Technical Lead

Technical Architect – Product Engineering

Experience: 15+ Years

Location: Pune, India

Employment Type: Full-time

Desired Skills: Python, Technical Architecture, AWS, Microservices, SaaS / Multi-tenant Architecture, Kubernetes, System Design

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect to lead the architecture, design, and technical evolution of an enterprise SaaS product. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, strong product engineering experience, and the ability to build scalable, secure, and high-performance platforms.

The ideal candidate should be passionate about solving complex engineering problems, driving innovation, mentoring development teams, and effectively leveraging AI to accelerate software development.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the overall product architecture and technical roadmap.
• Design and build scalable, secure, and highly available enterprise applications.
• Lead the design and implementation of new product features from concept to production.
• Remain hands-on with coding and contribute to critical product components.
• Drive architecture reviews, code quality, performance optimization, and engineering best practices.
• Lead cloud architecture, security, scalability, and DevOps initiatives.
• Evaluate and adopt modern technologies to improve product capabilities and engineering efficiency.
• Leverage AI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) to accelerate software development, code reviews, testing, documentation, debugging, and productivity.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 15+ years of software product engineering experience with at least 5 years in a Technical Architect role.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Python and modern backend frameworks.
• Deep experience with AWS services and cloud-native application architecture.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Experience designing microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with scalable SaaS platforms, multi-tenant architectures, and secure application design.
• Excellent understanding of software design patterns, performance tuning, observability, and system reliability.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

About the role

You will be a pivotal member of the leadership team, responsible for driving the company's product and platform strategy while overseeing engineering excellence across AI, data, platform, DevOps and infrastructure. This is a mission-critical role for an engineering leader who is both strategic and hands-on, and who can build scalable technologies for global enterprise clients in a fast-paced innovation ecosystem.

Reports to: CEO · Location: Bengaluru, India — hybrid, 3 days a week in office

What you will do

Technology & product leadership

• Define and drive the technology vision, architecture and long-term platform roadmap.
• Oversee the architecture, design and delivery of highly scalable enterprise systems.
• Ensure engineering excellence, velocity and reliability across the product lifecycle.

Engineering & platform management

• Lead platform engineering, product technology, DevOps, infrastructure and Quality Engineering.
• Build robust cloud-native systems using the Azure, AWS and GCP ecosystems.
• Oversee operational effectiveness, including uptime, production reliability and cost optimisation.

Innovation & AI strategy

• Spearhead Mission AI by developing scalable, production-grade AI/ML and GenAI capabilities.
• Own the GenAI/LLM solutions architecture.
• Core specialisation in AI agents and autonomous workflows, data extraction and intelligent automation.
• Direct hands-on architectural oversight of large language models, applied AI and multi-layered deep learning products.
• Extensive expertise in building intelligent document automation systems — similar in complexity to patent parsing, legal workflow automation and structured decision intelligence tools.

Technical leadership

• A proven track record overseeing product architecture, tech strategy and cross-functional engineering execution across core full-stack and AI platforms.
• Collaborate with executive leadership on business strategy, client requirements and product delivery.
• Build, mentor and scale high-performing engineering teams with a growth mindset.
• Establish a strong technology culture grounded in ownership, innovation and continuous learning.

What success looks like

• Mission AI: build a world-class AI system leveraging GenAI, ML and enterprise-grade data engineering.
• Hyper-scaling: architect and scale the platform to match global industry leaders in the IP space.
• Culture building: develop a strong engineering organisation with high ownership, performance and innovation DNA.

Qualifications & experience

• Preferably under 15 years of enterprise software engineering experience across B2B SaaS or technology-first companies; fewer is fine for an exceptional engineer.
• A proven track record of taking early-stage AI/ML prototypes and scaling them into robust enterprise SaaS platforms featuring multi-agent orchestration, complex workflows and decision intelligence.
• Experienced in building and mentoring agile, lean startup teams of full-stack and machine learning engineers from the ground up.
• Proven leadership in defining and executing technology strategy and platform roadmaps.
• Extensive cloud-native engineering experience with Azure, AWS and GCP.

