Lead Software Engineer

At U.S. Bancorp India, we are 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 -https://careers.usbank.com/global/en/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.