Director of Engineering — Flights Platform at Travel Tech - IPO company · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 12 - 16 years · ₹80L - ₹130L / yr · Posted 13 May 2026

Director of Engineering — Flights Platform
AI-First Travel Commerce · High-Scale Distributed Systems · Marketplace Infrastructure
🌏 The Problem Space
A flight search looks trivially simple. It is anything but.
Every query you fire triggers a choreography of distributed systems operating in real-time — integrating with a dozen airline GDS/NDC providers, computing dynamic fares across inventory buckets and fare rules, ranking thousands of itineraries by relevance and business intent, and returning a ranked, priced, bookable result set — all in under 100ms.
→ Millions of search queries per minute
→ <100ms end-to-end SLA with external API dependencies
→ High-value transactions — a bug here means a missed booking, not a failed render
→ Pricing errors erode trust faster than any other failure mode
We are rebuilding the Flights platform as a real-time commerce engine for Bharat — AI-native from day zero, built to power both B2C consumer journeys and high-stakes B2B enterprise corridors.
This is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to build national-scale flight infrastructure from first principles.
🧠 What You Will Own
You will own the full Flights platform — systems, architecture, and the teams that build them.
Core System Domains:
•Search Systems — high-throughput, low-latency query pipelines returning ranked, bookable options
•Pricing & Fare Engine — dynamic pricing logic, fare rules, promotional overlays, and real-time validation
•Booking & Ticketing — transaction-critical flows requiring strict consistency, idempotency, and zero data loss
•Airline Integrations — managing unreliable external GDS/NDC APIs with retries, circuit-breakers, and reconciliation
•Post-Booking Flows — cancellations, modifications, refunds — correctness at the margin is non-negotiable
Platform Scope:
•High-scale APIs serving consumer apps, B2B enterprise clients, and third-party partners
•Event-driven state machines managing booking workflows across async boundaries
•Observability and reliability infrastructure across all mission-critical flows
Team Scope:
•Lead 15–30+ engineers across multiple product and platform teams
•Manage Engineering Managers and Principal/Staff engineers
•Own hiring, org design, and technical direction
⚙️ Core Engineering Challenges
This role is fundamentally about making the right trade-offs under uncertainty — at scale.
Latency vs. Accuracy — when do you serve a cached fare vs. call a live airline API?
Availability vs. Consistency — graceful degradation at booking time vs. strict price validation
Cost vs. Performance — when is an external API call worth it vs. a cache hit?
Scalability vs. Simplicity — the best system is the one your team can reason about under incident
🤖 AI-First Engineering
AI is not an afterthought. It is load-bearing architecture.
•LLM-powered pricing intelligence — dynamic fare prediction and demand signals
•RAG pipelines for fare rules, refund policy, and support automation
•Agentic booking resolution workflows — autonomous exception handling at scale
•MCP-based orchestration layers for multi-provider integration
⚖️ Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Distributed Systems
•Design and evolve sub-100ms distributed query systems serving millions of concurrent searches
•Build fault-tolerant booking pipelines with strong consistency and durability guarantees
•Drive Kafka-based event architectures for booking state management
Reliability & Observability
•Own 99.99%+ availability for booking and pricing systems
•Build deep observability — metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, SLOs/SLAs
•Lead post-incident reviews and drive systemic reliability improvements
Business Partnership
•Partner with Product, Revenue, and Partnerships to translate commercial goals into architecture
•Influence platform roadmap, supplier strategy, and long-term technical investment
🛠️ Technology Stack
Backend: Java · Kotlin · Go · Python
Architecture: Microservices · Event-Driven (Kafka) · gRPC
Data: Redis · Aerospike · DynamoDB · Elasticsearch
Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, S3)
Observability: Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry
👤 Who You Are
•12–16 years in backend/distributed systems; 5+ Years in an Engineering Leadership role, led teams of 15–50 engineers
•Built and scaled large B2C + B2B platforms — Travel Tech, FinTech, or high-scale Consumer
•Deep expertise in real-time systems, marketplace dynamics, and external API integration
•Tier-I institute background strongly preferred (IIT / IIIT / NIT / IISC / BITS / VIT / SRM — CSE/ISE)
🚀 Why This Matters
Build national-scale infrastructure for 1.4 billion people
Sit at the intersection of AI · distributed systems · marketplace economics
Define the future of travel commerce in India — from architecture to product

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In this role, you will (But are not limited to):
- Design and develop highly scalable and resilient cloud architecture that seamlessly integrates with on-premises systems
