# Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities: End-to-end feature ownership: Design, build and ship complete features across frontend, backend and database, from system design to production deployment. Full-stack development: Build and maintain high-performance, responsive applications using React.js, Next.js, Node.js and NestJS. API and architecture design: Develop secure RESTful and GraphQL APIs, and lead the design of microservices and event-driven architecture. Database and caching: Design, optimise, and manage PostgreSQL databases, and implement Redis caching for peak performance. Asynchronous processing: Build event-driven pipelines using messaging queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ. CI/CD: Build and maintain automated pipelines on GitHub Actions with testing, security scanning and rollback for zero-downtime releases. Containers and Kubernetes: Containerise applications with Docker, and own their deployment and scaling on Kubernetes. Infrastructure as code: Provision and evolve AWS infrastructure using Terraform, keeping environments consistent and repeatable. Observability and reliability: Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog, and lead root-caus

- **Id**: 4228306
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/8byte-lead-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T08:35:50Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T08:35:50Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3024
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4540786
- **Name**: 8byte
- **Domain**: 8byte.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/8byte-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Nest.JS** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **PCI DSS** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **WebSockets** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T08:35:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T11:22:39Z

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