Lead Software Engineer - Backend at helps travellers discover & book the most incredible tours · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 2 - 6 years · ₹16L - ₹45L / yr · Posted 22 Jun 2022

Lead Software Engineer - Backend
at helps travellers discover & book the most incredible tours
Lead Software Engineer - Backend
It is evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences in their city at the push of a button. We are building a magical platform that gets everyone to head out and have fun in a matter of seconds; no matter where you are and what you want to do. We are combining a delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations to solve a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time?
We’re growing rapidly with over $200M in annualized sales, 150,000 monthly transactions and profitable unit economics. We are backed by some of the finest investors in Silicon Valley & India.
We like to solve real-world problems in the simplest, most elegant manner possible. We’re looking for a QA Lead with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. You should also be capable of building and mentoring a fast-growing passionate, young, and talented team. We love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun.Dream, build and iterate. That's our mantra. Because good just isn't good enough.
👩💻 The Role
- Full responsibility of designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer.
- Lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
- Solve challenging architectural and design problems.
- Get your hands dirty with clustering, replication, databases, build systems and infrastructure automation etc.
- Be responsible for building concurrent, performant and scalable services which will power the entire Headout ecosystem.
- Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.
🌟 Our Dream Engineer
- A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
- You love working with people and have worked in a lead position in the past.
- A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
- No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
- You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
- You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.
💝 We like
- Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures.
- 2+years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
- Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
- Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and databases.
- Experience with setting setting up systems and infrastructure.
- Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
- People who can't live without solving that algorithm problem that they just stumbled upon.
- People who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit-level performance.
- Anything else than can surprise us.
- Nice to Haves: An interest in travel, local experiences & hospitality.

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We are looking for an experienced Java Backend Lead with strong expertise in backend application development, system design, and technical leadership. The candidate will be responsible for developing scalable applications, guiding the development team, and ensuring high-quality delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor backend development teams.
- Design and develop scalable, high-performance backend applications.
- Develop applications using Core Java, Java 8/11/17+ and Spring Boot.
- Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Work with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or similar.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure coding standards and best practices.
- Troubleshoot performance, production, and technical issues.
- Collaborate with architects, product teams, QA, and other stakeholders.
- Participate in system design, technical discussions, and solution development.
- Ensure application security, scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Guide the team in Agile/Scrum development practices.
Mandatory Skills
- 10–15 years of overall IT experience.
- Strong hands-on experience in Java.
- Strong experience with Spring Boot and Microservices.
- Experience in REST API development.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
- Experience in system design and application architecture.
- Good experience in technical leadership and team mentoring.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP.
- Knowledge of Kafka/RabbitMQ.
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes.
- Exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
- Experience working in Agile environments.
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 Orenda
Orenda is a fintech-enabled financial services company founded in 2017 and based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. We work as a corporate DSA and channel partner for leading banks and NBFCs, helping individuals, professionals, and MSMEs access suitable financial solutions across business loans, personal loans, home loans, loan against property, and professional loans.
At Orenda, we combine financial expertise, technology, and streamlined processes to simplify the lending journey. We are building our own lending-tech platform to improve operational efficiency, strengthen lender and partner integrations, and develop technology-driven solutions that support our evolving business needs.
About the role
We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer who enjoys building as much as designing. You'll shape how our systems are architected, write a good share of the code yourself, and lead a team of 3 to 5 engineers, including AI/ML engineers.