- Drive the team’s goals and technical direction to find and pursue technical opportunities that make Egnyte’s cloud platform more efficient
- Effectively communicate complex design and architecture details
- Understand company and industry-wide trends to help develop new technologies
- Conceptualize, develop, and implement changes that prevent key systems from becoming unreliable, under-utilized, or unsupported
- Own all aspects of critical software projects from design to implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring
Qualifications
- BS, MS, or PhD. in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8-15 years of professional experience in engineering with a history of technical innovation
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Bonus Qualifications (Good to Have)
- The breadth of knowledge across infrastructure domains, with the ability to reason about everything from data center machine software to database solutions to machine learning infrastructure to front-end web or mobile applications
- Demonstrated success in designing and developing large-scale, complex systems
- Expertise with multi-tenant, highly complex, cloud solutions; experience with Hybrid and/or on-premises solutions desired
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Role- Sr Senior Engineer
Location -Hyderabad
Shift -Night Shift starts from 8:30 PM IST
About The Role
As a Senior Engineer on the team, you will own systems end to end across a high-volume, event-driven surface. You'll build the APIs and services behind key initiatives including:
- The driver comms platform — the rules engine, cohorting, and scheduling that reach drivers across SMS, push, and email
- The onboarding funnel and applicant tracking layer, architected to support Veho's move to an in-house system over time
- Live selling workflows that turn live offer and market-clearing data into well-timed, well-targeted driver outreach
You'll partner closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Data Science to ship tooling that scales with Veho's growth.
Responsibilities Include:
- Design, build, test, and deploy features across the driver-facing apps (driver mobile app, onboarding and registration surfaces), our GraphQL APIs, and the event-driven services behind them
- Own a problem end to end: write the design doc your team works from, build it, roll it out behind a feature flag, and stay on it after launch until it is stable
- Own the driver comms platform — the rules engine, cohorting, and scheduling that decide when to reach a driver over SMS, push, or email, and the delivery services behind it
- Build the onboarding funnel and applicant tracking layer: registration and set-password flows, consent and eligibility gating, and the integrations that track where every applicant sits in the funnel
- Build live selling workflows that consume live offer data and market-clearing signals to notify the right driver cohorts only when routes are actually claimable
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical design for complex, distributed systems, and architect today's comms and onboarding infrastructure so it supports the eventual in-house replacement of our third-party ATS rather than becoming throwaway work
- Break a project into milestones your product, design, ops, and data partners can plan against
- Write correctness-first code in an event-driven system where delivery is at-least-once and no driver may be texted twice about the same route — and where a send must never fire when there is no offer to claim
- Improve reliability and observability in the services you own, with alerts that fire on real problems and stay quiet otherwise, so an on-call engineer is paged for a broken send pipeline and not for noise
- Propose the engineering work your team should be doing, including the reliability, data-quality, and compliance work nobody is asking for
- Use AI-native development workflows and tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and similar) as part of how you ship
- Mentor the engineers around you, keep the team's code review bar high, and write down what you learn
What You Bring:
- 5–7+ years of experience building, testing, and deploying applications in high-traffic production environments
- Depth in AWS serverless, including Lambda, a managed GraphQL layer such as AppSync, DynamoDB, EventBridge, and SQS
- Experience with event-driven systems and the idempotency work that comes with at-least-once delivery — especially in a comms context where duplicate or misfired messages reach real people
- Strong full-stack experience with TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, and React
- Experience with DynamoDB single-table design
- Experience integrating with third-party platforms and their webhooks, and keeping the data they produce in sync and trustworthy across services
- At least one project owned through production rollout, including what broke afterward and who fixed it
- Experience operating a service in production long enough to own its failure modes
- Judgment about what a design costs in engineering time, dollars, and vendor commitment
- A self-starter mindset with the ability to move quickly and ship iteratively, including on migrations, compliance obligations, and the manual steps nobody has automated yet
