Software Technical Lead

Role:
Software Development Engineer 3 (SDE3) - Lead

Location:

Chennai, India |

Experience:

7 to 10+ Years | Job Type: Full-time

Ramco conglomerate

Ramco Systems is part of the $3 billion+ diversified Ramco Group, a legacy enterprise with deep roots in industries such as cement, textiles, engineering, software, energy, and biotech. With over 75 years of heritage and innovation, the Ramco Group is a global powerhouse that blends traditional business values with modern technologies.

Ramco Systems is the Group’s technology arm, delivering next-gen enterprise software across Global Payroll, HR, Aviation MRO, ERP, and Logistics. Headquartered in Chennai, India, Ramco serves over 1,000 customers across 35+ countries and is recognized for its AI/ML-based, bot-enabled, and cloud-native solutions.

Our platform is designed for digital operations—trusted by governments, Fortune
500 companies, and high- growth enterprises alike.

If you're lookingto be part of a company that combines innovation, global exposure, and a mission to disrupt legacy systems with intelligent enterprise applications—Ramco is the place to be.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own product/feature development end-to-end—from design to production deployment.
- Ensure features are scalable, highly available, and meet quality standards.
- Collaborate with senior engineers and architects to refine designs and drive implementation.
- Lead cloud-scale, event-driven systems using tools like Kafka, Rabbit

MQ, and work with knowledge graphs (Neo4j).
- Build scalable microservices and design real-timedata pipelines.
- Lead APIs-based inter-service communication using RESTful, Graph

QL,Web Sockets, etc.
- Ensure security, cloud optimization, and performance of applications by owning vulnerability fixes and cloud cost tuning.
- Execute project plans and delivery commitments with a balanceof speed and stability.
- Contribute to hiring, mentoring, and nurturing technical talent; foster a high-performance engineering culture.
- Define test plans, author,automate, and execute test cases to meet quality gates.
- Take proactive ownership in production troubleshooting and system reliability improvements.
- Champion best practices in software engineering—security, maintainability, CI/CD, and performance.

Required

Skills & Experience:

- 7 to 10+ years of professional software development experience.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in system design,architecture, and buildingscalable services.
- Proficiency in at least1 programming language, 1 scripting language, and 1 frontendframework such as Java, Python, JavaScript, C#, or C++, Vue.js with Type Script, Node.js, .NET Core.
- Demonstrated experience in interviewing, mentoring, and building high-performing engineering teams.
- Deep understanding of event-driven architectures with tools like Kafka, Rabbit

MQ, or equivalents.
- Strong database experience across both SQL andNo

SQL systems.

- Hands-on experience with cloud-native services, containerization, and serverless deployments.
- Implementation of security best practices anddirect ownership of vulnerability remediation.
- Ownership over testing metrics, including unit test automation, integration testing, code coverage, and performance/NFR compliance.
- Experience collaborating with product managers, architects, and delivery teams; should act as a trusted technical advisor to business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Proven technical leadership in guiding engineering teams and fostering excellence.
- Familiarity with patterns of performance optimization, distributed systems, and fault-tolerance.
- Deep understanding AI based expert systems
- Experience building data-driven systems with collaboration from data science and analytics teams.