice to have

• Experience with warehouse automation systems (highly desired).
• Experience integrating conveyors, sorters, AMRs, ASRS, robotics platforms, or warehouse control systems (highly desired).
• Understanding of industrial control systems and PLC-based automation environments (highly desired).
• Experience working with WCS, WMS, PLCs, and operational technology integrations (highly desired).
• Experience defining technical roadmaps and driving platform evolution (highly desired).
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Experience with observability and monitoring solutions.
• Knowledge of cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications.
• Experience working closely with Site Reliability Engineering teams.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development and developer productivity tools.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.