- Enthusiasm for working closely with product, design, operations, data science, and support partners
-Tech Stack: AWS, TypeScript, Node.js, React, React Native, GraphQL, DynamoDB, serverless event-driven architecture;
multi-channel comms (SMS, push, email); Firebase Auth; Statsig for experimentation; Redshift/Databricks-backed data pipelines
Preferred:
- Experience with applicant tracking / recruiting funnels or other funnel-driven onboarding systems, and the drop-off analysis that improves them
- Experience with experimentation and analytics infrastructure (Statsig, Fivetran, Redshift, Databricks) to measure and tune what you ship
- Consent modeling and compliance obligations (e.g., driver terms-and-conditions and messaging consent) that span services
About the Role
We are hiring Staff / Principal Engineers to take full, hands-on ownership of Blitzy's most critical production-grade systems and to deliver high-leverage features that materially improve customer outcomes and engineering velocity. This is the most senior individual contributor role at the company today.
This is not a Senior-plus role, an architecture-only role, or a promotion-track role. We are looking for someone who has already operated at Principal / Staff+ scope in a highly technical environment and expects to spend their time writing, reviewing, and shipping production code.
This role is 100% hands-on. Leverage comes from system ownership, execution quality, and durable technical decisions — not people management or process.
Responsibilities
- Own mission-critical production systems end-to-end, ensuring correctness, scalability, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Design, build, and ship high-impact backend systems and features that improve product reliability, performance, and customer value.
- Architect scalable services and cloud infrastructure using technologies such as Python, REST, gRPC, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Identify and resolve complex technical bottlenecks that limit engineering quality, system performance, or organizational velocity.
- Build and operate LLM-powered systems and validation loops that evaluate correctness, consistency, durability, and production performance.
- Design and evolve data architectures incorporating relational, NoSQL, graph, and vector databases to support complex enterprise applications and semantic retrieval.
- Modernize and improve complex enterprise systems while balancing reliability, maintainability, scalability, and delivery speed.
- Set and uphold engineering quality standards through hands-on technical leadership, sound technical judgment, and ownership of long-term technical decisions.
Qualifications
- Direct experience with Python as a primary programming language, backend frameworks, and microservices architectures.
- Expertise in REST and gRPC, with proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript.
- Proficiency in GCP, along with experience using at least one additional cloud platform such as AWS or Azure.
- Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform in production environments.
- Experience operating highly available production systems, including monitoring, scalability, reliability, performance optimization, and operational tooling.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB.
- Familiarity with graph databases such as Neo4j and vector databases or embedding infrastructure for semantic search and retrieval.
- Hands-on experience building and operating LLM-powered systems in production, including evaluation, validation, regression testing, tracing, and failure analysis.
- Working knowledge of LangSmith or comparable LLM observability and evaluation tools; familiarity with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar model providers is a plus.
- Ability to contribute across the full stack, with a strong understanding of frontend architecture and the ability to debug, design, and ship across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and AI systems.
- Understanding of large-scale enterprise software systems, including architecture, integration, deployment, modernization, and long-term maintainability.
- Proven track record of operating at Staff+, Principal Engineer, or equivalent level, independently driving complex technical initiatives and delivering high-impact outcomes with minimal supervision.
Blitzy is a Cambridge, MA based AI software development platform on a mission to revolutionize the software development life cycle by autonomously building custom software to unlock the next industrial revolution. We're transforming how enterprises build software, turning enterprise requirements into enterprise grade code with an agentic software development platform that can autonomously execute 80% of the quantum of software development work. We're backed by multiple tier 1 investors, and have proven success as founders of previous start-ups.
Our Culture
Who we are:
Led by two pioneering co-founders we are one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S., creating our own category of enterprise autonomous software development. We automate thousands of hours of software development for our customers, which includes strong representation within the Fortune 500.
