Technical Lead in Kolkata

Web5 Solution is a premier AI, Blockchain, and Tech Development firm dedicated to venture building. We partner with and empower early-stage startups to architect, build, and scale robust digital products from the ground up. We operate at the cutting edge of technology, exploring everything from decentralized networks to AI integration and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).

Our Product Milestone: We are rapidly scaling our SaaS product, MyZia, which has successfully onboarded 100+ paid clients in just its first two months. We are looking for the right leader to take this momentum to the next level.

The Role

We are searching for a highly experienced and driven Technical Team Lead to take complete end-to-end ownership of our technology stack. You will be the driving force behind the technical strategy and execution for MyZia and other core ventures. We need a challenge taker, a goal achiever, and a true partner who deeply aligns with our vision of building scalable, high-performance tech products.

Key Responsibilities

- End-to-End Technical Leadership: Take complete ownership of the tech aspects of MyZia and emerging Web5 products, from high-level architecture to ground-level deployment.

- System Optimization & Scalability: Architect and maintain scalable systems capable of handling high transaction volumes, rigorous concurrent API hits, and massive data processing without performance bottlenecks.

- Full-Stack Excellence: Lead by example with hands-on full-stack development, conducting thorough code reviews, and maintaining the highest standards of code quality and security.

- Team Mentorship: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing engineering team. Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and accountability.

- Strategic Alignment: Work closely with the founders to align technical execution with business goals. Translate the overarching vision into an actionable technical roadmap.

Requirements

- Proven Experience: Extensive background in full-stack development with a strong track record of serving as a Team Lead, Senior Architect, or Lead Developer in a SaaS or product-based environment.

- Technical Mastery: Deep expertise in modern tech stacks, cloud infrastructure, and database optimization. Proven ability to handle scalable systems with extreme transactional rates and API dependencies.

- Domain Knowledge: Strong understanding of AI and Blockchain ecosystems. Familiarity with AI-driven development paradigms (like vibe coding) and implementing it right is highly advantageous.

- Problem Solving: Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex performance issues in real-time.

- Mindset: A relentless "challenge taker and goal achiever" mentality. You thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and treat the product as your own.

What We Offer

- The opportunity to be a pivotal leader in a fast-growing tech venture building firm.

- Direct impact on a rapidly scaling SaaS product (MyZia) with proven market traction.

- A dynamic, innovative environment based in Gurugram, working alongside passionate founders.

Job description:

Must have basic knowledge of Software Technologies like PHP, JavaScript, etc.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing projects within the decided-upon budget, timeline, and scope. They will also effectively monitor and present project updates to relevant stakeholders, clients, or project team members.

Responsibilities:

1. Set project timeline

2. Monitor project deliverables

3. Monitor project baseline to ensure activities progressing as planned

4. Monitor project burndown charts

5. Monitor employee's performance with KPI's

6. Update relevant stakeholders or team members on the project progress

7. Coach and support project team members with tasks you assign them

Head of Technology

He/She should be a ‘most technical business person’ and his/her goal is to build a great company, not only a technology which just sounds cool. Let’s make it simpler - the primary job of the Tech. head is to make sure the company's technology strategy serves its business strategy. We strongly believe along with technology understanding every Technology Head needs great understating of the business itself.

Role Overview:

Get “Tech” in order: Help answer fundamentals of technology blocks to be used, choice of certain platform/tech over other, helping team visualize product with the available resources and assets

Innovation through Research and continuous improvement. Head of technology is one strategic personnel who provides critical and factual inputs for IP Creation.

Connecting Business Requirements with activity: Given that, Head of technology is an executive Tech leader, it’s easy for him to understand the business opportunities which Tech Product could create. He/She bring the perspective of tech as a differentiator. He/She should understand the “Market Needs” language talked by his other executive colleagues.

Methodology: With time, help build progressive learning culture and establish predictable model of envisioning, designing and developing products/ platforms and services.

Architecture Practices: Making sure that best practices are defined and followed by team is very important. he/she may have to garbage guy and clean the code time to time. Making reviews on Code Quality is an important activity that he/she should follow. For example, you build an amazing product but during deployment and testing stage performance is hit, or a bug fixes are taking more time than actual building a feature etc. need to be avoided.

Help build, manage, and validate a Tech Roadmap for its Products. As validation of idea happen with acquisition of users and customers, product / platform / service may undergo transformation on required features set and Market needs. A roadmap to achieve those “vanity goals” for the project, and be able to successfully tweak an approach with changing needs is expected from Head of technology.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Plan the project & Assign tasks & complete them within the agreed timelines with client
• Use PMP tools to manage projects
• Attend client meetings and take briefings
  Help Business teams to innovate and keep them updated with new technologies
• Documentation as per the process – BRS, SRS, HLD & LLD
• Manage a team; set processes in place to facilitate everyday operations seamlessly
• If required, code.

