Lead Software Engineer

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.

Job Description:

Head of Engineering — Chennai (Onsite)About the Role

Job Details

Position: Head of Engineering

Department: Engineering

Experience: 6–8 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Chennai, On-site

Salary: Up to ₹24,00,000 per annum

About the Role

We’re looking for a Head of Engineering to take end-to-end ownership of engineering for a fast-moving product. You’ll be responsible for architecture, execution, product quality, engineering culture, and team growth.

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

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

Role & Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Business: Immerse in operations until you think like an insider.

Rapidly acquire domain expertise through direct observation, translate between business and engineering seamlessly, and mentor engineers in your area on immersion. Influence senior stakeholders effectively, manage complex stakeholder landscapes with competing agendas, and build trust rapidly with new stakeholders.

• Delivery: Lead rapid delivery initiatives across teams in your area, coach on prototype-first approaches, and establish trust through consistent fast delivery. Build complete applications rapidly across any technology stack, select the right tools for each problem, and define clear criteria for prototype-to-production transitions.

• Generative AI: Architect RAG systems for complex use cases across teams, implement advanced techniques (hybrid search, reranking, query expansion), mentor engineers on RAG best practices, and establish RAG standards. Lead evaluation strategy across teams, establishing annotation guidelines, training human-calibrated LLM judges, and building evaluation pipelines that connect tracing to datasets to experiments.

• People: Build high-performing teams across your area, navigate complex interpersonal dynamics, foster psychological safety, and create environments where diverse perspectives are valued. Influence through communication at all levels — from frontline to executive. Handle difficult conversations skilfully and train engineers in your area on effective communication.

• AI-Augmented Development: Optimise AI tool usage across teams in your area, train engineers on AI-augmented and agentic engineering workflows, evaluate new AI development tools, and establish practices that balance AI speed with verification rigour.

• Scale: Design complex multi-component systems end-to-end, evaluate architectural options for large initiatives across teams, guide technical decisions for your area, and mentor engineers on architecture. Create debt reduction strategies across teams, influence roadmap decisions to include debt work, and teach engineers when to accept debt for speed versus when to invest in quality.

• Documentation: Define documentation standards across teams in your area, create documentation systems and templates, train engineers on spec-driven development, and ensure documentation quality across projects. Lead pattern generalization initiatives, defining criteria for when to generalize versus keep custom.

• Reliability: Define reliability standards across teams in your area, drive post-incident improvements systematically, design capacity planning processes, andmentor engineers on SRE practices.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Staff Software Engineer / FDE profile (full-stack + production GenAI, multi-team technical leadership)
• Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 7+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated full-stack delivery across backend and frontend.
• Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have deep production experience with Python AND JavaScript/TypeScript, working comfortably across the full stack.
• Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have 2+ years of experience in generative AI applications developement — LLM integrations, vector databases, RAG systems, and evaluation pipelines
• Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (Next.js / React) and backend API development.
• Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP valued), including infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation / Terraform).
• Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have working knowledge of multiple database paradigms — relational (PostgreSQL), document, and key-value (Redis) — with ability to select the right storage per problem.
• Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions), containerization, and production deployment strategies.
• Mandatory (Experience 8) – Must have demonstrable fluency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) and proven ability to design agentic engineering workflows and train teams on them
• Preferred (Experience) – Advanced RAG techniques — hybrid search, reranking, query expansion — and establishing RAG standards across teams

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

About the company

Metron Security provides automation and integration services to leading Cyber Security companies. Our engineering team works on leading security platforms including - Splunk, IBM’s QRadar, ServiceNow, Crowdstrike, Cybereason, and other SIEM and SOAR platforms. 

Software Engineer is a challenging role within Cyber Security Engineering integration development. The role involves developing a product/service that achieves high-performance data exchange between two or more Cyber Security platforms. A Software Engineer is at the core of the evolution process and is responsible for the End-to-End delivery of the project, right from getting the requirements from customers to deploying the project for them on-prem or on the cloud, depending on the nature of the project. We follow the best practices of engineering and keep evolving. We are agile. 

Each integration needs reskilling yourself with the required technology for that project. If you are passionate about programming and believe in the best practices of software engineering, the following are the skills we are looking for: 

● Developer-centric culture - No bureaucracy or red tape. 

● Chance to work on 200+ security platforms. 

● Opportunity to engage with end-users (customers) and just a cog in the wheel.

About the role

We are looking for passionate developers with 4-7 years of experience in software development to join the Metron Security team as Software Engineers. 

Mandatory Skills 

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of leading engineering teams and mentoring junior developers. 
• Expertise in at least one or two Object-Oriented Programming language (Python, typescript, Java,Node.js,Angular, react.js C#, C++) . 
• Good knowledge of Data Structure and its correct usage. 
• Oversee code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and maintaining high code quality standards. 
• Imbibe and maintain a strong customer delight attitude while designing and building products/services.

