Full Stack Developer

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Sector: Technology, Information & Media

Company Size: 500 - 1,000 Employees

Employment: Full-Time, Permanent

Experience: 10 - 14 Years (Engineering Leadership)

Level: Engineering Manager / Group EM

ABOUT THIS MANDATE :

Recruiting Bond has been exclusively retained by one of India's most prominent and well-established digital platform organisations operating at the intersection of Technology, Information, and Media to identify and place an exceptional Engineering Manager who can lead engineering teams through an enterprise-wide AI adoption and digital transformation agenda.

This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role at the nexus of people, product, and technology. The organisation is executing one of the most ambitious AI transformation programmes in its sector and this Engineering Manager will be a core driver of that change. You will lead multiple squads, own engineering delivery end-to-end, embed AI tooling and practices into the team's DNA, and shape the engineering culture of tomorrow.

We are seeking leaders who code when it matters, who build systems and teams with equal conviction, and who view AI not as a trend but as a fundamental shift in how great software is built.

THE OPPORTUNITY AT A GLANCE :

AI-First Engineering Culture :

• Own AI adoption across your squads - from LLM tooling integration to automation-first delivery workflows. Make AI a default, not an afterthought.

Hands-On Engineering Leadership :

• Stay close to the code. Lead architecture reviews, unblock engineers, and set the technical bar - not just the management agenda.

People & Org Builder :

• Grow engineers into leaders. Build squads of 615 across functions. Drive hiring, career frameworks, and a culture of psychological safety.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

1. Hands-On Technical Engagement :

• Remain deeply embedded in the technical work participate in design reviews, architecture decisions, and critical code reviews
• Set and uphold the engineering quality bar : performance benchmarks, security standards, test coverage, and release quality
• Provide technical direction on backend platform strategy, API design, service decomposition, and data architecture
• Identify and resolve systemic technical debt and architectural risks across team-owned services
• Unblock engineers by diving into complex problems debugging, pair programming, and system analysis when it matters
• Own key technical decisions in collaboration with Tech Leads and Principal Engineers; balance pragmatism with long-term sustainability

2. AI Adoption, Integration & Transformation (2026 Mandate) :

• Define and execute the team's AI adoption roadmap - from developer tooling to product-facing AI features
• Champion the integration of GenAI tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT) across the full engineering workflow coding, testing, documentation, incident response
• Embed LLM-powered capabilities into the product : recommendation engines, intelligent search, conversational interfaces, content generation, and predictive systems
• Lead evaluation and adoption of AI-assisted SDLC practices : automated code review, AI-generated test suites, intelligent observability, and anomaly detection
• Partner with Data Science and ML Platform teams to productionise ML models with robust MLOps pipelines
• Build team literacy in prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and AI agent frameworks
• Create an experimentation culture : run structured AI pilots, measure productivity impact, and scale what works
• Stay ahead of the AI tooling landscape and advise senior leadership on strategic AI investments and engineering implications

3. People Leadership & Team Development :

• Lead, manage, and grow squads of 6 - 15 engineers across seniority levels (L2 through L6 / Junior through Staff)
• Conduct structured 1 : 1s, career growth conversations, and development planning with every direct report
• Design and execute personalised AI upskilling programmes ensure every engineer develops practical AI fluency by end of 2026
• Build and maintain a high-performance team culture : clarity of ownership, accountability, fast feedback loops, and psychological safety
• Drive performance management fairly and rigorously recognise top performers, manage underperformance constructively
• Lead technical hiring end-to-end : define job requirements, conduct bar-raising interviews, and make data-driven hire decisions
• Contribute to engineering career frameworks and level definitions in partnership with the VP / Director of Engineering

4. Engineering Delivery & Execution Excellence :

• Own end-to-end delivery for multiple product squads from planning and scoping through production release and post-launch stability
• Implement and refine agile delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Shape Up) calibrated to squad needs and product cadence
• Drive predictable delivery : maintain healthy sprint velocity, manage WIP limits, and ensure dependency resolution across teams.
• Establish and own engineering KPIs : DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, change failure rate), uptime SLOs, and velocity trends
• Lead incident management : build blameless post-mortem culture, own RCA processes, and drive systemic reliability improvements
• Balance technical debt repayment with feature velocity negotiate prioritisation transparently with Product leadership

