Resilience Recovery Engineer - Software.
This mandate is run by SYMPHONI HR, a Mumbai-based executive search firm, est. 2003. Applications are email-verified and reach the search team running the role — confidentially, always.
About the organisation.
Our client is a leading global financial services organisation with a long-standing presence in banking and a strong commitment to technology-driven innovation. They operate at significant scale, serving millions of customers and running complex, mission-critical platforms. The culture emphasises integrity, service, excellence and stewardship, empowering engineers to challenge the status quo and drive meaningful change.
About the role.
This role sits within the Resilience Operations team, working alongside Platform Engineering to design, develop and maintain cyber resilience and recovery tooling. You will build software that enables teams across the organisation to autonomously manage protection and recovery operations on a distributed microservices platform. As a senior engineer, you will own key architectural decisions, mentor team members, and help evolve the platform's scalability, reliability and security.
What you will do.
- Design, develop and deliver high-quality, scalable and maintainable software solutions for resilience and recovery tooling
- Own key architectural decisions for a distributed microservices platform orchestrating workflows across multi-infrastructure environments
- Partner with infrastructure, security and application teams to reduce recovery times and improve operational efficiency
- Collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers to define requirements and ensure seamless integration with business objectives
- Lead code reviews and promote a culture of code quality, secure coding practices and knowledge sharing
- Guide and mentor team members, coaching less experienced engineers and influencing technical direction
- Manage and mitigate risks, strengthening controls and governance in line with organisational policies
- Lead the migration of legacy applications to cloud-native microservices architecture
- Advise senior stakeholders on cross-functional impact and alignment of technical solutions
What you bring.
- 16 to 25 years of experience in software engineering, with senior leadership in complex platform development
- Experience with React or Angular front-end development, including responsive and accessible UIs
- Strong Go backend development experience, including REST API design and service integration
- Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines covering build, test, scan and deploy automation
- Experience deploying, running and troubleshooting containerised applications on Kubernetes or OpenShift
- Proficiency in TypeScript and modern front-end tooling and patterns (desirable)
- Knowledge of API security and integration, including OAuth2, OIDC, JWT and mTLS (desirable)
- Experience with Helm, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring and logging (desirable)
- Proven track record of delivering large-scale transformation and legacy-to-cloud-native migration
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence a diverse range of stakeholders
Other open roles.
AWS Data Engineer — Kochi · Hybrid
API Software Engineer — Bengaluru · Hybrid
Platforms-API Software Engineer — Bengaluru · Hybrid