Technical Lead at Aura Gold · Chennai · 5 - 8 years · ₹20L - ₹24L / yr · Posted 15 Oct 2026
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

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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.
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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.

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The client is the home base for hardware engineers. They give the teams building robots, rockets, medical devices, and the next generation of physical products a single place to move fast without breaking things, turning CAD chaos into a system of record engineers actually love to work in. We're profitable, post-Series A, and growing our Hyderabad engineering team.
About the role
We're looking for a tech lead to set the technical direction for a growing team and raise the bar for everyone around them. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll still write production code, but your largest impact comes through architecture, mentorship, and the standards you instill. You own outcomes for a team, not just your own commits.
What you'll do
- Lead the technical direction of a team building across our TypeScript/React + Node.js + AWS stack
- Drive architecture decisions, document tradeoffs, and align the team on a clear technical path Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and guidance, growing them toward strong production ownership
- Set and uphold standards for code quality, testing, and operational rigor
- Stay hands-on: write production code on the highest-leverage and hardest problems
- Partner with product and leadership to scope work, manage technical risk, and deliver predictably
- Be accountable for the reliability and maturity of the systems your team owns in production
What we're looking for
- Demonstrated technical leadership: you've set direction for a team and elevated those around you
- Strong full-stack proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js, plus solid AWS depth
- A track record of shipping to production and owning systems in operation, and of holding a team to that same standard
- Strong architectural judgment: you decompose ambiguous problems, weigh tradeoffs, and make decisions others can build on
- Excellent communication: you keep your team aligned and stakeholders informed, and you surface risk early
- Comfort leading in a fast-paced, high-ownership early-stage environment
Why choose us?
- The teams building advanced hardware and the robots, machines, and devices shaping the future run
- Direct access to founders; you'll help shape product and engineering direction, not just execute tickets
- Fast feedback loops: what you build is in front of customers in days, not quarters
- Profitable at Series A, so you get startup upside without the constant fundraising-survival anxiety
- Competitive compensation and meaningful equity
- Bi-yearly appraisal cycles
- Upto 20% Bonus based on performance
- Monthly Swiggy vouchers
- Flexibility with work hours
Job Title: Technical Lead
Experience: 6+ Years
Job Type: Full-Time
Department: Engineering
Job Location: Sec-62, Noida.
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Technical Lead with strong software engineering expertise and a proven track record of building scalable, secure, and production-grade web applications.
The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of software development experience, strong expertise across modern frontend and backend technologies, and the ability to take end-to-end technical ownership—from architecture and development through deployment and production support.
The role requires a technically hands-on leader who can provide architectural direction, mentor developers, review code, solve complex engineering challenges, and ensure high standards of engineering quality.
Practical knowledge of AI/GenAI technologies is important. Prior experience in the Indian FinTech/BFSI ecosystem will be strongly preferred.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design, architecture, development, and delivery of web-based applications.
- Take end-to-end technical ownership of projects, ensuring scalable, maintainable, secure, and high-quality implementations.
- Work hands-on across frontend, backend, databases, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and third-party integrations.
- Define technical architecture, technology choices, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure high standards of code quality, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Mentor developers and provide technical guidance throughout design and implementation.
- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, scalability concerns, and architectural challenges early in the development lifecycle.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Designers, QA, DevOps, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Participate in effort estimation, sprint planning, technical discussions, and delivery planning.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive root-cause analysis and permanent resolutions.
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies, frameworks, development practices, and AI-assisted engineering tools where appropriate.
- Identify opportunities to incorporate AI/GenAI capabilities into products, workflows, and internal engineering processes.
- Ensure applications follow appropriate practices for security, data privacy, authentication, authorization, logging, and monitoring.
Technical Skills & Requirements
Mandatory
- 6+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong experience building and maintaining production-grade web applications.
- Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems.
- Experience with frontend frameworks such as React.js, Next.js, Angular, Vue.js, or similar.
