Head of Engineering

About the role

You'll join a growing engineering team as a Lead Engineer / Architect, leading a small team in India and working closely with engineering teams in the US and Mexico. You'll be responsible for driving technical execution, solving complex engineering problems, and leading a team to build, deliver, and maintain reliable software.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone with strong backend engineering expertise who can also contribute across the stack when needed.

Location: Hyderabad

Work Mode: Hybrid

What you'll do

• Lead a small engineering team in India, driving day-to-day technical execution and delivery
• Work closely with teams in the US and Mexico to plan, develop, and deliver software
• Design and build robust, scalable backend systems using .NET
• Own technical decisions around architecture, implementation, and engineering best practices
• Contribute across the full stack when needed.
• Break down complex technical problems and drive them through to implementation and delivery
• Mentor engineers and help maintain a high standard of engineering quality
• Collaborate with distributed teams and communicate technical decisions clearly

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with experience in a lead-level role
• 2+ years of experience leading a team
• Strong, hands-on expertise in .NET and backend engineering
• Strong understanding of software architecture and scalable backend systems
• Full-stack experience is preferred, with React being a plus
• Experience leading a small engineering team and driving technical delivery
• Excellent communication skills, particularly when working with distributed teams
• Strong problem-solving skills and a hands-on approach to engineering
• AI expertise is a plus
• Experience with payment systems or payment-related products is a plus

Who you are

• You take ownership and drive work through to completion
• You're hands-on and enjoy solving challenging engineering problems
• You're curious, resourceful, and always looking to learn
• You communicate clearly and work well with teams across different locations
• You lead by example and help the team deliver high-quality work

Senior Backend Engineer

Node.js, System Design & Production Platforms

📍 Mumbai (On-site) | Full-time | 5+ years

About the Role:

Unico Connect is an AI-first technology partner that builds custom mobile, web, and AI products for clients across multiple geographies.

We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to own the backend architecture of a complex production AI platform on a dedicated client engagement: API design and data modelling, multi-tenancy, orchestration of long-running agent workloads, and the services that manage user projects and generated output.

We are open to full stack engineers whose primary strength and interest is backend. If you have shipped full stack work but the backend is where you do your deepest engineering, you are a fit for this role.

The mandatory requirement for this role is hands-on production experience as a senior backend engineer building complex, scalable systems in Node.js, with end-to-end ownership of architecture, data, and operations on at least one live platform.

The role is hands-on and architectural.

Expect to design system architecture, lead a small group of backend engineers, build the hardest parts yourself, set engineering standards, and partner closely with frontend, AI, and DevOps engineers.

A typical week includes an architecture decision on a new service, hands-on implementation of a critical path, a code review with mid-level engineers, and a working session with the AI engineer on an integration contract.

Responsibilities:

System Architecture

Own the backend architecture across engagements.

Make and document decisions on service boundaries, data models, API contracts, deployment topology, and trade-offs.

Hands-on Backend Delivery

Lead by example on complex modules, performance-critical paths, and high-risk areas using Node.js (Express, NestJS, Fastify) with TypeScript.

Pick up Python (FastAPI) where engagements require it.

Database Design and Performance

Drive PostgreSQL schema design, indexing, query optimisation, migrations, and capacity planning.

Set the data-modelling standard across the pod.

Caching, Queues, and Workflows

Design caching (Redis), event-driven patterns (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, NATS), and long-running workflow orchestration (Temporal, BullMQ, Celery, or equivalent).

Handle retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.

Multi-Tenancy and Platform Patterns

Design and implement multi-tenant data isolation, RBAC, audit logging, and resource quotas appropriate to enterprise-grade products.

API and Integration Design

Set the standard for REST, GraphQL, and gRPC contracts.

Drive versioning, authentication (OAuth, JWT, SSO), security by default, and developer ergonomics.

Observability and Operations

Instrument services with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Define SLOs, lead incident response, and write postmortems.

Code Quality and Mentorship

Run code reviews, define conventions, mentor mid-level engineers, and raise the engineering bar.

AI-Assisted Engineering Discipline

Use Claude, Cursor, and similar tools day to day.

Set the team standard for prompts, patterns, AI-assisted review, and validation of AI-generated backend code.

Client Engagement

Represent Unico Connect in technical conversations with customers.

Defend architectural decisions, communicate trade-offs, and manage scope.

Requirements:

Hands-on Production Experience as a Senior or Lead Backend Engineer in Node.js (Mandatory)

Must have personally built and shipped complex production systems in Node.js, owning architecture, data, and operations on at least one live engagement.

Full stack engineers whose deepest work is on the backend qualify.

