Engineering Manager at Software Development Industry · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 8 - 12 years · ₹56L - ₹75L / yr · Posted 25 Jan 2026

Review Criteria:
Mandatory:
- Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles
- Must have 8+ years of overall Software Engineering/Development experience
- Must have 3+ years of experience as Engineering Manager / Team Lead role, with ownership of technical direction, delivery, and people management
- Must have hands-on Backend development experience using Python or Java, with frameworks such as FastAPI / Django / Spring / Express (Node.js)
- Must have Frontend development exposure using ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- Must have experience designing and building APIs, services, and integrations, including system design, PR reviews, and architectural decision-making.
- Must have experience leading engineers end-to-end – mentoring, code reviews, execution planning, and improving team productivity/quality
- Must be from Product Companies / Startups (early to growth stage), B2B SaaS + Fintech industry is highly preferred
- This role will be 80% team management and 20% IC (hands on coding required)
Preferred:
- Tier 1 engineering college
Role & Responsibilities:
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager who treats engineering management as a systems problem, not a career milestone.
You’ll lead engineers while staying close to the technical core—owning architecture, modeling decisions, and execution quality in a domain where correctness matters as much as velocity.
Technical & Product Ownership:
- Build and evolve core platform features
Design and ship APIs, services, and integrations that power billing automation, usage metering, invoicing, revenue recognition, and financial reporting.
- Model complex financial workflows
Work deeply on pricing logic, proration, true-ups, multi-currency handling, approval workflows, and event-driven billing pipelines—where small decisions have long-term consequences.
- Make architectural trade-offs
Balance “ship it now” against “live with it forever” while scaling systems that process high-volume usage data and real-time financial calculations.
- Stay technically fluent
You won’t write code every day, but you’ll review PRs, catch subtle bugs, and guide design discussions with confidence.
Team Leadership & Management:
- Lead and grow the engineering team
Mentor and manage engineers across experience levels, setting clear expectations and raising the bar on ownership, execution, and quality.
- Create high-output systems
Establish clear problem definitions, focused execution cycles, code reviews that actually catch issues, and enough slack for engineers to think—not just ship.
- Debug team dynamics like software
Observe signals, form hypotheses, intervene deliberately, and measure outcomes—whether the issue is delivery, alignment, or collaboration.
- Build the team intentionally
Design interviews that surface real problem-solving ability, not just pattern matching. At this stage, every hire shifts the average.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with Product, Finance, and Customer Success to translate real-world contract terms into correct, scalable systems
- Partner with stakeholders to solve ambiguous problems where requirements evolve and trade-offs are unavoidable
- Ensure systems remain accurate, auditable, and compliant as the product scales
Ideal Candidate:
- Must have 8+ years of engineering experience, with 3+ years leading teams or owning technical direction
- You’ve built systems where the hardest part was correctly modeling messy, real-world business logic
- You default to first principles when no documented solution exists
- You’ve grown engineers by giving them problems slightly beyond their comfort zone—and supported them through productive struggle
- You’re energized by constraints, ambiguity, and unsolved problems
- Billing, fintech, or payments experience is a plus—but curiosity and depth of thinking matter more than domain checkboxes
You Should Not Apply If:
- You need a fully defined problem before you can start working
- You moved into management to avoid technical complexity
- You optimize for process over outcomes
- You find edge cases annoying rather than interesting
Nice to Have:
- Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications
- Knowledge of SaaS business models and compliance frameworks
- API design and integration experience
- Prior experience working at a startup
- Not taking yourself too seriously.
Perks, Benefits and Work Culture:
- Variable: Based on performance
- ESOPs (for full time roles)
- Remote (USA)
Benefits (for full-time roles):
- Health insurance
- Generous vacation policy
- Learning and development budget
- Team events and company offsites
- Maternity and Paternity benefits
- Company Laptop
- Friday game nights

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Consent Infrastructure:
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If you’re interested in building mission critical software that operates at population scale (75 million + Indians have signed at least one document through Leegality) then join Leegality.
Curious about our impact? Explore our customer success stories: leegality.com/case-studies
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At Leegality, trust, ownership, transparency, and having fun while doing meaningful work are core to how we operate — not just values on paper. Our team rated us an incredible 97 eNPS for FY 2023–24 — the highest among 175+ startups surveyed.
