Tech Lead

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at Locus, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities-

• Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locus’s technical strategy.
• Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
• Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locus’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong staff engineer profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
• Mandatory (Tech skills 1): Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
• Mandatory (Tech skills 2): Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
• Mandatory (Tech skills 3): Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
• Mandatory (Tech skills 4): Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
• Mandatory (Communication): Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
• Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

Strong Full stack/Backend engineer profile

Mandatory (Experience): Must have 2+ years of hands-on experience as a full stack developer (backend-heavy)

Mandatory (Backend Skills): Must have 1.5+ strong experience in Python, building REST APIs, and microservices-based architectures

Mandatory (Frontend Skills): Must have hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React or Vue) and JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Mandatory (AI): Must have hands on experience with using AI tools (eg: Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codeium, Deepdcode) for coding.

Mandatory (Database Skills): Must have solid experience working with relational and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis

Mandatory (Cloud & Infra): Must have hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, S3, RDS, CloudFront, and SNS

Mandatory (DevOps & Infra): Must have working experience with Linux environments, Apache, CI/CD pipelines, and application monitoring

Mandatory (CS Fundamentals): Must have strong fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms, OS concepts, and system design

Mandatory (Company) : Product companies (Preferably Top product companies, AI native companies, B2B SaaS)

Mandatory (Stability): Must have atleast 2 years of experience in each of the previous companies (if less exp, then proper reason)

Mandatory (Note): Candidates who have owned end-to-end product development or worked on app development projects during their graduation will be highly preferred.

Mandatory (Note 2): The role offers a mix of work setups, including remote, Mumbai (in-office), and Bangalore (in-office) opportunities

About the company
Currently we are hiring for a VC backed startup a fast growing fintech startup based in Bangalore.

It is a super app to digitize India’s 50M+ sales agents where they can get access to relevant products & services, receive training through interactive videos on “how to sell, what to sell and whom to sell”, and earn money. For businesses, we help them save a huge effort in managing and training these agents and help them increase their reach to every nook and corner of the country.

India is a trust deficit market which cannot be accessed through Internet Marketing on Facebook and Google as the majority of the customers need training, push, motivation and a primer on why and how to use a product.

To solve this problem, traditional industries like BFSI, Telecom, Automobile, Real Estate etc. use 50M+ frontline sales executives to drive distribution. We believe that not just for these traditional industries but also for emerging companies in FinTech, EdTech etc these agents will play a pivotal role in accessing trust deficit customers.

They have grown to a  100,000+ agent network across India (growing 50% MoM) & are funded by tier1 VC’s and angels in India.

Summary of Role

As a lead of the consumer products software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of the software applications.

Responsibilities:

• Overlook development of all consumer products in JAVA
• Lead a team of 4-5 developers
• Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Focus on code maintainability and performance of application
• Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems
• Continuously create new and interactive features that would help to improve user experience and user engagement.
• Assist with troubleshooting of issues as needed
• Lead the design and architecture of software solutions
• Assist in developing and maintaining continuous integration pipelines

Required Skills for this Role:

• JAVA
• Spring/Spring Boot
• Hibernate
• Linux
• REST
• Kafka
• Mysql
• AWS
• ELK Stack (Elasticsearch)
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Team Leadership experience of at least 3 year

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in Java based technologies
• Experience in designing databases and system architecture
• Experience in building products from scratch at well funded start-ups
• Team Lead/Team Manager experience of at least 3 years

Primary Responsibilities:

• Principal Engineers  are responsible for driving Technology and Engineering Best Practices in their respective teams.
• They should demonstrate a high level of ownership and accountability for their product and software systems.
• They are expected to go above and beyond their role by contributing in tools, processes and practices which bring operational efficiency and are aligned with business goals.
• They are expected to actively participate in development along with team members and create systems and modules which represent a working model of engineering best practices.
• They are expected to participate in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
• They are responsible for the Engineering metrics/health of their systems including strong alerting and monitoring mechanisms.
• They are expected to lead the adoption of best practices around coding, designing, performance of systems in a team.

Experience or Skills Required:

• B.Tech or Advanced degree in Computer Science with 6-12 years of industry experience in product based companies.
• Proficiency with Basic libraries for machine learning such as scikit-learn and pandas
• Experience in building solutions based on Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, K Nearest neighbor, SVM, Random Forest, Decision Trees.
• Strong experience with at least one of programming languages: Python, Java, Vertx, Golang
• Strong experience in building Server side reusable components based on Microservices or Distributed Architecture.
• Solid coding skills with ability to lead teams in identifying clearing tech debts for large scale code base.
• Good understanding & experience in improving performance of scalable and real time responsive applications.
• Excellent Problem Solving skills and an aptitude to approach problems from first principles and build solutions for those.
• Must have excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem solving skills.
• Must be able to work independently and enjoy working at a fast paced start-up environment
• Excellent Mentoring skills. Be the technical mentor to your team.
• Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments where boundaries are not clearly defined.

Job description

We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application.

Responsibilities:

Have the passion and experience for building responsive, elegant and engaging experiences with future friendly web technologies

Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic

Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code with proper documentation

Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications

Implementation of security and data protection

Integration of data storage solutions

Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in your industry’s standards

Requirements

1+ years Experience

Strong proficiency with JavaScript

Knowledge of Node.js, Express.js and other frameworks required to create a scalable and effective application

Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

Good understanding of basics of SQL and/or NoSQL databases

Very strong understanding of working with at least one SQL or NoSQL database in node js(Without ORM preferably)

Understanding of commonly used node modules

Good understanding of server-side templating languages

Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors such as SASS, LESS, etc.

Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3

Understanding accessibility and security compliance

User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments using OpenID, OAuth2.0, etc.

Creating secure and scalable APIs using standards like REST API, GraphQL, etc.

Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimising output to match the specific platform

Creating database schemes that represent and support business processes

Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GIT Critical thinker and problem-solving skills Team player Good time-management skills Great interpersonal and communication skills.

We are an IIT Bombay incubated, early stage healthcare start up developing a mobile based Ai technology to help reduce health risks for women during their pregnancy. Our Founders are Harvard and Columbia University alums with extensive experience in digital health in the US and India.

Role: Back end developer ( Python + Flask/Django, Location Mumbai, Marol):

Must have:

• 1-4 years hands on experience in Core Python with preferably Flask framework for complex web and mobile applications. 
• Deployment experience
• Must have experience with Mongodb, MySQL and AWS
• Experience in Redis, Aerospike 
• Good command of API development and deployment ( G Unicorn, Supervisor, Jenkins) Algorithms, system design, OOPS concepts.
• Agility and flexibility to in start up environement with focus on customer, excellent communication skills, and high level of responsibility and responsiveness.
• Project management, scheduling, allocation and delivery.
• Proven experience in agile development, sprint planning and backlog management.

Good to Have:

Experience in Machine Learning, Dialogflow or Rasa for NLP,