Technical Lead - Full Stack Developer

Overview

Provide hands-on technical leadership for the AI Build Line, building web experiences and backend capabilities that make AI use-cases practical, secure, and easy to adopt. The role owns solution-level engineering quality, helps shape architecture, and coordinates delivery across the three-person pod.

What you'll do

• Lead technical design and implementation for AI use-cases, balancing speed, reuse, operability, security, and user experience.
• Build responsive user interfaces using Angular and TypeScript.
• Build and maintain Java Spring Boot backend services and integrations.
• Define engineering standards for application architecture, code quality, testing, accessibility, error handling, observability, and documentation.
• Deploy and operate applications on Kubernetes and AWS, partnering with cloud and security teams on environment, network, identity, and runtime requirements.
• Build CI pipelines in GitHub Actions and CD pipelines in Harness, embedding quality gates, security scanning, and deployment safeguards.
• Apply secure coding practices, including threat modeling, OWASP-aligned controls, authorization design, secure session handling, and dependency hygiene.
• Coach teammates through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and practical engineering guidance.
• Partner with product and SMEs to convert use-cases into scoped releases, technical backlogs, and measurable outcomes.
• Mentor and train team members on design techniques, tools and coding standards.
• Provide strategic advice on using technology to achieve goals.
• Drive cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.
• Analyze, solution, develop, test, debug, document and deploy software according to standards and optimal practices.
• Champion DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques.
• Ensure continuous learning and improvement through ongoing training, practice and innovation.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Build reusable, secure, observable software that follows Nationwide's AWS Golden Path and standard technology stack.
• Prioritize engineering quality, automated testing, security, resilience, and maintainability alongside delivery speed.
• Collaborate across the core product team and cross-train with the operational team, develop runbooks and move capabilities into production.

What you'll need

• Strong full-stack software engineering experience, including experience leading technical delivery.
• Strong Angular and TypeScript development experience.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot backend development experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing and deploying applications to Kubernetes and AWS environments and building IaC code to deploy applications.
• Experience with GitHub Actions and Harness or comparable enterprise CI/CD tooling.
• Strong expertise in secure software development and practical application-security controls.
• Ability to lead technical decisions, communicate tradeoffs, and work effectively across engineering, security, and product stakeholders.
• Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics or a related field (strongly preferred).
• Six years of experience in programming and systems analysis.
• Proficiency in one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, or JavaScript.
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle.
• Proven ability to tackle sophisticated business and development problems.
• Ability to thrive in a team environment.
• Hands-on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Technical skills in CI/CD, cloud computing, SDLC, software security, software testing, systems integration, technology roadmap, and vendor management.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to work in agile and global environments.
• Time management and prioritization.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering AI-enabled applications, conversational interfaces, or human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Building and deploying cloud-native applications using Infrastructure-as-Code: CDK/Helm Charts to AWS/K8s environments.
• Experience with API management, cloud-native architecture, microservices, and event-driven integration patterns.
• Familiarity with design systems, accessibility, UX research, and product analytics.
• Experience supporting security, cloud, developer-platform, or regulated-enterprise products.
• Three years of experience in project management (preferred).
• Insurance/financial services industry knowledge.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India (Mindspace Madhapur, HITEC City).
• Work mode: Hybrid with periodic in-office collaboration.
• Working hours: Aligned to India business hours with flexibility for global collaboration.
• Reports to Technology Manager/Director - India.