Senior Technical Lead – Full Stack (Java, React/Angular, Cloud) | 12+ Years Experience

Bangalore, Karnataka
Permanent
Full-time

2 days ago

Meet the team
Cisco, a global leader in networking and IT, is driving the future of connectivity through innovation, collaboration, and a people-first culture. Within its cutting-edge Routing SD-WAN Group, the SDWAN Manager team builds powerful, scalable platforms that help enterprises seamlessly manage, secure, and optimize their networks from edge to cloud. Now, Cisco is seeking a talented Full Stack Software Engineer to develop high-impact features across modern web applications and Java-based backend systems—playing a key role in delivering intelligent, AI-powered solutions that enhance network performance, automation, and user experience at scale.Your impact:As a Tech Lead in the Full Stack area, you will own major product areas spanning backend services, APIs, and UI workflows.

Own End-to-End Product Delivery: Lead the design and delivery of SD-WAN management workflows across UI and backend, including configuration, policy management, observability, and troubleshooting features.
Architect Scalable Systems: Design and build high-performance Java-based services and REST APIs, along with responsive React/Angular frontends for large-scale, real-time network operations.
Drive Modernization & Reliability: Break down monolithic systems into cloud-ready modular architectures, while improving API contracts, data flows, and system performance across distributed environments.
Lead Technical Excellence: Drive production issue resolution, root cause analysis, and system optimization while mentoring engineers through design reviews and code reviews.
Collaborate & Innovate: Partner with Product, UX, and Platform teams to deliver customer-centric solutions and enhance engineering efficiency using CI/CD best practices and AI-powered development tools (e.g., Copilot, Codex).

Minimum qualifications:An ideal candidate with 12+ years of full-stack development experience, along with a degree in Computer Science (BE/BTech/MS/MCA or equivalent) or relevant practical experience—we value diverse backgrounds and career paths.

Experience in Java-based backend development, including designing and operating services that handle high request volume and concurrent workflows.

Experience in frontend applications using Angular or React, delivering complex user workflows such as dashboards and configuration interfaces.

Expertise in design and delivery of features spanning multiple services or teams, including defining APIs and system interactions.

Experience in debugging production issues tracing failures across services, and resolving performance bottlenecks.

Actively use of AI-powered developer tools (e.g., Copilot, Codex, or similar) to improve development speed, debugging, and test generation.

Preferred qualifications (Optional Skills)

Exposure to networking domains, especially network management systems.
Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and public cloud platforms.
Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern quality practices.
Experience with Python or scripting for automation and tooling.

Why Cisco?At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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