Senior Product Architect

Key Responsibilities

·       System Design: Design secure, scalable, and highly available multi-tenant cloud-based application architectures.

·       Integration Strategy: Build robust APIs, webhooks, and data pipelines for complex enterprise client connections.

·       Technical Guidance: Mentor software engineers and lead critical code and architecture reviews to ensure engineering excellence.

·       Performance & Security: Drive non-functional infrastructure needs including high uptime, strict data privacy compliance, and fast application response times.

·       Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Security, and Customer Success teams to align technical execution with business roadmaps.

Required Qualifications

·       Experience: 8+ years of experience in software engineering with at least 3+ years operating as a technical or solutions architect within a B2B SaaS environment.

·       Cloud & DevOps: Deep production knowledge of major cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD automation pipelines.

·       Architecture Patterns: Proven expertise designing microservices, event-driven architectures, and high-performance relational and NoSQL database structures.

·       Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical concepts clearly to both engineers and business stakeholders.

·       Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical work experience).

Preferred Skills

·        Prior experience managing architectural frameworks for enterprise compliance frameworks like SOC2, ISO 27001, or GDPR.

·        Background in building real-time data processing engines, stream frameworks, or integrating enterprise AI/ML components.

About the Role

We are looking for a Solution Architect with 10–15 years of experience to design scalable, secure, and cloud-ready solutions. The role involves working with customers, Senior Solution Architects, business analysts, project managers, and engineering teams across cloud, modernization, microservices, integration, and digital transformation initiatives.

Must Have Skills

• 10–15 years of experience in software development, architecture, and enterprise application delivery.
• Strong experience with Azure and/or AWS and cloud-native architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Microservices, REST APIs, SOA, and system integration.
• Experience in application modernization and cloud migration.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to create architecture diagrams, solution designs, and technical documentation.
• Strong analytical, communication, and customer-facing skills.

Good To Have Skills

• AWS/Azure certifications.
• Experience with Serverless, Event-Driven Architecture, Messaging, and API Management.
• Exposure to SaaS / Multi-Tenant Architecture.
• Knowledge of Generative AI and AI-enabled solutions.
• Experience with pre-sales, POCs, estimations, and technical proposals.
• Exposure to application security and compliance.
• Experience working with global customers and distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solutions and independently own defined architecture workstreams.
• Translate business and technical requirements into application, cloud, integration, and deployment designs.
• Define microservice, API, integration, and data-flow architectures.
• Guide engineering teams on architecture implementation and conduct design/code reviews.
• Contribute to cloud migration, modernization, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Participate in customer workshops, technical discussions, POCs, and solution demonstrations.
• Identify and address architectural, performance, security, and technical risks.
• Ensure solutions follow defined architecture, security, and engineering standards.
• Work closely with the Senior Solution Architect on complex and strategic engagements.
• Develop reusable architecture patterns, templates, and technical accelerators

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Role Overview

We are looking for a visionary yet hands-on Technical Architect who can define enterprise-wide architecture,

technology strategy and engineering standards across multiple products and platforms. The role is expected to

translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, guide engineering teams, reduce technical risk,

and remain actively involved in implementation when required. This is not a purely advisory or documentation role:

the Architect may be required to contribute directly to production-quality code, prototypes, critical modules, technical

fixes and architectural proof-of-concepts.

Key Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture strategy, target architecture and technology roadmap across products and platforms.

• Design scalable, secure, resilient and maintainable systems aligned with business and product objectives.

• Architect cloud-native, distributed, microservices and multi-tenant SaaS solutions.

• Convert product/business requirements into clear architecture, technical designs, service boundaries, data models

and API contracts.

• Establish architecture governance, coding standards, engineering best practices, design principles and technical

decision records.

• Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews and technical risk assessments.

• Identify bottlenecks, scalability concerns, security risks and technical debt, and drive practical remediation plans.

• Drive modernization initiatives, technology evaluation and technical investment decisions.

• Mentor and guide Technical Leads, Senior Engineers and other engineering members.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, QA, DevOps, Security and business stakeholders.

• Support estimation, technical planning, solution feasibility and delivery planning for new products and major

features.

