Technical Lead

• Full Stack Angular/NodeJS/React

Company: Airbus India Private Limited

Employment Type: Permanent

Experience Level: Professional

Job Family: Digital

Job Summary

Airbus India Private Limited is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Technical Lead to spearhead the development of innovative full-stack applications. This role involves leading a team in designing, building, and maintaining robust web solutions using modern technologies such as Angular, Node.js, and React, ensuring high performance, scalability, and an excellent user experience.

Job Responsibilities

• Strategic System Design: Lead the architecture, design, and documentation of complex, highly available, scalable, and maintainable full-stack solutions, ensuring technical feasibility and strategic alignment with business objectives.

• Full-Stack Development: Drive the end-to-end development of web applications and services, specializing in Angular for the frontend and Node.js for the backend, while maintaining proficiency across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

• Code Quality & Governance: Define, enforce, and champion coding standards, best practices, and architectural design patterns (e.g., microservices), performing advanced code reviews to ensure high quality, performance, security, and maintainability.

• CI/CD Strategy: Develop, champion, and govern the use of robust CI/CD pipelines to enable fully automated, zero-downtime deployments (e.g., Blue/Green deployment) across Development, QA, and Production environments.

• Test Automation Ownership: Implement and govern a comprehensive test automation strategy covering all aspects, including unit, integration, functional, security, load, and performance testing, to guarantee application robustness and reliability.

• Performance & Security: Proactively ensure the security, scalability, and optimal performance of all applications and services, adhering to established security by design principles.

• Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify architectural bottlenecks, technical debt, and process inefficiencies, leading initiatives to refactor, modernize core system components, and contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and tools.

• Technical Mentorship: Act as a technical coach and mentor to senior and junior developers, providing technical guidance, architectural insights, and actively enabling the growth of the engineering team.

• Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate closely with Product Owners, UX/UI Designers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, define scope, and accurately translate them into clear, actionable technical specifications.

• Issue Resolution: Identify, troubleshoot, and provide effective and timely resolutions for complex technical issues, acting as the final point of escalation for production problems.

• Technology Scouting: Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating and strategically recommending their adoption where they provide clear value and competitive advantage.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or relevant field with 12+ years of development experience

• Expert-level coding abilities in Angular (version 9+ required, 13+ preferred) and TypeScript.

• Deep expertise in complex state management using Ng Rx or similar architectural patterns, and mastery of RxJS for reactive programming.

• Proven experience optimizing large, complex Angular applications for rendering speed, bundle size, and performance.

• Strong coding abilities using Node.js and advanced frameworks (Hapi.js, NestJS, or Express.js) deployed in a microservice architecture.

• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing highly available, high-throughput RESTful and SOAP-based Web-services.

• Hands-on experience working with container orchestration environments (Kubernetes, Open Shift, EKS/ECS).

• Strong practical knowledge with Cloud platforms (AWS preferred), including building, deploying, and securing cloud solutions (e.g., Implementing APIs, Lambdas, S3, Access Management, EC2, Route 53).

• Expertise in database design and query optimization for both SQL (RDBMS) and NoSQL systems.

• Proven track record in driving the full software development lifecycle from conceptual design to production deployment.

• Deep DevOps orientation with strong knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) frameworks.

• Hands-on experience with tools: Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform/CloudFormation, Splunk, Elastic Search, Nexus/Artifactory.

• Proven experience with Cloud infrastructure creation and deployment automation (Terraform/CloudFormation).

• Demonstrated strong experience in driving Test-Driven Development (TDD) and implementing comprehensive, multi-layered test automation (Unit, Integration, E2E using Cypress, Jest, Postman/Newman, Selenium).

• Expertise in implementing security by design principles in web applications.

• Extensive working experience in Agile (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban) at a leadership level.

• Ability to clearly make recommendations on UI design and UX best practices.

• Advanced level of English required; French knowledge is a plus.

• Knowledge of Aircraft systems would be a significant plus.

Additional Information

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.

By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.

Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. Airbus is also a European leader in defence and security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.