Tech Lead - App Development at Zweeny Pvt Ltd · Hyderabad · 5 - 8 years · ₹24L - ₹40L / yr (ESOP available) · Bootstrapped · Posted 24 Jul 2024

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.

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Job Description: Tech Lead – AI & Technology
Role Title: Tech Lead – AI & Technology
Location: Bangalore, India – Fully On-site
Experience: 5+ Years
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Tech Lead to lead a small engineering team and drive the development of AI-powered applications, internal technology platforms, and modern IT solutions. The Tech Lead will be responsible for technical direction, architecture, development, code quality, team management, and end-to-end delivery of technology projects. The ideal candidate should have strong programming experience, particularly in Python and ReactJS, along with practical experience working with AI/ML technologies.
1. Technical Leadership & Team Management
- Lead and mentor a team of developers and technical team members.
- Own technical delivery across multiple projects and initiatives.
- Assign tasks, review progress, resolve technical blockers, and ensure timely delivery.
- Conduct code reviews and establish engineering best practices.
- Mentor team members and support their technical growth.
2. Software Development & Architecture
- Design and develop scalable, secure, and maintainable applications.
- Lead backend development using Python and frontend development using ReactJS.
- Define application architecture, technology choices, APIs, integrations, and development standards.
- Review technical designs and ensure high-quality implementation.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and drive effective solutions.
3. AI & Technology
- Lead the development and integration of AI-powered applications and solutions.
- Work with AI/ML models, APIs, LLMs, Generative AI, and related technologies.
- Evaluate emerging AI tools and technologies and identify opportunities for practical implementation.
- Collaborate with product and business teams to translate requirements into AI-enabled technology solutions.
4. Project Delivery
- Own the complete technology lifecycle from requirements and architecture to development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Plan sprints, estimate development efforts, and track technical milestones.
- Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
- Ensure projects meet timelines, quality standards, security requirements, and performance expectations.
5. Engineering Quality & Infrastructure
- Establish standards for coding, testing, documentation, version control, and deployment.
- Ensure applications are scalable, reliable, and secure. l Collaborate on cloud infrastructure, APIs, databases, CI/CD, and deployment processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve system performance and engineering efficiency.
Technical Skills – Must Have
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python.
- Strong experience with ReactJS / React.
- Experience leading or managing technical team members.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML and Generative AI technologies.
- Experience with APIs, databases, Git, and software development lifecycle.
- Strong understanding of application architecture and system design.
- Experience building and deploying production-grade applications.
Technical Skills – Good to Have
- Experience with LLMs, RAG, AI agents, or Generative AI applications.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with Docker, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
- Experience integrating third-party AI APIs and services.
- Experience working in startups or fast-paced technology environments.
What We Are Looking For
- Strong technical ownership and problem-solving ability.
- Ability to balance hands-on coding with team leadership.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to mentor developers and drive accountability within the team
- Strong interest in AI and emerging technologies.
- A proactive, ownership-driven approach with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Why Join Us?
- Work on AI-powered technology with meaningful social impact.
- Lead a small, high-ownership technology team.
- Work across AI, software engineering, and modern IT infrastructure.
- Opportunity to shape technology architecture and engineering practices from the ground up.
- Collaborative and fast-moving environment with significant technical ownership.
- We are seeking a high-velocity Senior Technical Lead with an overall experience
- of 12+ years in software engineering who thrives in an environment of autonomy
- and rapid iteration. At Nomiso, we don't just write code; we build resilient systems.
- This role is designed for a builder who embraces our core philosophy: Build, Ship,
- Measure, Improve. You will be responsible for taking features from a raw concept
- to a live environment, ensuring that every deployment delivers high technical
- excellence and system stability. You are not just an executor; you are a technical
- owner and system architect who understands that the "Ship" is only the midpoint of the system lifecycle.
What We’re Looking For (Who You Are)
● AI Systems Architect (5+ years in AI - LLM, RAG, Context Engineering, React, Prompt): You've shipped multiple production LLM systems at scale. Deep understanding of RAG, fine-tuning, prompt optimization, inference scaling, and cost management. You make pragmatic trade-offs between
accuracy, latency, and cost.You are accountable for the high quality solution and timely shipment of the feature as per committed timeline.