Hands-on Coding & Engineering Responsibility

• The role is explicitly hands-on. When required by project priorities, the Technical Architect will contribute directly to

coding and implementation—not only architecture and reviews.

• Develop production-quality backend, frontend or integration components where architectural complexity, criticality or

delivery timelines require Architect-level involvement.

• Build technical prototypes, Proofs of Concept (PoCs), reference implementations and reusable frameworks to

validate architectural decisions.

• Assist engineers in debugging complex production or development issues and provide root-cause analysis.

• Contribute to performance optimization, scalability improvements, security fixes and critical technical modules.

• Review and improve existing codebases and guide refactoring/modernization without losing delivery focus.

• Pair with engineers when necessary to transfer architecture decisions into working code and establish

implementation patterns.

• Remain capable of switching between architecture, design, coding, review and technical troubleshooting based on

business/project requirements.

Core Technical Expertise

• Programming: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go (Golang), Java / Spring Boot

• Architecture: DDD, SOA, API-First, Distributed Systems, Multi-Tenant SaaS

• Backend: Node.js, Express.js, Identity, Authentication/Authorization, Messaging

• Data: MongoDB, Redis, Data Modeling, Query/Performance Optimization

• Frontend/Mobile: React.js, React Native

• AI: LangChain, Gemini, RAG, AI Agents, OCR

• Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD

• Security: SSDLC, API Security, Encryption, Governance

• Integrations: WhatsApp Business, Payment Gateways, Enterprise APIs

Product & Engineering Expectations

• Strong understanding of building production-grade software products rather than isolated applications or

proof-of-concepts only.

• Ability to balance ideal architecture with business timelines, budget, maintainability and team capability.

• Comfort working in an evolving product-company environment where requirements may change and multiple

initiatives may run in parallel.

• Ability to make pragmatic technology choices and clearly explain trade-offs to both technical and non-technical

stakeholders.

• Ownership mindset: identify problems proactively, propose solutions and follow through until the technical outcome

is delivered.

• Strong emphasis on reliability, security, observability, performance, scalability and maintainability from design

through production.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor Technical Leads and senior engineers and help establish a strong engineering culture.

• Set clear technical direction without creating unnecessary process or bureaucracy.

• Participate in hiring and technical evaluation of senior engineering candidates when required.

• Help define technical interview standards and assess architecture, coding and problem-solving capability.

• Work directly with leadership to communicate architecture decisions, technical risks, dependencies and delivery

implications.

• Promote documentation of important architecture decisions, APIs, dependencies and operational considerations.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in FinTech, SaaS, AI platforms, cloud-native architectures and enterprise-scale distributed systems.

Nice to Have

Kafka, GraphQL, Serverless, Machine Learning Platforms, Multi-Cloud Architecture.

What We Expect From the Right Candidate

The ideal candidate

Technical Architect

Experience:

10+ Years

Work Mode:

Onsite / Hybrid

Role Type:

Architecture + Hands-on Engineering + Technical Leadership

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced and hands-on

Technical Architect

who can define enterprise-widearchitecture, technology strategy, and engineering standards across multiple products and platforms.

The Technical Architect will translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, guideengineering teams, reduce technical risks, and remain actively involved in implementation when required.

This is

not a purely advisory or documentation-focused role

. The successful candidate should becomfortable contributing directly to production-quality code, prototypes, critical modules, technical fixes,and architectural Proofs of Concept (PoCs).

Key Responsibilities

Define enterprise architecture strategy, target architecture, and technology roadmaps acrossproducts and platforms.

Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable software systems.

Architect cloud-native, distributed, microservices-based, and multi-tenant SaaS solutions.

Translate product and business requirements into architecture, technical designs, serviceboundaries, data models, and API contracts.

Establish architecture governance, coding standards, engineering best practices, and designprinciples.

Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and technical risk assessments.

Identify scalability bottlenecks, security risks, performance issues, and technical debt.

Drive modernization initiatives and technology evaluations.

Guide technology selection and technical investment decisions.

Mentor Technical Leads, Senior Engineers, and other engineering team members.

Collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, DevOps, Security, and business stakeholders.