Technical expertise

• Strong full-stack engineering background (Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks).
• Expertise with JS frameworks such as React, Angular and Node.js.
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems and microservices.
• Strong knowledge of databases (SQL, NoSQL), data modelling and unstructured data management.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian, Git, CI/CD pipelines).

Behavioural & leadership competencies

• Product and delivery management expertise, end to end, including delivery and customer support.
• Excellent communication, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
• High technical proficiency combined with strong business acumen.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills.

About the company

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

We are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer to drive the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable B2B products from our Bangalore office. This role requires a strong hands-on technologist who can lead a team of engineers, make sound architectural decisions, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, DevOps, and Customer Success teams.

As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of our platform, ensuring high-quality engineering practices, and delivering enterprise-grade solutions to our customers. This job can quickly grow into a Technical Lead position.

**Key Responsibilities**

🔹 Technical Leadership

Own end-to-end technical architecture and system design for core product modules.

Drive scalable, secure, and high-performance backend and frontend solutions.

Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and ensure adherence to engineering best practices.

Evaluate and introduce new technologies where appropriate.

🔹 Team Management

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5–6 engineers.

Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation.

Support hiring, onboarding, and mentoring.

🔹 Product Delivery

Collaborate closely with mangement to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Drive sprint planning, estimations, and delivery timelines.

Ensure predictable, high-quality releases aligned with business goals.

🔹 Quality & DevOps

Champion CI/CD practices, automated testing, and DevOps processes.

Ensure system reliability, uptime, security, and performance monitoring.

Participate in incident management and root cause analysis.

🔹 Stakeholder Collaboration

Work cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, and Support teams for enterprise deployments.

Communicate technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

**Required Qualifications**

4+ years of software development experience in product-based companies.

Strong experience with modern backend technologies (e.g., Java, Node.js, Python, or similar technologies).

Experience with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or similar).

Solid understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful APIs.

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL).

Experience building scalable B2B SaaS products.

**Preferred Qualifications**

Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture.

Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SSO, APIs, third-party systems).

Experience handling high-scale systems with large enterprise clients.

Exposure to security and compliance standards (ISO, SOC2, GDPR).

**Key Competencies**

Strong problem-solving and system design skills.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to balance hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities.

Strong ownership mindset with attention to detail.

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.

**What We Offer**

Competitive compensation and performance bonuses.

Opportunity to work on cutting-edge B2B products.

Collaborative and growth-oriented culture.

Health insurance and wellness benefits.

If you are passionate about building scalable B2B platforms and leading high-performing engineering teams, we would love to hear from you.

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility (informal Senior Engineer / Tech Lead experience managing a team does not count)

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have directly managed 4–6+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems; specific language/framework can vary.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

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Mandatory (Company) – Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments. (Refer Target Company List)

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Mandatory (Role Fit) – Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement;

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Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility (informal Senior Engineer / Tech Lead experience managing a team does not count)

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have directly managed 4–6+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems; specific language/framework can vary.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

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Mandatory (Company) – Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments. (Refer Target Company List)

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Mandatory (Role Fit) – Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement;

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Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility (informal Senior Engineer / Tech Lead experience managing a team does not count)

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have directly managed 4–6+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems; specific language/framework can vary.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

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Mandatory (Company) – Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments. (Refer Target Company List)

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Mandatory (Role Fit) – Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement;

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Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Backend Team Lead to architect and deliver robust, scalable systems while mentoring a team of developers. The ideal candidate will bridge strategic technical vision with practical execution, ensuring high-quality solutions aligned closely with business objectives and technology best practices.

