SDET 2

Lead Product Engineer - Pod Captain 

A Little Bit About the Role

There is a version of this role that attracts the wrong person: a senior engineer who wants a title upgrade and a slightly bigger scope. That person will struggle here. The Lead PE is not a promotion for being a great individual engineer. It is a fundamentally different job.

Your success at this level is measured entirely by what your Island delivers — not by the quality of your own code. You will still write code, often the hardest and most risk-laden on the project: auth systems, payment integrations, data migrations, the things nobody else should touch. But that is a fraction of the role. The majority is managing delivery, owning the client relationship on the technical side, unblocking engineers before problems compound, and making scope calls under pressure with incomplete information.

You are also the technical and commercial bridge between your Island and the client. You own every piece of technical communication that goes to them — what is being built, what risks exist, what the honest timeline is. When a client pushes for something technically unsound, you push back directly and professionally, always with an alternative. When something breaks in production, you own the post-mortem process and the client receives it within 24 hours. You protect your team from unfiltered client pressure; you translate it into clear, actionable direction instead.

On top of delivery and client management, you are the AI operating standard for your Island. Every engineer on your pod uses Cursor and Claude within the rules you define. You set those rules before the first line of code is written, govern how they evolve, and you are accountable when AI-generated code ships without being understood.

If you are energised by all of that — by the accountability, by owning outcomes rather than tasks, by the combination of technical depth and people management — this role will suit you well. If you want to spend most of your time in code, this is not the right level.

AI Governance Expectation

You set the AI standard for your entire Island. If an engineer on your pod is shipping AI-generated code they do not understand, or underusing AI tools entirely, both are your problem to fix — not theirs alone.

At Lead level, AI governance means:

• Authoring the .cursorrules file before the first PR is opened. This defines how every engineer on the team writes code, uses Cursor, and structures prompts. You update it as the team learns, and you submit it to the Fountane Mainland at the close of every engagement.
• Evaluating new AI tools before they reach client code. You are the gate. A tool that looks useful in a demo can create untraceable technical debt in production. You decide what enters the workflow.
• Governing prompt discipline across the team: scoped prompts, codebase context hygiene, no AI-generated code that the author cannot explain line by line.
• Using Claude for architecture reasoning, sprint planning, risk documentation, and client-facing technical communication — not just Cursor for code generation. AI works at every layer of the Lead role, not just the coding layer.
• Staying ahead of the Golden Stack. You should know what Cursor and Claude can and cannot do at the codebase level better than anyone on your Island. When the Mainland updates the standard toolchain, you integrate the change into your Island’s workflow first.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Architecture & Standards Ownership

Design the full-stack architecture for every engagement before the first sprint starts: service boundaries, API contracts, database schema, state management strategy across web and mobile surfaces, and the security baseline. Author the .cursorrules file that governs how the entire Island writes code and uses AI. Own the highest-risk code personally — auth systems, payment integrations, live data migrations — these are not delegated regardless of workload. Enforce Mainland security standards across the entire codebase: input validation, correct auth scoping, safe data handling. If a security issue reaches production that was visible in a PR, that is a failure you own.

CE Prototype Gatekeeping

Review every Concept Engineer prototype before any engineer touches it. This is not a courtesy review — you have veto authority. If the scope is technically unrealistic for the sprint, the architecture is unbuildable as specified, or the prototype makes promises the codebase cannot keep, the sprint does not start until those are resolved. The time to surface a structural problem is before it is built, not after it is demoed. Produce a written checklist verdict for every prototype review — approved, approved with conditions, or blocked with reasons.

Client Technical Communication & Scope Ownership

Own all technical communication with the client directly. This means: what is being built each sprint, what risks exist and what is being done about them, honest timelines when estimates change, and clear explanations of technical decisions in plain language. Push back on risky or scope-expanding requests professionally and always with an alternative — “we cannot do X because Y; here is what achieves the same outcome.” Manage scope creep actively: every request that expands the engagement goes through you, gets assessed for impact, and is either absorbed, priced, or declined with a rationale. Renewal conversations are yours to lead in coordination with the CE.

