Engineering Manager at a fintech start up · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 7 - 12 years · ₹30L - ₹60L / yr (ESOP available) · Posted 21 Feb 2022

Software Development Manager
Full Time, Permanent
What You Will Need:
- 8+ years of experience as an engineer or a lead - solving real world customer problems.
- BE / B.Tech / M.Tech - preferably in Computer Science
- Strong background in building backend technologies over distributed systems.
- Hands on experience in building platforms, technologies, and systems for products they have worked on.
- Proven track record of building and managing high performing engineering teams.
- The ability to convince, negotiate and work with equally competent and smart stakeholders.
- Experience building complex technical solutions - highly scalable service-oriented architectures, distributed cloud-based systems - which power our fintech products.
- Proven ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders.
- Comfortable to work in a fast paced, evolving work environment
- Act as an entrepreneur - taking ownership of the problem statement end-to-end.
- Deliver best products from all engineering aspects like designing, architecting across multiple product lines.
- Lead a diverse team of high performing engineers - who set new standards everyday.
- Be a great engineer yourself - to be able to hire, mentor, and grow the engineering team.
- Handle multiple competing priorities and ambiguity - all in a fast-paced, high growth environment.
- Direct and provide ongoing leadership for a team of individual contributors, set objectives, review performances, define growth plan and nurture

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Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location- Delhi
Job type: Full time, On site
About Us: TIMBLE is leading Authentication Company, delivering cutting edge technology and alternate data analysis for Identity management, Onboarding & Verification and Business Intelligence. We provide solutions across three verticals
1. BFSI Solutions
2. KYC and background check Solutions
3.AI Solutions
Role Overview
As an Engineering Manager at Timble AI, you will manage, mentor, and scale our core engineering teams (including Backend, Frontend, and AI/ML divisions). You will remain highly technical, contributing to architecture decisions and system design, while taking full ownership of project delivery timelines, agile sprints, and team performance metrics.
Key Responsibilities
- People Leadership & Mentorship: Manage and grow a cross-functional team of software engineers (SDE-1 to SDE-3). Conduct regular 1-on-1s, drive career growth paths, and foster an innovative, high-ownership engineering culture.
- Delivery & Agile Project Management: Own the engineering sprint cycles. Work closely with Product Managers to break down roadmaps into execution goals, manage dependencies, and ensure high-velocity, predictable delivery.
- System Design & Architecture: Provide technical governance and direction. Collaborate on core system architecture, design reviews, and ensure codebases remain clean, scalable, and modular.
- Engineering Excellence: Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for the engineering team, including code quality, test coverage, uptime, and system performance.
- Hiring & Scaling: Actively partner with the talent acquisition team to identify, interview, and onboard top-tier engineering talent to help build our core verticals.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Experience: 5+ years of core software engineering experience, with at least 1–2 years of experience in an engineering management, tech lead, or team leadership role.
- Technical Roots: Strong foundational background in backend systems, distributed architectures, or AI integration. Prior hands-on experience with Python/Django ecosystems, microservices, cloud infra (AWS/GCP), or heavy automation systems is highly valued.
- Agile Mastery: Deep familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies, sprint planning tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Communication: Exceptional interpersonal and cross-functional communication skills, with a track record of translating complex technical visions into clear execution steps.
- Education: B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline from a reputed institute.
Learn more about us at: https://timbleglance.com
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the software development function, including developers, technical leads, architects, and QA engineers.
- Define and execute the software development roadmap in alignment with the company's business strategy and growth objectives.
- Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and high-performance software applications.
- Lead the development and enhancement of fintech platforms, financial applications, payment solutions, and digital financial products, as applicable.
- Drive API development, third-party integrations, banking integrations, payment gateway integrations, and other financial technology integrations.
- Establish software architecture standards, coding practices, development methodologies, and engineering best practices.
- Ensure application security, data protection, system reliability, scalability, and performance across software platforms.
- Drive the adoption of modern technologies, cloud-based solutions, DevOps practices, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Oversee software development life cycles, sprint planning, release management, quality assurance, and production support.
- Establish engineering KPIs, monitor team performance, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
- Collaborate with Product, Business, Compliance, Information Security, and Operations teams to translate business requirements into effective technology solutions.
- Ensure software development processes adhere to applicable regulatory requirements, security standards, internal policies, and IT governance practices.
- Manage technology budgets, external development partners, software vendors, and resource allocation.
