Custom Software Engineer

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Project Role : Custom Software Engineer Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs. Must have skills : Microservices and Light Weight Architecture Good to have skills : NA Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education Summary: As a Custom Software Engineer, a typical day involves developing tailored software solutions by designing, coding, and improving various components within systems or applications. The role requires working with modern frameworks and following agile methodologies to ensure the delivery of scalable and efficient software that meets unique business requirements. Collaboration with different teams and continuous enhancement of software components are integral parts of the daily workflow, ensuring that solutions remain robust and adaptable to evolving needs. Roles & Responsibilities: - Expected to be an SME, collaborate and manage the team to perform. - Responsible for team decisions. - Engage with multiple teams and contribute on key decisions. - Provide solutions to problems for their immediate team and across multiple teams. - Lead efforts to identify and implement process improvements that enhance team productivity and software quality. - Mentor junior team members to support their professional growth and integration within the team. - Coordinate cross-functional communication to align project goals and deliverables effectively. Professional & Technical Skills: - Must To Have Skills: Proficiency in Microservices and Light Weight Architecture and in system design, trade-off analysis, and decision-making under ambiguity. - Strong knowledge of designing and implementing scalable microservices-based systems. - Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies to support lightweight architectures and working in high-scale, regulated, or enterprise environments (preferred) with Excellent analytical and debugging skills for complex distributed systems - Familiarity with RESTful API design and integration within distributed systems. - Ability to apply agile development practices and continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines. - Understanding of cloud-native application development and deployment strategies. - Lead hands-on design and implementation of AWS-based architectures, translating business requirements into scalable, secure microservices solutions and establishing reusable design patterns, standards, and best practices across teams. - Drive end-to-end engineering delivery for Java-based microservices (Spring Boot), actively contributing to coding, design reviews, and troubleshooting while ensuring high-quality, maintainable, and production-grade systems. - Own technical problem-solving and innovation, leading POCs, evaluating new technologies, defining solution approaches, and resolving complex architectural and runtime challenges with pragmatic, scalable solutions. - Ensure platform reliability, performance, and security, implementing observability, fault tolerance, zero-downtime deployment strategies, and secure-by-design principles in line with modern cloud-native practices. - Enable effective team execution and mentorship, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and coaching engineers while driving engineering excellence, accountability, and delivery predictability. - Collaborate across stakeholders (architects, product, delivery) to align on designs, break down complex requirements, and ensure seamless translation of business needs into working software. - Promote engineering best practices and operational discipline, including clean code principles, design patterns, API standardisation, documentation, and strong testing culture (unit/integration/performance). - Leverage DevOps practices as an enabler, supporting CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automation to improve deployment efficiency, quality, and release reliability. - Focus on continuous improvement, learning, and adoption of modern engineering practices - Effective communication and stakeholder management, able to simplify complex technical concepts and ability to balance hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities. - Strong ownership mindset with accountability for outcomes, not just outputs. Additional Information: - The candidate should have minimum 5 years of experience in Microservices and Light Weight Architecture. - This position is based at our Gurugram office. - A 15 years full time education is required. 15 years full time education About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. 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