● Technical Lead Manager (TLM): In this role you will do 70% technical work and 30% people management & project management work. You've led engineering teams (4-8+ engineers). You grow engineers through mentoring, clear feedback, and ownership. You balance shipping speed with technical excellence and team development.
● The "Builder" Mentality: You have a bias toward action. You prefer a
working feature over a perfect specification and understand the value of
getting software into the hands of users early. You will not leave the tech
debt for a long time. Tech debt will be continuously addressed as product matures.
● Pragmatic Architect: You choose the right tool for the job, balancing
long-term scalability with the immediate need for speed and delivery.
● Cross-functional engagement: Partner with Product, QA, and Solution
Architects, Project manager to align execution with outcomes
● Continuous Learner: You view "Improvement" as a mandatory phase, not an optional one. You are eager to refactor and pivot based on objective evidence.
Requirement
AI Expertise
- LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face), model selection and trade-offs. RAG pipeline architecture, fine-tuning strategies, prompt engineering, Agentic patterns, multi-step reasoning, reliability under uncertainty
Fullstack depth
● Backend: Python (FastAPI,
Django) and Node.js (Express,
Nest.js)
● Frontend: React (TypeScript,
state management, performance
optimization)
● Databases: PostgreSQL (query
optimization, schema design,
scaling)
● Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda,
ECS, RDS, S3), Docker, CI/CD,
monitoring
Leadership
● Managed engineering teams
(4-8+ engineers)
Category Requirement
● Experience mentoring and
growing engineers
● Track record of building
high-performing teams
● Comfortable with ambiguity and
rapid decision-making
Experience 12+ years in a technical-focused
engineering environment.
Education Degree in CS or equivalent professional
experience.
You will operate within a cross-functional squad, collaborating daily with Solution
Architects and other engineering peers. You will ensure that features are released
safely and frequently, and own the success of the product, by analysing the
insights and user feedback. Our hierarchy is flat; you are expected to provide
technical leadership and mentorship to junior peers while having a direct line of
communication with leadership regarding technical strategy and technical debt.
Title: Tech Lead / Engineering Lead
Experience: 8-10 years
Location: Sector 55, Gurugram (On-site, 5 days)
Industry: B2B SaaS / Enterprise Technology
About Master-O:
Master-O is a sales enablement platform used by leading enterprises across industries like FMCG, Pharma, Banking, Insurance, Automotive, Retail, Technology etc. to drive the capability development and frontline readiness for their customer-facing teams with the help of microlearning, game-based assessments and AI-powered conversational roleplays.
As we continue to expand our enterprise deployments across Pan India, North America, Middle East, and Southeast Asia, we are looking for a Tech Lead to take ownership of our engineering function and drive the successful delivery, implementation, and scalability of our solution.
The Role:
This is a high-ownership role for someone who enjoys building features, solving complex engineering problems, and collaborating with internal teams and customers. You will be leading a team of 5–6 developers and will be the face of the engineering function at Master-O.
Reporting directly to the Founder, this role requires someone who can balance engineering excellence with business priorities and ensure reliable delivery across multiple enterprise clients and geographies.
We are particularly interested in people who have prior worked in a growing SaaS organisation or have entrepreneurial experience and understand what it takes to build and deliver features from scratch.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Engineering Leadership & Technical Ownership
- Own the engineering function, including architecture, development, code quality, performance, scalability, security, and maintenance.
- Lead a team of 5-6 engineers, providing technical direction, reviewing code, ensuring timely delivery and nurturing their career path.
- Remain hands-on with development and debugging rather than functioning solely as a people manager.
- Establish engineering standards, development practices, testing protocols, and release processes.
- Make pragmatic technology decisions that balance long-term scalability with ad-hoc business requirements.
2. Enterprise Implementations & Client Delivery
- Own the technical execution of our implementations with enterprise clients across the globe.
- Drive client-specific configurations, integrations, customizations, deployments, and production rollouts.
- Work closely with the Founder, Customer Success team, Product team, and other key stakeholders to translate client requirements into robust technical outcomes.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues, manage technical dependencies within team, and ensure implementation timelines and quality standards are met.
