Backend Lead Developer at Quantela · Remote only · 4 - 10 years · ₹20L - ₹35L / yr · Raised funding · Remote only · Posted 24 Jul 2023
About Quantela
We are a technology company that offers outcomes business models. We empower our customers with the right digital infrastructure to deliver greater economic, social, and environmental outcomes for their constituents.
When the company was founded in 2015, we specialized in smart cities technology alone. Today, working with cities and towns; utilities, and public venues, our team of 280+ experts offer a vast array of outcomes business models through technologies like digital advertising, smart lighting, smart traffic, and digitized citizen services.
We pride ourselves on our agility, innovation, and passion to use technology for a higher purpose. Unlike other technology companies, we tailor our offerings (what we can digitize) and the business model (how we partner with our customer to deliver that digitization) to drive measurable impact where our customers need it most. Over the last several months alone, we have served customers to deliver outcomes like increased medical response times to save lives; reduced traffic congestion to keep cities moving and created new revenue streams to tackle societal issues like homelessness.
We are headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts in the United States with offices across Europe, and Asia.
The company has been recognized with the World Economic Forum’s ‘Technology Pioneers’ award in 2019 and CRN’s IoT Innovation Award in 2020.
For latest news and updates please visit us at www.quantela.com
Overview of the Role
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and build performant modern web applications and services. Build high quality web applications and services by writing clean and modular code
Must have Skills
- 10+ years of experience in leading teams and delivering product, write unit and integration tests to ensure robustness and reliability of web applications and services.
- Measure and improve performance of microservices.
- Catalyze growth within the team through code reviews and pair programming to maintain high development standards Investigate operational issues to find the root cause and propose improvements Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Stripe’s engineering teams.
- Expert level of experience in design and development of Web Applications, highly scalable distributed systems.
- Should have experience in development skills using latest technologies including NodeJS, Microservices, Elastic search, Timescale DB, Kafka, Redis, etc.
- Should have exposure in NoSQL and SQL development.
- Comprehensive knowledge of physical and logical data modelling, performance tuning.
- Should possess excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively and productively with globally dispersed teams
- Build high performance teams and Coach team for successful career growth
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimization, and designing schema
Desired Background
Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or Computer Applications

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Job Summary
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Professional Experience
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Technical Leadership & Management
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- Strong ownership of team delivery, timelines, and quality
- Experience balancing hands-on technical work with people management
Backend & System Architecture Expertise
- Strong proficiency in modern backend architectures, design patterns, and microservices architecture.
- Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Java, Python, etc.)
- Solid understanding of API design principles and implementation
- Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases and knowledge of data pipelines and data warehousing concepts.
Technical Competencies
- Strong system design and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of caching strategies, performance optimization, and scalability
- Understanding of data modeling and query optimization
- Familiarity with search and indexing technologies
- Understanding of security best practices in backend systems
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- Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
- No strict deadlines, focus on delivering quality work.
- Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
- Very high visibility regarding which startups and markets are exciting globally.
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- Own MongoDB data modelling decisions — document structure, embedding vs referencing, index strategy
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- Make and document build-vs-buy calls on third-party services with cost and integration effort
- Ensure the platform stays stable and performant on a live, revenue-generating system
- Demonstrate daily working use of AI coding tools and spec-driven development practice
- Judge AI output quality and know when tasks should not be handed to agents
- Set up and maintain repo-level context files and make the team's AI setup consistent
- Coach the team on AI tools while holding the line on quality
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- Own release coordination — deployment planning, rollback strategy and post-release monitoring
- Line-manage 6–10 engineers across web, mobile and QA — 1:1s, feedback, performance conversations and growth planning
- Mentor mid-level engineers into senior ones and build depth
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- Act as the main technical point of contact between the India team and the UAE office product and business stakeholders
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- Own technical delivery on modules including product catalogue, pricing, ordering, workflows, order management, payments, invoicing and vendor onboarding
Ideal Candidate
1Strong Hands-On Technical Team Lead Profile (Vue.js + Node.js) with AI-assisted development and B2B e-commerce exposure2Mandatory (Experience) - Must have 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years leading a team of 5 or more engineers3Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong, current, hands-on Vue.js experience including component architecture, state management and performance optimisation4Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have strong, current, hands-on Node.js and Express experience for production API development at scale5Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have deep MongoDB experience including aggregation pipelines, index design, query performance tuning and schema decisions6Mandatory (Tech skill 4): Must have AWS experience particularly Kubernetes/EKS with deployments, resource limits, health probes and production monitoring7Mandatory (Tech skill 5): Must have working understanding of Flutter including widget architecture, state management, platform channels and Play Store/App Store release pipelines8Mandatory (Tech skill 6): Must have demonstrable, daily professional use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI or equivalent) with real examples9Mandatory (Tech skill 7): Must have experience with spec-driven development including writing structured requirement and design documents and reviewing AI-generated output against acceptance criteria10Mandatory (Tech skill 8): Must have experience setting up and maintaining repo-level context files, rules files and custom commands for AI development11Mandatory (Tech skill 9): Must have Git and CI/CD experience including branching strategy, review workflow and automated pipelines12Mandatory (Leadership): Must have line-managed engineers (1:1s, feedback, performance, growth), mentored mid-to-senior, and participated in hiring13Mandatory (Communication): Must communicate clearly to mixed technical/non-technical audiences and manage a time-zone gap with structured overlap and async documentation (works with the UAE office)14Mandatory (Education): Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or related field15Mandatory (Domain): Background in B2B e-commerce, wholesale/distribution or marketplace platforms16Preferred (Offshore Experience): Experience working as the offshore technical counterpart to an overseas leadership team17Preferred (AI Integration): Experience integrating LLM APIs into a production product18Preferred (Observability): Exposure to observability tooling such as CloudWatch, Datadog or Sentry and analytics instrumentation19Preferred (Third-party Integrations): Experience with payment gateways, e-signature, logistics APIs, mapping and geolocation integrations










