Full Stack Technical Lead - AVP
Barclays · Pune · Posted 2026-07-18
Tech stack: AWS, Angular, Azure, Docker, GCP, GitHub Actions, Java, JavaScript, Jenkins, Kubernetes, React, Spring Boot
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About the role
To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
Responsibilities:
- Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
- Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
- Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
- Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Qualifications:
- Provide technical leadership across full‑stack engineering teams, owning solution design, technical decisions, and implementation quality.
- Architect and develop scalable, resilient microservices using Java 11+/17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and modern design patterns.
- Lead UI and mobile engineering using React JS / Angular and React Native, ensuring high‑quality user experience and performance.
- Design and implement event‑driven and distributed systems, ensuring fault tolerance, scalability, and observability.
- Own cloud‑native architecture, leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, and public cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Define and enforce API standards, security, and governance, including OAuth2, JWT, and API Gateway patterns.
- Drive CI/CD strategy and automation, ensuring reliable, secure, and fast deployments using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
- Establish and promote engineering best practices including clean architecture, modular design, code quality, and documentation.
- Lead testing strategy across unit, integration, and contract testing using JUnit, Mockito, Jest, PACT, and Postman.
- Mentor and coach junior and mid‑level engineers, conducting code reviews and supporting career development.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to manage dependencies, technical risks, and delivery timelines.
- Continuously optimize performance, scalability, security, and reliability of platforms and services.
- Strong hands‑on experience with Java 11+/17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Microservices architecture.
- Deep expertise in frontend development, including:
- JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3.
- React JS / Angular.
- React Native for mobile development.
- Proven experience designing event‑driven systems and asynchronous architectures.
- Strong hands‑on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud‑native services.
- AWS (Lambda, ECS), Azure Functions, or GCP Cloud Run.
- Expertise in API design, security, and authentication, including OAuth2, JWT, API Gateways.
- Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
- Strong grasp of testing frameworks and strategies, including unit, integration, and contract testing.
- Experience designing highly available, fault‑tolerant, and secure systems in enterprise environments.
- Experience with Serverless Architecture and event‑centric cloud patterns.
- Background in banking, financial services, or regulated environments.
- Exposure to observability platforms (logging, metrics, tracing).
- Experience driving platform modernization or cloud migration initiatives.
- You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
- The role is based out of Pune.
Qualifications
- Provide technical leadership across full‑stack engineering teams, owning solution design, technical decisions, and implementation quality.
- Architect and develop scalable, resilient microservices using Java 11+/17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and modern design patterns.
- Lead UI and mobile engineering using React JS / Angular and React Native, ensuring high‑quality user experience and performance.
- Design and implement event‑driven and distributed systems, ensuring fault tolerance, scalability, and observability.
- Own cloud‑native architecture, leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, and public cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Define and enforce API standards, security, and governance, including OAuth2, JWT, and API Gateway patterns.
- Drive CI/CD strategy and automation, ensuring reliable, secure, and fast deployments using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
- Establish and promote engineering best practices including clean architecture, modular design, code quality, and documentation.
- Lead testing strategy across unit, integration, and contract testing using JUnit, Mockito, Jest, PACT, and Postman.
- Mentor and coach junior and mid‑level engineers, conducting code reviews and supporting career development.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to manage dependencies, technical risks, and delivery timelines.
- Continuously optimize performance, scalability, security, and reliability of platforms and services.
- Strong hands‑on experience with Java 11+/17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Microservices architecture.
- Deep expertise in frontend development, including:
- JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3.
- React JS / Angular.
- React Native for mobile development.
- Proven experience designing event‑driven systems and asynchronous architectures.
- Strong hands‑on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud‑native services.
- AWS (Lambda, ECS), Azure Functions, or GCP Cloud Run.
- Expertise in API design, security, and authentication, including OAuth2, JWT, API Gateways.
- Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
- Strong grasp of testing frameworks and strategies, including unit, integration, and contract testing.
- Experience designing highly available, fault‑tolerant, and secure systems in enterprise environments.
- Experience with Serverless Architecture and event‑centric cloud patterns.
- Background in banking, financial services, or regulated environments.
- Exposure to observability platforms (logging, metrics, tracing).
- Experience driving platform modernization or cloud migration initiatives.
- You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
- The role is based out of Pune.
Responsibilities
- Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
- Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
- Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
- Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
- Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.