Technical Lead Backend

Position Details

| **Experience** | 5–8 Years |

| **Work Location** | Mumbai Suburbs-Andheri |

| **Start Date** | Immediate |

| **CTC** | Open to Discussion |

## Job Description

The selected candidate will be responsible for leading backend development, managing cloud infrastructure and deployments, designing scalable system architectures, and mentoring the engineering team. The role requires strong technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and the ability to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.

### 1. DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure

- Create and configure cloud instances on Azure, AWS, or GCP.

- Deploy applications and programs to cloud servers and DevOps environments.

- Ensure deployment stability, system uptime, and performance monitoring.

- Automate deployment pipelines and continuously improve CI/CD practices.

- Implement and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure deployment processes.

### 2. Architecture and Backend Development

- Design system architectures with a focus on performance, security, scalability, and reliability.

- Design, develop, and maintain clean, scalable, and optimized backend applications, preferably using Node.js.

- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across development, testing, and production environments.

- Translate business requirements into effective technical solutions and ensure timely delivery.

- Develop and maintain APIs, microservices, databases, and system integrations.

### 3. Team Leadership and Management

- Lead, mentor, and guide a team of backend developers and engineers.

- Drive Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and engineering best practices.

- Promote collaboration, accountability, and a high-performance engineering culture.

- Support team members in resolving technical challenges and improving their skills.

## 4.Skills and Qualifications Required

- B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

- Strong proficiency in backend development using Node.js, JavaScript, Python, or Java.

- Hands-on experience with DevOps practices and cloud deployment environments.

- Solid understanding of APIs, microservices, databases, and system integration.

- Experience in leading development teams within an Agile/Scrum environment.

- Working knowledge of Linux, Kafka, and Docker.

- Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines, cloud technologies, and deployment automation.

- Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and leadership skills.

##5. Behavioural Competencies

- **Team Leadership:** Ability to manage, train, mentor, and guide team members.

- **Relationship Management:** Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective working relationships.

- **Analytical Thinking and Innovation:** Strong analytical capabilities, with a focus on innovative problem-solving.

- **Business Acumen:** Ability to understand business use cases and translate them into practical technical solutions.

- **Customer Empathy:** Ability to understand customer needs and deliver solutions that enhance customer experience.

- **Communication:** Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Salary will be decided based on your skills and experience.

Celeco Labs is hiring a hands-on Head of Engineering on behalf of a confidential client in the housing-finance sector.

This is a role for an engineer who wants to own delivery, not only manage it. You will set the technical direction, build and maintain production systems, and work closely with the business team. You should be comfortable taking a requirement from the first discussion through technical planning, implementation, release, and production support.

What you will do

• Own the engineering roadmap and help decide what should be built first.

• Design, build, and maintain reliable customer-facing products and internal systems.

• Write production code and review code written by others.

• Turn business requirements into clear technical plans and releases.

• Choose practical architecture, tools, and vendors that fit the company's needs.

• Set working standards for testing, deployment, monitoring, backups, and access control.

• Protect customer and company data through practical security controls.

• Investigate production issues and make sure the same problems do not repeat.

• Help hire and guide a small engineering team as the company grows.

What we are looking for

• 3–5 years of professional software-engineering experience.

• Experience building and running production systems.

• Strong backend skills, including APIs, databases, and cloud services.

• Enough frontend knowledge to work across a product when needed.

• Good judgment about system design, security, reliability, and cost.

• The ability to explain technical choices in simple language.

• Comfort working independently and taking full ownership of delivery.

Experience in lending, housing finance, fintech, or another regulated industry is useful, but not required. Experience leading engineers or working directly with founders and business leaders is also useful.

How to apply

Please share your CV or LinkedIn profile and two short examples of production systems you have owned. This is a confidential search. More information about the company will be shared with shortlisted candidates during the interview process.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead with strong full-stack development expertise and proven team leadership skills to drive technical delivery, architecture, and application development.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the development team.
• Design scalable application architectures and REST APIs.
• Drive hands-on development, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Manage task allocation, delivery timelines, and code quality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver business solutions.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in React.js, Node.js, Angular, PostgreSQL, and Docker.
• Expertise in REST APIs, application architecture, and database optimization.
• Minimum 5 years of team-handling experience.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.

