Lead Developer

Develop, guide, and mentor team members. Responsibilities include analyzing user stories, converting them into technical tasks, designing and developing robust and efficient software solutions, performing code reviews, optimizing database schema and queries, documenting technical designs, implementing unit tests, and ensuring all deliverables meet quality standards. Senior Developers are also responsible for troubleshooting production issues and identifying opportunities to enhance system performance.

Actively participate in all Agile ceremonies daily standup, sprint planning, review, demo, and refinement...etc.

Collaborate with Product Owners (PO), development leads, and other stakeholders to refine user stories and provide technical insights.

Estimate user stories and guide junior developers during refinement and sprint planning.

Translate user stories into high-quality technical designs and tasks.

Implement user stories with clean, maintainable, and scalable code while mentoring team members.

Apply DevSecOps practices within the CI/CD pipeline, including use of SonarQube and Snyk for automated security scanning (SAST), dependency vulnerability checks, and secrets management to prevent vulnerabilities, code smells, and technical debt.

Design and write comprehensive unit test cases to ensure code quality and reliability.

Conduct thorough code reviews, providing feedback to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.

Contribute to DevSecOps practices by integrating security gates into CI/CD pipelines using SonarQube (SAST, code quality) and Snyk (dependency/container vulnerability checks), performing secrets management, and ensuring adherence to secure coding standards throughout the development lifecycle.

Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) to improve coding productivity, accelerate code reviews, and generate documentation; proactively explore opportunities to integrate AI capabilities within the application.

Deploy and manage Azure cloud services including Azure App Services, Azure Key Vault, Service Bus, and Application Insights; support cloud performance monitoring, cost awareness, and high availability configurations.

Develop and maintain technical documentation.

Debug and resolve bugs identified in QA, UAT, pre-production, and production environments.

Support and troubleshoot production issues during hyper-care and beyond.

Facilitate knowledge-sharing sessions and contribute to team development by mentoring junior developers.

Synchronize daily activities and blockers during stand-up meetings.

Act as a technical liaison between developers and stakeholders.

Stay updated on emerging technologies and propose adoption of relevant innovations.