5. Strategic Leadership & Cross-Functional Influence :

• Serve as the primary engineering partner for Product, Design, Data, and Business stakeholders translate ambiguity into executable engineering plans
• Participate in quarterly roadmap planning, capacity forecasting, and OKR definition for engineering teams
• Represent engineering in leadership forums articulate technical constraints, risks, and opportunities in business terms
• Contribute to org-wide engineering strategy : platform investments, build-vs-buy decisions, and shared infrastructure priorities
• Build relationships across geographies (Mumbai HQ + distributed teams) to maintain alignment and delivery cohesion
• Act as a culture carrier and ambassador for engineering excellence, innovation, and responsible AI use

AI TRANSFORMATION LEADERSHIP 2026 EXPECTATIONS :

In 2026, Engineering Managers at this organisation are expected to be active architects of AI transformation not passive observers. The following outlines the specific AI leadership expectations for this role :

AI Developer Productivity

• Drive measurable uplift in developer velocity through AI tooling adoption. Target : 30%+ reduction in code review cycle time and 40%+ increase in test coverage automation by Q3 2026.

LLM & GenAI Product Features

• Own delivery of GenAI-powered product capabilities : intelligent content, semantic search, personalisation, and conversational UX in production, at scale.

AI-Augmented Observability

• Implement AI-driven monitoring and anomaly detection pipelines. Reduce MTTR by leveraging predictive alerting, intelligent runbooks, and auto-remediation scripts.

Team AI Fluency :

• Build mandatory AI literacy across all engineering levels.
• Every engineer understands prompt engineering basics, AI ethics guardrails, and responsible AI deployment practices.

Responsible AI Governance :

• Partner with Security, Legal, and Data Privacy to ensure all AI deployments meet compliance standards, bias mitigation requirements, and explainability benchmarks.

TECHNOLOGY STACK & DOMAIN FAMILIARITY REQUIRED :

• Languages: Java/ Go/ Python/ Node.js /PHP /Rust (must be hands-on in at least 2)
• Cloud: AWS / GCP / Azure (multi-cloud exposure strongly preferred)
• AI & GenAI: OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini APIs /LangChain /LlamaIndex / RAG / Vector DBs / GitHub
• Copilot: Cursor /Hugging Face
• Containers: Docker /Kubernetes /Helm /Service Mesh (Istio / Linkerd)
• Databases: PostgreSQL /MongoDB / Redis / Cassandra / Elasticsearch / Pinecone (Vector DB)
• Messaging: Apache Kafka /RabbitMQ /AWS SQS/SNS /Google Pub/Sub
• MLOps & DataOps: MLflow /Kubeflow / SageMaker / Vertex AI /Airflow /dbt
• Observability: Datadog /Prometheus /Grafana /OpenTelemetry / Jaeger /ELK Stack
• CI/CD & IaC: GitHub Actions ArgoCD / Jenkins / Terraform /Ansible /Backstage (IDP)

QUALIFICATIONS & CANDIDATE PROFILE :

Education :

• B.E. / B.Tech or M.E. / M.Tech from a Tier-I or Tier-II Institution - CS, IS, ECE, AI/ML streams strongly preferred
• Demonstrated engineering depth and leadership impact may complement institution pedigree

Experience :

• 10 to 14 years of progressive engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a formal Engineering Manager or equivalent people-leadership role
• Proven track record of managing and scaling engineering teams (615+ engineers) in a fast-growing SaaS or digital product environment
• Hands-on backend engineering background must be able to read, write, and critique production code
• Direct experience driving AI/ML feature delivery or AI tooling adoption within engineering organisations
• Exposure across start-up, mid-size, and large-scale product organisations, preferred adaptability is a core requirement
• Strong CS fundamentals: distributed systems, algorithms, system design, and software architecture
• Demonstrated career stability minimum of 2 years of average tenure per organisation.

The Ideal Engineering Manager in 2026 :

• Leads with context, not control, empowers engineers while maintaining accountability and quality
• Is fluent in both people language and technical language, switches registers naturally with engineers and executives alike
• Sees AI as a force multiplier for the team, not a threat. Actively experiments with and advocates for AI tooling
• Measures success by team outcomes, not personal output. Takes pride in what the team ships, not what they build alone
• Creates feedback loops obsessively between product and engineering, between seniors and juniors, between metrics and decisions
• Has strong opinions, loosely held, brings conviction to discussions but updates on evidence
• Invests in engineering excellence as seriously as delivery velocity knows that quality and speed are not opposites

WHY THIS ROLE STANDS APART :

AI Transformation at Scale :

• Lead one of the most significant AI adoption programmes in India's digital media sector.
• Our decisions will shape how hundreds of engineers work in 2026 and beyond.

