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Job Title


Lead Java Engineer


Company : Equiniti


Location : Bangalore, Karnataka


Created : 2025-05-15


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries. EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide. Capitalising on India’s strong reputation as a global talent hub for IT / ITES, EQ India has structured the organisation to be a part of this growth story. Today, EQ India has evolved as an indispensable part of EQ Group providing critical fintech services to the US and UK. EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.Job Title: Staff Engineer - Java Location: Bangalore – Electronic City Phase 2 Shift: UK Shift. Work Mode: HybridThe staff engineer role is a senior technical role within the team. With a keen interest in technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday. Mentoring and Coaching or Leading Engineers seek to create industry-leading solutions in a way that moves the products forward. They are keen to explore how advances in technology might support on-going continuous improvement and provide input to the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes. Professional Responsibilities - SFIA Responsibility Level: 4 - Enable Ensure you adhere and supporting your Squad in adhering to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products Promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality Be involved with and promote the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; drive adoption within your squad as required Foster optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs Mentor and guide all engineers within your home and assist with technical challenges as needed Show a sense of ownership & pride within your squad and the wider home to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team Involve yourself in the development of a strong talent pipeline throughout your wider home by helping the Manger Engineer in hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc. Take an interest in and where possible show advocacy for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, supporting the Manager Engineer and Product to prioritise the reduction of technical debt appropriately Show an interest in articulating the technical roadmap, the overall vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline Technical Responsibilities - SFIA Skill: Programming/software development PROG at Level 5 Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development. Education and Experience Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc. Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in Systems Experience in engineering development for a Product SaaS organisation Experience of having led conceptualization and development of a portfolio of products or SaaS based products Professional Skills and Qualities Agile Methodologies - Scrum Efficiency improvement Configuration management Release readiness Documentation / technical writing Process, data, system engineering Analytical - business, process, data, system Lifecycle management Problem solving Personal Skills and Qualities Emotional intelligence and empathy Motivation, enthusiasm and optimism Collaboration, teamwork and cooperation Active listening and observation Continuous learning Language and communication Creative thinking Resilience, perseverance and patience Ownership and dependability Critical thinking Time management Decision-making Technical Experience at Advanced Level Full Stack development preferred with strong focus on backendJava, Spring, Oracle, RHEL LinuxBDD, TDD, CucumberJira, Confluence, Git (BitBucket)REST ServicesDatabase DesignGood knowledge on any of Front End tech specs including HTML, CSS, Java Script, Angular, typescript, node.js and others.Responsive web designDependency InjectionData access and persistenceORM frameworksUnit and integration testing Modern patterns and practicesWeb accessibility standardsWeb security principlesSAST and DAST toolsContent Management SystemsMessage queuing systemsApplication architectureContainersMicro ServicesSource code controlAwareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, build pipelinesSQL, PL/SQL, COAuth, Identity Server, Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web ServicesDomain Knowledge Experience in Financial Services preferred Experience in Pensions welcomed