Other Requirements 

• Open to learn any new software development skill if needed for the project.
• Alignment and utilisation of the core enterprise technology stacks and integration capabilities throughout the transition states. 
• Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of the solution and exploration of solution alternatives. 
• Define, explore, and support the implementation of enablers to evolve solution intent, working directly with Agile teams to implement them. 
• Good knowledge of the implications of Cyber Security on production.
• Experience in architecting & estimating deep technical custom solutions & integrations. 
• Manage the customer to ensure we have a continuous flow of work from them so that the team has enough work for at least a month. 
• Mentor and coach team members, providing technical guidance and fostering professional development. 

Added advantage: 

• Experience in the Cyber Security domain.
• Experience in developing software using web technologies. 
• Experience in handling a project from start to end. 
• Hands-on experience in an Agile Development project and in writing and estimating User Stories. 
• Contribution to open source - Please share your link in the application/resume if any.

Location: Pune/Bengaluru

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will tackle a highly challenging role within our Cyber Security Engineering integration development team. You will be responsible for the End-to-End (E2E) delivery of projects from gathering customer requirements to deploying high-performance data exchange solutions on-prem or in the cloud. We are looking for a Systems-Level Thinker who can seamlessly transition between building complex integrations and architecting high-throughput, low-latency backends. Because each integration may require a different technical approach, we value engineers who love reskilling, following agile best practices, and maintaining an evolving mindset.

Core Responsibilities

Technical Leadership and Architecture

● Systems Engineering: Design, build, and optimize high-throughput, low-latency backend systems and data-exchange layers.

● Architecture and Integration: Participate in planning, defining, and exploring solution alternatives. Architect and estimate deep technical custom solutions and integrations across diverse enterprise tech stacks. ● Stream Processing: Implement event-driven architectures, manage backpressure, and handle real-time state management across security platforms.

● Delivery Ownership: Own projects end-to-end, defining and implementing enablers to evolve solution intent directly alongside our Agile teams.

Team Leadership and Quality

● Mentorship: Actively lead, coach, and mentor junior developers, providing technical guidance to foster professional development.

● Engineering Excellence: Oversee code reviews, build robust CI/CD pipelines, enforce strict quality checks, and ensure rigorous adherence to coding standards.

● Agile Execution: Actively participate in Agile development, including writing, breaking down, and estimating User Stories.

Customer and Stakeholder Collaboration

● Customer Delight: Maintain a strong customer-first attitude while designing, building, and deploying products.

● Technical Communication: Articulate complex technical trade-offs clearly to both business stakeholders and engineering teams.

● Pipeline Management: Manage customer relationships effectively to ensure a continuous flow of project scope, maintaining clear team backlogs.

Job Requirements

● Experience: 5+ years of proven software engineering experience, with a track record of leading small engineering teams or mentoring junior devs.

● High-Throughput Backend Focus: 5+ years of experience engineering robust, real-time backends specifically using Go (Golang) or Java.

● Polyglot and Integration Capability: Deep expertise in at least one or two additional languages/frameworks from our ecosystem: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, React.js, Angular, C#, or C++.

● Computer Science Fundamentals: Excellent knowledge of complex Data Structures, algorithms, and their correct situational usage.

● Adaptability: A passionate programmer who is genuinely open and excited to learn new software development skills as required by changing project demands.

Bonus / Added Advantages

● AI & Intelligent Automation: Hands-on knowledge of AI concepts, Large Language Models (LLMs), and experience building or integrating AI agents to automate complex workflows or security processes.

● Cybersecurity Domain: Experience in the cybersecurity space (SIEM, SOAR, or platform security).

● Modern Web Tech: Strong experience in developing software using modern web technologies.

● E2E Lifecycle: Proven background handling a project completely from discovery to cloud/on-prem deployment.

● Open Source: Active contributions to the Open Source community. (Please share your GitHub/GitLab links in your application!)

Core Responsibilities:

• Design & Development: Architect and implement scalable backend services and APIs using Python or Golang, ensuring high performance, resilience, and extensibility.
• System Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of critical modules, from design and development to deployment and support.
• Technical Leadership: Conduct design and code reviews, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers to raise the team’s technical bar.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, architects, and other engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Performance & Reliability: Troubleshoot complex issues in production systems, identify root causes, and design sustainable long-term solutions.
• Innovation: Evaluate new technologies, contribute to proof-of-concepts, and recommend tools that can improve developer productivity.
• Process Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing practices.
• Knowledge Sharing: Document designs, create technical guides, and share insights with the broader engineering team.

Experience and Expertise:

• 4–7 years of backend development experience with Python or Golang.
• Strong expertise in designing, developing, and scaling microservices and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and performance optimization.
• Proficiency with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with Linux development, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and related services.
• Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for production-grade systems.
• Experience with AI-powered development tools is a strong plus; familiarity with concepts like 'agentic coding' for workflow automation or 'context engineering' for leveraging LLMs in system design is highly desirable.

