System Engineer

Job Title: Tech Team Lead – Flutter

Department: Engineering

Location: Surat / Ahmedabad (On-site)

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Company

We are an AI-driven nutrition platform built to make healthier eating and living effortless. We translate ingredients and dishes into reliable nutrition profiles, then personalize recommendations based on goals, context, and preferences—across home cooking, daily routines, and restaurant ordering.

Our technology includes Flutter mobile apps, a Python/Django API, real-time data services, and machine learning models for tagging, ranking, and predictions. We’re building a delightful, safe, and scalable experience that helps users choose better meals and track progress—with strong standards for privacy, quality, and performance.

Role Summary

As the Tech Team Lead, you will lead a cross-functional engineering squad (Flutter, Backend, QA, and occasionally Data) to deliver secure, scalable product features on predictable timelines. This role combines hands-on architecture and coding with team leadership, agile execution, and quality ownership.

You’ll mentor engineers, improve engineering practices, and collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to ship impactful, user-centric experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Own squad roadmap delivery — break down epics into milestones, estimate efforts, prioritize, and ensure timely releases.
• Provide technical leadership — define architecture, enforce coding standards, and guide trade-offs between performance, cost, and complexity.
• Contribute 30–50% hands-on coding — review critical PRs, pair program, and work on key modules.
• Ensure quality and reliability through robust testing (unit/integration/E2E), CI/CD gates, observability, and incident management.
• Mentor and manage 4–8 engineers — conduct 1:1s, set goals, and drive performance and career growth.
• Maintain security and compliance — apply secure development best practices (AuthN/AuthZ, PII handling, secret management).
• Collaborate with Product/Design on scope and acceptance criteria; communicate status, risks, and dependencies effectively.
• Keep technical documentation up to date — architecture decisions, system diagrams, runbooks, and release notes.

Required Qualifications

• 6–9+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2–3 years in team/squad leadership.
• Strong backend expertise in Python, Django/DRF, REST API design, caching, queues, and WebSockets.
• Working knowledge of Flutter/Dart architecture and state management to lead cross-stack initiatives.
• Experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Fastlane, Codemagic), containers (Docker), and AWS (EC2/ECS/ECR, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch).
• Strong testing culture using PyTest, Flutter Test, and observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing, alerts).
• Excellent estimation, prioritization, and communication skills, with the ability to challenge scope when necessary.

Preferred (Nice to Have)

• Experience releasing and managing mobile apps (Play Console, App Store Connect, TestFlight).
• Exposure to Data/ML pipelines (batch vs. real-time inference, model versioning).
• Familiarity with security practices — OWASP, IAM, secret management, VPCs.
• Domain experience in health-tech or food-tech, or other privacy-sensitive industries.

Tech Stack You’ll Work With

• Mobile/Web: Flutter (Dart), React (optional)
• Backend: Python, Django/DRF, Celery, Redis, WebSockets
• Data/Storage: PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB
• Infra/DevOps: AWS (EC2/ECS/ECR/S3/CloudFront/CloudWatch), Docker, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Fastlane, Codemagic
• Quality/Observability: PyTest, Flutter Test, Playwright/Cypress, Sentry, Crashlytics, OpenTelemetry (optional)

The Technical Lead will oversee all aspects of application development at TinyPal. This position involves both managing the development team and actively contributing to the coding and architecture, particularly in the backend development using Python. The ideal candidate will bring a strategic perspective to the development process, ensuring that our solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with our business goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the application development team across all areas, including backend, frontend, and mobile app development.
• Hands-on development and oversight of backend systems using Python, ensuring high performance, scalability, and integration with frontend services.
• Architect and design innovative solutions that meet market needs and are aligned with the company’s technology strategy, with a strong focus on embedding AI technologies to enhance app functionalities.
• Coordinate with product managers and other stakeholders to translate business needs into technical strategies, particularly in leveraging AI to solve complex problems and improve user experiences.
• Maintain high standards of software quality by establishing good practices and habits within the development team.
• Evaluate and incorporate new technologies and tools to improve application development processes, with a particular emphasis on AI and machine learning technologies.
• Mentor and support team members to foster a collaborative and productive environment.
• Lead the deployment and continuous integration of applications across various platforms, ensuring AI components are well integrated and perform optimally.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in software development, with at least 1 year in a leadership role.
• Expert proficiency in Python and experience with frameworks like Django or Flask.
• Broad experience in full lifecycle development of large-scale applications.
• Strong architectural understanding of both frontend and backend technologies, with a specific capability in integrating AI into complex systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), and understanding of DevOps and CI/CD processes.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges, including the adoption and implementation of AI solutions.
• Excellent team management, communication, and interpersonal skills.

• Work as part of a small team to build React Native Application for android and IOS
• Architect, build, and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.
• Implement pixel perfect UI's that match designs.
• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
• Integrate third-party API's.
• Write unit and integration tests
• Work as part of a small team, which will include other React Native developers, a project manager, QA professional, and a designer.