- Build reusable frameworks and integration capabilities that reduce implementation time and minimize repetitive custom development.
3. AI Engineering & Emerging Technologies
- Evaluate and implement AI capabilities that solve real enterprise problems and enhance product functionality.
- Experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI agents into enterprise applications will be a strong advantage.
- Understand the practical considerations of deploying AI in production, including data security, reliability, latency, cost, and evaluation.
- Encourage responsible adoption of AI coding tools such as Claude Code while ensuring engineers retain strong fundamentals, understand the code they ship, and take ownership of its quality.
4. Team & Execution Management
- Take ownership of engineering priorities, sprint execution, resource allocation, and delivery commitments.
- Build a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure the team can independently diagnose and resolve technical problems rather than relying excessively on external tools or generated code.
- Collaborate with leadership to align engineering priorities with customer commitments, product roadmaps, and business objectives.
Required Technical Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with Node.js, Express.js, React, MySQL, Python, and AWS.
- Solid understanding of backend architecture, REST APIs, database design, system integrations, and cloud-based deployments.
- Experience building, maintaining, and scaling production-grade mobile and web applications.
- Strong debugging, code review, system design, and performance optimization skills.
- Familiarity with software development lifecycle practices, version control, automated testing, CI/CD, and production monitoring.
- Ability to make independent technical decisions and take ownership of issues from identification through resolution.
Experience & Qualifications:
- 8–10 years of relevant software engineering experience, with demonstrated progression into technical leadership.
- Prior experience leading a team of junior and mid-level engineers.
- Experience in a B2B SaaS company or an enterprise technology environment is strongly preferred.
- Experience managing enterprise client implementations, integrations, and production deployments.
- B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline, preferably from a Tier-1 engineering college.
What We Are Looking For:
We are looking for a seasoned engineering professional who has experience handling multiple clients, varied integration requirements, competing priorities, and production issues.
You must be flexible to coordinate across time zones and work outside standard business hours when client implementations or critical releases require it.
This role offers the opportunity to work closely with the Founder, influence the product and architecture decisions, lead a compact engineering team, and directly shape how our technology scales across enterprise customers in not just domestic but international markets.
Job Description:
Head of Engineering — Chennai (Onsite)About the Role
Job Details
Position: Tech Lead
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 Tech Lead 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
Senior Technical Manager
Primary objective: Own engineering teams, architecture, delivery governance and successful execution of product and AI initiatives across DocTutorials.
Location
Hyderabad / Chennai
Employment
Full-time
Experience
10+ years
Role Summary
The Senior Technical Manager combines technical leadership, people management, product delivery and project execution. The role is accountable for team outcomes, engineering quality, timelines, production stability and the disciplined delivery of AI projects.
Key Responsibilities
1. Technology and Architecture Leadership
· Provide direction for Python FastAPI, React/Next.js, data, cloud and AI architectures.
· Review solution designs for security, scalability, maintainability, performance and cost.
· Define engineering standards and resolve complex cross-team technical risks.
· Remain technically hands-on through architecture reviews, critical code reviews and incident debugging.
2. People and Delivery Management
· Lead, mentor and develop engineering teams with clear goals and accountability.
· Own estimation, capacity, execution, dependencies, risks, releases and delivery recovery plans.
· Conduct regular one-to-ones, performance reviews, coaching and skill-development planning.
· Work with Product, QA, DevOps and stakeholders to deliver measurable product outcomes.
3. AI Project Execution
· Assess AI use cases for feasibility, data readiness, risk, cost and measurable value.
· Lead delivery of LLM, RAG, agentic and AI-assisted product initiatives from PoC to production.
· Ensure evaluation, human validation, security, privacy, observability and rollback controls.
· Prevent isolated demos, uncontrolled AI usage and dependency on individual engineers or vendors.
Required Skills and Experience
· 10+ years in software engineering with significant technical and people leadership experience.
· Strong understanding of Python/FastAPI, React/Next.js, APIs, databases, cloud and distributed systems.
· Proven ownership of product delivery, project planning, risk management and production operations.
· Experience hiring, mentoring, evaluating and developing engineering teams.