Skills:

• Strong problem-solving ability, with experience handling complex technical challenges.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and articulate trade-offs.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to operate independently while aligning with team goals.
• Passionate about engineering culture, quality, and developer productivity.

About the company

Metron Security provides automation and integration services to leading Cyber Security companies. Our engineering team works on leading security platforms including - Splunk, IBM’s QRadar, ServiceNow, Crowdstrike, Cybereason, and other SIEM and SOAR platforms. 

Software Engineer is a challenging role within Cyber Security Engineering integration development. The role involves developing a product/service that achieves high-performance data exchange between two or more Cyber Security platforms. A Software Engineer is at the core of the evolution process and is responsible for the End-to-End delivery of the project, right from getting the requirements from customers to deploying the project for them on-prem or on the cloud, depending on the nature of the project. We follow the best practices of engineering and keep evolving. We are agile. 

Each integration needs reskilling yourself with the required technology for that project. If you are passionate about programming and believe in the best practices of software engineering, the following are the skills we are looking for: 

● Developer-centric culture - No bureaucracy or red tape. 

● Chance to work on 200+ security platforms. 

● Opportunity to engage with end-users (customers) and just a cog in the wheel.

About the role

We are looking for passionate developers with 4-7 years of experience in software development to join the Metron Security team as Software Engineers. 

Mandatory Skills 

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of leading engineering teams and mentoring junior developers. 
• Expertise in at least one or two Object-Oriented Programming language (Python, typescript, Java,Node.js,Angular, react.js C#, C++) . 
• Good knowledge of Data Structure and its correct usage. 
• Oversee code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and maintaining high code quality standards. 
• Imbibe and maintain a strong customer delight attitude while designing and building products/services.

Other Requirements 

• Open to learn any new software development skill if needed for the project.
• Alignment and utilisation of the core enterprise technology stacks and integration capabilities throughout the transition states. 
• Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of the solution and exploration of solution alternatives. 
• Define, explore, and support the implementation of enablers to evolve solution intent, working directly with Agile teams to implement them. 
• Good knowledge of the implications of Cyber Security on production.
• Experience in architecting & estimating deep technical custom solutions & integrations. 
• Manage the customer to ensure we have a continuous flow of work from them so that the team has enough work for at least a month. 
• Mentor and coach team members, providing technical guidance and fostering professional development. 

Added advantage: 

• Experience in the Cyber Security domain.
• Experience in developing software using web technologies. 
• Experience in handling a project from start to end. 
• Hands-on experience in an Agile Development project and in writing and estimating User Stories. 
• Contribution to open source - Please share your link in the application/resume if any.

Location: Pune/Bengaluru

As a Software Engineer, you will tackle a highly challenging role within our Cyber Security Engineering integration development team. You will be responsible for the End-to-End (E2E) delivery of projects from gathering customer requirements to deploying high-performance data exchange solutions on-prem or in the cloud. We are looking for a Systems-Level Thinker who can seamlessly transition between building complex integrations and architecting high-throughput, low-latency backends. Because each integration may require a different technical approach, we value engineers who love reskilling, following agile best practices, and maintaining an evolving mindset.

Core Responsibilities

Customer and Stakeholder Collaboration

• Customer Delight: Maintain a strong customer-first attitude while designing, building, and deploying products.
• Technical Communication: Articulate complex technical trade-offs clearly to both business stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Pipeline Management: Manage customer relationships effectively to ensure a continuous flow of project scope, maintaining clear team backlogs.

Job Requirements

• Experience: 3+ years of proven software engineering experience, with a track record of leading small engineering teams or mentoring junior devs.
• High-Throughput Backend Focus: 3+ years of experience engineering robust, real-time backends specifically using Go (Golang) or Java.
• Polyglot and Integration Capability: Deep expertise in at least one or two additional languages/frameworks from our ecosystem: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, React.js, Angular, C#, or C++.
• Computer Science Fundamentals: Excellent knowledge of complex Data Structures, algorithms, and their correct situational usage.
• Adaptability: A passionate programmer who is genuinely open and excited to learn new software development skills as required by changing project demands.

Bonus / Added Advantages

• AI & Intelligent Automation: Hands-on knowledge of AI concepts, Large Language Models (LLMs), and experience building or integrating AI agents to automate complex workflows or security processes.
• Cybersecurity Domain: Experience in the cybersecurity space (SIEM, SOAR, or platform security).
• Modern Web Tech: Strong experience in developing software using modern web technologies.
• E2E Lifecycle: Proven background handling a project completely from discovery to cloud/on-prem deployment.
• Open Source: Active contributions to the Open Source community. (Please share your GitHub/GitLab links in your application!)