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Software Engineering Lead Location: Vadodara Employment Type: Full-Time Work timing : 02:00 PM IST 11:00 PM IST About the Role We're building a next-generation Marketplace Platform that enables customers to purchase, subscribe, and manage products through a modern self-service experience while supporting enterprise customers with advanced licensing, provisioning, and back-office capabilities. We're looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Lead who enjoys solving complex technical challenges while mentoring a small engineering team. This is not a people-management-only role you'll be the primary technical leader, architect, and a significant individual contributor responsible for designing, building, and delivering a scalable commerce platform. What You'll Do Lead the architecture, design, and development of a cloud-native Marketplace Platform. Build scalable Java/Spring Boot microservices powering payments, subscriptions, entitlements, and product activation. Design and implement recurring billing capabilities, including monthly, annual, and usage-based subscriptions, upgrades, downgrades, prorations, renewals, cancellations, and dunning workflows. Own the end-to-end Stripe integration, including Checkout, Billing, Subscriptions, Invoicing, Webhooks, payment recovery, refunds, and idempotent event processing. Build secure, scalable REST APIs and integrate seamlessly with existing platform services. Design enterprise-grade entitlement and licensing models supporting both self-service and enterprise customers. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver production-ready solutions. Lead a team of 24 engineers through technical mentoring, architecture reviews, code reviews, and engineering best practices. Ensure high standards for testing, performance, security, observability, and production reliability. Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployments, GitOps practices, and cloud infrastructure. Required Skills & Experience 8+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in a technical leadership or Lead Engineer role. Expert-level Java (17+) and Spring Boot development. Strong experience designing and building Microservices and REST APIs. Proven experience implementing complex subscription billing and payment platforms. Hands-on experience with Stripe (Checkout, Billing, Subscriptions, Webhooks, Invoicing). Strong database design experience using MySQL/PostgreSQL with JPA/Hibernate and schema migrations. Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes (GKE) OR any other cloud, Docker, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD (or similar GitOps tools), and Gradle/Maven. Strong understanding of automated testing using JUnit and Mockito. Experience designing secure, scalable, highly available distributed systems. Excellent engineering judgment with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. Preferred Qualifications Experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable: Angular 15+ Stripe Tax, Avalara, TaxJar, Vertex, or other tax compliance platforms Redis, Kafka, Spring Cloud, OpenFeign, Resilience4j Terraform or Infrastructure as Code Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry Salesforce, CPQ, or enterprise provisioning integrations PCI DSS, SOC2, GDPR/CCPA compliance Enterprise SaaS platforms, seat-based licensing, or usage-based billing AI-assisted software development tools and modern engineering workflows In case your latest profile fit the bill and want to build something from scratch as technical & people professional - kindly help with your updated resume mentioning payment domain experience along with platforms & tools worked on payment gateway & tax solutions. Why Join Us? This is an opportunity to build a mission-critical commerce platform from the ground up while influencing architecture, engineering standards, and product direction. If you enjoy building scalable systems, staying hands-on with code, and leading by example, we'd love to hear from you.
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