We focus deeply on helping our people grow and stay motivated. Some of the perks you’ll enjoy:
- Flexible working hours
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If you're looking for a place where you can make a real difference while working with smart, driven, and genuinely nice people, welcome to Leegality.
Location: Hybrid
Role Overview
We are looking for a Technical Lead – Python to lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable backend systems that power Leegality's products. This role combines hands-on backend development with technical leadership, enabling you to influence architecture, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence across the team.
You will work closely with Product, Design, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams to build reliable, secure, and high-performance applications while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend applications using Python.
- Own the technical architecture of backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, maintainability, and security.
- Design, develop, and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices for high-performance applications.
- Drive architectural decisions, establish engineering best practices, and promote clean, maintainable code.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers through technical guidance, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
- Lead technical estimation, sprint planning, solution design, and execution for engineering initiatives.
- Optimize application performance through database tuning, caching, asynchronous processing, and efficient system design.
- Ensure high code quality through unit testing, integration testing, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues while driving root cause analysis and long-term improvements.
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies, frameworks, and engineering practices to continuously improve the platform.
- Build and foster a high-performing engineering culture focused on collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
Desired Skills
- 7–11 years of experience in backend software development, with at least 2–4 years in a technical leadership role.
- Strong proficiency in Python and object-oriented programming concepts.
- Hands-on experience with Python frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design and development, authentication mechanisms (JWT/OAuth), and API security best practices.
- Experience designing scalable backend architectures, distributed systems, and microservices.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, with experience in query optimization, indexing, and schema design.
- Exposure to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and caching technologies like Redis.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, containerization using Docker, orchestration using Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including design patterns, SOLID principles, code reviews, testing, and documentation.
- Experience with version control systems such as Git and modern development workflows.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to balance hands-on development with technical leadership and delivery ownership in a fast-paced product environment.
- Experience working in SaaS or product-based organizations is preferred.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or ChatGPT is an added advantage.

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.
Senior Software Engineer I (Full Stack) – OKRs
Team: OKRs, Product Development
About the Role
Join Planview's Product Development team as a Senior Software Engineer I on the OKRs team. You will design, build, and evolve web applications using Python on the backend and React on the frontend, with a primary focus on backend (roughly 70% backend / 30% frontend).
You will own features from concept through deployment, contribute to technical strategy, and help build secure, scalable, and maintainable products. Working closely with Product, Design, and QA, you will also raise engineering quality through thoughtful code reviews, strong development practices, and mentorship.
What You'll Do
- Design and develop modern web applications using Python and React.
- Build RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs using Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
- Lead technical design discussions, create architecture documents, and drive decisions on scalability, security, performance, and maintainability.
- Own features end to end, from discovery and technical design through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
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- Optimize performance across the stack, including frontend rendering, API latency, and database queries.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and contribute to cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and observability.
- Identify and reduce technical debt, including leading modernization, refactoring, and migration initiatives.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, and lead root-cause analysis for production issues.
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Required
- 9–11 years of experience building and maintaining production-grade web applications, with strong expertise in Python (backend) and hands-on experience with React (frontend).
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience with Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
- Solid understanding of async programming, background job processing (e.g., Celery, RQ), API design, database design, and scalable backend architecture.
- Strong system design skills: ability to design scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems, make sound technical trade-offs, and translate business requirements into robust designs.
- Experience with React, including Hooks, Context, and state/data management using Redux, Zustand, or React Query.
- Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Strong database fundamentals, including schema design, indexing, and query optimization with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL; experience with NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB and Redis.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, Git workflows, and automated testing (Jest and React Testing Library on the frontend, PyTest on the backend).
- Practical knowledge of application security, including OAuth, JWT, and OWASP principles.
- Strong debugging, performance optimization, and code quality skills, with the ability to independently own technical problems.
- Clear communication skills, with the ability to influence design decisions and work effectively across teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience with AWS.
- Experience with Next.js, server-side rendering, or micro-frontend architectures.
- Exposure to message queues and event streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS).
- Knowledge of GraphQL.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, Sentry, ELK).
- Knowledge of AI/ML integration or Python data pipelines.
- Experience in SaaS, fintech, or enterprise product environments.
- Open-source contributions, technical blog posts, or conference talks.
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- You deliver secure, reliable, and maintainable features that create measurable value for the OKRs product.
- You own both the frontend and backend of the OKRs product and make sound technical decisions, documenting the architecture and trade-offs behind them.