- Strong backend development experience using Node.js and/or other modern backend frameworks and languages.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, API design, authentication, authorization, and third-party integrations.
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, etc.
- Good understanding of system design, distributed systems, scalability, caching, asynchronous processing, and performance optimization.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based development workflows, monitoring, and modern DevOps practices.
- Strong understanding of application security and secure software development practices.
AI / GenAI Skills
The candidate should have a practical understanding of the modern AI ecosystem and its application in software products.
Experience or knowledge in the following areas will be an advantage:
- LLM-based applications and APIs
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or similar AI platforms
- AI agents and agentic workflows
- RAG and vector databases
- Prompt engineering and structured outputs
- AI-assisted development tools
- Integration of AI capabilities into existing web applications
- Reliability, security, privacy, cost, and hallucination considerations in production AI systems
Deep AI/ML research experience is not mandatory. The candidate should, however, be comfortable understanding and integrating modern AI capabilities into software products.
FinTech / BFSI Experience – Preferred
Prior experience working with FinTech, BFSI, lending, payments, banking, insurance, credit, or financial services products in India will be strongly preferred.
Experience in any of the following areas will be particularly valuable:
- Digital lending / Loan Management Systems
- Payments and payment gateways
- Credit bureau and credit-score integrations
- KYC / eKYC and identity verification
- Account Aggregator ecosystem
- UPI / NPCI integrations
- Banking and NBFC integrations
- Financial APIs and third-party FinTech platforms
- RBI-related technology and compliance requirements
- Data security and privacy requirements for financial applications
Leadership & Soft Skills
- Proven ability to lead and mentor engineering teams.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical capabilities.
- Ability to make sound technical and architectural decisions.
- Strong ownership mindset with accountability for project delivery.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects and priorities.
- Ability to balance engineering quality with practical business and delivery requirements.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead rather than a purely managerial profile.
The ideal candidate should be able to:
- Understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Design scalable and reliable application architecture.
- Guide and mentor engineering teams.
- Review critical code and technical implementations.
- Solve complex technical and production issues.
- Make effective technology and architecture decisions.
- Take ownership of delivering reliable products into production.
Mandatory Criteria
6+ years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in modern web technologies.
Strongly Preferred
- Experience building or leading FinTech products in India.
- Practical understanding of AI/GenAI technologies and their integration into modern software products.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Write, review and merge production code across Vue.js frontend and Node.js backend
- Own code quality for the India team — set review standards and refactor technical debt
- Debug across the full stack — from Vue rendering issues to Mongo aggregations to Kubernetes pod issues
- Guide the team on day-to-day development decisions and step in on unsolved problems
- Design solutions for new modules from spec to schema to API contract to implementation
- Own MongoDB data modelling decisions — document structure, embedding vs referencing, index strategy
- Review Node.js service design: API structure, error handling, validation, authentication, rate limiting, background processing
- Make and document build-vs-buy calls on third-party services with cost and integration effort
- Ensure the platform stays stable and performant on a live, revenue-generating system
- Demonstrate daily working use of AI coding tools and spec-driven development practice
- Judge AI output quality and know when tasks should not be handed to agents
- Set up and maintain repo-level context files and make the team's AI setup consistent
- Coach the team on AI tools while holding the line on quality
- Work with LLM APIs, embeddings, semantic search and understand where AI features help
- Run sprint planning, estimation, standups and retros for the India team
- Break requirements into technical tasks with clear acceptance criteria
- Track velocity and flag slippage and blockers early
- Own release coordination — deployment planning, rollback strategy and post-release monitoring
- Line-manage 6–10 engineers across web, mobile and QA — 1:1s, feedback, performance conversations and growth planning
- Mentor mid-level engineers into senior ones and build depth
