IDE Lead - Developer Tooling

About the role

Capco, a Wipro company and global technology and management consulting firm, is hiring an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Lead in Vadodara. The role leads the design, development and enhancement of IDE and developer tooling solutions that improve developer experience, productivity, code quality and software delivery efficiency. It is a hybrid position based at the client office.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, integration and enhancement of IDE and developer tooling solutions.
• Drive technical solutions that improve developer experience, productivity, code quality and software delivery efficiency.
• Lead development and customization of IDE plugins, extensions, integrations and developer workflows.
• Provide technical leadership across code editing, build, debugging, testing, source control and deployment workflows.
• Evaluate and integrate modern IDE capabilities such as intelligent code completion, code analysis, refactoring, debugging and developer automation.
• Work with Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Platform, Security and Product teams to understand developer needs and deliver effective tooling.
• Mentor engineers through technical design, development, code reviews and troubleshooting.
• Drive engineering standards, reusable tooling, automation and continuous improvement.

Required profile

• 8+ years of overall software engineering experience, with strong experience in developer tooling, IDE platforms or engineering productivity solutions.
• Proven ability to drive technical design and make architecture decisions for complex developer tooling solutions.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring, problem-solving and communication skills.

Required skills

• Strong understanding of modern IDEs and software development workflows.
• Experience with IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio / VS Code, Eclipse or similar.
• Experience developing or integrating IDE plugins, extensions, SDKs, APIs or developer tools.
• Understanding of compilers/build systems, debugging, code analysis, source control, testing and development lifecycle tooling.
• Good understanding of Git, CI/CD, build automation and modern software engineering practices.

Preferred: enterprise-scale developer platforms, cloud-based development environments, AI-assisted development tools, IDE integration with CI/CD, DevOps, security scanning and observability platforms, Java, microservices, containers and Kubernetes, and experience in Payments / FinTech.