· Strong knowledge and execution experience across AI/ML, LLM, RAG or agentic-AI projects.
· Practical understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI and responsible AI use relevant to the role.
· Ability to use approved AI tools productively while protecting source code, credentials, learner data and organisational information.
· Commitment to human review, testing, security validation and traceability for AI-assisted outputs.
Good-to-Have Experience
· EdTech or medical-learning product experience.
· AWS, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, MLOps or LLMOps.
· Experience scaling teams and platforms through major transformation.
How Success Will Be Measured
· Delivery becomes predictable with risks identified early.
· Engineering quality, security and production stability improve.
· AI projects progress from validated use cases to reliable production outcomes.
· Team capability, ownership, engagement and succession strength increase.
· Work consistently delivers measurable outcomes and business value—not merely completion of assigned tasks or activities.
Expected mindset: Own the outcome, use AI responsibly, communicate risks early and deliver secure, measurable value for DocTutorials and its learners.
JOB REQUIREMENTS • 10+ years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in as a Development Lead, Engineering Manager, or similar leadership role. • Strong hands-on technical background in backend/frontend/cloud technologies. • Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and microservices architecture. • Deep understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, version control, and DevOps practices, containers, CI/CD, and scalable architectures. • Excellent leadership, decision-making, and project management, problem solving skills. • Strong communication skills with the ability to present technical and business information clearly. • Ability to handle multiple projects and thrive in a fast-paced environment. • Strong ownership mindset with a focus on delivering high-quality outcomes. • Passion for mentoring, building teams, and improving engineering culture. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Team Leadership & People Management • Lead, mentor, and manage the entire development team, including interns, junior developers, and senior engineers. • Conduct regular training sessions, knowledge-sharing meetings, and capability-building workshops. • Identify skill gaps and create growth plans for team members. • Manage performance reviews, provide feedback, and support career progression. • Create a culture of ownership, accountability, and high performance. Project & Delivery Management • Own the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from planning to deployment. • Break down product requirements into sprint tasks and assign responsibilities. • Define and manage project deadlines, delivery milestones, and development roadmaps with the team. • Ensure timely delivery of high-quality features aligned with product goals. • Work closely with the CEO for project planning, updates, and escalations. • Ensure alignment between business needs and technical solutions. Technical Leadership • Provide architectural direction for scalable, secure, multi-tenant, multi-region systems. • Review code, ensure adherence to coding standards, and drive continuous improvements. • Evaluate and implement new technologies to keep the product stack modern and efficient. • Ensure best practices in security, performance, documentation, and DevOps pipelines. • Lead R&D initiatives for new features, tools, or tech stacks. Process & Quality Ownership • Implement and refine engineering processes, coding guidelines, and development workflows. • Ensure strict adherence to SDLC, secure development practices, and code review processes. • Introduce automation where possible (CI/CD, testing, deployment flows). • Drive continuous improvement in team productivity and software quality. • Conduct root-cause analysis and lead improvements to reduce bugs and downtime. Communication & Reporting • Act as the primary communication bridge between the CEO and development team. • Provide weekly project reports, progress updates, risk assessments, and performance insights. • Maintain transparency and clarity in project communication across the organization. Cross-Functional Collaboration • Work directly with the CEO, Product leadership, and other department heads. • Align technical decisions with business objectives and customer needs. • Support SOC, support teams, and clients for escalations when required. Working Days & Time: Monday to Friday – 10AM to 7PM. WHAT WE OFFER • Opportunities to learn and grow in a professional environment. • Exposure of International market • 5 days working • Friendly work environment • PF benefits • Employee Referral Bonus • Monthly Engagement Activities • Festival Celebrations • Leave Encashment
About Orenda
Orenda is a fintech-enabled financial services company founded in 2017 and based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. We work as a corporate DSA and channel partner for leading banks and NBFCs, helping individuals, professionals, and MSMEs access suitable financial solutions across business loans, personal loans, home loans, loan against property, and professional loans.
At Orenda, we combine financial expertise, technology, and streamlined processes to simplify the lending journey. We are building our own lending-tech platform to improve operational efficiency, strengthen lender and partner integrations, and develop technology-driven solutions that support our evolving business needs.