How we work:
- We move Blitzy Fast: Time is both our company’s and our clients’ most precious asset. We move quickly and decisively to innovate internally and deliver exceptional software externally.
- Championship Mindset: We operate like a professional sports team. We win as a team by holding ourselves and each other to high standards, collaborating in-person, and remaining focused on the mission.
- Passion for Invention: We’re pushing the frontier of what’s possible, requiring constant innovation and iteration.
- We Work for the Customer: We focus on delivering outsized value to the customers we work with and expanding those relationships into deep, meaningful partnerships.
- We believe in being ‘everyday athletes’: taking care of ourselves so we can bring our best minds to work. We promote great sleep, movement, and restorative activities for
Blitzy is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We believe different perspectives make us stronger.
Strong Tech Lead / Staff Engineer / Lead Engineer Profiles
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Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have minimum 6+ years of overall Software Engineering/Development experience building production backend systems.
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Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have Tech Lead ownership, with experience setting technical direction, architecture, frameworks, or engineering standards used by other engineers.
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Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have strong hands-on Backend development experience with deep proficiency in at least one backend programming language. (Python, Java, Golang etc)
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Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have strong System design/distributed systems experience, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, failure modes, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
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Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have strong CS fundamentals in Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, and Networking, with the ability to apply them to complex backend/system problems
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Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have owned complex, ambiguous, or business-critical engineering problems end-to-end, demonstrating clear technical judgment, trade-offs, problem-solving, and measurable technical/business impact; not limited to feature implementation.
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Mandatory (Experience 7) - Must have formal technical leadership experience, including mentoring Senior Engineers, conducting design/code reviews, driving engineering quality, and leading technical decisions across a team.
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Mandatory (Experience 8) - Must be a hands-on IC + Tech Lead, with approximately 70–80% hands-on coding/engineering involvement, not a pure people-management profile.
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Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies / Startups / B2B SaaS
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Mandatory (Education) - CS degree or equivalent (B.Tech/B.E./B.S.)
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Preferred (Skills) - Experience with Kafka/NATS/RabbitMQ, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security/compliance, multi-tenant systems, and financial/billing platforms.
About the role
You will be a pivotal member of the leadership team, responsible for driving the company's product and platform strategy while overseeing engineering excellence across AI, data, platform, DevOps and infrastructure. This is a mission-critical role for an engineering leader who is both strategic and hands-on, and who can build scalable technologies for global enterprise clients in a fast-paced innovation ecosystem.
Reports to: CEO · Location: Bengaluru, India — hybrid, 3 days a week in office
What you will do
Technology & product leadership
- Define and drive the technology vision, architecture and long-term platform roadmap.
- Oversee the architecture, design and delivery of highly scalable enterprise systems.
- Ensure engineering excellence, velocity and reliability across the product lifecycle.
Engineering & platform management
- Lead platform engineering, product technology, DevOps, infrastructure and Quality Engineering.
- Build robust cloud-native systems using the Azure, AWS and GCP ecosystems.
- Oversee operational effectiveness, including uptime, production reliability and cost optimisation.
Innovation & AI strategy
- Spearhead Mission AI by developing scalable, production-grade AI/ML and GenAI capabilities.
- Own the GenAI/LLM solutions architecture.
- Core specialisation in AI agents and autonomous workflows, data extraction and intelligent automation.
- Direct hands-on architectural oversight of large language models, applied AI and multi-layered deep learning products.
- Extensive expertise in building intelligent document automation systems — similar in complexity to patent parsing, legal workflow automation and structured decision intelligence tools.
Technical leadership
- A proven track record overseeing product architecture, tech strategy and cross-functional engineering execution across core full-stack and AI platforms.
- Collaborate with executive leadership on business strategy, client requirements and product delivery.
- Build, mentor and scale high-performing engineering teams with a growth mindset.
- Establish a strong technology culture grounded in ownership, innovation and continuous learning.
What success looks like
- Mission AI: build a world-class AI system leveraging GenAI, ML and enterprise-grade data engineering.