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders, build a high-performing technology team, and foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities for process optimization, technical debt reduction, and improvement in software delivery efficiency.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 15–20+ years of experience in software development, engineering, and technology delivery, with approximately 20 years preferred.
- Significant experience in leading software development teams and managing large-scale application development initiatives.
- Strong expertise in software architecture, system design, API development, databases, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience with modern programming languages, frameworks, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, and software engineering tools.
- Proven experience in developing scalable, secure, and high-availability applications.
- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, digital lending, financial services, or related technology domains is preferred.
- Understanding of financial data security, application security, regulatory compliance, and secure software development practices.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, engineering teams, delivery timelines, and technology priorities.
- Excellent leadership, strategic planning, analytical, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
Work Location: In person
Location: Bangalore
Department: Engineering
Reports to: SVP
Experience required: 6+ years
About Tracxn:
Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem.
We are a team of 600+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.
Founders
- Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
- Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)
About Technology Team:
Tracxn's Technology team is 60+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each owning one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team compared to an individual.
We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.
Our Tech Stacks:
We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to backend and frontend systems such as Java, Python, Spring Boot, Node.js, ReactJS, Next.js, Webpack, and Storybook; cloud and serverless platforms like AWS, etc; data and infrastructure technologies such as Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch), MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Ansible; large-scale web crawling solutions; modern data pipelines and ETL workflows; and AI/ML-driven projects.
Job Overview:
We are looking for experienced software engineers with 6+ years of overall software development experience, including backend development and proven people-management skills. The ideal candidate will lead the engineering team(s), drive technical excellence, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers
- Own technical planning, architecture discussions, and execution
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders
- Drive best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
- Conduct code reviews and ensure high engineering standards
- Manage delivery timelines, resource planning, and technical risks
- Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management of engineers
Job Requirements :
Professional Experience
- Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams
- Track record of delivering complex, scalable software systems
- Experience driving technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions
- Strong collaboration experience with product, design, and cross-functional teams.
Technical Leadership & Management
- Ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers across different experience levels
- Experience conducting performance reviews and providing technical feedback
- 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
Culture:
- Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
- 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.
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.
Celeco Labs is hiring a hands-on Head of Engineering on behalf of a confidential client in the housing-finance sector.
This is a role for an engineer who wants to own delivery, not only manage it. You will set the technical direction, build and maintain production systems, and work closely with the business team. You should be comfortable taking a requirement from the first discussion through technical planning, implementation, release, and production support.
What you will do
• Own the engineering roadmap and help decide what should be built first.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable customer-facing products and internal systems.
• Write production code and review code written by others.
• Turn business requirements into clear technical plans and releases.
• Choose practical architecture, tools, and vendors that fit the company's needs.
• Set working standards for testing, deployment, monitoring, backups, and access control.
• Protect customer and company data through practical security controls.
• Investigate production issues and make sure the same problems do not repeat.
• Help hire and guide a small engineering team as the company grows.
What we are looking for
• 3–5 years of professional software-engineering experience.
• Experience building and running production systems.
• Strong backend skills, including APIs, databases, and cloud services.
• Enough frontend knowledge to work across a product when needed.
• Good judgment about system design, security, reliability, and cost.
• The ability to explain technical choices in simple language.
• Comfort working independently and taking full ownership of delivery.
Experience in lending, housing finance, fintech, or another regulated industry is useful, but not required. Experience leading engineers or working directly with founders and business leaders is also useful.
How to apply
Please share your CV or LinkedIn profile and two short examples of production systems you have owned. This is a confidential search. More information about the company will be shared with shortlisted candidates during the interview process.
We’re on the hunt for a Principal Engineer who loves solving tough problems, mentoring others, and shaping the future of our platform. In this role, you’ll be leading the design and build of scalable systems and integrations across major cybersecurity platforms. Sometimes you’ll be deep in the code, other times you’ll be guiding teams and customers to the right solutions. If you enjoy balancing hands-on work with big-picture thinking, this could be your spot.
About Us
At Metron Security, we help top cybersecurity companies supercharge their tools through automation and integrations. Our engineers connect and extend platforms like Splunk, IBM QRadar, ServiceNow, CrowdStrike, Cybereason, and many more. We believe in a developer-first culture where creativity, ownership, and continuous learning drive everything we do.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- A true developer-first environment where your ideas and technical chops matter.
- Hands-on exposure to 250+ security platforms (yep, really).
- Direct contact with customers so you can see the impact of your work right away.