- You improve application performance, developer productivity, and operational reliability over time.
- You contribute to a culture of quality, collaboration, mentoring, and continuous improvement.
- You help the team respond effectively to production issues and prevent recurring problems through strong root-cause analysis.
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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.
About the company
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Software Engineer is a challenging role within Cyber Security Engineering integration development. The role involves developing a product/service that achieves high-performance data exchange between two or more Cyber Security platforms. A Software Engineer is at the core of the evolution process and is responsible for the End-to-End delivery of the project, right from getting the requirements from customers to deploying the project for them on-prem or on the cloud, depending on the nature of the project. We follow the best practices of engineering and keep evolving. We are agile.
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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.
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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.
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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
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- 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
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Job Description:
Head of Engineering — Chennai (Onsite)About the Role
Job Details
Position: Head of Engineering
Department: Engineering
Experience: 6–8 Years
Employment Type: Full-time
Location: Chennai, On-site
Salary: Up to ₹24,00,000 per annum
About the Role
We’re looking for a Head of Engineering to take end-to-end ownership of engineering for a fast-moving product. You’ll be responsible for architecture, execution, product quality, engineering culture, and team growth.
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What You’ll Do
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- Establish and continuously improve the engineering workflow: how the team plans, builds, reviews, ships, and measures.
- Improve development velocity and reduce cycle time without compromising product quality.
- Drive AI-assisted software development across the engineering team using Claude Code and similar agentic coding tools as a core productivity lever.
- Establish practical systems and workflows that demonstrate measurable improvements in engineering throughput.
- Work closely with the founders on product strategy, technical trade-offs, priorities, and what to build next.
- Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering team.
What We’re Looking For
- 6–8 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience taking at least one product from zero to launch.
- Experience building and scaling at least one product to a large user base.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Python and Node.js.
- Comfortable working with React Native / Expo.
- Strong understanding of PostgreSQL and database fundamentals.
- Previous experience leading a small engineering team.
- A leadership style based on ownership and technical example, rather than simply assigning tickets.
- Daily experience with agentic coding tools, with the ability to demonstrate how they have improved development speed and team throughput.
- Strong product instincts and the ability to form opinions about user problems, not just technical implementation.
- Based in Chennai or willing to relocate.
How We Work
We operate with high pace, high ownership, and short feedback loops.
You’ll be expected to get close to the product, understand the users, make decisions quickly, and ship within your first week.
If you enjoy building products from the ground up, staying close to the code, and using AI to fundamentally improve how engineering teams work, we’d love to hear from you.
How to Apply
Join Aura Gold and be part of building a high-performing team from the ground up!
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Chennai District): Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)
Education:
- Bachelor's (Preferred)
Language:
- English, Tamil , Hindi (Required)
Location:
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Chennai District) (Required)
Work Location: In person
We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Lead who can own backend engineering, DevOps, and delivery management.
This is not a coordination-only role. You will contribute technically while establishing the processes, accountability, and
operating rhythm needed for predictable delivery. You will manage multiple engineers and effectively use AI coding
agents and automation tools to improve the team's output without compromising quality.
Key Responsibilities
• Own the architecture, development, deployment, and reliability of our backend systems.
• Lead engineers through clear goals, task breakdowns, ownership, reviews, and regular feedback.
• Establish a process-oriented delivery system covering planning, estimation, execution, testing, release, and
retrospectives.
• Translate product requirements into technical plans, milestones, dependencies, and measurable deliverables.
• Track execution proactively, identify delivery risks early, and communicate status clearly.
• Remain hands-on with critical development, debugging, architecture, code reviews, and production issues.
• Own CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, deployment practices, and operational readiness.
• Improve engineering quality through coding standards, automated testing, documentation, and review processes.
• Delegate work effectively across team members according to their strengths and development needs.
• Use AI coding agents and engineering automation to parallelise suitable work, while reviewing and validating all
outputs.
• Build a culture of accountability in which work has clear owners, acceptance criteria, deadlines, and definitions of
done.
• Collaborate closely with product and business stakeholders to balance speed, scope, quality, and technical debt.
What We Are Looking For
• 6+ years of backend engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of experience leading or managing an engineering team.
• Strong hands-on backend development experience with Python, FastAPI, Django + Django REST Framework, and
PostgreSQL.