This is a hands-on leadership role, not a pure management or architecture position. Your time will be roughly split like this:
Share of time
Leading the team ~30%
Solution design ~30%
Hands-on coding ~30%
Deployment and infrastructure~10%
What you'll work on
Solution design and architecture
• Turning business needs into technical designs that are practical to build and easy to maintain
• Making architecture decisions across services, integrations and data flows
• Estimating, scoping and planning new features with business and product stakeholders
• Shaping the solution design for AI/ML use cases alongside the AI/ML engineers
Engineering and delivery
• Writing production code in Python and Node.js
• Rolling out new features across our internal and partner-facing platforms, including our CRM and partner portal
• Continuously improving existing systems for performance, reliability and code quality
• Reviewing code and setting engineering standards for the team
Infrastructure and cloud
• Maintaining and upgrading our infrastructure, including a planned move to a major cloud platform
• Owning deployments and production stability together with the team
• Working with event-driven and messaging systems (NATS today, Kafka planned)
Team leadership
• Leading and mentoring a team of 3 to 5 engineers
• Planning and prioritising work, unblocking the team, and making sure things ship
• Building a culture of ownership, clear documentation and quality
What we're looking for
• 5 to 8 years of software engineering experience, with hands-on coding in your recent roles
• Strong command of Python and Node.js
• Proven experience designing and building backend systems and microservices that run in production
• Hands-on experience deploying and running workloads on at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL
• Experience with messaging or event streaming systems such as NATS, Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience leading or mentoring a small engineering team
• Comfort estimating effort, breaking down features and planning delivery
• Enough understanding of AI/ML systems to guide their solution design and integration
• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Good to have
• Experience working at a fintech, lending or financial services company
• Hands-on experience with Kafka
• Experience leading an infrastructure upgrade or cloud migration
• Experience building or scaling CRM or partner-facing portal products
Why Join Us?
- Build a growing lending-tech platform: Play a key role in shaping the technology behind a growing financial services business.
- Own technical decisions: Contribute directly to architecture, engineering standards, and technology direction.
- Stay hands-on: Combine solution design and technical leadership with meaningful coding responsibilities.
- Work with emerging technologies: Collaborate with AI/ML engineers and contribute to evolving platform capabilities.
- Lead and grow a team: Mentor engineers and help build a strong engineering culture as the technology function scales.
- Make a measurable impact: Build systems that improve operational efficiency and support business growth.

Position Details
| **Experience** | 5–8 Years |
| **Work Location** | Mumbai Suburbs-Andheri |
| **Start Date** | Immediate |
| **CTC** | Open to Discussion |
## Job Description
The selected candidate will be responsible for leading backend development, managing cloud infrastructure and deployments, designing scalable system architectures, and mentoring the engineering team. The role requires strong technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and the ability to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
### 1. DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure
- Create and configure cloud instances on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Deploy applications and programs to cloud servers and DevOps environments.
- Ensure deployment stability, system uptime, and performance monitoring.
- Automate deployment pipelines and continuously improve CI/CD practices.
- Implement and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure deployment processes.
### 2. Architecture and Backend Development
- Design system architectures with a focus on performance, security, scalability, and reliability.
- Design, develop, and maintain clean, scalable, and optimized backend applications, preferably using Node.js.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across development, testing, and production environments.
- Translate business requirements into effective technical solutions and ensure timely delivery.
- Develop and maintain APIs, microservices, databases, and system integrations.
### 3. Team Leadership and Management
- Lead, mentor, and guide a team of backend developers and engineers.
- Drive Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and engineering best practices.
- Promote collaboration, accountability, and a high-performance engineering culture.
- Support team members in resolving technical challenges and improving their skills.
## 4.Skills and Qualifications Required
- B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Strong proficiency in backend development using Node.js, JavaScript, Python, or Java.
- Hands-on experience with DevOps practices and cloud deployment environments.
- Solid understanding of APIs, microservices, databases, and system integration.
- Experience in leading development teams within an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Working knowledge of Linux, Kafka, and Docker.
- Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines, cloud technologies, and deployment automation.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and leadership skills.
##5. Behavioural Competencies
- **Team Leadership:** Ability to manage, train, mentor, and guide team members.
- **Relationship Management:** Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective working relationships.
- **Analytical Thinking and Innovation:** Strong analytical capabilities, with a focus on innovative problem-solving.
- **Business Acumen:** Ability to understand business use cases and translate them into practical technical solutions.
- **Customer Empathy:** Ability to understand customer needs and deliver solutions that enhance customer experience.
- **Communication:** Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Salary will be decided based on your skills and experience.
Job Description – Java Backend Lead
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Java Backend Lead to design, develop, and lead the development of scalable, high-performance backend applications. The candidate will be responsible for technical leadership, architecture, coding, code reviews, and mentoring developers.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable Java backend applications.
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the backend development team.
- Design and implement application architecture and backend solutions.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure coding standards and best practices.
- Troubleshoot complex application, performance, and production issues.
- Work closely with Product, Frontend, DevOps, QA, and Architecture teams.
- Mentor and guide junior and senior developers.
