Lead Software Engineer - IN B

At U.S. Bancorp India, we're on a journey to do our best. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bancorp India gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

Role Summary

The Tech Lead is the senior technical leader embedded within a domain team, responsible for guiding day-to-day engineering execution and ensuring solutions are delivered with high quality, maintainability, and alignment to architectural standards. This role blends hands-on development with technical decision-making, mentorship, and collaboration with product and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical execution for domain features and services, ensuring reliable delivery and clean, maintainable implementations.
• Drive solution design at the epic and component level (APIs, data models, workflows), aligning with enterprise/application architecture guardrails.
• Maintain engineering standards through code reviews, testing strategies, CI/CD discipline, and observability practices.
• Partner closely with Product, UX, and domain SMEs to translate requirements into sound technical approaches.
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks (technical debt, performance issues, unclear requirements), and propose pragmatic solutions.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, coaching, and technical feedback; foster a culture of learning and ownership.
• Act as the team's technical voice in planning, estimation, and trade-off decisions.
• Support incident response and operational excellence for the domain's services (on-call readiness, root cause analysis, resilience).
• Lead full-stack delivery across backend services and modern user interfaces using React or similar frameworks.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automation, monitoring, and reliable production operations.
  
  

Required Skills / Experience

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proven ability to deliver production-grade solutions.
• Experience leading technical delivery within agile teams.
• Proficiency with modern development practices (testing, code review, CI/CD, instrumentation/monitoring).
• Working knowledge of integration patterns (REST/GraphQL/events), domain modeling, and data persistence approaches.
• Full-stack development experience, including modern UI development with React or a comparable framework.
• Hands-on DevOps experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, infrastructure as code (for example, Terraform), containers, source control, build and deployment orchestration, automated testing, observability, and secure zero-downtime delivery.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to influence without authority.
  
  

Success Measures

• Predictable delivery of high-quality software
• Low defect escape rate and improved system operability
• Increased team capability through mentoring and technical clarity
• Alignment with architecture standards while maintaining delivery speed
  
  

Experience - 10+ Years

Shift Timings - 11 AM - 8 PM

Location - Chennai

Location expectations

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

This is an U.S. Bancorp India posting. U.S. Bancorp India is a part of the U.S. Bank family.