Support technical estimation, solution feasibility, delivery planning, and architecture planning.

Hands-on Engineering Responsibilities

The Technical Architect must remain actively involved in engineering and should be capable of switchingbetween architecture and implementation depending on project requirements.

Responsibilities include:

Develop production-quality backend, frontend, or integration components when required.

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Build technical prototypes, PoCs, reference implementations, and reusable frameworks.

Assist engineering teams with complex technical and production issues.

Perform root-cause analysis and technical troubleshooting.

Contribute to performance and scalability improvements.

Implement or guide security fixes and critical technical modules.

Review existing codebases and recommend improvements.

Drive refactoring and modernization initiatives.

Conduct code reviews and establish implementation patterns.

Pair with engineers when required to translate architectural decisions into working software.

Remain comfortable moving between architecture, design, coding, reviews, and troubleshooting.

Core Technical Skills

Programming

JavaScript

TypeScript

Python

Go / Golang

Java

Spring Boot

Architecture & System Design

Microservices Architecture

Distributed Systems

Multi-Tenant SaaS

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

API-First Architecture

Cloud-Native Architecture

Enterprise Application Architecture

Backend Engineering

Node.js

Express.js

REST APIs / Enterprise APIs

Identity Management

Authentication & Authorization

Messaging

Integration Architecture

Database & Data

MongoDB

Redis

Data Modeling

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Query Optimization

Performance Optimization

Frontend & Mobile

React.js

React Native

Cloud & DevOps

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Containerized Applications

Cloud-Native Deployments

Security

Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)

API Security

Encryption

Security Governance

Authentication & Authorization

AI & Emerging Technologies

LangChain

Gemini

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

AI Agents

OCR

Enterprise Integrations

Enterprise APIs

Payment Gateways

WhatsApp Business Integration

Third-Party System Integrations

These technologies and architecture areas are specified as the core technical expertise for the position.

Product & Engineering Expectations

The ideal candidate should have:

Strong experience building production-grade software products, not only isolated applications or

PoCs.

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Ability to balance ideal architecture with business timelines, budget, maintainability, and

engineering-team capabilities.

Experience working in evolving product environments with changing requirements and multiple

parallel initiatives.

Strong ability to evaluate technology options and explain technical trade-offs.

Ownership mindset with the ability to proactively identify and resolve technical problems.

Strong understanding of reliability, security, observability, performance, scalability, and

maintainability.

Ability to take architectural decisions from initial design through successful production

implementation.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

Mentor Technical Leads and Senior Engineers.

Establish and promote a strong engineering culture.

Define clear technical direction and engineering standards.

Lead architecture, design, and code reviews.

Participate in technical hiring and evaluation of senior engineering candidates.

Help establish technical interview and engineering assessment standards.

Evaluate architecture, coding, system design, and problem-solving capabilities.

Communicate architecture decisions, technical risks, dependencies, and delivery implications to

leadership.

Promote effective documentation of architecture decisions, APIs, dependencies, and operational

considerations.

Preferred Experience

Experience in one or more of the following areas will be preferred:

FinTech

SaaS Products

AI Platforms

Cloud-Native Applications

Enterprise-Scale Distributed Systems

Nice to Have

Kafka

GraphQL

Serverless Architecture

Machine Learning Platforms

Multi-Cloud Architecture

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a senior engineer and architect capable of operating at both strategic and

implementation levels.

Technical Architect – Product Engineering

Experience: 15+ Years

Location: Pune, India

Employment Type: Full-time

Desired Skills: Python, Technical Architecture, AWS, Microservices, SaaS / Multi-tenant Architecture, Kubernetes, System Design

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect to lead the architecture, design, and technical evolution of an enterprise SaaS product. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, strong product engineering experience, and the ability to build scalable, secure, and high-performance platforms.

