Software Engineer

Alight

2 - 5 years

Gurugram

Posted: 06/07/2025

Job Description

Job Title: Software Engineer - IT 

Location: Gurugram/Chennai, India  

Experience: 2+ 

 

 

 

Job Profile: 

 

Position Objective 

 

The Engineer will be primarily responsible for ensuring timely execution of assigned client deliverables and successfully unit tests requirements. They will work in conjunction with a senior team member to ensure a fully integrated product is delivered to the client. The Engineer progresses in specializing and deepening his or her technical skill set and within Absence Management.  

 

Job Description: 

 

Major Opportunities and Decisions: (Describe the more difficult and/or complex challenges or opportunities and decisions faced in doing work, improving processes or meeting customer needs.) 

 

Project Planning, Tracking, & Reporting 

  • Contribute into the initial coding estimates. 

  • Support the team in project planning activities and in evaluating risks. 

  • Communicate regularly with the team about development changes, scheduling, and status. 

 

Design 

  • Understand assigned detailed (LLD) design and do code development 

 

Development & Support 

  • Work with the team to clarify and improve the design as required 

  • Build the code of high-priority and complex systems according to the technical specifications, detailed design, maintainability, and coding and efficiency standards.  

  • Use code management processes and tools to avoid versioning problems.  

  • Ensure that the code does not affect the functioning of any external or internal systems.  

 

Testing & Debugging 

  • Write and execute the unit test cases and test each piece to verify the basic functionality before comprehensive testing.  

  • Debug and resolve any project, code, or interface-level problems.  

  • Fix function testing issues.  

  • Test high priority and high complexity functionality/issues with support as needed 

 

Documentation 

  • Create documentation for the code as per defined standards and processes. 

  • Work on peer review feedback of the technical documentation for the code as per defined standards and processes 

 

Process Management 

  • Adhere to the project and support processes. 

  • Adhere to best practices and comply with approved policies, procedures, and methodologies, such as the SDLC cycle for different project sizes.  

  • Participate in route cause analysis 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skills and Knowledge: (Identify core competencies, key specialties, technical, and knowledge areas necessary to accomplish responsibilities and desired end results) 

 

 

 

 

Competencies/Skills: Individual Contributor Competencies 

 

Skills:  

  • Proficient in at least one of the following 

  • C# 

  • Asp.Net Core, Web Forms, Web APIs, Asp.Net MVC 

  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript 

  • Angular 

  • T-SQL 

  • Strong understanding of OOPS concepts 

  • Experience with 

  • Various common JavaScript libraries 

  • Responsive design 

  • Creating and consuming web services, Web API, or WCF 

  • Secure website design and development 

  • Application architecture and design patterns  

  • MS SQL Server 

  • Writing Stored Procedures, triggers, functions, designing db schema 

  • Proficiency with code versioning tool like Git 

  • Entity Framework 

  • Creating interfaces for communication between different applications 

  • Nice to have 

  • Experience with Visual Studio 2019/2022 

  • Experience with SQL Server 2016/2019/2022 

  • Experience with automated unit testing and integration testing 

  • Experience with graceful degradation and/or progressive enhancement websites. 

  • Strong understanding of XML and JSON 

  • Familiarity with Continuous Integration 

  • Familiarity with AWS cloud services(SQS,S3,SNS, ECS etc) 

 

Knowledge:  

  • 2+ Years of experience in analyzing and understanding application storyboards and\or use cases and develop functional application modules 

  • Come up with approaches for a given problem statement  

  • Design, build and maintain efficient and reusable C#.net core code 

  • Design, build and maintain Microsoft .Net Web based applications 

  • Fix identified defects or observations that are potential impacts or risks for the functionality 

  • Ensure best possible performance and quality of the application using project and standard best practices 

  • Help maintain code quality using project quality standard (or using tools) 

  • Design and develop web user interfaces (good to know frameworks such as bootstrap) 

  • Debug and Troubleshoot problems in existing code 

  • Develop unit test cases and perform unit testing 

  • Work on creating database tables, stored procedures, functions etc 

  • Coordinate with AGILE team 

  • Maintain updates to JIRA with the latest changes and appropriate status 

 

 

Education and Experience: (Identify types and length of education and experience needed to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to accomplish the desired end results) 

 

Education: B E Computers, IT /MCA / MSc IT, Computer Science 

 

Experience: 2+ Years of experience in analyzing and understanding application storyboards and\or use cases and develop functional application modules. 

We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
 


DISCLAIMER:


Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

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About Company

Alight is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider that powers confident health, wealth and wellbeing decisions for 36 million people and dependents. Our Alight Worklife® platform combines data and analytics with a simple, seamless user experience. Supported by our global delivery capabilities, Alight Worklife is transforming the employee experience for people around the world. With personalized, data-driven health, wealth, pay and wellbeing insights, Alight brings people the security of better outcomes and peace of mind throughout life’s big moments and most important decisions.

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