- Participate in technical discussions, design reviews, and architectural decisions.
- Ensure application performance, scalability, security, and reliability.
- Implement automated testing and support CI/CD processes.
- Participate in production deployments and provide production support.
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Java 8/11/17+.
- Strong knowledge of Spring Boot and Spring Framework.
- Extensive experience developing REST APIs and Microservices.
- Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming, Design Patterns, and SOLID principles.
- Experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle.
- Good understanding of JPA/Hibernate.
- Experience with Kafka or other messaging technologies.
- Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong understanding of system design and distributed systems.
- Experience with application performance tuning and troubleshooting.
- Good understanding of unit testing and automated testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito.
Role: Java Backend Lead
Experience: 9.5+ Years
Location: Hyderabad / Bangalore
Notice Period: Immediate to 15 Days
Interview Process: All Rounds Virtual
Mandatory Skills
- Strong hands-on experience in Java
- Spring Boot
- Microservices
- Kafka
- Strong technical/lead experience
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Java Backend Lead with 9.5+ years of experience in backend application development and technical leadership.
The candidate should have strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and Kafka, along with experience leading technical teams and delivering scalable backend solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable backend applications using Java and Spring Boot.
- Develop and maintain Microservices-based applications.
- Work extensively with Kafka for event-driven applications.
- Provide technical leadership and guide development teams.
- Participate in architecture, design, coding, code reviews, and troubleshooting.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver projects successfully.
Job Description
We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead Engineer (Full Stack) to spearhead the design, development, and delivery of our scalable web platforms and core application ecosystems. In this role, you will bridge the gap between front-end experiences and robust back-end systems. You will lead an agile development team through technical architecture, feature implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and production support.
The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in both frontend and backend modern frameworks, a passion for system design, and practical experience building secure, scalable, and high-performance distributed web applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership: Lead end-to-end full-stack software development, architectural design, and system evolution.
- Backend Architecture: Design scalable, fault-tolerant backend architectures, optimizing high-volume data ingestion pipelines and processing engines.
- Frontend Excellence: Direct the development of highly responsive, intuitive, and modular user interfaces that ensure a seamless user experience.
- API & Integrations: Architect secure RESTful APIs and integrate external enterprise platforms, third-party microservices, and identity providers.
- Team Mentorship: Mentor developers, run strict code reviews, define engineering best practices, and guide sprint-level execution.
- Data & Messaging: Maintain and optimize relational, NoSQL, and time-series databases alongside message queues for real-time application events.
- Production Ownership: Own technical troubleshooting for live production bottlenecks, system latency issues, and deployment bugs.
- Documentation: Create clean technical documentation, structural architecture diagrams, and system deployment guidelines.
Required Skills
- Experience: 6+ years of software development experience with at least 2+ years leading engineering teams or owning technical delivery.
- Backend Core: Advanced hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, multithreading, and REST API development.
- Frontend Core: Mastery of modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (such as React, Angular, or Vue.js), HTML5, and responsive CSS architectures.
- Data Platforms: Proficient with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL/Caching systems (Redis, MongoDB).
- Messaging Systems: Experience implementing asynchronous workflows using message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Design Patterns: Strong grasp of microservices patterns, distributed system caching, load balancing, and failover mechanisms.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience deploying workloads to Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience setting up continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
- Exposure to system observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
Education Requirement
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Candidates with equivalent exceptional hands-on full-stack engineering experience will be highly considered regardless of formal degree background.
Experience: 12–15 Years
Job Type: Full-time
Role: Java Lead / Technical Lead
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Java Lead with 12–15 years of hands-on software development experience to lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable enterprise applications. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Core Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, SQL, and cloud technologies, along with proven experience in technical leadership and mentoring development teams.
The candidate will work closely with architects, product managers, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust and scalable technical solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of Java-based enterprise applications.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of Java developers.
- Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance microservices and RESTful APIs.
- Participate in architecture and technical design discussions and contribute to key technical decisions.
- Review code and ensure adherence to coding standards, design principles, and best practices.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and provide effective solutions.
- Work closely with product managers, business analysts, QA, DevOps, and other stakeholders.
- Mentor developers and conduct technical knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Identify opportunities for improving application performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Ensure effective implementation of unit testing, integration testing, CI/CD, and automated deployment practices.