Preferred: Experience in manufacturing digital transformation, MES, ERP, Industry 4.0, or shop-floor digitization.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Java Backend Lead with strong expertise in backend application development, system design, and technical leadership. The candidate will be responsible for developing scalable applications, guiding the development team, and ensuring high-quality delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor backend development teams.
• Design and develop scalable, high-performance backend applications.
• Develop applications using Core Java, Java 8/11/17+ and Spring Boot.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Work with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or similar.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure coding standards and best practices.
• Troubleshoot performance, production, and technical issues.
• Collaborate with architects, product teams, QA, and other stakeholders.
• Participate in system design, technical discussions, and solution development.
• Ensure application security, scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Guide the team in Agile/Scrum development practices.

Mandatory Skills

• 10–15 years of overall IT experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in Java.
• Strong experience with Spring Boot and Microservices.
• Experience in REST API development.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
• Experience in system design and application architecture.
• Good experience in technical leadership and team mentoring.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Knowledge of Kafka/RabbitMQ.
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Experience working in Agile environments.

Location: Bangalore

Department: Engineering

Reports to: SVP

Experience required: 6+ years

About Tracxn:

Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem.

We are a team of 600+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.

Founders

• Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
• Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)

About Technology Team: 

Tracxn's Technology team is 60+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each owning one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team compared to an individual.

We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.

Our Tech Stacks:

We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to backend and frontend systems such as Java, Python, Spring Boot, Node.js, ReactJS, Next.js, Webpack, and Storybook; cloud and serverless platforms like AWS, etc; data and infrastructure technologies such as Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch), MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Ansible; large-scale web crawling solutions; modern data pipelines and ETL workflows; and AI/ML-driven projects.

Job Overview:

We are looking for experienced software engineers with 6+ years of overall software development experience, including backend development and proven people-management skills. The ideal candidate will lead the engineering team(s), drive technical excellence, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers
• Own technical planning, architecture discussions, and execution
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders
• Drive best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
• Conduct code reviews and ensure high engineering standards
• Manage delivery timelines, resource planning, and technical risks
• Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management of engineers

Job Requirements :

Professional Experience

•  Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams
• Track record of delivering complex, scalable software systems
• Experience driving technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions
• Strong collaboration experience with product, design, and cross-functional teams.

Technical Leadership & Management

•  Ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers across different experience levels
• Experience conducting performance reviews and providing technical feedback
• Strong ownership of team delivery, timelines, and quality
• Experience balancing hands-on technical work with people management

Backend & System Architecture Expertise

• Strong proficiency in modern backend architectures, design patterns, and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Java, Python, etc.)
• Solid understanding of API design principles and implementation
• Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases and knowledge of data pipelines and data warehousing concepts.

Technical Competencies

• Strong system design and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of caching strategies, performance optimization, and scalability
• Understanding of data modeling and query optimization
• Familiarity with search and indexing technologies
• Understanding of security best practices in backend systems

Culture:

• Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
• Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
• No strict deadlines, focus on delivering quality work.
• Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
• Very high visibility regarding which startups and markets are exciting globally.

Tech Lead – Backend

Roles & Responsibilities

The company is building the operational backbone for how B2B enterprises run their business.

As a Tech Lead on the backend team, you will own the technical direction for a core domain of the platform—systems where correctness is non-negotiable, scale is unforgiving, and edge cases never stop coming. You will also mentor Senior Engineers in your pod.

This is a hands-on role: you will write code and design systems yourself day to day, pair on complex problems, review the work of engineers around you, and be the person who figures out what's actually broken before it becomes a fire.

You will report into the Engineering Manager / Head of Engineering. This is not a feature-factory role. You are here to raise the level of abstraction the team works at, not simply to ship tickets faster.

What You'll Own

• Design and build core platform services that handle complex business logic reliably at scale.
• Architect and own integrations with external enterprise systems, including their quirks, rate limits, and failure modes.
• Build APIs that enterprise engineering teams actually want to integrate with, not just ones that technically work.
• Own production debugging end to end: diagnose issues across services using logs, traces, and metrics, and make incidents boring rather than fires.
• Embed security and compliance thinking into your systems by default, not as a retrofit.
• Mentor Senior Backend Engineers in your pod: pair on hard problems, review their work, and help them grow as engineers.
• Set the architectural direction for your domain: choose frameworks, patterns, and abstractions that shape the platform for years.
• Lead design reviews and code reviews, and set the technical standard the rest of the team calibrates against.
• Hold a clear bar for quality, follow-through, and ownership across the engineers you work with, ensuring systems are healthy in production, not just merged.
• Partner with Product, Implementation, and Customer Success as the engineer who understands the system deeply enough to challenge requirements when necessary.
• Raise the technical bar for the engineers around you without slowing the team down.
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Ideal Candidate

1. Strong Tech Lead / Staff Engineer / Lead Engineer Profile

• Proven experience operating at Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, or Lead Engineer level.