Island Integration Audit

When a prospective client wants fractional augmentation — one or two roles rather than a full Island — you conduct the Island Integration Audit. This means evaluating their existing engineering team against Fountane Mainland SOPs: coding standards, AI tool usage, deployment practices, and documentation quality. If they pass, fractional deployment proceeds. If they do not, you produce a written audit report that either recommends full Island deployment or a Mainland upskilling programme. You are protecting your team’s velocity — a fractional deployment into a dysfunctional team destroys it.

Delivery & Velocity Management

Review the work cycle board every morning. Flag anything stuck, stale, or at risk before it becomes a client problem — not after. Communicate risks to the CE proactively with options, not just problems. Track every engineer’s billing hours: a shortfall spotted on Wednesday is a Thursday conversation, not a Friday surprise. If an engineer is consistently under-billing, that is either a workload problem, a capability problem, or a motivation problem — each has a different resolution and you are responsible for diagnosing which one it is.

Production Incident Ownership

When something breaks in production, you own the resolution process end to end: take technical lead, make the call on rollback vs. hotfix, communicate status to the client directly if the incident affects them, and own the post-mortem. The client receives the post-mortem within 24 hours of resolution — this is a hard commitment, not a target. The post-mortem covers: what happened, why it happened, what was done to fix it, and what structural change prevents recurrence. You produce it; it is not delegated to the engineer who caused the issue.

Automation & Infrastructure Boundary Arbitration

The Automation Engineer owns the test gates within the CI/CD pipeline. The Infrastructure Engineer owns the pipeline configuration itself. When these overlap and conflict — which they will — you arbitrate. The resolution must be documented in the Island’s .cursorrules and SOP onboarding document so the boundary does not need to be relitigated every sprint. This is not optional housekeeping; an unresolved boundary between these two roles is one of the most common sources of deployment failures on Islands.

Full Stack Ownership — Web & Mobile

You review and own work across the entire application layer: React / Next.js web frontends, React Native or Flutter mobile apps, Node.js / Python backends, and database schema. You cannot delegate a review of mobile code because you do not know mobile, or backend code because your background is frontend. If there is a gap in your full-stack depth, that is something to resolve before taking this role, not on the job.

People Management & Mentoring

Hold bi-weekly 1:1s with every engineer on the Island — focused on growth, blockers, and career direction, not status updates. Status belongs on the board; 1:1s are for the person. Address performance gaps early, directly, and specifically: a pattern spotted in week two is a conversation in week two, not month three. Protect the team from unfiltered client anxiety — absorb it, process it, and give the team clear direction instead of noise. If an engineer is struggling, that is your problem to solve before it becomes the client’s problem to notice.

Network Contribution

At the close of every engagement, submit to the Fountane Mainland: the .cursorrules file, all prompt templates used, a short retrospective on what worked and what did not, and any reusable patterns or scripts developed during the engagement. This is a Lead-level obligation, not a nice-to-have. The network’s collective capability grows through what Leads bring back from the field. An engagement that ends without a Mainland submission has left the network no smarter than it was before.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two years in a role where you were accountable for delivery outcomes — not just your own code. You should be able to describe an engagement where something went wrong on your watch, what you did about it, and what you would do differently. If your experience is entirely individual-contributor, this role will be a difficult fit.
• Genuinely full stack across web and mobile: React / Next.js, React Native or Flutter, Node.js or Python, and database architecture including schema design and migrations. You review and own work across all of these surfaces — not just the ones you are most comfortable in.
• Hands-on, daily Cursor and Claude usage with the ability to set and enforce standards for how a team uses them — not just personal proficiency. You should be able to describe the .cursorrules file you would write for a standard SMB engagement and explain the decisions behind it.
• Proven ability to communicate technical risk and decisions directly to non-technical clients — not through a PM, directly, in plain language. You should be able to describe a client pushback you navigated and how you handled it.
• Experience managing scope on a real engagement: a client who wanted more than was in the contract, and how you resolved it without damaging the relationship or the team’s velocity.
• Has conducted security-aware architecture design: auth systems, input validation, safe data handling. You should be able to describe a security decision you made and why.
• Has led or coordinated a small engineering team — run 1:1s, addressed performance gaps, made scope calls under pressure. Management experience at a staffing agency or outsourcing firm counts if the accountability was real.
• Comfortable having direct, specific performance conversations early — not after the situation has compounded. You should be able to describe a time you addressed a performance issue at the first sign rather than waiting.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