- Participate in hiring — technical screening, interviewing and onboarding
- Keep the team's engineering practices consistent: documentation, testing, branching, incident handling
- Act as the main technical point of contact between the India team and the UAE office product and business stakeholders
- Communicate clearly to mixed technical and non-technical audiences — status, risk, trade-offs and time cost
- Manage the time-zone gap with structured overlap hours, written updates and async documentation
- Own technical delivery on modules including product catalogue, pricing, ordering, workflows, order management, payments, invoicing and vendor onboarding
Ideal Candidate
1Strong Hands-On Technical Team Lead Profile (Vue.js + Node.js) with AI-assisted development and B2B e-commerce exposure2Mandatory (Experience) - Must have 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years leading a team of 5 or more engineers3Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong, current, hands-on Vue.js experience including component architecture, state management and performance optimisation4Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have strong, current, hands-on Node.js and Express experience for production API development at scale5Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have deep MongoDB experience including aggregation pipelines, index design, query performance tuning and schema decisions6Mandatory (Tech skill 4): Must have AWS experience particularly Kubernetes/EKS with deployments, resource limits, health probes and production monitoring7Mandatory (Tech skill 5): Must have working understanding of Flutter including widget architecture, state management, platform channels and Play Store/App Store release pipelines8Mandatory (Tech skill 6): Must have demonstrable, daily professional use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI or equivalent) with real examples9Mandatory (Tech skill 7): Must have experience with spec-driven development including writing structured requirement and design documents and reviewing AI-generated output against acceptance criteria10Mandatory (Tech skill 8): Must have experience setting up and maintaining repo-level context files, rules files and custom commands for AI development11Mandatory (Tech skill 9): Must have Git and CI/CD experience including branching strategy, review workflow and automated pipelines12Mandatory (Leadership): Must have line-managed engineers (1:1s, feedback, performance, growth), mentored mid-to-senior, and participated in hiring13Mandatory (Communication): Must communicate clearly to mixed technical/non-technical audiences and manage a time-zone gap with structured overlap and async documentation (works with the UAE office)14Mandatory (Education): Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or related field15Mandatory (Domain): Background in B2B e-commerce, wholesale/distribution or marketplace platforms16Preferred (Offshore Experience): Experience working as the offshore technical counterpart to an overseas leadership team17Preferred (AI Integration): Experience integrating LLM APIs into a production product18Preferred (Observability): Exposure to observability tooling such as CloudWatch, Datadog or Sentry and analytics instrumentation19Preferred (Third-party Integrations): Experience with payment gateways, e-signature, logistics APIs, mapping and geolocation integrations
Role & Responsibilities
Responsibilities
• Business: Immerse in operations until you think like an insider.
Rapidly acquire domain expertise through direct observation, translate between business and engineering seamlessly, and mentor engineers in your area on immersion. Influence senior stakeholders effectively, manage complex stakeholder landscapes with competing agendas, and build trust rapidly with new stakeholders.
• Delivery: Lead rapid delivery initiatives across teams in your area, coach on prototype-first approaches, and establish trust through consistent fast delivery. Build complete applications rapidly across any technology stack, select the right tools for each problem, and define clear criteria for prototype-to-production transitions.
• Generative AI: Architect RAG systems for complex use cases across teams, implement advanced techniques (hybrid search, reranking, query expansion), mentor engineers on RAG best practices, and establish RAG standards. Lead evaluation strategy across teams, establishing annotation guidelines, training human-calibrated LLM judges, and building evaluation pipelines that connect tracing to datasets to experiments.
• People: Build high-performing teams across your area, navigate complex interpersonal dynamics, foster psychological safety, and create environments where diverse perspectives are valued. Influence through communication at all levels — from frontline to executive. Handle difficult conversations skilfully and train engineers in your area on effective communication.
• AI-Augmented Development: Optimise AI tool usage across teams in your area, train engineers on AI-augmented and agentic engineering workflows, evaluate new AI development tools, and establish practices that balance AI speed with verification rigour.