- A fast-paced, growth-focused culture—but we also respect work-life balance. No weekends, and only occasional evening calls.
What We’re Looking For
We’re hoping to meet someone who has both deep technical expertise and natural leadership instincts. You think holistically about systems, enjoy digging into tricky problems, and can guide both teammates and customers to success.
Must-Have Skills
- Solid programming experience across multiple languages (Python, TypeScript, Java, Node.js, Angular, React, C#, C++… we’re language-agnostic and use the best tool for the job).
- Quick at learning new security platforms.
- Proven ability to design and build scalable systems, APIs, and integrations.
- Experience mentoring and leading engineering teams.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in complex environments.
- Organized, reliable, and able to set and meet clear timelines.
- Comfortable working directly with customers to understand needs and design solutions.
- Familiar with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and security best practices.
Bonus Points If You
- Have experience building or leading integrations with enterprise security tools.
- Like approaching challenges with a “hacker mindset.”
- Know your way around Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud deployments.
- Contribute to open source or share technical insights publicly.
What You’ll Do
- Be the face of Metron Security with our customers—collaborating on solutions and keeping communication clear.
- Bridge the gap between customers and our dev team, ensuring the right info flows both ways.
- Mentor and train junior developers, helping them level up.
- Step in to tackle tough technical problems when the team needs backup.
- Build and document knowledge about security platforms.
- Spot potential roadblocks early and help keep projects on track.
Who You Are
- Strategic thinker who isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves.
- Clear communicator who collaborates openly.
- Proud of building strong, maintainable solutions that exceed expectations.
- Curious, quick learner, and always exploring new technologies.
- Positive, “let’s figure it out” teammate who lifts others up.
At Metron Security, we’re all about helping security teams work smarter. If you’re excited to take on big engineering challenges, mentor others, and drive technical vision in a growing company, we’d love to talk.

JOB DESCRIPTION
Lead Engineer
Ahmedabad, India | Around 5 years of experience
Salary is open for the right candidate.
About the role
A growing healthcare technology startup is building AI-native hospital management systems and
healthcare products for emerging markets. You’ll set technical direction, lead the engineering team, and
stay hands-on with the code that ships.
What you’ll do
Set technical direction. Make architecture decisions, weigh trade-offs, and build systems that stay
reliable as requirements evolve.
Ship production software. Write, review, test, and debug code, and own the quality of what ships.
Lead the team. Break complex problems into deliverable work, mentor engineers, and take responsibility
for delivery.
Use AI coding agents. Give agents the context to tackle substantial engineering work, then critically
review, test, and debug their output.
Work with healthcare teams. Learn their workflows and turn complex requirements into dependable
software.
What you’ll bring
Production ownership. Around five years of experience, including meaningful ownership of complex
systems or products in production. Experience can be flexible for exceptional candidates.
Technical depth. Strong ability in mathematics, algorithms, or machine learning, demonstrated through
competitions, research, or demanding systems you’ve built and deployed.
Engineering leadership. Examples of architecture decisions you owned, engineers you mentored, and
work your team delivered.
AI-assisted development skills. A workflow you can demonstrate, including how you spot incorrect
assumptions, test changes, and debug failures.
Initiative and judgment. You learn quickly, tackle unfamiliar problems independently, and get working
software into users’ hands.
How to apply
Send your CV or LinkedIn profile to the recruiter who shared this brief. Include one or two examples of
your strongest technical work, a team leadership example, and an example of your AI coding workflow.
Highlight your own contribution and share only material you’re permitted to disclose.
Please include your salary expectations, notice period, and availability to work in Ahmedabad.
About the role
We are hiring a Principal Engineer to own the hardest technical problems in our product and see them through from first sketch to stable production. You will set technical direction, design systems that scale, and raise the engineering bar through your own work and the people around you. This is a hands-on leadership role: you write code, review designs, and ship.
What will you do?
You will own outcomes, not just tasks. Expect to spend your time on the following.
• Own projects end to end. Take an ambiguous problem, shape the requirements, design the solution, break down the work, deliver it to production, and stay accountable for how it runs afterwards.
• Lead system design. Author and review architecture for services, data pipelines and integrations, with clear trade-offs on scale, latency, cost, consistency and reliability.
• Write and review critical code. Build the hardest components yourself, and set standards for code quality, testing and maintainability through code and design reviews.
• Own deployment and operations. Design CI/CD, infrastructure and release strategies. Drive observability, on-call readiness, incident response and post-incident learning.
