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 platformis designed for digital operationstrusted by governments, Fortune500 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 applicationsRamco is the place to be.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own product/feature development end-to-endfrom design to production deployment.
- Ensure features are scalable, highly available, and meet qualitystandards.
- Collaborate with senior engineersand architects to refine designsand drive implementation.
- Lead cloud-scale, event-driven systemsusing tools like Kafka, RabbitMQ, and work with knowledge graphs (Neo4j).
- Build scalable microservices and design real-timedata pipelines.
- Lead APIs-based inter-service communication using RESTful, GraphQL,WebSockets, 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 technicaltalent; foster a high-performance engineering culture.
- Define test plans, author,automate, and executetest cases to meet qualitygates.
- Take proactive ownership in production troubleshooting and system reliability improvements.
- Champion best practices in software engineeringsecurity, 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 TypeScript, 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, RabbitMQ, or equivalents.
- Strong database experience across both SQL andNoSQL systems.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native services, containerization, and serverless deployments.
- Implementation of securitybest 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.
