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…