 What you will need: 

• PHP/MySQL, Angular JavaScript, jQuery, Memcached
• Experience: Minimum 10+ year is required (PHP/MySQL)
• Good Understanding of MVC design patterns and frameworks (CodeIgniter / Zend/Laravel).
• Solid Knowledge of OOPS.
• Solid experience with MySQL - writing and optimizing SQL for high performance systems with large Database
• Extensively worked on Mobile platforms.
• Must have Experience on either of Social API like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail
• Good knowledge of GIT, SVN

About First Principles

We are a Tech Holding Company and our portfolio companies generate millions in revenue. What is unique about FirstPrinciples is that most of our companies remain controlled and majority owned by First Principles and its team members rather than by external investors. We are proud that our product engineering team builds world class products from India. https://firstprinciples.io/">https://firstprinciples.io/

About this Role

As we scale and build our organisation, we would like to add an individual to our core Technical Leadership who can scale our key products and projects and help us build and foster relationships with Enterprise clients.

We are looking for an experienced Technology Leader to join our fast growing organisation to help us with driving Technical Strategy, Approach and oversee the Implementation for internal and external products. You should be someone who loves Engineering, have amazing debugging skills and slay problems with technology. 

In this role, you will undertake Technical / Solution Architecture and should also be able to help team with Engineering and coding wherever required. That includes, working along with the team, writing code, doing R&D or POCs, ensuring we follow modern industry standards and building beautiful high performing Software and Applications and thus delivering a better solution and product. You will also help FP build strong relationships with clients and technical leadership on the client side.

You would be required to have a minimum of 10+ years of experience with a mix of Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Cyber - Network Security, Enterprise Application Maintenance, Database Management along with Project, Client and People Management skills which are necessary to lead the team and be their voice. You should be a leader and not just a manager who loves delegating things to the off-shore team, but rather someone who would not hesitate to take over Git-Pull and start writing code and show ‘here is how it’s done’ and amaze everyone with your expertise! :-) 

Because this is a Senior role, you would also be involved working with the Product/Project Manager and will be responsible for the delivery and output.

Tech Stack [High-Level]: We are JavaScript focused i.e. we work in ReactJS, NodeJS, AngularJS, TypeForm, TypeScript, Redis. On the server side, we work with AWS/GCP/DO. Database: MySQL, PostgreS and MongoDb. API: REST and GraphQL API. We also have a strong DevOps stack - including Kubernetes(K8), Dockers and CI/CD automation. 

Interview Process: 

• 60 min Discovery Call
• 15 mins introduction and what you bring to the table (We love people who say, “We build the damn table”) 
• 15 min understanding your experience and background
• 15 min on why you want to join our team and your expectations, future plans
• 15 min Q&A
  
  
• 60-90 min Technical Interview  (May be more than 1)
• Technical Call
  
  
• 45-60 min Final Call
• 15 min discussion on results 
• 15 min CTC expectations / negotiations 
• 15 min closure
• 15 min buffer

About the Organization

Real Estate Syndicators leverage SyndicationPro to manage billions in real estate assets and thousands of investors. Growing at 17% MoM,  SyndicationPro is #1 Platform To Automate Real Estate Fund Raising, Investor Relations, & Close More Deals!

What makes SyndicationPro unique is that it is cash flow positive while maintaining a healthy growth rate and is backed by seasoned investors and real estate magnates. We are also a FirstPrinciples.io Venture Studio Company, giving us the product engineering, growth, and operational backbone in India to scale our team. 

Our story has been covered by Bloomberg Business, Yahoo Finance, and several other renowned news outlets. 

About the Role

SyndicationPro.com is looking for an experienced Technical Lead who has scaled Enterprise SaaS Products built using JavaScript and AWS. Past experience in building a secure and scalable app is a critical requirement.

50,000 ft View

• Technology Evangelist: Research, create proofs of concept and introduces new technologies to the team
• Evolve System Architecture: Evolve the architecture to support future requirements and defines its SLAs
• People Coordination: Coordinate team members providing effective feedback and moderating discussions
• Define Process: defines the right processes for the team’s maturity level, balancing agility and discipline

Here is a visual representation of what we are expecting from this role

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You will work with the team on the following:

• Architecture and System Design & Integration
• Tech Mentoring, Adoption and Alignment
• Technical Spikes and Experiments​
• Code Reviews and Feedback
• Technical Capacity Planning​
• Production Issues Escalation
• System SLAs, Metrics & Monitoring
• Platform Direction, Patterns and Practices
• Alignment with other Tech Leads​
• Hands-On Coding 30% to 70% of the Time
• Playing an important part in building the company technical roadmap and development processes
• Playing the role of Engineering Manager as required