Responsibilities:

●      Architect, design and deliver mission-critical modules end-to-end

●      Write production-grade code daily; lead reviews, debugging, refactoring

●      Embed TDD, CI/CD, design principles, and engineering best practices

●      Develop high-performance, scalable backend systems that power global products

●      Partner with Team Lead, PMs, QA, and product designers to define and execute features

Criteria:

●      6+ years of backend development experience; 2+ years in technical leadership

●      Experience in leading a team of atleast 3-4 engineers

Preferred Skills:

●      Extensive experience with Laravel, Node.js, Python, MySQL, MongoDB

●      Passionate about writing clean, testable, modular code using design patterns

●      Solid understanding and experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (ECS, Aurora, Lambda, S3, CloudFront etc), including scaling, and security best practices.

●      Demonstrated expertise in building and maintaining systems using a microservices architecture, with an emphasis on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

●      Familiarity and practical experience with asynchronous communication between microservices using tools like Kafka etc, event-driven architectures, and messaging patterns at scale.

●      Proven capability in designing inter-service communication protocols to optimize system performance, resilience, and latency under heavy loads.

●      Startup exposure—comfortable with ambiguity, learning quickly, pivoting often

●      Excellent communicator, collaborator, and mentor

What we offer:

●      An exceptional team: Our hiring bar is high and your colleagues are talented, motivated self-starters.

●      A learning environment: We are a learning organization and as a team we will help you grow and encourage you to learn and upgrade your skills.

●      Outstanding compensation: top talent deserves top pay and our salary, equity and benefits reflect this.

●      Opportunities to grow: Encourages you to attend technical conferences and take company funded educational courses to advance your skills.

●      An opportunity to be a key member of a well-capitalized leading brand in online real estate investing platform.

Job Title: Tech Architect - Java Spring Boot

Company Name: Chella Software Private Limited

Company Website

https://www.chelsoft.com/

Company details

THE PARTNER OF CHOICE FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS

Our deep domain experience, ultra-high-performance software solutions, and on-time project delivery make us the preferred partner for the financial markets.

Over the last two decades, Chella Software has built deep domain experience in the financial markets and a capability for developing ultra-high-performance software that can handle very high volumes of data with the lowest levels of latency.

We are now preferred partners for a host of Central Banks, Stock Exchanges, Clearing Corporations, Brokerages, and Institutional Investors across 12 countries.

We are a global provider of fintech solutions for central banks, exchanges, central counter parties, and financial market intermediaries. We meet the software needs of customers in India, the Middle East, Africa, Singapore, and the USA.

Central Banks:

• Our portfolio of solutions for central banks includes:
• Chella Switch, a national payment and settlement system designed for central banks in frontier markets, and
• Chella Horizen, a robust, reliable and full coverage investment management and accounting platform for reserve management.

Exchanges and CCPs:

We are at the forefront of providing customized solutions for exchanges, CCPs, depositories, and other financial market infrastructure. Our high-speed, low-latency, high-volume, massively scalable systems are spread across the core areas of trading, surveillance, risk management, clearing, settlement, and compliance.

​Our teams have deep expertise in:

• Developing and implementing bespoke solutions on a build-operate-maintain model.
• Re-architecting and re-engineering core applications to address performance and scalability challenges.
• Migrating legacy systems to the latest technologies without disrupting operations.
• Defining and building digital experiences and journeys that facilitatethe addition of new investors to the market.

Brokerages:

Our solutions for brokerages include:

• Chella Trader, a multi-asset, multi-exchange, multi-currency, omni-channel order management system, and
• Chella Clearvision is a modular broker back office that helps scale a broker’s business with incremental investments.

Institutional Investors:

We meet the investment management needs of institutional investors through Chella IMS, a full coverage post-trade investment management and IFRS-compliant accounting platform for pension funds, insurance firms, and family offices.

Location: Madurai - Tamil Nadu

Mode of Working: Work Form Office (Interview shall be face to face at Madurai)

Days of Working: 5 Days a week

Responsibilities

Job Description:

• Tech Architect with expertise in Java Spring Boot to design and implement robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems. As a Tech Architect, you will be responsible for shaping the technical direction of complex software projects and providing architectural guidance to engineering teams. 
• This role requires deep technical knowledge, leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of solutions that meet business and technical requirements. Experience in the Fintech domain is an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Architectural Design & Strategy:

• Lead the architectural design and implementation of scalable, maintainable, and secure backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture. 
• Define best practices for code quality, testing, security, and deployment processes. Drive the adoption of modern development methodologies (Agile, DevOps) and frameworks.