About the role
We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer who enjoys building as much as designing. You'll shape how our systems are architected, write a good share of the code yourself, and lead a team of 3 to 5 engineers, including AI/ML engineers.
This is a hands-on leadership role, not a pure management or architecture position. Your time will be roughly split like this:
Share of time
Leading the team ~30%
Solution design ~30%
Hands-on coding ~30%
Deployment and infrastructure~10%
What you'll work on
Solution design and architecture
• Turning business needs into technical designs that are practical to build and easy to maintain
• Making architecture decisions across services, integrations and data flows
• Estimating, scoping and planning new features with business and product stakeholders
• Shaping the solution design for AI/ML use cases alongside the AI/ML engineers
Engineering and delivery
• Writing production code in Python and Node.js
• Rolling out new features across our internal and partner-facing platforms, including our CRM and partner portal
• Continuously improving existing systems for performance, reliability and code quality
• Reviewing code and setting engineering standards for the team
Infrastructure and cloud
• Maintaining and upgrading our infrastructure, including a planned move to a major cloud platform
• Owning deployments and production stability together with the team
• Working with event-driven and messaging systems (NATS today, Kafka planned)
Team leadership
• Leading and mentoring a team of 3 to 5 engineers
• Planning and prioritising work, unblocking the team, and making sure things ship
• Building a culture of ownership, clear documentation and quality
What we're looking for
• 5 to 8 years of software engineering experience, with hands-on coding in your recent roles
• Strong command of Python and Node.js
• Proven experience designing and building backend systems and microservices that run in production
• Hands-on experience deploying and running workloads on at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL
• Experience with messaging or event streaming systems such as NATS, Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience leading or mentoring a small engineering team
• Comfort estimating effort, breaking down features and planning delivery
• Enough understanding of AI/ML systems to guide their solution design and integration
• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Good to have
• Experience working at a fintech, lending or financial services company
• Hands-on experience with Kafka
• Experience leading an infrastructure upgrade or cloud migration
• Experience building or scaling CRM or partner-facing portal products
Why Join Us?
- Build a growing lending-tech platform: Play a key role in shaping the technology behind a growing financial services business.
- Own technical decisions: Contribute directly to architecture, engineering standards, and technology direction.
- Stay hands-on: Combine solution design and technical leadership with meaningful coding responsibilities.
- Work with emerging technologies: Collaborate with AI/ML engineers and contribute to evolving platform capabilities.
- Lead and grow a team: Mentor engineers and help build a strong engineering culture as the technology function scales.
- Make a measurable impact: Build systems that improve operational efficiency and support business growth.
Lead AI Engineer
Experience: 8+ Years
Location: Coimbatore / Hybrid
Joining: Immediate or within 30 days
About Techjays
At Techjays, we help businesses reimagine how they build, operate, and scale through AI. We focus on developing secure, scalable, production-grade AI solutions that solve real business problems and deliver measurable outcomes.
Our engineering team brings experience from organizations such as Google, NetApp, ADP, Cognizant Consulting, and Capgemini. We combine strong engineering fundamentals with an execution-focused mindset to build advanced AI systems for global clients.
About the Role
We are looking for a Lead AI Engineer to drive the architecture and development of scalable backend systems and AI-powered applications.
In this role, you will lead the technical design and implementation of Python-based systems, oversee LLM integrations and RAG pipelines, and develop agentic AI workflows for production environments. You will take ownership of complex engineering challenges, establish coding and architectural standards, and mentor engineers to deliver reliable, maintainable, and high-performing solutions.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can translate complex requirements into practical engineering solutions and take them from design to production.
Key Responsibilities
1. Backend Engineering & System Architecture
- Design and develop scalable, secure backend systems using Python and frameworks such as Django or Flask.
- Architect RESTful APIs, WebSocket services, and distributed systems that support high-performance applications.
- Apply design patterns, algorithms, and data structures to solve complex engineering challenges.
- Design efficient database schemas, caching strategies, and data access patterns for scalable applications.
- Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, maintainability, and system performance.
2. AI Engineering & LLM Integration
- Architect and implement LLM-powered applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and agentic AI workflows.