The ideal candidate should be passionate about solving complex engineering problems, driving innovation, mentoring development teams, and effectively leveraging AI to accelerate software development.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the overall product architecture and technical roadmap.
• Design and build scalable, secure, and highly available enterprise applications.
• Lead the design and implementation of new product features from concept to production.
• Remain hands-on with coding and contribute to critical product components.
• Drive architecture reviews, code quality, performance optimization, and engineering best practices.
• Lead cloud architecture, security, scalability, and DevOps initiatives.
• Evaluate and adopt modern technologies to improve product capabilities and engineering efficiency.
• Leverage AI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) to accelerate software development, code reviews, testing, documentation, debugging, and productivity.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 15+ years of software product engineering experience with at least 5 years in a Technical Architect role.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Python and modern backend frameworks.
• Deep experience with AWS services and cloud-native application architecture.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Experience designing microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with scalable SaaS platforms, multi-tenant architectures, and secure application design.
• Excellent understanding of software design patterns, performance tuning, observability, and system reliability.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Job Description: 

Lead regional transformation programs, driving the entire solution architecture lifecycle, 

from conceptualization to execution, with a focus on agile and DevOps practices. 

Accountable for leading the IT Architecture for all projects and programs, focusing on 

innovative business and IT solutions in the insurance domain, such as new-age digital 

platforms, cloud-native applications, AI/ML-powered decision-making, and data-driven 

insights.

Preferred skills  

• Demonstrated expertise in developing cloud-native, microservices-based, and API

driven insurance solutions, leveraging modern architectural patterns and emerging 

technologies such as AI/ML, big data, and IoT. 

• Thorough understanding of common patterns, frameworks, and reference 

architectures for the Insurance domain, with a focus on digital transformation and 

innovation. 

• Proven experience in leading regional transformation programs, driving the adoption 

of agile and DevOps practices. 

• Asia regional experience is an advantage.

Qualifications 

Minimum Bachelor's degree, preferably with a Master's degree in Computer Science, 

Engineering, or a related discipline. 

• 15+ years of IT experience, with a minimum of 7+ years in the insurance industry, 

focusing on the application of emerging technologies.

Pncpl Software Engineer

Position Responsibilities :

• Lead the architecture and development of AI-powered, distributed systems that meet enterprise-grade performance and security standards.
• Leverage AI tools for code generation, architectural design, and documentation to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
• Design, build, and maintain services using Java following clean-code and secure design principles.
• Develop agentic AI-based tools, domain-specific copilots, and developer productivity enhancements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define modular, scalable, and compliant architecture patterns.
• Conduct technical design reviews and produce detailed documentation, including system specifications, API docs, and architecture diagrams.
• Integrate AI solutions into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring observability, automated testing, and deployment standards are met.
• Implement robust monitoring and performance engineering practices to maintain high-quality deployments.
• Continuously evaluate emerging AI technologies and integrate them into development workflows for maximum impact.
• Champion best practices in security, automation, and performance optimization across the organization.

Qualifications :

• 6+ years in software engineering with backend development in Java.
• 3+ years with AI tools for development, prototyping, or documentation tasks.
• Experience with cloud-native development and containerized deployment (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of AI integration patterns, vector stores, prompt engineering, and RAG pipelines.
• Ability to design software architecture using sequence diagrams, ERDs, data models, and threat models.
• Comfortable with Gen AI-first environments and working with remote Agile teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building AI copilots or developer tools using OpenAI/Claude SDKs, LangChain, or similar frameworks.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, AIDLC environment, with a strong understanding of CI/CD practices.
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Terraform, and monitoring/observability tools.
• Containerization and Orchestration: Proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or OCI Cloud.

Position

Solution Architect/Technical Architect

Experience

·       12 - 16+ years of overall IT experience

·       Significant hands-on experience working as a Solution/Technical Architect

Education

·       B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA / MBA or equivalent

Certifications

·       TOGAF® certification (Level 1/2) preferred to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards

·       Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) and other supporting certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-400, or AZ-500 preferred.

Key Responsibilities

·       Define and evolve the target architecture for .NET-based distributed platform.

·       Architect highly configurable solutions on Azure with strong focus on scalability, tenant isolation, resilience, maintainability, and speed of delivery.

·       Lead solution design across ASP.NET Core services, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, background processing, integration patterns, and shared platform capabilities.

·       Drive adoption of modern .NET and cloud-native patterns including microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, API-first design, and secure service-to-service communication.