Hands-On & Strategic Balance :

• A rare EM role that actively encourages technical depth.
• Stay close to the code while owning the people agenda - the best of both worlds.

Established Platform, Real Scale :

• 5001,000 engineers, proven product-market fit, and the org maturity to execute.
• This is not a greenfield startup gamble it is a serious company with serious ambition.

Clear Leadership Growth Path :

• A visible, direct path toward Director / VP of Engineering.
• Senior leadership is invested in growing its next generation of technology executives.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Post-secondary degree in computer science, software engineering or related discipline, or equivalent working experience.
• Development of distributed applications with Microsoft technologies: C# .NET/Core, SQL Server, Entity Framework.
• Deep expertise with microservices architectures and design patterns.
• Cloud Native AWS experience with services such as Lambda, SQS, RDS/Aurora, S3, Lex, and Polly.
• Mastery of both Windows and Linux environments and their use in the development and management of complex distributed systems architectures.
• Git source code repository and continuous integration tools.

Apply only if you can join within 2 week of selection.

Ideal for candidates who would like to be part of the learning process across growing technologies and embark journey on a tech architect path. Very deep into technologies and eager to learn and adapt with technology advancement

Job Description:
• Proficient ASP.NET/.NET CORE, Web API, MVC, Entity framework and MS SQL/MySQL is mandatory.
• Experience with HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery, Angular; web-service: SOAP, RESFUL, MVC API
• Willing to learn new technologies
• Have good knowledge or experience with Agile/SCRUM development method
• Detail oriented, self-motivated and disciplined, with ability to complete assigned tasks with minimal oversight in a professional and timely manner is a must

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Role Objective:

The objective of the developer is to design and develop solutions while being responsible for the coding standards, security and compliance requirements. 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Business Understanding
• Understands the business requirements clearly to a level that enables in making micro decisions. Involves in designing, developing, testing software solutions 
• Arch/Design Documentation
• Clear documentation of the workflows, maintains clean code and support in solution architecture/design documentations 
• Dev Testing & Solution
• Engages in identifying & troubleshooting various website issues and coding problems; Evaluates and implements new tools based on the requirement and ensures the high performance of all systems developed; Involves in performing the code review and refactor to ensure the code quality based on the best practices and code conventions. 
• Understanding Coding Standards, Compliance & Info-security, Non-functional Requirement
• Identifies security requirements of data-in-transit and data-at-rest and discovers the vulnerabilities of the third-party components/libraries used in the application and remediating vulnerabilities; Maintains updated knowledge of the development industry, advancements in technology, and its implementation. 
• Stakeholder Management
• Collaborates with members to consistently improve the functionality and client centric solutions; Collaborate with the peers and team members to create an intuitively easy to use solution for our end users; Assists the DevOps team to manage the environment and releases; Provides training and support to junior developers. 

Requirements

• Frameworks & Libraries:
• Dot net Core
• Entity Framework
• Backend languages: C#
• Database Concepts & Applications:
• Entity framework, ADO.Net, Dapper
• Should be familiar with any of the relational databases like Postgres, SQLServer, Oracle etc., or non relational databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.,
• Should be familiar with concepts: Normalization, Indexing, Joins
• Unit Testing: Should be familiar with NUnit
• Log frameworks: Should be familiar with any one of the logging libraries like Nlog or Log4Net
• Authorization & Authentication:
• Token Based Auth
• JWT with refresh token
• Claims & Identity
• SSO
• Basic Authentication
• OAuth
• Build Tools: dot net cli build commands
• Version Control: Experience in using GIT
• Other Development tools:
• Swagger Editor
• Postman/Flutter
• VSCode
• Application performance management: Nice to have basic knowledge in any of the APM Tools like AppDynamics, DataDog, NewRelic, Dynatrace, etc.,
• Vulnerability tests: Nice to have basic knowledge on security principles like OWASP Top Te etc.,
• Cloud Services: Nice to have experience in any one of the cloud services like GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.,
• CI/CD understanding: Basic understanding of pipelines and deployments
• Others:
• Common application/ web security and OWASP vulnerabilities
• Encryption algorithms to protect sensitive information
• PII, PCI, HIPPA, and GDPR compliance and how to implement
• Finding the vulnerabilities of the third-party components/ libraries
• Understanding security breaches of data-in-transit and data-at-rest and its implementation
• Behavioral Competencies:
• Accountability
• Adaptive to change
• Business communication
• Customer Focus
• Learning Agility
• Planning & organizing
• Problem solving

Our client is a rapid growth stage Edtech start-up focused on solving the teacher shortage crisis in the US education system using technology by bringing teachers to the classrooms and giving them access to the right tools to teach students in a highly engaging manner.