• Solve hard problems. Debug production issues across the stack, and find root causes in performance, concurrency, data and scaling problems.
• Mentor and multiply. Coach senior and junior engineers, grow future tech leads, and make the whole team faster and more confident.
• Partner across functions. Work with product, design, data and business teams to turn goals into technical plans, and to say no or reshape scope when needed.
• Shape technical strategy. Guide build-versus-buy decisions, manage tech debt, evaluate new technologies, and contribute to the engineering roadmap.
• Raise the bar. Help define engineering practices, hiring standards and culture, and take part in interviewing.
What are we looking for?
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Core engineering
• 10+ years of professional software engineering, with a track record of shipping and running production systems.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and complexity, operating systems, networking, databases and concurrency.
• Fluency in at least one major backend language (for example Python, Go, Java, or Node.js/ TypeScript) and the ability to pick up others quickly.
• Deep knowledge of relational and NoSQL data stores: schema design, indexing, transactions, query tuning and replication.
System design and problem solving
• Proven ability to design distributed systems that are scalable, fault tolerant and cost aware, and to explain the trade-offs clearly.
• Experience with APIs, event-driven and asynchronous architectures, queues, caching and service-to-service communication.
• A structured approach to ambiguous problems: break them down, test assumptions, decide with incomplete data, and measure results.
• Strong debugging instincts, including performance profiling and production troubleshooting.
Delivery and operations
• Have led at least two significant projects from inception to production, including planning, milestones, risk management and launch.
• Hands-on experience with deployment: CI/CD pipelines, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), a major cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure), and infrastructure as code.
• Practical experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs and incident management.
• Habit of writing tests and automation, and of leaving systems more reliable than you found them.
Leadership and communication
• Experience leading engineers without formal authority, through influence, mentoring and clear technical writing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication: design docs, RFCs and concise updates to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ownership mindset, sound judgment on priorities, and comfort working in a fast-moving environment.
Nice to have
• Experience in fintech, lending or another regulated, data-heavy domain.
• Exposure to AI/ML or LLM-based systems in production: model serving, evaluation, retrieval, and cost and latency management.
• Deep experience with data engineering: streaming, batch pipelines, warehouses or search systems.
• Security and compliance awareness: authentication, encryption, audit trails, secure SDLC.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, high-throughput systems or zero downtime migrations.
• Open-source contributions, conference talks, or technical writing.
• Experience scaling an engineering team or helping set up hiring and onboarding practices.
Director of Engineering (AI Solutions & Delivery)
About the Role
We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead engineering execution and delivery across our enterprise AI solutions. This role combines strong engineering leadership with operational discipline, ensuring AI products move from technical design to production with predictable timelines, high quality, and reliable performance.
You will lead Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, oversee multiple engineering teams, and drive delivery excellence across AI-powered applications and platforms. The focus is on execution, technical quality, and organizational accountability, ensuring teams deliver scalable, production-ready AI systems without compromising reliability or engineering standards.
Key Responsibilities
1. Engineering Delivery & Execution
- Own engineering delivery schedules, translating product roadmaps into achievable sprint plans and release milestones.
- Establish measurable delivery targets, aiming for at least 85% on-time delivery across engineering teams.
- Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies, technical bottlenecks, and resource constraints before they affect delivery.
- Drive engineering process improvements across Agile development, CI/CD, automated testing, and release management.
- Monitor delivery metrics, sprint commitments, and release readiness to maintain predictable execution.
2. AI Quality, Evaluation & Governance
- Establish automated AI evaluation pipelines to measure hallucinations, relevance, groundedness, and contextual accuracy before production releases.
- Define quality benchmarks and evaluation criteria for LLM-powered applications and AI-driven workflows.
- Implement safety mechanisms, validation filters, circuit breakers, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks to manage unpredictable AI outputs.
- Oversee RAG pipelines, vector databases, data ingestion, and retrieval mechanisms to maintain accurate, reliable, and compliant context.
- Reduce production AI quality regressions through continuous evaluation, monitoring, and feedback loops.
3. Architecture, Scalability & Reliability
- Oversee the architecture of distributed systems and cloud-native applications to support scalability, availability, and performance.
- Drive reliability targets, including 99.9% uptime and low time-to-first-token (TTFT) latency for applicable AI applications.
- Partner with Staff and Principal Engineers to design resilient systems, including fallback mechanisms for model API failures, timeouts, and rate limits.
- Establish engineering standards for code reviews, observability, automated integration testing, and security compliance.
