About Us
Hatio Innovations Private Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of IndiaIdeas.com Limited (BillDesk), India's largest payment processor. Founded in 2017, we are an engineering-first company building highly scalable, real-time systems that handle large volumes of financial transactions and time-critical, sensitive data.
Role Overview
A Lead Software Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for driving technical excellence, ensuring high-quality project delivery, and mentoring engineers at scale. This role owns project-level technical design, enforces engineering standards, ensures process adherence, and serves as the bridge between engineering teams and leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and review 100% of technical designs for assigned projects.
- Ensure complete technical solutioning is prepared before sprint execution.
- Drive adherence to architecture, coding, and review standards across the project.
- Ensure high-quality deliverables with minimal production defects.
- Ensure good test coverage across the project.
- Review merge requests in a timely manner and maintain high review quality standards.
- Propose and implement technical improvements across the project.
- Mentor engineers and drive measurable growth in technical and professional capability.
- Conduct regular 1-1 meetings with team members.
- Ensure sprint delivery commitments are met with minimal variance.
- Resolve escalations within agreed timelines.
- Ensure timely communication of project updates to stakeholders.
- Drive adoption of engineering processes and address gaps identified in retrospectives.
- Lead technical discussions and clearly communicate project-level risks, trade-offs, and progress to stakeholders.
Technical Requirements
- 1015 years of software development experience.
- Strong expertise in Java and SpringBoot for backend systems.
- Solid understanding of React.js and modern frontend architecture.
- Proven experience designing scalable RESTful APIs and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of RDBMS (Oracle/PostgreSQL) performance optimization.
- Experience working with Kafka or event-driven architectures.
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g., AeroSpike).
- Strong grasp of system design principles, scalability patterns, and performance engineering.
- Experience driving architecture reviews and enforcing design standards.
- Hands-on experience with Git-based workflows and structured code review practices.
- Strong debugging capability across complex, multi-layer systems.
What We Expect At Lead Level
- Full technical ownership of project architecture and execution.
- Accountability for delivery timelines and resource utilization.
- Zero major production defects attributable to design gaps.
- Strong process governance and continuous improvement mindset.
- Clear stakeholder communication and risk management.
- Active mentorship and team capability development.
- Measurable improvement in team velocity and engineering quality.
Benefits*:
- 5,00,000 health insurance coverage.
- 13 holidays in a year.
- 24 days of annual leave.
- 6 days of menstrual leave for female employees.
- Provident Fund and gratuity benefits.
- Monthly budget allocated for learning, training, and courses for every employee.
- Access to a well-stocked office library to support your learning and growth.
- Weekly product and engineering sessions for learning and improvement.
- Access to professionally curated mental health and wellness programs, co-sponsored by the company.
- Monthly town hall along with office lunch for interactions with management and team.
- Stocked pantry with tea, coffee, bread, snacks, fruits, and more.
- Games and recreation facilities in the office for relaxation.
- Regular sports activities like Football, Cricket, and Badminton.
- Participation in festival celebrations and team outings.
- Benefits are subject to the company policy.