·       Partner with engineering teams on real implementation decisions, review critical designs and code paths, and provide hands-on guidance for performance, operability, and production readiness.

·       Architect Azure-native deployment patterns using AKS, containers, API Management, Service Bus/Event Grid or equivalent messaging, Key Vault, managed observability, and CI/CD automation.

·       Work with data and platform teams on PostgreSQL-backed service design, data access patterns, caching strategies, and database performance for high-volume transactional workloads.

·       Define non-functional requirements and architecture guardrails around performance, scalability, availability, recoverability, security, compliance, and cost efficiency.

·       Embed DevSecOps and observability into platform design through telemetry, tracing, alerting, diagnostics, secrets management, and release governance.

·       Evaluate emerging technologies, AI-assisted engineering enablers, and modernization options pragmatically, with clear build-vs-buy and risk-reward trade-offs.

·       Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, contribute to architectural governance, and create reusable patterns, reference implementations, and standards across teams.

·       Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

·       12–16 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or platform engineering, with significant experience in Microsoft technology stacks.

Essential Qualification and Skills

·       Strong hands-on expertise in C#, .NET / .NET Core / .NET 8, ASP.NET Core, Web APIs, background services, and enterprise application design.

·       Deep experience in architecting distributed systems using microservices, asynchronous messaging, event-driven design, and API-led integration patterns.

·       Strong Azure architecture experience, preferably across AKS, App Services, Functions, API Management, Key Vault, Service Bus, Event Grid, Storage, monitoring, and identity integration patterns.

·       Experience designing and supporting platforms, configurable product architectures, and integration-heavy enterprise solutions.

·       Strong understanding of relational databases and performance engineering, especially SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing, query tuning, and transaction handling.

·       Solid grasp of non-functional architecture including performance, scalability, availability, fault isolation, observability, and disaster recovery.

·       Strong understanding of application and platform security including authentication, authorization, secrets management, encryption, secure coding, and compliance-oriented design.

·       Experience with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and modern DevSecOps practices.

·       Ability to make sound architecture decisions with a balance of pragmatism, delivery speed, engineering quality, and long-term maintainability.

·       Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across product, engineering, architecture, operations, security, and client-facing teams.

Skills & Competencies

·       Experience in insurance, Insurtech, BFSI, or other regulated, transaction-heavy domains.

·       Exposure to policy administration, billing, accounting, claims, workflow orchestration, or reporting platforms within the insurance value chain.

·       Experience with architecture frameworks and modelling approaches such as TOGAF, domain-driven design, UML, C4, or equivalent practical architecture methods.

·       Familiarity with mixed technology landscapes involving .NET, Java/Spring Boot, enterprise workflow tools, and integration ecosystems.

·       Experience with observability and reliability tooling such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Application Insights, Open Telemetry, Grafana, or similar.

·       Working knowledge of Angular, React, or modern web application architecture patterns.

·       Exposure to AI-enabled engineering, intelligent automation, or embedding AI capabilities into enterprise platforms.

·       Leadership experience across globally distributed or virtual teams.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Principal Software Engineer – Java will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, mentoring and maintaining high-performance IT system for Hapag-Lloyd. The role requires deep expertise in Java and microservices-based architecture, along with a strong focus on code quality, performance, and scalability. The ideal candidate will be a passionate engineer who thrives in a Java development agile environment and brings a solution-oriented mindset to collaborative product development. As a senior technical expert, you will be responsible for low-level and high-level architectural design, mentoring developers, and working closely with team in Hamburg & Chennai. The ideal candidate is a passionate, solution oriented engineer with a proven track record in leading technical projects within an agile environment.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

9–14 years of hands-on experience in development using Java, JEE, JPA, JUnit, Kafka, and Microservices. Good Experience in AWS. Strong experience in architectural design – both low-level and high-level. Experience building distributed systems and working in microservices-based architecture. Proficient with Kafka and message-driven architecture. Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL). Sound understanding of modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployment. Experience working in Agile/Scrum-based teams with exposure to software lifecycle tools (e.g., Git, Jenkins, JIRA).