1. Technical Leadership:

• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to developers and engineers on coding standards, design patterns, and technologies.
• Ensure the architecture is aligned with business goals and technical constraints. Conduct code reviews and enforce best practices to maintain high-quality standards.

1. Collaboration:

• Work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system requirements, integrate with third-party services, and ensure the overall system design is cohesive.

1. Problem Solving:

• Analyze and resolve complex technical challenges, such as performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and system integrations.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies, tools, and frameworks to continually improve the development process.

1. Documentation & Reporting:

• Document architectural designs, technical specifications, and implementation guides.
• Provide regular updates on project progress, risks, and technical challenges to senior leadership.

1. Continuous Improvement:

• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices.
• Recommend improvements to system architecture, processes, and technologies to enhance the software development lifecycle.

Interview process: Virtual and Face-to-Face

Skills:

Experience: 9-12 Years

Location: Madurai

Job Type: Full-time

Education: B.E(Any stream)/ B.Tech / M.E / M.Tech. or similar

Skills: Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture. 

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge solutions for capital markets.
• This is a global role and, hence, will provide opportunities to work with organizations across the globe.
• Learn from experienced professionals and grow into a solution architect, product manager or sales role.
• Opportunity for rapid personal and professional growth.

ATGS official Email

anita at atgs.co.in

Job Role: Software Engineer – Backend & Cloud Infrastructure

Company: Appmaker by StarApps

Location: Kochi, Kerala (On-Site)

Experience: 3–6 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

About Appmaker by StarApps

At StarApps, we build high-scale tools like Appmaker(https://appmaker.xyz/) that empower thousands of global e-commerce merchants to turn their web stores into native mobile apps. We focus on low latency, cutting-edge serverless architectures, and building scalable software that handles millions of requests every day.

About the Role

We are looking for a Mid-Senior Backend & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our core team on-site in Kochi. In this role, you will design, scale, and maintain high-throughput backend services and cloud infrastructure capable of supporting large user bases and handling millions of daily requests.

If you thrive in solving complex distributed system design challenges, optimizing cloud infrastructure, and taking ownership of core platform scaling, this role is for you!

Key Responsibilities

• Distributed Backend Systems: Architect, construct, and optimize core backend microservices and serverless applications built on Node.js and TypeScript.
• Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps: Manage, automate, and expand infrastructure across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) using IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• System Scalability & Performance: Design for high availability, implementing caching, load balancing, message queues, and database optimizations.
• Reliability & Observability: Troubleshoot complex production incidents, optimize system latency, enforce security standards, and maintain CI/CD and automated monitoring pipelines.
• Architecture Ownership: Own critical features and system components independently while collaborating on high-level architecture decisions.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience: 3–6 years of hands-on software development experience with a focus on backend software architecture, systems engineering, and infrastructure.
• Tech Stack: Strong mastery of Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and major Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Edge & Serverless: Deep understanding of serverless deployment models (Cloudflare Workers/D1, AWS Lambda, or equivalent).
• System Design & Databases: Advanced knowledge of system design, load balancing, caching strategies, asynchronous message queues, relational database optimization, and high-availability architecture.
• Engineering Standards: Strong experience with production CI/CD, observability tools, automated testing, and production troubleshooting.

Bonus Points

• Hands-on experience with the extended Cloudflare suite (KV, R2, Queues, Workers).
• Prior experience in SaaS product engineering, Shopify app ecosystems, or high-traffic global e-commerce platforms.
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Why Join Us?

• High Scale & Impact: Build software used by thousands of global brands and millions of end consumers.
• Modern Tech Stack: Work with cutting-edge serverless architectures and infrastructure automation platforms.
• Growth & Culture: Great engineering culture, high ownership, competitive growth, and direct technical leadership opportunities in our Kochi office.