They have a development center in Mumbai and they are looking to scale up the teams in Pune and Bangalore as well.

What does the role entail:

● Lead User Stories and guide senior/software engineers in the development process

● Understand architecture principles, design patterns and implement them from architectural artifacts.

● Provide effort estimation of assigned work and be able to complete as per the estimations and timelines

● Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code including unit tests and integration tests to ensure software quality

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements, design solutions, and implement new features

● Participate in design and code reviews

● Ability to resolve performance issues

● Mentor junior software engineers and help them grow their technical skills

Must Have Skills:

● B.E/B.Tech in computer science

● 8-11 years of experience

● Hands-on experience following skills

MS Technologies: NET CORE 5+, C#

Backend : MSSQL /MySQL/Postgres 

● Good understanding of Cloud technologies like Azure/AWS.

● Good understanding of Design Principles, Design patterns and Microservices Architecture.

● Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills

● Worked in an Agile software development environment

Must understand full stack development frameworks including knowledge of building scalable APIs, interfaces, software components, schema design, availability, and latency preferably in a cloud environment.

● Worked in a fast-paced environment preferably in a tech driven startup

● Understanding of different types of architectures.

What you need to have:

We are looking for a senior .NET Core professionals with 2+ years of development experience, who thrive on challenges and desires to make a real difference in the business world.

You are required to have skills in the following areas:

• 2 to 4 years of experience in. NET Core  development.
• Knowledge and Hands-on experience of at least 2 years on ASP.Net, C#, MS SQL Server, Restful, C# 3.5/4.0, MVC
• Desirable Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Excellent analytical and troubleshooting abilities.
• Solid understanding of best practices in web application development.
• Exceptional attention to detail and design.

About the Company

InnKey is an integrated Hotel ERP on Cloud. We help mid-upscale Hotel Chains run their entire operations on a single platform completely on cloud. We cater to all the departments of a hotel ranging from Reservations and Front Desk to Housekeeping and Maintenance to Point of Sale and Banquets and Conferencing to Material Management and Purchasing to Financial Accounting and MIS.

Our entire solution is on Cloud making it accessible anytime and anywhere which completely changes the operational landscape for any Hotel Chain.

We aim to become a single point solution for every Hotel Chain whether they have 10 or 1000 hotels. Our goal is to help our customers streamline their operations, increase their topline and maximize their bottomline.

What You’ll Do:

• You’ll work with others to build new product features from start to finish: through conception, research, implementation and maintenance
• Ability to ship code that allows for high availability and good performance are a must in a mission critical software like ours
• Contribute to all phases of software development
• Be adaptable to work in a fast-paced environment

What We Are Looking For:

• Thoughtful problem-solving: For you, problem-solving starts with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You can decompose tricky problems and work towards a clean solution, by yourself or with teammates. You're comfortable asking for help when you get stuck.
• Shipping quality user interfaces: You can work with others to build and maintain quality user interfaces for a big audience, using Web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and a modern UI framework like Angular. If you've experienced the technical challenges of rapid growth, that's a plus.
• Familiarity with the backend: You understand how parts of a system fit together—from the user interface to the data model. Experienced candidates should be familiar with relational database systems like MS SQL and backend technologies like .NET
• Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about the business impact of what you're building, and you prioritize projects accordingly. You're not just going after cool stuff—you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.
• Team player: You understand when work is better, together. You enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals, and you care about learning, growing, and helping others to do the same.

Mandatory Requirement/ Preference:

- 4 years of experience for delivering enterprise solutions or products using full SDLC 

- 4 years of work experience with enterprise solutions for Microsoft platform (SQL Server, stored procedures, WCF, C#.net, Entity Framework) 

- Extensive knowledge and experience with creating and maintaining stored procedure in MS SQL Server.

- Working with WEB API added advantage