Technical Skills Java, JEE, JPA, JUnit, Microservices Kafka (Desired), REST API development SQL, PostgreSQL Git, Maven, Jenkins (Desired), Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (eg. AWS)

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related discipline

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & TASKS

Software Development & Design Design and develop scalable, reliable, and high-performance applications using Java, JPA, Kafka, Microservices, Junit, API and PostgreSQL. Lead low-level and high-level design discussions and decisions for scalable architecture. Build and maintain microservices architecture using industry best practices. Drive technology innovation. Write clean, efficient, well-documented code with high unit test coverage using JUnit.

Mentorship :

Mentor and guide developers and team members in coding standards, best practices, and problem-solving. Conduct regular code reviews, peer programming, and provide technical leadership to ensure code quality and continuous improvement.

Systems Integration & Tools:

Work with messaging systems such as Kafka to build real-time data processing services. Implement and optimize data access using SQL /PostgreSQL databases. Participate in the design and implementation of DevOps pipelines for CI/CD.

Quality, Testing & Documentation:

Conduct regular code reviews and participate in peer programming and Peer coding Review. Perform system testing, validation, and verification across development stages. Contribute to technical documentation throughout the software development lifecycle

Agile Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:

Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Scrum Masters, and developers in agile teams. Participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos. Remain current on new technologies and drive adoption of best engineering practices across the team.

BEHAVIOURS & APPROACH

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Team-oriented with excellent communication and collaboration skills Passion for clean code, architecture, and continuous learning Ability to work independently with a proactive approach to problem-solving

Read This Before Anything Else

We have 6 developers who can ship. What we don't have is someone who turns that into a real engineering function: real architecture, real leverage, real AI-driven advantage. If that gap sounds like an opportunity rather than a headache, you're in the right place. If it sounds like a lot of undefined work with no playbook handed to you, this one probably isn't for you. That's completely okay. There are plenty of great roles that fit differently.

About CraftMyPlate

CraftMyPlate is Hyderabad's go-to platform for food experiences for micro-events: house parties, birthdays, office celebrations, festive gatherings, and more. We're building the operating system for how India discovers, customises, and orders food for smaller events. We're backed by established founders and investors, and we're funded and growing fast. The next phase of that growth runs through engineering.

Where We Stand

Some numbers, because they matter more than adjectives. Order volume has grown 50x in two years, and we're compounding at roughly 3x year over year, without giving up equity to fund it. That means the business runs on its own economics. The growth is real demand, not runway bought with dilution, and every efficient architectural decision this role makes directly protects that.

Most people size up an opportunity by asking what's going to change in ten years. The more useful question, and the one this company is built around, is what won't change. People will keep gathering. They'll keep celebrating, hosting, and marking festivals, in 10 years and in 20. That permanence is the bet. You're not building infrastructure for a trend cycle. You're building for a category that outlasts the current AI wave, the next funding round, and probably us too.

The Technical Reality

Here's an honest read of the engineering problem, not a sanitized version of it.

Event-driven commerce doesn't scale like typical e-commerce. Demand isn't smooth, it's spiky: weekends, festival calendars, and event dates create real load concentration, and each order is tied to a hard deadline that can't slip the way a shipped package can. That has direct architectural consequences: systems need to handle bursty, unpredictable traffic without paying for idle capacity the rest of the time, which is exactly why we're serverless-first on AWS rather than running a fixed fleet sized for peak.

Underneath that, every order touches multiple systems that have to stay consistent: kitchen and vendor fulfillment status, inventory across partners, payment gateway settlement, and refunds, often in real time and often across more than one vendor for a single event. Getting that consistency right across SQL and NoSQL stores, without it becoming a source of support tickets and manual reconciliation, is a real architecture problem, not a CRUD problem.

The AI-agent layer is the next lever, and it's a business lever as much as a technical one. Every workflow we can hand to a well-orchestrated agent instead of a new hire is a workflow that scales without adding headcount, which is exactly how a company grows 3x a year without diluting equity to fund the team behind it. That's why agent orchestration across multiple LLMs, using LangGraph, sits in the "go deep" tier of this role rather than being a nice-to-have.