POCs and internal tools alone do not qualify.

5+ Years of Professional Backend Engineering Experience

With at least 1 to 2 years in a senior or lead role with direct responsibility for technical decisions and team output.

Deep Node.js and TypeScript Proficiency

Strong with Express, NestJS, or Fastify.

Comfort with async patterns, streams, worker threads, and performance profiling.

Python as a Strong Plus

Hands-on production experience with FastAPI, Django, or Flask is a meaningful advantage.

Willingness and demonstrated ability to pick up Python as engagements demand is required.

PostgreSQL Depth

Schema design, normalisation, indexing, query performance, migrations, and at least one production system where you owned the data model end to end.

Caching and Event-Driven Architecture

Hands-on with Redis (or equivalent) and message queues or event-driven patterns (RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka, NATS).

AWS Depth

Hands-on production experience with EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, ECR, and at least one of EKS, ECS, or Lambda.

Comfort owning deployment, monitoring, and cost.

System Design and End-to-End Ownership

Able to take an ambiguous problem, break it into components, evaluate alternatives, produce an architecture that holds up under review and load, plan execution, and ship with limited supervision.

AI-Assisted Engineering Experience

Daily use of Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent.

Strong discipline for reviewing and validating AI-generated backend code.

Excellent Written and Spoken English

Experience working directly with international clients.

Confident defending architectural choices in writing and in review.

Nice to Have:

• Workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow)
• GraphQL (Apollo, gRPC)
• Sandboxed execution environments
• Multi-tenant SaaS experience
• OpenTelemetry instrumentation
• Prior agency or consulting experience

About the role

You'll work on cloud software that helps technical teams collaborate and move faster: an established, in-production product that real customers rely on every day. You'll work directly with leadership who built products at Meta and Apple, on a team where you own meaningful work and your decisions have direct impact.

Location: On-site, Financial District, Hyderabad

What you'll do

• Lead the engineering team day to day, owning delivery and technical direction
• Architect projects end to end and make the high-leverage technical decisions across the stack, in ReactJS, NodeJS, and AWS
• Set up the engineering processes, standards, and rituals that let the team ship fast without breaking things
• Mentor and grow engineers, raising the bar across the team
• Break complex, ambiguous problems into clear plans and drive them to done
• Make deliberate tradeoffs between creating tech debt and delivering business requirements

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of full stack engineering experience (strong senior engineers ready to step into a lead role are welcome)
• Deep, hands-on command of ReactJS, NodeJS, and AWS
• A track record of technical leadership: architecting systems, mentoring engineers, and setting up engineering processes
• Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
• Excellent communication and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Bonus if you know: TypeScript, SQL, ExpressJS

Who you are

• You have serious work ethic. You get a high from checking things off and seeing results.
• You're curious, resourceful, and self-learning.
• You take ownership and bring the hustle.
• You lead by example and bring momentum to everything and everyone you work with.

📌Important: To complete your application for this role, please fill out this short screening form: [https://app.botfriday.ai/#/open/external-job-application/792cccfa-c046-4092-b20d-814705d5314f].

Only candidates who complete this step will be considered for further rounds."

Senior / Staff Software Engineer – Backend Engineering

Experience: 7+ years

Location: India

Role Type: Individual Contributor | Hands-on Engineering

About the Role

Oddr is looking for a deeply hands-on Senior / Staff Software Engineer who combines strong backend engineering fundamentals with an AI-first way of building software.

This is not a traditional development role where AI is used only for code completion. We are looking for engineers who can understand a problem, design the right solution, define architectural and security guardrails, and then use AI aggressively to accelerate implementation without compromising quality.

You will be expected to code regularly, own solutions end-to-end, build POCs, drive technical design, review critical code, and help raise the engineering bar across the team.

This is not a people-management role.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build scalable, secure backend systems using C# / .NET.
• Own features from problem definition and architecture through coding and production delivery.
• Use AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or GitHub Copilot to accelerate development.
• Define the right context, constraints, tests and guardrails around AI-generated code.
• Build POCs and evaluate technical approaches before scaling them into production.
• Drive system design, API design, data modelling and integration decisions.
• Review code for correctness, security, performance and maintainability.
• Build automated tests, observability and validation into the development lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers through technical reviews, pairing and architecture discussions.
• Identify opportunities to create reusable engineering patterns, automation, agents or developer tooling.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building production systems.
• Strong hands-on expertise in C# and .NET / .NET Core.
• Strong system design and architecture skills.
• Experience with distributed systems, APIs, databases, asynchronous processing and cloud-native applications.
• Good understanding of Azure, CI/CD, containers and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Experience using AI coding tools as a meaningful part of day-to-day software engineering.
• Ability to critically review AI-generated code and identify architectural, security or quality issues.
• Strong understanding of software design, testing and engineering best practices.