- Hyper-scaling: architect and scale the platform to match global industry leaders in the IP space.
- Culture building: develop a strong engineering organisation with high ownership, performance and innovation DNA.
Qualifications & experience
- Preferably under 15 years of enterprise software engineering experience across B2B SaaS or technology-first companies; fewer is fine for an exceptional engineer.
- A proven track record of taking early-stage AI/ML prototypes and scaling them into robust enterprise SaaS platforms featuring multi-agent orchestration, complex workflows and decision intelligence.
- Experienced in building and mentoring agile, lean startup teams of full-stack and machine learning engineers from the ground up.
- Proven leadership in defining and executing technology strategy and platform roadmaps.
- Extensive cloud-native engineering experience with Azure, AWS and GCP.
Technical expertise
- Strong full-stack engineering background (Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks).
- Expertise with JS frameworks such as React, Angular and Node.js.
- Experience building and scaling distributed systems and microservices.
- Strong knowledge of databases (SQL, NoSQL), data modelling and unstructured data management.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian, Git, CI/CD pipelines).
Behavioural & leadership competencies
- Product and delivery management expertise, end to end, including delivery and customer support.
- Excellent communication, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
- High technical proficiency combined with strong business acumen.
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
Join our product development team at Planview as a Senior Software Engineer I and become a pivotal force on the Viz Core Team. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape and lead the development of data-processing pipelines and APIs that are at the heart of our software solutions. These solutions are designed to streamline and enhance the efficiency of software delivery, resonating deeply with software engineers who strive to build better and faster.
At Planview Viz, which is powered by the innovative “Flow Framework,” you will tackle complex data challenges and develop scalable solutions within an AWS cloud environment. Your efforts will be crucial in revolutionizing how businesses harness and interpret vast amounts of workflow data, transforming it into actionable insights that propel organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
Responsibilities (What you'll do)
- Create and refine powerful data-processing architectures that integrate seamlessly with a diverse array of external tools, enhancing the way software is delivered across industries.
- Drive operational excellence by critically analyzing problems, defining requirements, and devising robust solutions that push the boundaries of technology.
- Lead and inspire a team of talented engineers, promoting a culture of ownership, meticulous attention to quality, and proactive problem-solving.
- Stay at the cutting edge of technology by updating and expanding your team’s knowledge of cloud architectures, data processing, and advanced analytics, ensuring that you and your team remain leaders in technological innovation.
- Make a direct impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of software delivery worldwide through innovation and leadership.
Qualifications (What you'll bring)
Who We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate is a seasoned professional in cloud software development with a strong foundation in data processing and scalable software systems. You thrive in collaborative environments and are passionate about advancing cloud technology and data architecture to new heights. You are a leader who enjoys mentoring, guiding, and inspiring others.
Preferred Qualifications
Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 6+ years of experience with a modern programming language, with a focus on back-end systems and cloud-based technologies.
- Strong capability in architecting and designing robust, scalable software systems.
- Proficiency in AWS or another popular cloud platform.
Additional Qualifications
- Experience with big-data technologies such as Spark and Apache Kafka.
- Experience with Java (version 17), Scala, or other JVM programming languages.
- Experience with tools such as Amazon Redshift and MongoDB.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Travis CI, or similar platforms.
- Proficiency in test-driven development.
- Experience with containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
- Experience working on remote or distributed teams and projects.
We are looking for an Engineering Lead to own the entire technology stack — from onboarding and underwriting to disbursals, repayments, and collections — and to build the engineering function into something genuinely AI-native.