• Scale: Design complex multi-component systems end-to-end, evaluate architectural options for large initiatives across teams, guide technical decisions for your area, and mentor engineers on architecture. Create debt reduction strategies across teams, influence roadmap decisions to include debt work, and teach engineers when to accept debt for speed versus when to invest in quality.
• Documentation: Define documentation standards across teams in your area, create documentation systems and templates, train engineers on spec-driven development, and ensure documentation quality across projects. Lead pattern generalization initiatives, defining criteria for when to generalize versus keep custom.
• Reliability: Define reliability standards across teams in your area, drive post-incident improvements systematically, design capacity planning processes, andmentor engineers on SRE practices.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong Staff Software Engineer / FDE profile (full-stack + production GenAI, multi-team technical leadership)
- Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 7+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated full-stack delivery across backend and frontend.
- Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have deep production experience with Python AND JavaScript/TypeScript, working comfortably across the full stack.
- Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have 2+ years of experience in generative AI applications developement — LLM integrations, vector databases, RAG systems, and evaluation pipelines
- Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (Next.js / React) and backend API development.
- Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP valued), including infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation / Terraform).
- Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have working knowledge of multiple database paradigms — relational (PostgreSQL), document, and key-value (Redis) — with ability to select the right storage per problem.
- Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions), containerization, and production deployment strategies.
- Mandatory (Experience 8) – Must have demonstrable fluency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) and proven ability to design agentic engineering workflows and train teams on them
- Preferred (Experience) – Advanced RAG techniques — hybrid search, reranking, query expansion — and establishing RAG standards across teams
We are looking for an Engineering Lead to own the entire technology stack — from onboarding and underwriting to disbursals, repayments, and collections — and to build the engineering function into something genuinely AI-native.
What You'll Own
● Full tech stack: backend, frontend, infrastructure, integrations, and data pipelines
● Real-time underwriting and decisioning systems
● LOS/LMS architecture — onboarding, disbursals, repayments, and collections
● Integrations with bureaus, KYC providers, account aggregators, and payment gateways
● Reconciliation systems — disbursement, repayment, and NACH reconciliation end-to-end
● AWS infrastructure: scaling, reliability, uptime, and cloud cost ownership ● Data infrastructure for the credit and risk team — feature pipelines, model serving, experiment infrastructure
● Engineering leadership: hiring, sprint planning, code reviews, and execution standards
● Compliance systems: RBI guidelines, DPDP, KYC/AML, e-NACH, e-sign
AI-Native Engineering
This is a core part of the role, not a bonus. You will build a machine-readable knowledge base of the entire codebase — architecture, data models, service contracts, coding standards, decision history — so that AI agents working on code have the context to produce accurate, consistent output. You will build skills for code review, developer onboarding, and recurring engineering workflows. You will build a code review pipeline where agents do the first pass on every pull request. The knowledge base and the skills improve over time as the team grows and the product evolves.
What We're Looking For
● 7+ years in software engineering, with at least 2 years leading teams or architecture
● Strong hands-on experience with Python, Django, and React Native
● Deep expertise in AWS and cloud-native architecture
● Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases
● Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and API design
● Experience owning reconciliation or payment flow infrastructure in a lending or payments context
● Prior experience in fintech / NBFC / digital lending — mandatory
● Strong understanding of the full loan lifecycle — mandatory
● You have used LLMs seriously as engineering tools and have strong opinions about what makes AI-assisted development produce good output versus mediocre output
Bonus: Kubernetes / Kafka, AI/ML-driven underwriting, Account Aggregator framework, e-NACH / e-Sign / Video KYC integrations
What Success Looks Like
● scales with strong uptime, performance, and reliability
● Reconciliation runs cleanly — no financial discrepancies surface late ● A new engineer joins and is writing standard, correct code within their first week
● The credit team is never blocked on an engineering dependency
● Engineering health metrics are tracked and visibly improving
● AI agents are doing the structured first pass on code reviews, and the system gets smarter over time
About the role
You'll work on cloud software that helps technical teams collaborate and move faster: an established, in-production product that real customers rely on every day. You'll work directly with leadership who built products at Meta and Apple, on a team where you own meaningful work and your decisions have direct impact.
Location: On-site, Financial District, Hyderabad
What you'll do
- Lead the engineering team day to day, owning delivery and technical direction
- Architect projects end to end and make the high-leverage technical decisions across the stack, in ReactJS, NodeJS, and AWS
- Set up the engineering processes, standards, and rituals that let the team ship fast without breaking things
- Mentor and grow engineers, raising the bar across the team
- Break complex, ambiguous problems into clear plans and drive them to done
- Make deliberate tradeoffs between creating tech debt and delivering business requirements
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of full stack engineering experience (strong senior engineers ready to step into a lead role are welcome)
- Deep, hands-on command of ReactJS, NodeJS, and AWS
- A track record of technical leadership: architecting systems, mentoring engineers, and setting up engineering processes
- Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
- Excellent communication and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Bonus if you know: TypeScript, SQL, ExpressJS
Who you are
- You have serious work ethic. You get a high from checking things off and seeing results.
- You're curious, resourceful, and self-learning.
- You take ownership and bring the hustle.
- You lead by example and bring momentum to everything and everyone you work with.
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Key Requirements / Skills
- 6+ years of overall experience in software development with strong expertise in building scalable web applications.
- 2+ years of experience as a Technical Lead, managing development teams and driving project delivery.
- Strong technical decision-making ability, including architecture design, technology selection, and implementation of best practices.
- Front-end expertise: Strong experience in React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and building responsive and user-friendly UI/UX.
- Back-end development: Hands-on experience with Node.js, RESTful APIs, API design, and server-side architecture.
- Gen AI Expertise: Experience in building RAG & LLM Systems, implementing AI/ML models or integrating AI-based solutions to solve business problems.
- Cloud & DevOps exposure: Experience with AWS/Azure, understanding of CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based deployments.
- Code quality & best practices: Experience in code reviews, Git version control, and ensuring maintainable and secure code.
- Team leadership: Ability to mentor developers, guide technical discussions, and collaborate across teams.
- Strong communication skills to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working in high-compliance environments such as healthcare systems is a plus.
Education Qualifications:
- B.Tech/M.Tech in CSE/IT/AI/ML from a good university

Sapical is looking for an experienced Full Stack Technical Lead to provide technical leadership, engineering governance, delivery management, and people leadership across multiple software development projects.
The role combines hands-on full-stack technical expertise with project delivery and team management responsibilities. You will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of scalable, secure, and high-quality enterprise applications.
The ideal candidate should have strong experience across React.js, Node.js, MongoDB, APIs, integrations, cloud technologies, and microservices, along with proven experience leading engineering teams.
Experience Required
- 8+ years of overall software engineering experience
- At least 3 years of experience in a Technical Lead, Engineering Lead, or Delivery Lead role
- Experience managing teams of 10+ members
- Strong experience in full-stack application development and technical leadership
Key Responsibilities
- Lead technical design, architecture reviews, and engineering governance across multiple projects.
- Provide technical oversight for React.js, Node.js, MongoDB, APIs, integrations, and cloud-based solutions.
- Manage multiple project streams, delivery plans, risks, dependencies, and resource allocation.
- Drive Agile delivery practices including sprint planning, estimation, tracking, and release management.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to engineering standards and best practices.
- Mentor development teams and support technical and professional growth.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders, business users, architects, QA, and DevOps teams.
- Monitor project progress and provide regular status reporting to leadership.
- Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and team development.
- Ensure successful delivery within agreed scope, schedule, quality, and budget expectations.
AI & Automation
- Drive the strategic adoption of AI and automation technologies across engineering teams.
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and delivery efficiency through AI and automation.