Nice to Have

• Experience with React / TypeScript.
• Experience in legal-tech, fintech, billing, payments or enterprise SaaS.
• Exposure to AI agents, RAG, MCP or LLM-powered applications.
• Experience building reusable engineering platforms, tooling or automation.
• Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001 or other security/compliance environments.

What Great Looks Like

You can take a complex problem from:

Problem → Design → POC → Architecture → Code → Validation → Production

You know when to rely on engineering judgment, when to challenge the AI, and when to use AI to dramatically accelerate execution.

At Oddr, we are looking for engineers who can think deeply, build quickly and ship safely.

🚀 Job Title : Backend Engineer (Go / Python / Java)

Experience : 3+ Years

Location : Bangalore (Client Location – Work From Office)

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days

Open Positions : 4

Working Days : 6 Days a Week

🧠 Job Summary :

We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Engineer to build scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems in a fast-paced product environment.

You will own large features end-to-end — from design and development to deployment and monitoring — while collaborating closely with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams.

This role requires strong backend fundamentals, distributed systems exposure, and a mindset of operational ownership.

⭐ Mandatory Skills :

Strong backend development experience in Go / Python (FastAPI) / Java (Spring Boot) with hands-on expertise in Microservices, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka/SQS, AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and strong DSA & System Design fundamentals.

🔧 Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, test, and deploy backend services end-to-end.
• Build scalable, modular, and production-grade microservices.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs.
• Architect reliable distributed systems with performance and fault tolerance in mind.
• Debug complex cross-system production issues.
• Implement secure development practices (authentication, authorization, data integrity).
• Work with monitoring dashboards, alerts, and performance metrics.
• Participate in code reviews and enforce engineering best practices.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams.

✅ Required Skills :

• Strong proficiency in Go OR Python (FastAPI) OR Java (Spring Boot).
• Hands-on experience building Microservices-based architectures.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs & distributed systems.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Exposure to Kafka / SQS or other messaging systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Data Structures & System Design.
• Ability to independently own features and solve ambiguous engineering problems.

⭐ Preferred Background :

• Experience in product-based companies.
• Exposure to high-throughput or event-driven systems.
• Strong focus on code quality, observability, and reliability.
• Comfortable working in high-growth, fast-paced environments.

🧑‍💻 Interview Process :

• 1 Internal Screening Round
• HR Discussion (Project & Communication Evaluation)
• 3 Technical Rounds with Client

This is a fresh requirement, and interviews will be scheduled immediately.

Required Experience: 10–15 years (with at least 3–5 years in leadership roles)

● 10–15 years of overall experience in backend engineering, with strong exposure to

Python and/or Golang.

● 3–5 years of experience managing engineering teams.

● Proven experience delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production

environments.

● Strong understanding of microservices, cloud-native architecture, and DevOps

practices.

● Hands-on background in backend engineering (able to guide teams technically, even

if not coding daily).

● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and performance optimization.

● Experience in financial services or high-transaction domains is a plus.

● Experience leading teams that have utilized AI-driven development practices (e.g.,

agentic coding, LLM integration) to improve productivity and innovation is a

significant advantage.

Skills

● Excellent leadership and people management abilities.

● Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

● Ability to balance technical depth with business priorities.

● Problem-solving mindset with a focus on delivery and impact.

● Passion for building engineering culture and improving developer experience.

Engineering Manager – Backend 

Location: Flexible / Hybrid (Mon–Fri)

Website: https://www.solarsquare.in

About the Role

SolarSquare is building the infrastructure for India's clean energy transition. We're looking for an Engineering Manager who doesn't just run a team — someone who builds one from the ground up, makes consequential technical bets, and treats engineering outcomes as business outcomes.

You'll own the technical strategy and delivery for our full-stack platform, lead a growing team of SDE1–SDE3 engineers, and work directly with product, design, and business to shape what we build and how fast we build it. This is a role for someone who has operated in resource-constrained environments, shipped systems that held up under pressure, and left every team they've led measurably better than they found it.

If you've only ever executed someone else's roadmap, this isn't the right fit. If you've ever built something from scratch and felt personally responsible for whether it worked.