• Practical experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), DevOps, CI/CD, containers (Docker), monitoring, and
production operations.
• Experience working in a mature, process-oriented engineering environment.
• Demonstrated ability to improve delivery predictability and engineering throughput.
• Strong understanding of agile planning, estimation, sprint execution, incident management, and retrospectives.
• Ability to manage multiple people and concurrent streams of work.
• Experience reviewing architecture, pull requests, test plans, and production-readiness requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to give direct, constructive feedback and hold team members accountable.
• Sound judgement about when to build, delegate, automate, or reduce scope.
Tech Stack
Must-have: Python, FastAPI, Django + Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy (async) + asyncpg, Pydantic,
REST API design + JWT authentication, Docker, AWS (ECS, ALB, ECR, CloudWatch, S3, Secrets Manager), Git.
Strongly preferred: Redis, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, WebSockets, Payment gateways (Razorpay / Cashfree), Third-
party / ERP integrations, CI/CD (AWS CodeBuild or GitHub Actions).
Nice-to-have: Frappe / ERPNext + MariaDB, Microservices architecture, PostHog / CleverTap / Firebase, B2B e-commerce
or order management experience.
AI-Assisted Engineering
The ideal candidate should be comfortable incorporating AI into the software-development lifecycle. This includes:
• Breaking work into tasks that can be delegated safely to coding agents.
• Running multiple human and agent-led workstreams concurrently.
• Providing agents with clear context, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
• Reviewing generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, and architectural fit.
• Using automation to accelerate testing, documentation, refactoring, and operational workflows.
• Measuring whether AI tooling produces genuine delivery improvements.
We do not expect blind reliance on generated output. The Engineering Lead remains accountable for the quality and
correctness of everything shipped by the team.
Success in the First 90 Days
• Understand the existing architecture, infrastructure, team capabilities, and delivery bottlenecks.
• Take ownership of backend and DevOps execution.
• Introduce a consistent planning, tracking, review, and release cadence.
• Establish visibility into ownership, progress, dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Improve CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and production-readiness practices.
• Create an effective delegation model across engineers and AI agents.
• Deliver at least one meaningful product or platform milestone predictably from planning through production.
Nice to Have
• Experience scaling an early-stage or growing engineering team.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and performance-managing engineers.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, security practices, and cloud-cost optimisation.
• Experience managing migrations, reliability improvements, or legacy-system modernisation.
• Previous experience introducing AI-assisted development workflows into an engineering team.
Who Will Succeed in This Role
You are likely to succeed if you are equally comfortable discussing architecture, reviewing code, resolving a production incident, planning a release, and having an accountability conversation with an engineer. You bring structure without creating unnecessary bureaucracy and know how to turn product priorities into consistent, high-quality delivery.

About the company
The company delivers the power of technology and intelligence to investors and companies and enables growth and value creation in the private unlisted markets. We make it easier for investors to know everything about a company, and a company to know everything about an investor. Our intelligence is used by more than 400+ customers across Venture Capital, Private Equity, Investment Bankers, and Corporates. Our intelligence covers the entire universe of Indian private companies and investors. We are gearing to power growth and transactions in private markets in India and around the world. We want our solutions to be reliable, timely and trustworthy to make investment and business decisions.
Founded in 2015 by IIT Madras Alumni Mr. Krishna Saraswati and Mr. Avinash Loganathan, as a fintech startup we have 3 products in the market. 1. PrivateCircle Research: Private Market Intelligence product. 2. PrivateCircle Connect: Intelligent Prospecting tool for Sales teams. 3. PrivateCircle Markets: Investment opportunities discovery platform.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior backend engineer with 4+ years of experience building large scale web applications. A highly skilled Python Developer with advanced coding abilities in Python.
Responsibilities:
- Design, Develop and maintain products using bleeding-edge technologies on Python
- Collaborating with the rest of the engineering team to design and deploy the code to test/production and implement new features.
- Debug, validate, review and test new and existing code.
- Act as a mentor to junior developers, providing guidance and support on technical issues.
- Write clean, efficient and well documented code
- As a Senior, you are required to regularly interact with their peers, managers and PMs (product/program managers).
Requirements:
- Advanced knowledge of Python (4+ years) with strong OOPs fundamentals.
- Version Control using git.
- Experience with web frameworks and MVC/ MVT architecture.
- Experience with Django framework and its ORM.
- Experience with REST API's and microservices architecture.