- Participate in production support, root-cause analysis, and resolution of critical issues.
- Stay updated with emerging technologies and recommend suitable solutions where applicable.
Required Skills
- 12–15 years of experience in Java/J2EE application development.
- Strong expertise in Core Java, OOP, Collections, Multithreading, Exception Handling, and Java 8+ features.
- Strong hands-on experience with Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
- Excellent experience in Microservices architecture and RESTful web services.
- Strong understanding of design patterns, SOLID principles, and software architecture.
- Good knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle.
- Experience with Hibernate/JPA.
- Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with Git and Maven/Gradle.
- Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is preferred.
- Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ is an advantage.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
Leadership & Soft Skills
- Proven experience in leading or mentoring technical teams.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to drive technical discussions and make sound engineering decisions.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, agile environment.
- Strong ownership and accountability for technical deliverables.
- Ability to balance hands-on development with technical leadership responsibilities.
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on large-scale, distributed enterprise applications.
- Experience with cloud-native application development.
- Knowledge of event-driven architecture.
- Experience with system design and high-level/low-level design.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Job Description
Position Title: Java Technical Lead
Position Type: Full Time, Permanent
Department: Research and Development
Reports to: R&D Manager, Indian Development Centre.
Company Background:
-CGLIA is a software development company building highly available, highly secure, cloud-based enterprise software products that helps speed the research process resulting in new drugs, new devices, and new treatments to improve the health and wellbeing of world population.
- At CGLIA, our work shows our dedication and passion for innovative quality software products that are intuitive and easy to use and exceeds every aspect of customer expectations.
- CGLIA, is the place that develops world-class professionals who would like to be innovative, creative, learn continuously, and build a solid foundation to build products that are special and delight the customer.
Job Summary:
As a Technical Manager, you will be providing the guidance to all the team members in designing, implementing and delivering the technical solutions.
Also, responsible to maintaining the existing product line with high quality and timely deliverables by working closely with product teams.
In this role, you will be hiring the new development staff, oversee each aspect of the development process, and act as a liaison between development team and upper management. Also ensures that team is fully trained and able to perform their jobs.
Should possess strong leadership skills and ability to resolve the challenges quickly.
Responsibilities:
- Participate and contribute to project planning and effort estimation.
- Demonstrate exceptional requirements gathering skills and support requirement gathering sessions.
- Contribute to technical design of business solutions.
- Support leadership team in development RFP’s and service offerings.
- Review and analyse relevant documentation to ensure the understanding of an organization function and capabilities.
- Conduct relevant research to increase understanding in support of developing comprehensive solutions.
- Comply with all the relevant policies and procedures and complete all the documents that are required.
- Conducting performance reviews, handling the employee complaints
- Willing to undertake additional tasks and responsibilities as may be reasonably expected of the role and as necessary in order to achieve the objectives of the organization.
Qualifications: (Education, Experience, Skills and Knowledge)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or any equivalent degree.
- At least 8 plus years of hands on experience in developing cloud-based software along with 2 plus years of Management experience.
- Expertise with more than one of the Software Development Methodologies.
- Expertise in designing and developing cloud based high available distributed applications and must have extensive experience in object-oriented design.
- Strong hands on experience in using Java, Hibernate, Spring technology stack (Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Batch, Spring security etc.) along with open source technologies.
- Experience building web and mobile applications using frontend technologies Angular (Angular 1/Angular 2), Bootstrap, Material Design, UX/UI, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
- Demonstrated Experience on databases like MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
- An understanding on handling of large data sources. (Desirable)
- Expertise on the Code Static Analyzer tools like SonarQube, PMD and, DevOps Tools.
- Expertise in using any Unit testing Frameworks like Junit.
- Knowledge in Security related to Web Applications and mobile applications. and other open source and commercial tools.
- Demonstrable and substantial experience in leading and managing teams of software developers.
- Impeccable written English skills, and Oral communication skills along with outstanding interpersonal skills.
- Results-oriented, detail-oriented, and well organized.
Technical Manager: Requires sufficient Managerial Skills and sufficient technical skills.
Main function has to be focused on people. He or She can and should learn new things in technology, that is required for the role.
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.













