Engineering Manager at Product based startup · Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad · 6 - 15 years · ₹40L - ₹60L / yr · Posted 27 Feb 2023

About Company
Company is an award winning Agri-Tech startup that uses global leadership and expertise in the areas of agriculture and technology to transform the age-old practices of the dairy business to a modern and interesting way of doing the same by infusing technology into farmers’ lives. We are solving the burning problems of dairy farmers by extending the highly lacking technology support to the farmers. We plan to provide AI/Vet, E-commerce, and Fin-tech services to the farmers and simultaneously solve the last mile delivery problem using technology.
It is a purely tech-oriented company and is founded by alumni from IIT Roorkee and London School of Economics. The MoooFarm research team has developed and patented World’s first Cattle Facial Recognition, and is also working with Microsoft for cattle disease detection using udder image.
What will you be working on?
- Build and nurture high performing teams of skilled software engineers. Find and hire top talent for your team
- Take the accountability of the overall health of the products you build and predictability of the deliverables of your team
- Develop the long-term strategy for your systems, while aligning them to the goals of the organization and translate that into an achievable road map.
- Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments.
Experience:
- 8+ years of industry experience in product based companies.
- Have engineering management experience in a high-growth B2C startup or medium-sized product-focused B2C tech company
- Demonstrated track-record of delivering well-engineered products with modern technologies.
- Experience in building and architecting products along with exposure to frontend development / Mobile / Web Apps development.
- Experience building full-stack applications with hands-on experience in the combination of programming languages: React JS, Node JS, Python, AWS, Java, microservices, etc.
- Strong expertise on one or more SQL/NO-SQL databases (MySQL, Mongo, Postgres, etc.)
- Exposure to multiple cutting edge open-source frameworks required to build microservices architecture (API Management and Testing, Messaging - Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, etc. Monitoring - NewRelic, ELK, etc. Container orchestration. ).
- Experience in building, deployment and maintaining high scale applications on public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Expertise in agile software development processes, continuous integration, test automation and tools like Confluence, Git, Jenkins, and Jira.

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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.
Key Responsibilities:
Team Leadership and Management:
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of backend developers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence.
- Promote a shared vision for the team, ensuring alignment with business goals and organizational objectives.
- Conduct performance reviews, provide constructive feedback, and create opportunities for team members’ professional growth.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration between development teams, designers, and product managers to deliver seamless and high-quality software.
Technical Strategy and Execution:
- Define and drive architectural decisions for both backend and frontend systems,ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Advocate and implement best practices in software development, including coding standards, test-driven development (TDD), and peer code reviews.
- Encourage the adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-driven tools to optimize development and testing workflows.
- Provide technical direction on backend development using modern frameworks and languages, as well as frontend development using React, Angular, or Svelte.
Process and Quality Management:
- Ensure robust integration between backend APIs and frontend systems for seamless user experiences.
- Establish and enforce coding, testing, and deployment standards for both backend and frontend teams.
- Implement and optimize automated testing frameworks for backend and UI layers to ensure comprehensive coverage.
- Monitor system performance and application stability, proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
- Establish CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices for efficient and reliable delivery cycles.
Stakeholder Collaboration:
- Act as a bridge between engineering teams, business stakeholders, and leadership, ensuring effective communication and alignment.
- Translate complex business requirements into actionable technical solutions and guide teams through their implementation.
- Provide regular updates on progress, challenges, and innovations to stakeholders.
Innovation and Exploration:
- Stay updated on advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and integrate them into development and quality assurance workflows where applicable.
- Encourage the exploration of cutting-edge technologies, tools, and frameworks for both backend and frontend development.
- Champion the use of AI and machine learning tools for performance optimization, automated testing, and enhanced developer productivity.
Skills & Qualifications:
Must-Have Skills:
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or similar leadership role.
- Strong technical background in backend technologies (e.g., Java, Spring Framework).
- Deep understanding of RESTful API design, microservices architecture.
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker.
- Solid knowledge of Agile methodologies, TDD, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Expertise in integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-powered tools into development workflows.
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Knowledge of automated testing frameworks for both backend (e.g., JUnit, Postman) and frontend (e.g., Playwright).
- Understanding of DevOps practices and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
- Exposure to AI/ML frameworks and libraries for enhancing application features and team efficiency.
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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.
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.
Job Description – Squad Lead
Location: Kochi, Kerala
Experience: 10+ Years
Role: Squad Lead
Notice Period: Immediate to 30 Days
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and technically strong Squad Lead to join our engineering team in Kochi. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of software development experience, with strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Angular, and AI technologies.
The Squad Lead will be responsible for leading a cross-functional engineering squad, driving technical excellence, mentoring team members, and ensuring the successful delivery of scalable and high-quality software solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a software engineering squad, ensuring successful delivery of projects and product initiatives.
- Provide strong technical leadership and hands-on guidance to the development team.
- Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices.
- Drive the adoption and integration of AI/GenAI technologies into products and engineering solutions.
- Collaborate with frontend teams and contribute to applications developed using Angular.
- Define technical approaches, architecture, coding standards, and best practices.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to engineering and quality standards.
- Mentor and coach developers, helping them grow technically and professionally.
- Work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, QA, DevOps, and other stakeholders.
- Break down complex requirements into actionable technical tasks and sprint deliverables.
- Participate in solution design, estimation, planning, and technical discussions.
- Identify technical risks and proactively drive their resolution.
- Ensure timely delivery while maintaining high standards of code quality, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Promote Agile/Scrum practices and foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of experience in software development, with significant experience in technical leadership.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot.
- Strong understanding and practical experience with Microservices architecture.
- Experience developing and integrating RESTful APIs.
- Good experience with Angular and modern frontend development practices.
- Exposure to AI/ML, Generative AI, or AI-powered application development.
- Proven experience in leading software engineering squads/teams.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, scalability, and performance.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
Good to Have
- Experience with AWS and cloud-native application development.
- Knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices.
- Exposure to event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka.
- Experience with cloud security, observability, and application performance monitoring.
Leadership Competencies
The successful candidate should demonstrate:
- Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
- Strong ownership and accountability for delivery.
- Ability to make sound technical decisions and influence stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to manage priorities and deliver under tight timelines.
- A continuous-learning mindset with an interest in emerging technologies, particularly AI and cloud.
Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
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.
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.
Job Description:
Head of Engineering — Chennai (Onsite)About the Role
Job Details
Position: Tech Lead
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 Tech Lead 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.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll spend approximately 60% of your time coding and reviewing code and 40% on product, people, and engineering leadership.
What You’ll Do
- Own engineering end to end, including architecture, development, delivery, quality, and hiring.
- Stay hands-on with the codebase, spending roughly 60% of your time writing and reviewing code.
- 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