About Fountane

Fountane is a technology ventures lab - one part product studio, one part startup engine. We build high-quality software and AI products for clients ranging from fast-moving startups to large enterprises, and we co-build and invest in new companies when we see the right opportunity.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Minneapolis, we have grown to 60+ people across four continents and were recognised as one of America’s fastest-growing companies, ranking No. 699 on the Inc. 5000 with 595% three-year growth.

We are serious about craft, direct about expectations, and operate at the frontier of AI-assisted engineering. Lead PEs here carry real authority and real accountability — over delivery, over people, and over client outcomes. If that combination is what you are looking for, this is the place.

JOB DETAILS:

Job Role: AM– People Operations (HR)

Industry: FMCG

Function: Human Resources

Work Mode: ONSITE

Working Day: 5

Salary: Best in Industry

Experience: 3-4 years

Location: Gurgaon

Required Skills: Offline Sales Talent Acquisition (GT/MT), Bulk & Lateral Hiring Execution, Startup Hiring Agility, Stakeholder & Candidate Management, HR Operations & Compliance Support

Criteria:

• Female candidates only
• Immediate joiners only
• Gurgaon-based candidates only
• Willingness to work from office (Udyog Vihar, Phase 3)
• 3 to 4 years of non-IT recruitment experience.
• Mandatory hands-on experience in Offline Sales hiring for FMCG brands (GT / MT)
• Proven experience in bulk and lateral hiring for field sales roles (ASM, SO, Promoters, Supervisors)
• Startup experience mandatory (fast-paced, high-growth environment)
• Strong capability in end-to-end talent acquisition (sourcing to onboarding)
• Experience with job portals, field hiring, referrals, and vendor coordination
• Ability to manage aggressive hiring targets, quick closures, and low TAT
• Basic exposure to HR Operations (onboarding, documentation, HRMS, attendance, compliance)

Description

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Assistant Manager – People Operations with strong experience in non-IT hiring, especially Offline Sales hiring for FMCG brands (GT/MT). This role is 80% Talent Acquisition and 20% HR Operations, ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, can take ownership, and make quick, practical decisions.

Key Responsibilities

🔹 Talent Acquisition (80%)

● End-to-end hiring for Offline Sales roles including:

○ General Trade (GT)

○ Modern Trade (MT)

○ Field Sales, ASM, SO, Promoters, Supervisors, etc.

● Handle bulk and lateral hiring across levels for FMCG sales teams

● Source candidates through:

○ Job portals (Naukri, Indeed, etc.)

○ Field hiring, referrals, vendor coordination

● Screen profiles, conduct initial interviews, and coordinate with business stakeholders

● Ensure quick closures, high offer-to-joining ratio, and minimal TAT

● Maintain hiring trackers, MIS, and recruitment dashboards

● Strong follow-ups with candidates to ensure smooth onboarding

🔹 HR Operations (20%)

● Support onboarding and joining formalities

● Coordinate documentation, employee records, and HRMS updates

● Assist in attendance, leave, and basic employee lifecycle processes

● Act as a point of contact for employees on day-to-day HR queries

● Ensure HR compliance and process adherence

Required Skills & Experience

● 3 to 4 years of relevant experience in non-IT hiring

● Mandatory experience in Offline Sales hiring for FMCG brands (GT/MT)

● Startup experience is mandatory (high-growth, fast-changing environment)

● Strong understanding of sales hiring challenges and ground realities

● Ability to work under pressure and manage aggressive hiring targets

● Excellent decision-making and stakeholder management skills

● Quick learner with a proactive and ownership-driven mindset

● Strong communication and follow-up skills

Candidate Criteria (Mandatory)

● Female candidates only

● Immediate joiners

● Gurgaon-based candidates only

● Willing to work from office (Udyog Vihar, Phase 3)

Why Join Us?