What You'll Own
● Full tech stack: backend, frontend, infrastructure, integrations, and data pipelines
● Real-time underwriting and decisioning systems
● LOS/LMS architecture — onboarding, disbursals, repayments, and collections
● Integrations with bureaus, KYC providers, account aggregators, and payment gateways
● Reconciliation systems — disbursement, repayment, and NACH reconciliation end-to-end
● AWS infrastructure: scaling, reliability, uptime, and cloud cost ownership ● Data infrastructure for the credit and risk team — feature pipelines, model serving, experiment infrastructure
● Engineering leadership: hiring, sprint planning, code reviews, and execution standards
● Compliance systems: RBI guidelines, DPDP, KYC/AML, e-NACH, e-sign
AI-Native Engineering
This is a core part of the role, not a bonus. You will build a machine-readable knowledge base of the entire codebase — architecture, data models, service contracts, coding standards, decision history — so that AI agents working on code have the context to produce accurate, consistent output. You will build skills for code review, developer onboarding, and recurring engineering workflows. You will build a code review pipeline where agents do the first pass on every pull request. The knowledge base and the skills improve over time as the team grows and the product evolves.
What We're Looking For
● 7+ years in software engineering, with at least 2 years leading teams or architecture
● Strong hands-on experience with Python, Django, and React Native
● Deep expertise in AWS and cloud-native architecture
● Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases
● Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and API design
● Experience owning reconciliation or payment flow infrastructure in a lending or payments context
● Prior experience in fintech / NBFC / digital lending — mandatory
● Strong understanding of the full loan lifecycle — mandatory
● You have used LLMs seriously as engineering tools and have strong opinions about what makes AI-assisted development produce good output versus mediocre output
Bonus: Kubernetes / Kafka, AI/ML-driven underwriting, Account Aggregator framework, e-NACH / e-Sign / Video KYC integrations
What Success Looks Like
● scales with strong uptime, performance, and reliability
● Reconciliation runs cleanly — no financial discrepancies surface late ● A new engineer joins and is writing standard, correct code within their first week
● The credit team is never blocked on an engineering dependency
● Engineering health metrics are tracked and visibly improving
● AI agents are doing the structured first pass on code reviews, and the system gets smarter over time

Required Experience: 10–15 years (with at least 3–5 years in leadership roles)
● 10–15 years of overall experience in backend engineering, with strong exposure to
Python and/or Golang.
● 3–5 years of experience managing engineering teams.
● Proven experience delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production
environments.
● Strong understanding of microservices, cloud-native architecture, and DevOps
practices.
● Hands-on background in backend engineering (able to guide teams technically, even
if not coding daily).
● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and performance optimization.
● Experience in financial services or high-transaction domains is a plus.
● Experience leading teams that have utilized AI-driven development practices (e.g.,
agentic coding, LLM integration) to improve productivity and innovation is a
significant advantage.
Skills
● Excellent leadership and people management abilities.
● Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
● Ability to balance technical depth with business priorities.
● Problem-solving mindset with a focus on delivery and impact.
● Passion for building engineering culture and improving developer experience.
Engineering Manager – Backend
Location: Flexible / Hybrid (Mon–Fri)
Website: https://www.solarsquare.in
About the Role
SolarSquare is building the infrastructure for India's clean energy transition. We're looking for an Engineering Manager who doesn't just run a team — someone who builds one from the ground up, makes consequential technical bets, and treats engineering outcomes as business outcomes.
You'll own the technical strategy and delivery for our full-stack platform, lead a growing team of SDE1–SDE3 engineers, and work directly with product, design, and business to shape what we build and how fast we build it. This is a role for someone who has operated in resource-constrained environments, shipped systems that held up under pressure, and left every team they've led measurably better than they found it.
If you've only ever executed someone else's roadmap, this isn't the right fit. If you've ever built something from scratch and felt personally responsible for whether it worked.
What You'll Own
Team & Culture
- Build, hire, and develop a high-performing full-stack engineering team including setting the bar for what "high-performing" means at SolarSquare
- Create genuine career growth paths for engineers.
- Maintain team health, retention, and motivation through periods of rapid change and ambiguity
Technical Strategy
- Define and drive the architectural roadmap
- Make and own technical bets: when to invest in platform, when to ship fast, when to pay down debt
- Establish observability, reliability, and security standards before they become production fires
Delivery
- Translate business goals into engineering priorities and push back when the translation is wrong
- Set clear goals, metrics, and delivery expectations; hold yourself and the team accountable to them
- Manage trade-offs between short-term product velocity and long-term engineering health
Cross-Functional Influence
- Partner with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders and influence decisions upstream.