- Develop solutions using vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and prompt engineering.
- Build and optimize multi-agent systems, orchestration workflows, and tool integrations using frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex.
- Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations where appropriate to connect AI systems with external tools and data sources.
- Evaluate model fine-tuning approaches and other techniques to improve AI performance where required.
- Establish LLMOps practices covering evaluation, observability, quality monitoring, and cost and latency optimization.
3. Cloud Infrastructure & Deployment
- Design and deploy cloud-native applications using AWS and GCP services.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
- Containerize applications using Docker and support deployment and operations in Linux environments.
- Implement reliable asynchronous processing and messaging using queuing systems.
- Improve system availability, scalability, security, and deployment reliability across production environments.
4. Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence
- Own technical decisions across complex backend and AI engineering initiatives.
- Guide engineers in architecture, implementation, debugging, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and drive improvements in application reliability and scalability.
- Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to deliver effective solutions.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and tools, adopting them when they provide meaningful technical or business value.
- Take ownership of features from technical design through implementation, deployment, and production support.
Required Technical Skills
Backend Development
- Strong Python programming expertise.
- Experience with Django, Flask, RESTful APIs, and WebSockets.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns, algorithms, and data structures.
Databases & Performance
- Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or equivalent database technologies.
- Strong understanding of relational database design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
- Experience implementing caching strategies and asynchronous processing.
Cloud & DevOps
- Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP.
- Experience with Git, Docker, Linux, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with queuing systems and distributed application architectures.
System Design
- Ability to design secure, scalable, and maintainable backend systems.
- Experience making architecture decisions involving performance, reliability, scalability, and operational complexity.
Preferred AI/ML Skills
- Large Language Models (LLMs) and prompt engineering.
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture.
- Vector databases such as Pinecone, ChromaDB, or equivalent.
- Embeddings, semantic search, and retrieval optimization.
- Agentic AI workflows and multi-agent orchestration.
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) and tool integrations.
- LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar frameworks.
- Model fine-tuning and LLMOps practices.
- AI evaluation frameworks, observability, and production quality monitoring.
- Experience optimizing inference costs, response latency, and AI application performance.
What We're Looking For
- Strong engineering fundamentals: You can solve complex technical problems and design maintainable systems.
- Hands-on ownership: You take responsibility for solutions from concept through production.
- System-level thinking: You understand how architecture, performance, security, and scalability work together.
- Practical AI expertise: You can build and deploy AI-powered applications beyond prototypes and proof of concepts.
- Technical leadership: You guide engineers, improve code quality, and establish sound engineering practices.
- Structured problem-solving: You make thoughtful technical decisions in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
- Clear communication: You collaborate effectively across engineering and business teams.
- Continuous improvement: You stay current with evolving AI technologies and apply them where they create value.
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation.
- Flexible work environment with Coimbatore office and hybrid options.
- Paid holidays and flexible time off.
- Medical insurance for self and family, with coverage of up to ₹4 lakhs per person.
- Opportunities to architect and build production-grade AI systems used by real customers.
- Exposure to global clients and technically challenging projects.
- A culture that values ownership, clarity, integrity, and continuous learning.
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About Leegality:
Leegality works with large Indian businesses to digitally transform critical compliance processes in a fast, easy and secure way.
We have multiple products across 2 categories:
Document Infrastructure:
Products that help businesses build paperless processes at scale:
- Document Execution Workflow: A unified platform for businesses to digitally execute (eSign, eStamp, Template Pre-fill, Document Fraud Prevention etc.) agreements, forms and other documents in a compliant way. Currently in use by 2000+ Indian businesses from giants like HDFC and SBI Cards to high-growth disruptors like goDigit and Cars24.
- Contract Management: An AI-powered platform for businesses to quickly review, negotiate and take action on contracts
- Signstation: A simple platform for businesses to digitally sign simple documents like invoices, policies and letters in a cost effective manner
Consent Infrastructure:
- Consentin: An end-to-end DPDP and Privacy compliance platform for Indian businesses
- Consentin Lens: A data discovery platform for businesses to identify the personal data they collect and store.
If you’re interested in building mission critical software that operates at population scale (75 million + Indians have signed at least one document through Leegality) then join Leegality.
