Senior Software Engineer II

Company Summary

First American (India) is a GCC (Global Capability Center) of the First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies. FAI is a proud member of the FORTUNE 500 companies and has been amongst the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eight consecutive years. First American Financial Corporation provides comprehensive title insurance, closing/settlement, property data and technology solutions. First American (India) creates quality solutions for its customers by combining software, back office, and knowledge processing operations to fulfill First American's business requirements. Our priorities are our employees, customers, and shareholders - in that order. First American (India) has been ranked amongst India's Best Companies To Work For™ 2023: Listed amongst the Top 100 by Great Place To Work® India, FAI is also certified Best Workplaces for Women and Workplace with Inclusive Practices. Software Services helps build First American's product suite that encompasses the best in class Title Insurance, Settlement and Mortgage solutions platforms. Leverages technology product stack across Microsoft platform predominantly to develop, enhance and maintain the best in class applications. The R & D division delivers solutions for the title insurance industry leveraging the best of NLP, AI and ML.

Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer II (SSE2)

Full Stack Development

Role Summary

The Senior Software Engineer II is a hands-on technical leader who owns the long-term health and evolution of a business domain or major software system. The role translates complex business needs into scalable, secure and maintainable solutions, guides delivery across teams, and improves engineering standards, reliability and developer effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities

• •Own the technical direction, architecture and operational health of a domain or significant application area.
• •Lead complex initiatives from requirements and design through implementation, release and production stabilization.
• •Make independent technical decisions, explain trade-offs, and simplify systems while balancing speed, quality, security, performance and cost.
• •Define and improve engineering practices for coding, testing, code review, CI/CD, configuration management, observability and incident response.
• •Partner with product, architecture, security, platform and other engineering teams to resolve dependencies and deliver outcomes.
• •Mentor engineers across teams, contribute to technical reviews, knowledge sharing, hiring and onboarding.
• •Use AI-assisted development tools for design, coding, testing, documentation, debugging and analysis, while validating outputs for correctness, security and maintainability.

Competencies

• •Domain ownership: Recognized as a dependable technical authority who drives durable improvements across a system or domain.
• •Operational excellence: Anticipates non-functional needs and builds reliable, observable, secure and supportable solutions.
• •Technical judgment: Evaluates alternatives and selects pragmatic solutions based on evidence and business context.
• •Ownership and accountability: Takes responsibility beyond individual code changes, follows through on commitments and addresses root causes.
• •Communication and collaboration: Communicates clearly, aligns stakeholders, mentors others and leads with expertise rather than ego.
• •Autonomy, curiosity and scrappiness: Acts with urgency, challenges inefficient practices, explores alternatives and escalates risks early.

Technical Skills

An ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with:

• •.NET / ASP.NET Core, C# and RESTful APIs
• •React, TypeScript and modern front-end development
• •AWS services and cloud-native application development
• •PostgreSQL and/or DynamoDB, including data modelling and performance considerations
• •Microservices, distributed systems and event-driven integration patterns
• •Git, CI/CD, automated testing, code quality and secure development practices
• •Agile/Scrum delivery using tools such as Jira
• •AI coding tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot or Claude Code

Preferred: Python, Node.js, OpenAPI/Swagger, infrastructure as code, observability platforms and experience defining SLAs/SLOs.

Education and Experience

• •Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• •Typically 5-8 years of hands-on software engineering experience, including ownership of complex production systems and technical leadership beyond an individual module or feature.

FAI is committed to create an environment that respects, supports and inspires all individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation and age. At FAI, we celebrate diversity and believe that an inclusive workforce benefits employees, the organization and our community. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information about our company and dedication to putting People First, check out https://firstam.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/faicareers.