Lead Software Engineer - Specialist

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Equifax

India, Kerala, Trivandrum Full-Time

Posted 6 days ago • Apply by June 10, 2026

Job Description

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy and driven software engineers with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.

What You’ll Do

Demonstrate a deep understanding of cloud native, distributed micro service based architectures
Deliver solutions for complex business problems through software standard SDLC
Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including product, business and sales partners
Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed
Build and manage strong technical teams that deliver complex software solutions that scale
Manage teams with cross functional skills that include software, quality, reliability engineers, project managers and scrum masters
Provide deep troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve production and customer issues under pressure
Leverage strong experience in full stack software development and public cloud like GCP and AWS
Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software, quality and reliability engineers
Lead with a data/metrics driven mindset with a maniacal focus towards optimizing and creating efficient solutions
Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps KPIs
Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams
Collaborate with architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices
Drive up-to-date technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books
Lead Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity
Responsible for implementation architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions
Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate

What Experience You Need

Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of total Software Engineering experience.
7+ years of deep experience in Java/Spring Boot and distributed microservices.
4+ years of hands-on experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS, specifically utilizing GKE/Kubernetes and Cloud-native design patterns.
Proven track record of managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Helm).
Strong proficiency in modern Frontend (Angular/TypeScript) with the ability to lead end-to-end solution delivery.
Experience or strong interest in Agentic AI and Big Data processing (Dataflow/PubSub).

What could set you apart

Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.
Strong communication and presentation skills
Strong leadership qualities
Demonstrated problem solving skills and the ability to resolve conflicts
Experience creating and maintaining product and software roadmaps
Experience overseeing yearly as well as product/project budgets
Working in a highly regulated environment
Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others
UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, Angular and Bootstrap)
Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA and Microservices
Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.
Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)
Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)
Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github)
Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+)
Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI