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Tech Lead - Fullstack - Product Development

IBM

IBM

Software Engineering, Product
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Jan 30, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Tech Lead, you will be a hands-on technical leader within a core product development team, responsible for owning technical design, engineering quality, and delivery outcomes for key product areas. You will work across the full stack, guide critical engineering decisions, mentor team members, and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with overall product vision and platform strategy.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end technical design and delivery for assigned product areas, ensuring quality, scalability, and reliability.
  • Lead architecture and design discussions, making informed trade-offs aligned with long-term product and platform goals.
  • Work hands-on across the full stack—front-end, back-end, APIs, data, and integrations.
  • Translate product requirements and UX designs into robust technical solutions, in close collaboration with Product, UX, and Architecture.
  • Set and enforce engineering standards for code quality, API design, testing, security, and performance.
  • Provide technical leadership through code and design reviews, mentoring engineers and raising the engineering bar.
  • Design and build RESTful APIs and microservices with strong contracts and efficient data flows.
  • Build performant, accessible UIs using ReactJS, and robust back-end services using Java or Python with SQL/NoSQL databases.
  • Own production issues end-to-end, leading root cause analysis and driving permanent fixes.
  • Drive CI/CD, automation, and deployment reliability in collaboration with DevOps/SRE teams.
  • Contribute to technical roadmap, modernization, and adoption of best practices.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience, with demonstrated ownership of production-grade systems.
  • Proven experience as a Tech Lead or senior engineer, leading design and delivery for complex features or services.
  • Strong hands-on fullstack expertise with ReactJS, JavaScript, and Java or Python.
  • Solid understanding of system design, object-oriented principles, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.
  • Strong experience with RESTful APIs, microservices architectures, and database design (SQL/NoSQL).
  • Experience defining and maintaining engineering best practices, including testing, documentation, and reviews.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and Git-based workflows.
  • Ability to mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and balance engineering rigor with product delivery.
  • Strong understanding of Agile product development and continuous delivery.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience with cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, or IBM Cloud).
  • Exposure to DevOps, observability, and monitoring practices.
  • Experience building SaaS or platform products at scale.
Years of Experience:
12 - 16

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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