A Lead UiPath Developer position is open in Mohali, based on-site at IT City, Sector 82, for a full-time hire with a monthly salary around ₹1,58,500. The role sits inside a Software Development team that builds and maintains robotic process automation for internal and client-facing operations, and it reports into the automation engineering group rather than a standalone department.
What the role actually involves
The person in this seat will spend most days moving between two modes: writing and refining automation code, and reviewing what the rest of the team has written. Day-to-day, that means building new workflows in UiPath Studio, maintaining bots already running in production, and fixing defects that arise during QA or after deployment. Because this is a lead position, it also includes shaping how junior developers approach a workflow before they start building it, not just correcting their code after the fact.
Most of the automation supports back-office processes: invoice matching, HR onboarding paperwork, and vendor reconciliation are the kinds of workflows currently running in production. New requests usually come in from a business team that's tired of a manual step, and it falls to this role to scope whether the process is actually a good candidate for automation before a single line of code gets written. That scoping conversation happens more often than people expect going in, and it's part of what separates a lead developer from someone purely executing tickets.
- Design, build, and maintain UiPath workflows and unattended/attended bots for finance, HR, or operations processes
- Review pull requests and workflow logic submitted by other developers on the team
- Diagnose and resolve exceptions surfaced through Orchestrator queues and production monitoring
- Coordinate with business analysts and stakeholders to translate a manual process into an automatable one
- Mentor two to three junior developers on REFramework structure and error-handling patterns
Who fits this role
Employers hiring for a lead-level position like this one generally expect an undergraduate degree from a technical discipline, most commonly computing or IT, paired with real hands-on delivery experience rather than coursework alone. On the experience side, candidates should bring roughly ten years of relevant background, most of it spent actually building and supporting automation in a production environment rather than in a training sandbox. Someone earlier in their career with strong UiPath fundamentals but a shorter track record probably isn't the right fit for this particular opening, since the mentoring and architecture responsibilities assume that depth already exists.
A background in
UiPath is non-negotiable for this requirement. Beyond the tool itself, the work leans heavily on process automation and workflow design, and debugging skills matter as much here as anywhere else in software development, since a bot that fails silently at 2 a.m. is a very different problem than one that throws a visible error during business hours.
Required skills
- UiPath Studio and Orchestrator, including REFramework-based development
- Process automation and workflow design across multi-step business processes
- Debugging and root-cause analysis of production bot failures
- Queue and exception handling for unattended automations
UiPath ACE or UiPath RPA Associate certification, working knowledge of C# or VB.NET, basic SQL for querying source systems, and prior exposure to Agile delivery would all strengthen an application without being mandatory.
None of these bonus items are dealbreakers on their own. A candidate strong in the core UiPath skills but light on formal certification is still very much under consideration; certification mainly matters as a tiebreaker between otherwise similar applicants, or as a signal for someone whose production experience is thinner than the role ideally wants.
Compensation and what comes with it
Health insurance, paid time off, and performance-linked bonuses come standard with this position, in line with what most lead-level, full-time development roles in this field offer. Because the role is on-site in Mohali, the company also provides relocation assistance and accommodation support for candidates moving from outside the region, which is a fairly common practice for employers in this location that fill specialized roles they can't easily source locally.
- Health insurance coverage
- Paid time off
- Performance-linked annual bonus
- Relocation assistance for candidates moving to Mohali
- Accommodation support during the transition period
Team and day-to-day reality
The automation team here is small enough that a lead developer's individual decisions on workflow structure genuinely shape how five or six other people build for months afterward, which is part of what makes the mentoring piece of this role matter. Naukri Mitra has recently listed a number of RPA roles in the Mohali IT corridor, and this one stands out for the emphasis it places on architectural ownership rather than pure output. Some weeks are quiet, spent mostly on code review and documentation. Others involve a production incident that needs a fix before the next business day starts, and those weeks are the ones the job description doesn't fully capture until you're in one. Candidates who've worked in RPA before will recognize that rhythm already; anyone new to the field should go in expecting it.
Client and stakeholder meetings happen regularly enough that the ability to explain a technical decision to a non-technical business owner is genuinely useful, not just a nice-to-have line on a job posting. This is one of the more sought-after openings for RPA professionals in the region right now, largely because Mohali's IT City has become a real hub for automation and BPO-adjacent work over the past couple of years, and salary expectations here tend to track slightly above those for comparable roles in smaller Punjab cities.
Career growth from here typically leads to an automation architect or delivery manager track within two to three years, depending on how the broader RPA practice scales. Someone coming in at the lead level today is realistically being evaluated for that next step as much as for the day-one responsibilities, which is worth factoring into how you frame your own trajectory during the interview.
Applying
Interested candidates should be prepared to walk through at least one past UiPath project in detail during the interview process, including how exceptions were handled and what the deployment process looked like. Given the on-site requirement, applicants currently based outside Mohali should factor in the relocation timeline when planning their notice period with a current employer. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and shortlisted candidates are typically contacted within a week or two of applying.