- Ensure production systems meet defined service-level objectives (SLOs) and performance benchmarks.
4. Engineering Leadership & Team Development
- Lead and develop Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, establishing clear ownership, accountability, and delivery expectations.
- Build a high-performance engineering culture focused on technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to attract, assess, and hire strong software engineering and AI talent.
- Align engineering resources with business priorities, delivery commitments, and technical requirements.
- Address performance and execution challenges while maintaining team engagement and engineering quality.
Success Metrics: First 90 Days
First 30 Days
- Assess existing engineering workflows, delivery pipelines, and release processes.
- Establish baseline AI evaluation criteria and identify gaps in production quality.
- Take ownership of engineering delivery across teams and align expectations with Engineering Managers and Tech Leads.
First 60 Days
- Implement automated AI evaluation frameworks and establish measurable quality benchmarks.
- Improve cross-team coordination and resolve key delivery dependencies.
- Establish consistent sprint planning, release cadences, and delivery reporting.
First 90 Days
- Achieve at least 85% sprint commitment completion.
- Demonstrate measurable reductions in production AI quality regressions.
- Improve system reliability and stabilize latency against defined performance targets.
- Establish clear accountability and predictable delivery practices across engineering teams.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Experience: 14+ years in software engineering, including at least 5 years managing Engineering Managers or Tech Leads in enterprise or high-growth environments.
- AI/ML Expertise: Hands-on experience delivering AI-powered systems involving LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, prompt engineering, or model fine-tuning workflows.
- Engineering Delivery: Proven ability to lead multiple engineering teams and deliver complex technical initiatives from design through production launch.
- System Architecture: Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native backend infrastructure, and scalable APIs across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- AI Quality & Reliability: Understanding of AI evaluation frameworks, production monitoring, hallucination mitigation, guardrails, and system reliability.
- Delivery Management: Strong experience with Agile methodologies, CI/CD, release planning, and engineering performance metrics.
- Leadership: Ability to establish accountability, manage competing priorities, and deliver against ambitious deadlines without compromising quality or team morale.
What Success Looks Like
The successful candidate will establish predictable engineering delivery, improve the quality and reliability of production AI systems, and build a culture of ownership across engineering teams. They will combine technical judgment with execution-focused leadership to ensure AI solutions are delivered on schedule, operate reliably, and meet enterprise expectations.
If you are passionate about building high-performing engineering teams and delivering enterprise-grade AI solutions at scale, we would like to hear from you.

About the company
The client is the home base for hardware engineers. They give the teams building robots, rockets, medical devices, and the next generation of physical products a single place to move fast without breaking things, turning CAD chaos into a system of record engineers actually love to work in. We're profitable, post-Series A, and growing our Hyderabad engineering team.
About the role
We're looking for a tech lead to set the technical direction for a growing team and raise the bar for everyone around them. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll still write production code, but your largest impact comes through architecture, mentorship, and the standards you instill. You own outcomes for a team, not just your own commits.
What you'll do
- Lead the technical direction of a team building across our TypeScript/React + Node.js + AWS stack
- Drive architecture decisions, document tradeoffs, and align the team on a clear technical path Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and guidance, growing them toward strong production ownership
- Set and uphold standards for code quality, testing, and operational rigor
- Stay hands-on: write production code on the highest-leverage and hardest problems
- Partner with product and leadership to scope work, manage technical risk, and deliver predictably
- Be accountable for the reliability and maturity of the systems your team owns in production
What we're looking for
- Demonstrated technical leadership: you've set direction for a team and elevated those around you
- Strong full-stack proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js, plus solid AWS depth
- A track record of shipping to production and owning systems in operation, and of holding a team to that same standard
- Strong architectural judgment: you decompose ambiguous problems, weigh tradeoffs, and make decisions others can build on
- Excellent communication: you keep your team aligned and stakeholders informed, and you surface risk early
- Comfort leading in a fast-paced, high-ownership early-stage environment
Why choose us?
- The teams building advanced hardware and the robots, machines, and devices shaping the future run
- Direct access to founders; you'll help shape product and engineering direction, not just execute tickets
- Fast feedback loops: what you build is in front of customers in days, not quarters
- Profitable at Series A, so you get startup upside without the constant fundraising-survival anxiety
- Competitive compensation and meaningful equity
- Bi-yearly appraisal cycles
- Upto 20% Bonus based on performance
- Monthly Swiggy vouchers
- Flexibility with work hours












