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3.4

based on 769 Reviews

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5 Freshworks Lead Software Engineer Jobs

Lead Software Engineer - Backend

freshworks

3.4

based on 769 Reviews

6-9 years

₹ 28L/yr - 48L/yr (AmbitionBox estimate)

Chennai

1 vacancy

Lead Software Engineer - Backend

Freshworks

posted 3 days ago

Job Role Insights

Flexible timing

Key skills for the job

Computer Science Backend Information Security Analytical Open Source Data Structures

+ 3 more

Job Description

Overview of the role:

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will focus on building next-generation platform services for Freshworks with your strong background in distributed systems and mentor your team to achieve this. You will have an opportunity to redefine customer experiences by building systems that are milli-second efficient, always available and working at internet scale. If you are the kind of engineer who is passionate about building systems, have a good eye for analysis and a mind that can think outside the box, we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities:

- Lead teams to deliver scalable, low latency, and cost-efficient solutions to different product teams.

- Drive solutions and implementation leveraging different open source distributed systems and deliver a complete product.

- Build innovative solutions from scratch and liaise with architects and engineers from other product teams to build solutions and drive adoption.

- Elicit quality attributes of the system as well as create criteria metrics for the product to establish the success of achieved metrics

- Implement and support compliance of self and team to Freshworks compliance and information security processes.

Requirements:

- 6 9 years of relevant professional experience
- Advanced proficiency in object-oriented programming principles
- In-depth understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable and high-performance systems
- Skilled in conducting peer code reviews
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Extensive hands-on programming experience
- Expertise in data structures and algorithms
- Solid foundation in system design concepts

Qualifications

Experience / Desired Skills (but not all required):
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with large-scale systems
- Intermediate knowledge o

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

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What Lead Software Engineer at Freshworks are saying

2.6

Rating based on 33 Lead Software Engineer reviews

Anonymous · Engineering - Software & QA in Chennai

Likes

Salary is good Remote work sometimes is flexible

Dislikes

Not a good company and team members are not supportive Our feedback is not heard Old employees are preferred New employees are not treated well Managers are biased towards old employees No support from team members. If you ask question in a group you would be made to feel that you are not worth. Team members old emoloyees will projec..Read More

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