- In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB).
- Knowledge of distributed systems is a plus.
- Experience with Elasticsearch is a plus.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or any other container technologies is a plus.
- Experience with Celery or other asynchronous task queues.
- Experience using system monitoring tools, automated testing frameworks and implementing server-side security.
We offer a dynamic and fast-paced work environment with ample opportunities for growth and advancement. If you're a highly motivated individual with a passion for coding and a desire to work with cutting-edge technologies, please apply today!
About Us
We believe the future of software development is AI-native — where engineers operate at a higher level of abstraction and quality remains non-negotiable.
Incubyte is a software craft consultancy where the “how” of building software matters as much as the “what”.
We partner with companies of all sizes, from helping enterprises build, scale, and modernize to early-stage founders bring their ideas to life.
Our engineers operate in an AI-native development model, using AI as a collaborator across the SDLC to accelerate development while upholding the discipline of software craftsmanship. Guided by Software Craftsmanship and Extreme Programming practices, we build reliable, maintainable, and scalable systems with speed, without compromising quality. If this way of building software resonates with you, we’d like to talk.
Our Guiding Principles
These principles define how we work at Incubyte. They are non-negotiable.
Relentless Pursuit of Quality with Pragmatism
We build high-quality systems without losing sight of delivery.
Extreme Ownership
We take responsibility end-to-end for decisions, execution, and outcomes.
Proactive Collaboration
We collaborate closely, challenge each other, and solve problems together.
Active Pursuit of Mastery
We continuously improve our craft and raise our bar.
Invite, Give, and Act on Feedback
We seek, give, and act on feedback to get better every day.
Ensuring Client Success
We act as trusted partners and focus on real outcomes, not just output.
Job Description
This is a remote position.
Experience Level
This role is ideal for engineers with total 5+ years of experience with a proven track record of shipping complex projects successfully.
An experienced individual contributor and leader who thrives in large, complex projects with widespread impact.
What You’ll Do as a Software Craftsperson
- Design and build high-quality, maintainable systems using disciplined engineering practices such as TDD, continuous refactoring, and pair programming
- Operate in an AI-native development model, using AI as a collaborator to explore architecture and design, accelerate development, and continuously improve systems while applying strong judgment to ensure that speed never compromises quality.
- Take end-to-end ownership of outcomes from problem understanding and system design to implementation, deployment, and operation in production
- Make thoughtful design decisions that balance simplicity, scalability, and long-term maintainability in real-world systems
- Maintain a high bar for engineering quality through rigorous testing, code reviews, and continuous feedback
- Investigate and resolve production issues, and implement systemic improvements to prevent recurrence
- Work directly with clients, navigate ambiguity, and translate business problems into well-designed technical solutions
- Contribute to improving team practices, tooling, and systems to raise the overall quality and effectiveness of engineering
Requirements
What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years of experience building high-quality, production systems (flexible based on demonstrated capability)
- Strong fundamentals in software engineering, including object-oriented design, system design, and testing practices such as TDD
- Demonstrated ability to build simple, maintainable, and scalable systems with a focus on long-term reliability
- Proficiency in one or more modern technologies Python, React, AI, JavaScript, or TypeScript, with the ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Deep experience working with Git in collaborative environments, including managing shared codebases, conducting code reviews, and maintaining a high bar for quality
- Ability to operate effectively in an AI-native workflow using AI as a collaborator to explore solutions and accelerate development, while applying strong judgment to ensure correctness, quality, and maintainability
- Clear thinking and strong problem-solving ability, with the capacity to break down complex problems into simple, well-structured solutions
- A strong sense of ownership — you take responsibility for outcomes, care deeply about quality, and are not comfortable shipping work that does not meet your standards.
Benefits
Life at Incubyte
We are a remote-first company with structured flexibility. Teams commit to shared rhythms during core hours, ensuring smooth collaboration while maintaining autonomy. Twice a year, we come together in person for a co-working sprint and once a year for a retreat - with all travel expenses covered.
Our environment is built for crafters: pairing, refactoring, experimenting with AI, and pushing the boundaries of software excellence. We are all lifelong learners, and our work is our passion.
Benefits
- Dedicated learning & development budget.
- Sponsorship for conference talks.
- Comprehensive medical & term insurance.
- Employee-friendly leave policies.
- Home Office fund
- Medical Insurance









