Lead Software Engineer

Job Role: Lead Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

Relevant Experience:7+ Years (1+ Lead)

No. Of Positions: 3

Location: Hyderabad

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Own and evolve the end-to-end system architecture, driving key design decisions aligned with scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Define architectural principles, standards, and best practices across backend (Python/ Django) frontend (React) good to have, and integration layers.

• Lead architecture and design reviews, providing technical direction to ensure high-quality, maintainable, and extensible solutions.

• Drive data-informed decision-making, balancing trade-offs between performance, cost, and complexity to achieve optimal outcomes.

• Architect scalable, fault-tolerant systems in Linux environments, ensuring high availability and resilience.

• Design and promote cloud-native and serverless architectures to minimize operational overhead and optimize resource utilization.

• Identify performance bottlenecks and lead system-wide optimizations, including caching strategies, asynchronous processing, and load distribution.

• Mentor and guide engineering teams on architectural best practices, system design, and performance optimization.

• Team Management & Mentorship

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of software engineers to deliver high-quality features.

• Conduct code reviews, design sessions, and ensure best engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, versioning).

• Execution & Delivery

• Translate product and business requirements into technical roadmaps and actionable tasks.

• Track and ensure on-time delivery of features with high-quality standards.

• Cross-Team Communication

• Act as a technical spokesperson for the Dexur Engineering team in cross-functional discussions with Customer Success team, Designers, QA, and other Engineering teams.

• Ensure dependencies across teams are identified, aligned, and resolved effectively.

• Innovation & Problem-Solving

• Stay updated with the latest advancements in low-code platforms, workflow automation, AI-assisted development.

• Identify bottlenecks in the current architecture and recommend optimizations.

• Oversee the design and optimization of ETL processes to ensure efficient data integration, transformation, and loading across systems.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Experience

• 8+ years of software development experience, with at least 3+ years in a technical leadership role.

• Strong experience in Python, PostgreSQL, Bash, Docker and AWS.

• Expert in Building the Scalable ETL Pipelines, Airflow (good to have), Independent systems.

• Technical Skills

• Solid understanding of data modeling, workflow engines, automation frameworks, and real-time systems.

• Knowledge of RBAC/permissions, data import/export flows, record versioning (draft/live).

• Strong grasp of DevOps practices  CI/CD pipelines, monitoring.

• Leadership Skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to translate product vision into engineering execution.

• Hands-on when required, but equally effective at delegation and coaching.