You'll likely find some of this framing right and some of it worth challenging once you're actually in the codebase. That's expected, and honestly preferred over someone who just nods along.

Why This Role Exists

You'll be the most senior technical person in the company, reporting directly to the founder. Not a manager brought in to run standups. An owner. You set the architecture, you write code yourself, and you make the team materially better. You also own where AI and automation take this company next, starting with our first in-house AI agent product (details shared in the interview), and expanding from there into how the company runs, department by department: HR, finance, marketing, design, development, all sitting on an engineering layer that you design.

If you've outgrown a role where you plan but don't build, or where good ideas die in a committee, this is built to be the opposite of that.

What You'll Own

• Architecture, end to end. Scalable, cost-efficient systems from day one, not "fix it later" engineering. You own the decisions and their long-term consequences.
• Hands-on building. You are still writing code and shipping. This isn't a seat where you review other people's work all day. You lead by building.
• The engineering team. Directly manage, mentor, and level up our 6 developers. Build the technical bar, the review culture, and the calibration that lets the team ship independently.
• The AI-agent roadmap. Own the architecture behind our first AI agent product, then the broader strategy for AI agents and automation across every function in the company, with engineering as the layer underneath all of it.
• Team scaling. Build the next layer of leads under you so execution quality scales without you being the bottleneck.
• Technical accountability. When something breaks, you fix it. You don't escalate and wait.

Our Stack, and the Depth We Expect

Not everything on this list needs the same level of mastery. Some of it you need to own at an architectural level. The rest you need to be strong enough to build yourself, direct the team on, or delegate to AI agents with confidence.

Go deep here. This is where the real architecture decisions live, and where the business impact is highest:

• AWS, serverless first. You should be genuinely well versed in AWS application development, not just "have used AWS." You should be able to design and guide serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, and similar) as our default way of building, because our demand curve is spiky by nature and fixed infrastructure is money left on the table.
• TypeScript, our primary language across backend and frontend.
• Agent orchestration across multiple LLMs, using LangGraph. This is core to our AI roadmap and our path to scaling operations without scaling headcount. You own how it's architected, not just how it's used.

Working proficiency. Build it yourself, direct the team, or hand it to an AI agent and know if the output is right.

This Is You If

• You've built and shipped real production systems yourself, not just reviewed other people's architecture from a distance.
• You go deep wherever the problem is, and you're comfortable owning the exact stack described above, not just "full-stack" in the abstract.
• You've made engineers around you measurably better, whether or not you've held the title for it yet.
• You're already using AI coding tools and agents seriously, like Claude, Cursor, or similar tools, as part of how you build, not as something you tried once. We'll likely explore this together in the interview.
• You have a bias toward leverage over hours. You'd rather automate or systematize a problem than grind through it. But when something's live and needs to be done right, you see it through completely, with no half-finished work.
• You want to build something for years, not land somewhere comfortable. We'll know the difference from how you talk about your last three years.

This Might Not Be the Right Fit If

• You'd prefer a stable, well-defined role with clear boundaries and someone else making the calls. That's a fair thing to want, just not what this is.
• You'd rather receive direction than bring us architecture and AI strategy yourself.
• You haven't yet gotten hands-on with AI coding tools in your daily work.
• You're drawn more to the title than the work behind it.

If none of that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Requirements

• 5 to 7 years of experience in software engineering, with real ownership of architecture-level decisions, not just feature delivery.
• Prior experience leading or mentoring engineers, formally or informally.
• Tier-1 or Tier-1+ engineering college strongly preferred (IIT, BITS, top NIT tier, or equivalent). We'll consider other institutions only with clearly commendable, verifiable work: real systems you can walk us through in depth, strong open-source contributions, or a track record that speaks for itself. Pedigree is a proxy for speed, not a checkbox. We test for the underlying ability regardless.
• Comfortable in an early-stage environment: undefined problems, few processes, and the expectation that you help define both.

Compensation

Competitive, with equity. We're formalizing a structured ESOP program alongside this hire. Specific numbers are discussed directly in later interview rounds.

If reading this got you a little excited about what you'd build here, we'd genuinely love to talk. If it didn't quite land, no hard feelings. We just want the right fit for both sides.