● Opportunity to work closely with the HR Head

● High ownership and visibility in a growing FMCG startup

● Fast learning curve and exposure to core business hiring

● Dynamic, execution-focused work culture

🚀 Hiring: Azure DevOps Engineer – Immediate Joiners Only! 🚀

📍 Location: Pune (Hybrid)

💼 Experience: 5+ Years

🕒 Mode of Work: Hybrid

Are you a proactive and skilled Azure DevOps Engineer looking for your next challenge? We are hiring immediate joiners to join our dynamic team! If you are passionate about CI/CD, cloud automation, and SRE best practices, we want to hear from you.

🔹 Key Skills Required:

✅ Cloud Expertise: Proficiency in any cloud (Azure preferred)

✅ CI/CD Pipelines: Hands-on experience in designing and managing pipelines

✅ Containers & IaC: Strong knowledge of Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes

✅ Incident Management: Quick issue resolution and RCA

✅ SRE & Observability: Experience with SLI/SLO/SLA, monitoring, tracing, logging

✅ Programming: Proficiency in Python, Golang

✅ Performance Optimization: Identifying and resolving system bottlenecks

Position: Trainee Electronics Engineer

Location: Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Employment Type: Full-time, On-site

Experience: 6 month to 2 year (Freshers Preferred)

Salary: ₹19,000 CTC (Starting)

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in testing, troubleshooting, and maintenance of electronic equipment and systems.
• Understand and interpret electrical and electronic circuit drawings.
• Perform on-site service and support activities as required.
• Work closely with senior engineers to learn and implement engineering best practices.
• Prepare and maintain technical documentation and service reports.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Qualification: B.E. in Electronics Engineering.
• Strong understanding of basic electronics concepts, measuring units, instruments, and electrical properties of components.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings.
• Good communication skills – must be able to read, write, and speak in English.
• Willingness to travel for service and field assignments.
• Freshers and local candidates will be given preference.

Requirements:

• 7+ years in enterprise application development
• Proven track record of delivering complex digital solutions
• Advanced knowledge of React hooks, context API, and component and global state management
• Experience with atomic design, component libraries, and TypeScript
• Proficiency in React performance optimization and modern features
• Strong experience with modern .NET (6+)
• Proven track record applying Clean Architecture & Clean Code & SOLID principles & DDD patterns
• Expertise in building scalable REST APIs and microservices
• Experience with Azure Service Bus, Event Grid, and message-based architectures
• Proficiency in resources like App Insights, Function Apps, Key Vaults, and App Services
• Expertise in cloud development and deployment strategies
• Strong understanding of business needs, ability to meet them by creating cutting-edge solutions
• Brilliant communication abilities, knowing how to explain technical details and processes to a non-tech person
• Fluency in English

Nice to have:

• Test automation (Playwright/Cypress)
• Building CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps
• API-first development and OpenAPI specifications
• Experience with agile at scale (SAFe/Spotify)
• Proficiency with AI-powered development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) to enhance productivity
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field

 Responsibilities:

• Front-end, API, and back-end development, ensuring the successful delivery of digital solutions
• Drive innovation by staying informed about emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices
• Collaborate with the Product Manager, UX/UI Designers, and Engineering Manager to define agile technical requirements, provide technical estimation, and prioritize backlogs based on business needs and technical feasibility
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release planning meetings to ensure alignment between technical implementation and product roadmap
• Participate in hands-on development activities, including coding, debugging, and troubleshooting, to deliver high-quality applications
• Design, architecture, development of digital applications, ensuring adherence to best practices, coding standards, and architectural principles
• Design scalable architectures for multi-region deployment
• Implement test automation strategies and frameworks to automate testing processes and ensure the quality and reliability of applications
• Automate test cases and integrate testing into the CI/CD pipeline
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and architectural guidelines
• Define and implement code best practices, development standards, and documentation processes to maintain code quality and readability
• Integrate digital applications with existing digital assets, backend systems, and third-party APIs, ensuring seamless data exchange and interoperability
• Collaborate with integration teams to design and implement integration solutions that meet business requirements and architectural standards
• Communicate technical concepts and solutions to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and understandable manner

Role Description:

Do you like to get people’s attention with visuals? 

