Sr. Software Developer

Job Title/Role: Senior Software Developer

Mode of hire: Full-Time

Base Location: Guindy, Chennai

Mode of work: Hybrid

Shift Timing: General Shift (US time-zone overlap)

Experience: 6 to 8 Years

Notice: Preferred Immediate to 30 days

About The Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Developer to support production stability, defect resolution, and modernization across the Carta platform, spanning both backend systems and Angular-based frontend applications.

This is a hands-on senior role for an engineer who can work across APIs, databases, and UI layers, while also mentoring others and improving system quality in a large, mature enterprise application.

Carta is Access’s enterprise document and workflow platform family, including CartaHR, CartaDC, and CartaAP. The platform supports document management, workflow automation, integrations, scheduled processing, and retention controls.

This team focuses on maintaining, stabilizing, and modernizing the existing codebase. No net-new product development is expected.

Key Responsibilities

Backend / Platform Responsibilities

• Design and deliver complex fixes and maintenance improvements across APIs, shared libraries, scheduled jobs, and SQL.
• Investigate production issues using logs, code, configuration, and database behavior.
• Refactor high-risk or legacy areas incrementally to improve maintainability and supportability.
• Ensure reliability through improved validation, logging, and safeguards.

Frontend Responsibilities

• Deliver complex Angular fixes and enhancements across applications and shared UI libraries.
• Design reusable UI components, services, and state management flows.
• Troubleshoot UI issues involving async data, API interactions, and browser behavior.
• Drive improvements in UI consistency, accessibility, and maintainability.

Quality, Testing & Release

• Strengthen automated test coverage (unit, integration, Jest, Cypress).
• Support release readiness, impact analysis, and post-release validation.
• Ensure changes are safe, traceable, and production-ready.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Mentor engineers through design discussions and code reviews.
• Collaborate closely with QA, backend/frontend teams, and product stakeholders.
• Partner with teams to ensure API contracts and UI behavior are aligned.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and modernization efforts.

Required Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of experience in full stack enterprise software development.
• Strong expertise in:
• Backend: .NET, C#, REST APIs, SQL Server
• Frontend: Angular, TypeScript
• Experience working with both modern and legacy systems.
• Deep debugging skills across application, data, and environment layers.
• Experience in production support and maintenance-heavy environments.
• Strong understanding of scalable architecture and system design.
• Proficiency with Git and Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with legacy technologies such as VB.NET or Web Forms.
• Familiarity with tools/frameworks like Dapper, Autofac, OWIN, IIS.
• Experience with Nx, NgRx, Kendo UI, SCSS.
• Strong experience with testing tools like Jest and Cypress.
• Exposure to workflow-driven or document management systems.
• Ability to balance speed of delivery with production safety.

Core Competencies

• Deep debugging and problem-solving
• Code quality and maintainability focus
• Strong ownership and accountability
• Mentorship and technical leadership
• Collaboration and communication
• Execution under ambiguity