1. Mandatory – Overall Experience

• Minimum 6+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience building production backend systems.

1. Mandatory – Tech Lead Ownership

• Proven Tech Lead ownership with experience setting technical direction, architecture, frameworks, or engineering standards used by other engineers.

1. Mandatory – Backend Development

• Strong hands-on backend development experience with deep proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Python, Java, or Golang.

1. Mandatory – System Design & Distributed Systems

• Strong experience in system design and distributed systems, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, failure modes, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

1. Mandatory – APIs & Integrations

• Experience designing and building APIs, backend services, and external/enterprise integrations.
• Strong experience owning complex business logic and production systems.

1. Mandatory – Technical Leadership

• Formal technical leadership experience, including mentoring Senior Engineers, conducting design and code reviews, driving engineering quality, and leading technical decisions across a team.

1. Mandatory – Hands-on IC + Tech Lead

• Must be a hands-on Individual Contributor + Tech Lead, with approximately 70–80% hands-on coding/engineering involvement.
• Pure people-management profiles are not suitable.

1. Mandatory – Company Background

• Experience working in Product Companies, Startups, or B2B SaaS organizations.

1. Mandatory – Education

• CS degree or equivalent, such as B.Tech / B.E. / B.S.

1. Preferred – Technical Skills

• Experience with Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ
• AWS
• Docker / Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• Observability and monitoring
• Security and compliance
• Multi-tenant systems
• Financial, billing, or enterprise platforms

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.

About the Company

As the world moves toward AI-native applications, one element matters more than anything: data.

We are building a platform that helps organizations unlock the value hidden within customer feedback. By centralizing data from multiple sources—including CRM platforms, support systems, collaboration tools, surveys, community forums, and customer conversations—into a unified intelligence layer, we enable teams to understand customer needs and make better product decisions.

Built on top of this foundation is an AI-powered platform that allows teams to query, monitor, and act on customer intelligence directly within their workflows. Our customers include some of the fastest-growing product-led technology companies as well as large global enterprises.

Backed by leading global venture capital firms, our engineering culture is AI-native from the ground up. Agents, LLMs, and applied machine learning are not side projects—they are central to how we build products. We operate at the cutting edge of agentic systems and continuously push the boundaries of what modern AI applications can achieve.

What You Will Do

• Convert product direction into phased technical plans, including estimates, milestones, dependencies, and risk assessments.
• Make thoughtful trade-offs across correctness, latency, user experience, AI/model behavior, reliability, cost, and delivery speed.
• Define clear ownership boundaries across frontend applications, BFF layers, backend services, agent workflows, ML platforms, and data contracts.
• Review ERDs, PRDs, design documents, and implementation plans to identify gaps before they become execution challenges.
• Drive planning and execution for complex initiatives while empowering area leads and senior engineers to maintain ownership.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and GTM teams to turn ambiguous problem statements into executable solutions.
• Influence technical direction through strong engineering judgment, architectural leadership, and hands-on involvement.
• Mentor senior engineers and contribute to engineering excellence through reviews, incident analysis, and proactive risk management.

What It Takes

• 9+ years of experience as a Senior Engineer, Technical Lead, or equivalent role.
• Demonstrated experience owning architecture and execution for large-scale product or platform initiatives spanning multiple teams.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems and modern software architecture.
• Exposure to agentic AI systems, machine learning engineering, MLOps platforms, and frontend/BFF architectures.
• Ability to own end-to-end product and technical problems rather than specializing exclusively in a single layer of the stack.
• Proven track record of converting ambiguity into actionable engineering plans.
• Excellent written communication skills, including design documentation, architectural reviews, trade-off analyses, and RCA documentation.
• Ability to challenge requirements constructively and collaborate effectively across Product, Design, Engineering, and GTM functions.
• High ownership mindset, attention to detail, and a low-ego, collaborative approach.