- Communicate technical risk, cost, and complexity clearly to non-technical leadership
What We're Looking For
- 7–10 years of engineering experience, with at least 3 years leading teams.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems design: idempotency, retries, DLQs, circuit breakers, eventual consistency, you've had to debug these in production.
- Proven experience with event-driven architecture and Kafka including schema design, consumer group management, and failure recovery patterns.
- Comfort with relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, ) databases including query optimisation and schema design decisions at scale.
- You've designed or operated systems handling meaningful traffic ideally 10K+ RPS. significant daily transaction volumes, or consumer-scale user bases (1M+ users)
- You understand what 99.99% uptime actually costs to maintain and you've made the infrastructure and on-call decisions to back it.
- You've written or enforced SLOs, SLAs, and incident management processes.
- You've done a postmortem that changed something real about how the team operates.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure beyond just deploying services, cost optimisation, right-sizing, architecture decisions that meaningfully reduced spend
- Working knowledge of containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) enough to unblock your team.
- CI/CD pipeline ownership you've built or significantly improved a pipeline.
- Experience with observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or equivalent and more importantly, a philosophy about what to instrument and why
- You've made the call between monolith and microservices and you can defend it with context.
- You've managed technical debt consciously: triaged it, prioritised it, and made the case to stakeholders for when to pay it down
- You've navigated a hard conversation with a product or business stakeholder and changed the outcome
- Your engineers grow under you. You can point to people you've promoted, coached, or unblocked
- You know how to build alignment across functions where incentives don't naturally align
- You have clear examples of decisions you made under ambiguity and you can articulate the trade-offs you weighed
- You've identified a systemic problem and fixed it without being asked
- You've built or rebuilt something that wasn't working a team, a process, a system
Work Arrangement
Flexible work setup, including hybrid options. Monday to Friday. Learn more about us at https://www.solarsquare.in.
We are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer to drive the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable B2B products from our Bangalore office. This role requires a strong hands-on technologist who can lead a team of engineers, make sound architectural decisions, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, DevOps, and Customer Success teams.
As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of our platform, ensuring high-quality engineering practices, and delivering enterprise-grade solutions to our customers. This job can quickly grow into a Technical Lead position.
**Key Responsibilities**
🔹 Technical Leadership
Own end-to-end technical architecture and system design for core product modules.
Drive scalable, secure, and high-performance backend and frontend solutions.
Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and ensure adherence to engineering best practices.
Evaluate and introduce new technologies where appropriate.
🔹 Team Management
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5–6 engineers.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation.
Support hiring, onboarding, and mentoring.
🔹 Product Delivery
Collaborate closely with mangement to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Drive sprint planning, estimations, and delivery timelines.
Ensure predictable, high-quality releases aligned with business goals.
🔹 Quality & DevOps
Champion CI/CD practices, automated testing, and DevOps processes.
Ensure system reliability, uptime, security, and performance monitoring.
Participate in incident management and root cause analysis.
🔹 Stakeholder Collaboration
Work cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, and Support teams for enterprise deployments.
Communicate technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
**Required Qualifications**
4+ years of software development experience in product-based companies.
Strong experience with modern backend technologies (e.g., Java, Node.js, Python, or similar technologies).
Experience with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or similar).
Solid understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful APIs.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL).
Experience building scalable B2B SaaS products.
**Preferred Qualifications**
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture.
Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SSO, APIs, third-party systems).
Experience handling high-scale systems with large enterprise clients.
Exposure to security and compliance standards (ISO, SOC2, GDPR).
**Key Competencies**
Strong problem-solving and system design skills.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to balance hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities.
Strong ownership mindset with attention to detail.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
**What We Offer**
Competitive compensation and performance bonuses.
Opportunity to work on cutting-edge B2B products.
Collaborative and growth-oriented culture.
Health insurance and wellness benefits.
If you are passionate about building scalable B2B platforms and leading high-performing engineering teams, we would love to hear from you.