Tech Stack

MERN & MEAN Stack
AWS

What Success Looks Like

In 90 Days

• Clear understanding of the platform, current code base, and the product roadmap
• Understanding of the your team member’s strengths and weaknesses
• Clear plan of action to tackle the product roadmap, address technical debt, and upskilling team members

In 180 Days

• Work with the team to deliver the planned roadmap and address technical debt
• Leading the development of POCs, managing code reviews, and process design and implementation
• Building and maintaining the SLAs that we define together
• Playing an important role in hiring out for key technical roles 

In 365 Days

• We have built a solid team and systems, processes, and infrastructure in place to scale 
• We have delivered against the product roadmap 
• Becoming an important part of the company leadership team by being a voice for the tech team

Location

• Preferred: Bangalore, India. 

Open for Remote work with the right candidate

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19,
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India.
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech.
• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program.
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

• Work with Product Managers and Business to understand business/product requirements and vision.
• Provide a clear architectural vision in line with business and product vision.
• Lead a team of architects, developers, and data engineers to provide platform services to other engineering teams.
• Provide architectural oversight to engineering teams across the organization.
• Hands on design and development of platform services and features owned by self - this is a hands-on coding role.
• Define guidelines for best practices covering design, unit testing, secure coding etc.
• Ensure quality by reviewing design, code, test plans, load test plans etc. as appropriate.
• Work closely with the QA and Support teams to track quality and proactively identify improvement opportunities.
• Work closely with DevOps and IT to ensure highly secure and cost optimized operations in the cloud.
• Grow technical skills in the team - identify skill gaps with plans to address them, participate in hiring, mentor other architects and engineers.
• Support other engineers in resolving complex technical issues as a go-to person.

• 12+ years of experience in design and development of ecommerce scale systems and highly scalable SaaS or enterprise products.
• Extensive experience in developing extensible and scalable web applications with
  • Java, Spring Boot, Go
  • Web Services - REST, OAuth, OData
  • Database/Caching - MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Memcached/Redis
  • Queue/Broker services - RabbitMQ/Kafka
  • Microservices architecture via Docker on AWS or Azure.
  • Experience with web front end technologies - HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery, AngularJS, React, Vue.js, Bootstrap etc.

• Extensive experience with cloud based architectures and how to optimize design for cost.
• Expert level understanding of secure application design practices and a working understanding of cloud infrastructure security.
• Experience with CI/CD processes and design for testability.
• Experience working with big data technologies such as Spark/Storm/Hadoop/Data Lake Architectures is a big plus.
• Action and result-oriented problem-solver who works well both independently and as part of a team; able to foster and develop others' ideas as well as his/her own.
• Ability to organize, prioritize and schedule a high workload and multiple parallel projects efficiently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
• Long term experience with at least one product from inception to completion and evolution of the product over multiple years.

Principal Software Engineer /Architect

Axtechnosoft Private Limited

Job Description

Responsibilities: -

• You would take ownership of the existing system and scale it more than 10X over the next 2 years.
• Apply best coding standards.
• You would create the infrastructure that can serve 100s of customers and millions of data requests per hour.
• Over the next year or so, you would be able to guide a team of 5 to 15 people to accomplish your goals. Mentoring this team into a world-class engineering team would be a key part of your role.
• Your earlier experience in successfully building, deploying and running complex, large scale web or data products.
• You would work hand-in-hand with the Product Management team to build engineering capabilities that align with the evolution of the product.
• Eventually work with Data science teamwork to ensure that the algorithmic intelligence that we build is plugged into the product in an expected manner.
• Overall, you would be responsible for end-to-end architecting from Engineering standpoint.

Must have: -

• Total experience of 8+ years while relevant experience of at least 2 years.
• Have built a platform that handles at least 500k to 1 million data request an hour.
• Worked on building an infrastructure that serves 200k+ customers.
• Hands on coder.
• Expert level knowledge in at least one technology stack - Python or ideally, Java. Also Angular, React, Node.js
• Expert level knowledge with Elastic Search or NoSQL technologies like MongoDB/HBase/Cassandra/Redis/Neo4j
• Experience developing web applications.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Working knowledge of databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design.
• Devops experience working with AWS / Other cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of API’s.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Implementing Software Engineering best practices.
• Previously worked on user facing products with scale.
• Agile methodology.
• Great attention to detail.
• Organizational skills
• An analytical mind

Good to have: -

• Working knowledge of React Red.
• Open-source technology.
• Working knowledge of AI/ ML.
• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field.
• Experience working in a start-up environment.

Key Skills

Python

Angular Javascript

Reactor & Solids Processing

Node.js

Elastic Search

NoSQL

Web Applications

Database

Web Servers

UX/UI Design

AWS Cloud

Agile Methodology

What you need to have: