Technical Lead

Role Overview:

We’re looking for an exceptionally passionate, logical, and smart Backend Developer to join our core tech team. This role goes beyond writing code — you’ll help shape the architecture, lead entire backend team if needed, and be deeply involved in designing scalable systems almost from scratch.

This is a high-impact opportunity to work directly with the founders and play a pivotal role in building the core product. If you’re looking to grow alongside a fast-growing startup, take complete ownership, and influence the direction of the technology and product, this role is made for you.

Why Clink?

Clink is a fast-growing product startup building innovative solutions in the food-tech space. We’re on a mission to revolutionize how restaurants connect with customers and manage offers seamlessly. Our platform is a customer-facing app that needs to scale rapidly as we grow. We also aim to leverage Generative AI to enhance user experiences and drive personalization at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and completely own high-performance backend systems.
• Architect scalable, secure, and efficient system designs.
• Own database schema design and optimization for performance and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and designers.
• Guide and mentor junior team members .
• Explore and experiment with Generative AI capabilities for product innovation.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure high engineering standards.

Must-Have Skills:

• 2–5 years of experience in backend development at a product-based company.
• Strong expertise in database design and system architecture.
• Hands-on experience building multiple production-grade applications.
• Solid programming fundamentals and logical problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Python or Ruby on Rails (one is mandatory).
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and services.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Familiarity with Generative AI tools, APIs, or projects.
• Contributions to open-source projects or personal side projects.
• Exposure to frontend basics (React, Vue, or similar) is a plus.
• Exposure to containerization, cloud deployment, or CI/CD pipelines.

What We’re Looking For:

• Extremely high aptitude and ability to solve tough technical problems.
• Passion for building products from scratch and shipping fast.
• A hacker mindset — someone who builds cool stuff even in their spare time.
• Team player who can lead when required and work independently when needed.

• As a senior backend engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
• Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
• Play a key role in technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
• Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically
• Proactively participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions
• Mentoring junior engineers and setting best practices for coding, code reviews, etc.
• Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives and evangelizing about contributions, accomplishments, and victories

• Strong and self-motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
• Solid experience in building web-based products
• Overall of 4+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails
• Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries
• Expertise in all common Cloud technologies, preferably AWS. Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
• Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• Willingness to play and explore with new technologies and be a Subject Matter Expert and support them
• Someone who believes in small incremental improvements and is passionate about refactoring
• A keen eye for quality with regards to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage
• Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• Experience working with ruby on rails as well as libraries like Resque and RSpec.
• Ability to write clean ruby code.

· Write effective and scalable code in Ruby

· Build back-end components for web applications

· Test applications for performance, responsiveness, and security

· Review and debug junior developers’ code

· Integrate data storage and data processing solutions

· Build, install, and share gems and plugins

· Create automated test scripts

· Improve and maintain applications after deployment

· Coordinate with team members who work on different layers of infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to end
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of engineers
• Keep abreast of the changes in the industry and champion new technologies and development processes within the team
• Thinking backwards from a customer POV and relentlessly pursuing customer's cause in tech and product decisions

Apply If You have:

• Graduation/Post Graduation degree in Computer Science (IITs, IIITs and NITs preferred)
• 6-10 years of strong experience in JAVA(Spring/Hibernate/JPA/REST), JavaScript, NodeJS with good exposure to MySQL
• Experience with AWS, Microservices, Caching, Performance Optimization, Nginx, Solr, Redis, Redshift
• Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in dynamic and disruptive environment
• 2+ years of leading and managing a team consisting of backend, frontend and QA.
• Hands on writing and reviewing code
• Exceptional design and architectural skills
• Strong communication skills
• High motivation to work in a fast paced, dynamic, collaborative team environment

Responsibilities:-

• Produce clean, efficient code based on specifications
• Integrate software components and third-party programs
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Gather and evaluate user feedback
• Recommend and execute improvements
• Ensure highest standard of performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications.

Requirements:-

• Overall 3-7 years of software engineering experience working with web applications and backend systems.
• At least 2 years of experience in production environment working with Ruby on Rails along with common libraries such as RSpec, Sidekiq, Redis.
• Strong understanding of concepts like MVC, ORM, and RESTful
• Strong understanding of Object Oriented Programming fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of server-side templating languages like SLIM and CSS pre-processors like SASS.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Strong experience working with Linux like Operating Systems and shell environments like Bash, ZSH.
• Strong knowledge of integrating multiple databases into one system.
• Basic understanding of systems architecture and fundamental design principles behind a scalable web application.
• Ability to understand business requirements, derive database schemas and translate them into technical specifications and code.
• Strong hands on experience of Relation Databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL with ability of benchmarking and performance optimisation.
• Strong knowledge of any NoSQL database like MongoDB.
• Strong experience practicing TDD and writing test cases to achieve highest code coverage.
• Experience working with search engines like Elasticsearch, Solr is a plus.
• Experience integrating third party software and payment gateways is a plus.
• Experience deploying applications to cloud and setting up CI/CD is a plus.
• Experience building container images using tools like Docker is a plus.
• Experience with any popular JavaScript frameworks like React JS, Angular JS is a plus.
• Ability to learn new languages and technologies.

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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Writing high quality code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope, and creating high quality documentation supporting the design/coding tasks
• Lead out team meetings, stand-ups, and architecture/design discussions
• Identify areas of improvement in our frameworks, tools, processes and strive to make them better. Evaluate our success metrics and evolve our reporting systems
• Works on the web application layer, backend, systems, streaming and other associated technology to build our product and components
• Find solutions and solve issues around a variety of operating systems or programming languages
• Researching new technologies and adapt them to BrowserStack requirements
• Own and commit to all your work, and be accountable for your results
• Using and understanding code from Open Source
• Teaching others how to use new software
• Willing to learn new programming languages and databases
• Able to write efficient SQL queries and design schemas for relational databases
• Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people (no lone wolves)
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7
• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality

• Good experience in at least one scripting language: Ruby, Nodejs, Python, AppleScript, Unix shell or similar
• Familiarity with one compiled language: C, Java, Go or similar
• Good knowledge of operating systems and networking concepts
• Reasonable knowledge of Windows and/or Linux operating systems
• Ability to work on Windows and Linux platform below the application layer, including file systems, kernels, custom installations, shell scripting, internal APIs, etc
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving skills
• Startup mentality, high willingness to learn, and hardworking
• Experience of 3-6 years