Azure Full Stack Tech Lead – AI & Cloud Engineering
8–10 years · Kochi / BangaloreSocxo is a leader in promoting the concept of "advocacy marketing" in the USA, Europe, and India, with 50+ brands as customers. We're looking for a hands-on Tech Lead who combines strong full-stack engineering, architectural thinking, and AI-native design capabilities within an enterprise environment. The role requires hands-on engineering/coding, with responsibility for leading a small team, shaping architecture, and delivering secure, scalable, cloud-native solutions.
Key responsibilities
- Design, build, and own full-stack applications using .NET Core, modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular/React), and Azure services, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
- Define and implement application and integration architectures including RESTful APIs, MCP-style integrations, and data pipelines aligned to enterprise standards.
- Lead and mentor the engineering team: drive coding standards, code reviews, test automation, and DevOps practices while remaining a strong individual contributor.
- Manage cloud deployments on Azure (and where needed AWS), including CI/CD using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, monitoring, logging, and performance optimization.
- Embed application security and compliance into design and implementation, working with architecture and security teams to meet enterprise governance requirements.
- Collaborate with Product Owner and cross-functional stakeholders to translate product requirements into technical solutions and incremental delivery plans.
Mandatory skills
- 8–10 years of experience as a lead or senior engineer with hands-on development across front-end, backend, and databases.
- Strong experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript and frameworks such as Angular or React for building responsive front-end experiences.
- Proficiency in .NET Core, C#, RESTful API design, and microservices or modular monolith patterns for enterprise systems.
- Database skills across SQL Server and at least one NoSQL technology – MongoDB or equivalent, including schema design and performance tuning.
- Usage of Azure services – App Services, Functions, API Management, Storage, Azure SQL, NoSQL DB, messaging, monitoring.
- Experience with DevOps workflows using CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release management in a structured enterprise SDLC.
- Current experience as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager, driving digital product initiatives.
AI-native experience
- Strong understanding of LLM concepts and how to interact with them programmatically within application workflows (chat, agents, RAG, tool calling).
- Hands-on experience using GitHub Copilot Pro in VS Code or Visual Studio for feature development, test generation, refactoring, and lightweight documentation.
- Ability to design and implement AI-native and AI-refactoring approaches: where to embed LLMs, vector databases, orchestration layers, and guardrails in existing .NET/Azure architectures.
- Experience or familiarity with Semantic Kernel, Microsoft.Extensions.AI, and integrating Azure OpenAI or similar providers into production systems.
Preferable
- Certifications in Microsoft Azure Architecture.
- Exposure to AI solutions development and cost management across AI workloads.
Socxo offers an open culture, teamwork, and freedom to express your ideas.