Tech Lead - App Development

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)

Job Title: System Engineer

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

· Understand Mobile SoCs architecture across different Multimedia and Connectivity applications

· Evaluate Memory/Storage architecture on mobile platforms and develop architectures to improve

· Innovate new solutions to complex multi-disciplinary problems by collaborating with other team members

· Identify new mobile workloads that will define memory/storage usage in future products

· Evaluate and present architecture trade-offs impacting memory/storage subsystem performance and power

Successful candidates for this position will have the following:

· Bachelors/Master’s degree in Electronics and/or Computer Engineering or Computer Science or related field

· 4-8 years of work experience in the Mobile ecosystem

· Hands-on experience Power and Performance Analysis

· Good understanding of Mobile SOC system and Android system

· Good understanding and experience on system Benchmarking and multimedia applications

· Good understanding of the Storage subsystem with hands on experience on Host side drivers

Preferred Skills:

· Strong Mobile Platform SW and HW knowledge

· Strong working knowledge of DRAM, NAND, and other memory/storage devices

· Strong understanding of architecture in multimedia and connectivity use cases

· Experience in C++, Python, or other System programming language

Principal duties and responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of automotive applications
• Analysis of customer product requirements
• Review and investigate issues in code developed by peers
• Partner closely with customers and other Cerence teams to establish and maintain clear, concise communication through regular reporting, meeting participation, and follow-up
• Adopt underlying layers for Android Automotive to run on customer hardware

Education: Bachelor/Master in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Minimum years of work experience: 4+ years of industry experience

Required skills:

• 4 + years’ software development experience, preferably for automotive and in connection with user interface technologies
• Experience using modern development processes/tools and developing through the complete Software Development Life Cycle
• Experiences in programing and scripting languages (JAVA, Python, Typescript)
• Experience with using source control tools like Git and CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins
• Experience working in / Knowledge of Agile/Scrum framework
• Experience in Android development
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Strong object-oriented analysis, design, and coding skills
• Fluent in English both written and spoken
• Strong team player and customer focus

Preferred skills:

• Good knowledge of Android Automotive platform
• Experience with VS Code
• Ability to set-up and hardware equipment in support of software development tasks (i.e. configure software on target device, connect cabling/power suppliers, etc.)

• 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.

What you need to have:

Responsibilities:

1.    Perform R&D in computer graphics and video contents editing. Help to develop new video editing/processing algorithms for our video and live streaming pipeline. Follow up state-of-art work in related fields and keep improving overall performance of our products. 

2.    Research and optimize algorithms/strategies of short video and streamed video coding.

3.    Research and develop practical image enhancing algorithms. Follow up state-of-art work in related fields and keep improving overall performance of our video systems.