Curious about our impact? Explore our customer success stories: leegality.com/case-studies
Our Culture
At Leegality, trust, ownership, transparency, and having fun while doing meaningful work are core to how we operate — not just values on paper. Our team rated us an incredible 97 eNPS for FY 2023–24 — the highest among 175+ startups surveyed.
We focus deeply on helping our people grow and stay motivated. Some of the perks you’ll enjoy:
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid work setup
- Bi-annual performance appraisals
- A culture that rewards initiative, curiosity, and impact
If you're looking for a place where you can make a real difference while working with smart, driven, and genuinely nice people, welcome to Leegality.
Location: Hybrid
Role Overview
We are looking for a Technical Lead – Python to lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable backend systems that power Leegality's products. This role combines hands-on backend development with technical leadership, enabling you to influence architecture, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence across the team.
You will work closely with Product, Design, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams to build reliable, secure, and high-performance applications while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend applications using Python.
- Own the technical architecture of backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, maintainability, and security.
- Design, develop, and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices for high-performance applications.
- Drive architectural decisions, establish engineering best practices, and promote clean, maintainable code.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers through technical guidance, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
- Lead technical estimation, sprint planning, solution design, and execution for engineering initiatives.
- Optimize application performance through database tuning, caching, asynchronous processing, and efficient system design.
- Ensure high code quality through unit testing, integration testing, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues while driving root cause analysis and long-term improvements.
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies, frameworks, and engineering practices to continuously improve the platform.
- Build and foster a high-performing engineering culture focused on collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
Desired Skills
- 7–11 years of experience in backend software development, with at least 2–4 years in a technical leadership role.
- Strong proficiency in Python and object-oriented programming concepts.
- Hands-on experience with Python frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design and development, authentication mechanisms (JWT/OAuth), and API security best practices.
- Experience designing scalable backend architectures, distributed systems, and microservices.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, with experience in query optimization, indexing, and schema design.
- Exposure to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and caching technologies like Redis.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, containerization using Docker, orchestration using Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including design patterns, SOLID principles, code reviews, testing, and documentation.
- Experience with version control systems such as Git and modern development workflows.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to balance hands-on development with technical leadership and delivery ownership in a fast-paced product environment.
- Experience working in SaaS or product-based organizations is preferred.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or ChatGPT is an added advantage.

JOB DESCRIPTION
Lead Engineer
Ahmedabad, India | Around 5 years of experience
Salary is open for the right candidate.
About the role
A growing healthcare technology startup is building AI-native hospital management systems and
healthcare products for emerging markets. You’ll set technical direction, lead the engineering team, and
stay hands-on with the code that ships.
What you’ll do
Set technical direction. Make architecture decisions, weigh trade-offs, and build systems that stay
reliable as requirements evolve.
Ship production software. Write, review, test, and debug code, and own the quality of what ships.
Lead the team. Break complex problems into deliverable work, mentor engineers, and take responsibility
for delivery.
Use AI coding agents. Give agents the context to tackle substantial engineering work, then critically
review, test, and debug their output.
Work with healthcare teams. Learn their workflows and turn complex requirements into dependable
software.
What you’ll bring
Production ownership. Around five years of experience, including meaningful ownership of complex
systems or products in production. Experience can be flexible for exceptional candidates.
Technical depth. Strong ability in mathematics, algorithms, or machine learning, demonstrated through
competitions, research, or demanding systems you’ve built and deployed.
Engineering leadership. Examples of architecture decisions you owned, engineers you mentored, and
work your team delivered.
AI-assisted development skills. A workflow you can demonstrate, including how you spot incorrect
assumptions, test changes, and debug failures.
Initiative and judgment. You learn quickly, tackle unfamiliar problems independently, and get working
software into users’ hands.
How to apply
Send your CV or LinkedIn profile to the recruiter who shared this brief. Include one or two examples of
your strongest technical work, a team leadership example, and an example of your AI coding workflow.
Highlight your own contribution and share only material you’re permitted to disclose.
Please include your salary expectations, notice period, and availability to work in Ahmedabad.