What You'll Own

Team & Culture

• Build, hire, and develop a high-performing full-stack engineering team  including setting the bar for what "high-performing" means at SolarSquare
• Create genuine career growth paths for engineers.
• Maintain team health, retention, and motivation through periods of rapid change and ambiguity

Technical Strategy

• Define and drive the architectural roadmap
• Make and own technical bets: when to invest in platform, when to ship fast, when to pay down debt
• Establish observability, reliability, and security standards before they become production fires

Delivery

• Translate business goals into engineering priorities  and push back when the translation is wrong
• Set clear goals, metrics, and delivery expectations; hold yourself and the team accountable to them
• Manage trade-offs between short-term product velocity and long-term engineering health

Cross-Functional Influence

• Partner with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders  and influence decisions upstream.
• Communicate technical risk, cost, and complexity clearly to non-technical leadership
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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.

About StrideOne:

StrideOne is a unified tech-enabled financial platform and NBFC focused on enabling MSMEs and SMEs through structured credit solutions, receivables financing, and receivables management. We are designed to simplify access to capital, improve cash flow visibility, and support risk-aware financial decision-making for growing businesses across industries. With a steadily growing disbursement footprint, an expanding anchor network, and established partnerships with multiple lending institutions, StrideOne is entering its next phase of growth. The organisation is building a financial ecosystem that combines lending, receivables management, and data-driven workflows, positioning itself to scale sustainably while maintaining strong governance, portfolio quality, and operational discipline.

Key Responsibilities:

Architect & Design: Design and implement highly scalable, available, and secure web applications. You’ll be responsible for designing multi-tenant architectures, ensuring data isolation, and leveraging modern cloud infrastructure to ensure the platform scales efficiently.

Security Focused Development: Develop and enforce secure coding standards and best practices for cloud-based applications and APIs. Conduct regular code reviews with a focus on security vulnerabilities.

API & Microservices Design: Design and implement secure, scalable, and maintainable APIs and microservices that integrate seamlessly with the platform. Ensure the use of best practices for service discovery, communication, and fault tolerance.

Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in the application and infrastructure, ensuring scalability and responsiveness under varying load conditions.

Compliance & Regulatory Requirements: Ensure that applications comply with industry standards and regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001). Assist with audits and security certifications.

Collaboration & Leadership: Work closely with product managers, QA engineers, and other stakeholders to define and implement new features and improvements. Collaborate with the infrastructure team to ensure seamless deployment and scaling of the application. Also mentor and guide junior engineers on secure coding practices and development techniques.

Security Automation & Monitoring: Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting systems to continuously assess the security posture of the application. Stay up to date with the latest security trends, vulnerabilities, and best practices. Promote security awareness and training within the engineering team.

Qualifications:

Experience: 2+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on developing secure and scalable multi-tenant web applications with customer data isolation and tenant-specific configurations.

Tech Stack: Proficiency in modern web technologies (Python is a plus), relational databases, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Microservices Architecture: Strong experience designing and developing microservices-based architectures. Familiarity with service discovery, API Gateway, inter-service communication, and distributed systems principles.

Scalability & Performance: Experience with designing highly scalable and performant systems. Knowledge of caching, database sharding, partitioning, and high-throughput systems.

Security Expertise: Understanding of cloud security principles, cryptography, identity and access management (IAM), and secure coding practices.

Analytical Skills: Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex security issues and provide practical solutions.

Soft Skills: Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Experience working in agile, collaborative environments.

Why This Role Matters

Our backend is what keeps checkout, RTO, and payments fast and reliable at ~$2B GMV across 15,000+ merchants. As an SDE 2 you own services end to end, make the architecture calls that keep them performant, and set the technical bar for the engineers around you. The trade-offs you pick show up directly in merchant conversions and platform reliability - this is a builder's seat with real ownership.

What You'll Own

• Design and build backend services primarily in Node.js/NestJS, with Go for select services, backed by Postgres, Mongo, and Redis.
• Own event-driven flows on Kafka - throughput, ordering, and failure handling.
• Make and document the architecture and trade-off decisions for systems you lead.
• Ship features end to end, dropping into the frontend (React/Svelte) when it's the fastest path.
• Strengthen CI/CD, observability, and deployments on AWS.
• Review code, mentor SDE 1s and AEs, and raise the quality bar on the team.
• Take ambiguous problems and drive them to delivery with minimal hand-holding.

Who You Are

• Strong backend engineer in JavaScript/TypeScript on Node.js/NestJS (our primary stack); working knowledge of Go, or ready to pick it up.
• Solid at data modelling across Postgres and Mongo, and knows when Redis earns its place.
• Has built and scaled event-driven systems (Kafka or equivalent).
• At home on the backend but happy to work across the stack in React/Svelte.
• Thinks in systems - scalability, reliability, maintainability - not just features.
• Has mentored engineers and owns code quality and delivery, not just their own tickets.
• Communicates clearly and does well with ambiguity in a fast-moving team.

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