At Astra, we're looking for a graphic designer who likes to show off their creative flair and communicate to the world with their designs. This role will be dynamic, including understanding the design needs, developing visual concepts, and revising feedback-based designs.

About us:

Astra Security is a privately held U.S. & India-based company. Backed by Techstars, Astra offers a Pentest Platform, which emulates hacker behavior & helps organizations become proactively secure.

Astra's Pentest Platform helps organizations proactively uncover vulnerabilities in their applications and comply with various security standards. The Pentest Platform has uncovered 100,000+ vulnerabilities in customer applications. Astra's Website Protection suite stops one million+ threats on its customers' web applications daily. To offer a homogenous experience to its customers, Astra Security incorporates cutting-edge solutions that are easy to comprehend and tailor-made to suit any business requirement.

The company has earned several accolades, including ‘The Most Innovative Security Company’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security, one of the top 50 emerging cybersecurity companies at ‘Emerge 50’ by NASSCOM, the French Tech Ticket under which Astra Security got rewarded by the President of France under the La French Tech program. In 2021, Astra Security was also named as a CyberTech100 company. Astra is a trusted security partner to well-known brands like Vodafone, Lynas, Kotak Securities, Unilever, NIIT, TEDx, Muthoot, Ford, etc.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• ​Work with the marketing team to understand the requirements & conceptualize them into designs.
• Designing landing page wireframes & elements 
• Creating feature banner images & infographics for the blog
• Designing e-books & brochures
• Designing Social Media creatives (Images, GIFs, and carousels) 
• Designing email newsletters & header images
• Designing product mockups & social creatives for product features
• Editing live-action videos (Adding intro, outro, title cards, sections, & animations)
• Creating short, engaging animated videos for social media/YouTube
• Creating mobile responsive designs for landing pages
• Design branded presentation themes for the sales/marketing teams to use
• Work with the marketing and frontend developer on the feedback shared and amend design changes.
• Work & come up with design guidelines for the brand

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Requirements for the role:

• 1-4 years of graphic design experience in B2B SaaS marketing
• Effective communication skills and attention to detail
• Strong understanding of design principles, processes, aesthetics, typography, imagery, and color theory.
• Someone who's friendly, collaborative, comfortable with receiving direction, working autonomously, and eager to learn.
• Willingness to work in a remote setup
• Proficient in design tools such as Figma, Adobe (Photoshop/Illustrator, After Effects, & Premier Pro), Canva, and Spline/Sketch. 
• Project management skills and ability to meet deadlines
• A degree in Design, Fine Arts, or a related field is a plus.

Benefits of joining the Astra squad:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a growing company
• Fully remote & agile working environment
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, and influence product design decisions
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise cloud security business
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains
• Open and supportive culture

Skills Required:

• At least 2.5 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
• Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
• Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
• Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
• Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
• Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
• Experience building a large-scale social or location-based app.

• 3+ years proven work experience as a Mobile developer.
• Experience using web services (HTTP, REST, SOAP) using JSON, API and API Framework) .
• Good knowledge of object-oriented design patterns and Multi-threading concepts
• Good knowledge of the SQLite database and the Google Play Services like Push Notifications (fcm/sns)
• Strong mobile UI design (multi-screen resolutions), coding, support and maintenance
• Knowledge of HTML5, Bootstrap, JavaScript,
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs (like Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
• Proficient iOS and Android mobile app experience are a plus
• In-depth knowledge of at least two Framework/Libraries like React Native / Ionic / Framework7 / Aurelia / PhoneGap / Flutter and angular / react / vue / Mobile Angular UI/ Kendo UI.
• Knowledge of bench marking and optimization
• Mandatory : self sufficient developer and must have prior experience of hybrid development [atleast 3 projects]