- Help reduce development effort and time-to-market through effective adoption of emerging technologies.
Technical Requirements
Frontend Technologies
- Strong hands-on experience with React.js
- JavaScript (ES6+) and TypeScript
- Modern JavaScript frameworks and state management libraries
- Experience building responsive and performance-optimized web applications
Backend Technologies
- Strong experience with Node.js
- Express.js and/or NestJS
- REST APIs and GraphQL
- Microservices architecture
- API integrations and enterprise application development
Databases
Experience with one or more of:
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MS-SQL
Cloud & DevOps
- Docker
- CI/CD pipelines
- AWS and/or Azure
- Monitoring and observability tools
Leadership & Delivery Competencies
- Project planning and delivery management
- Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Stakeholder management
- Risk and issue management
- Resource planning and team allocation
- Executive reporting and communication
- Team leadership and mentoring
- Continuous improvement and process governance
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale digital transformation projects
- Experience managing distributed teams
- Experience working in client-facing engagements
What Success Looks Like
- Successful delivery of multiple concurrent projects
- High customer and stakeholder satisfaction
- Strong engineering quality and governance
- Effective team leadership and retention
- Consistent adherence to project timelines and delivery commitments
Why This Role?
This is an opportunity to take ownership of full-stack engineering and technical delivery, while leading teams and driving engineering excellence across enterprise projects.
You will play a key role in shaping technical solutions, improving engineering processes, mentoring teams, and driving the adoption of AI and automation across engineering.
Key Skills
React.js | Node.js | TypeScript | JavaScript | Express.js | NestJS | MongoDB | PostgreSQL | REST API | GraphQL | Microservices | Docker | CI/CD | AWS | Azure | Agile | Technical Leadership | Team Management | AI & Automation
About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to design, build, and integrate AI-driven systems that automate and enhance real-world business workflows. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys full-stack ownership — from backend AI architecture to frontend user experiences — and can align engineering decisions with measurable product outcomes.
You will begin as a strong individual contributor, independently architecting and deploying AI-powered solutions. As the product portfolio scales, you will lead a distributed team across India and Australia, acting as a System Integrator to align engineering, data, and AI contributions into cohesive production systems.
Example Project
Design and deploy a multi-agent AI system to automate critical stages of a company’s sales cycle, including:
- Generating client proposals using historical SharePoint data and CRM insights
- Summarizing meeting transcripts
- Drafting follow-up communications
- Feeding structured insights into dashboards and workflow tools
The solution will combine RAG pipelines, LLM reasoning, and React-based interfaces to deliver measurable productivity gains.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and implement AI workflows using LLMs, vector databases, and automation frameworks
- Act as a System Integrator, coordinating deliverables across distributed engineering and AI teams
- Develop frontend interfaces using React/JavaScript to enable seamless human-AI collaboration
- Design APIs and microservices integrating AI systems with enterprise platforms (SharePoint, Teams, Databricks, Azure)
- Drive architecture decisions balancing scalability, performance, and security
- Collaborate with product managers, clients, and data teams to translate business use cases into production-ready systems
- Mentor junior engineers and evolve into a broader leadership role as the team grows
Ideal Candidate Profile
Experience Requirements
- 5+ years in full-stack development (Python backend + React/JavaScript frontend)
- Strong experience in API and microservice integration
- 2+ years leading technical teams and coordinating distributed engineering efforts
- 1+ year of hands-on AI project experience (LLMs, Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI/Azure AI frameworks)
- Prior experience in B2B SaaS environments, particularly in AI, automation, or enterprise productivity solutions
Technical Expertise
- Designing and implementing AI workflows including RAG pipelines, vector databases, and prompt orchestration
- Ensuring backend and AI systems are scalable, reliable, observable, and secure
- Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SharePoint, Teams, Databricks, Azure)
- Experience building production-grade AI systems within enterprise SaaS ecosystems








