Technical lead - Backend development at Tracxn · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 6 - 14 years · ₹20L - ₹50L / yr · Raised funding · Posted 18 Aug 2026

Location: Bangalore
Department: Engineering
Reports to: SVP
Experience required: 6+ years
About Tracxn:
Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem.
We are a team of 600+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.
Founders
- Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
- Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)
About Technology Team:
Tracxn's Technology team is 60+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each owning one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team compared to an individual.
We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.
Our Tech Stacks:
We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to backend and frontend systems such as Java, Python, Spring Boot, Node.js, ReactJS, Next.js, Webpack, and Storybook; cloud and serverless platforms like AWS, etc; data and infrastructure technologies such as Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch), MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Ansible; large-scale web crawling solutions; modern data pipelines and ETL workflows; and AI/ML-driven projects.
Job Overview:
We are looking for experienced software engineers with 6+ years of overall software development experience, including backend development and proven people-management skills. The ideal candidate will lead the engineering team(s), drive technical excellence, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers
- Own technical planning, architecture discussions, and execution
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders
- Drive best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
- Conduct code reviews and ensure high engineering standards
- Manage delivery timelines, resource planning, and technical risks
- Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management of engineers
Job Requirements :
Professional Experience
- Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams
- Track record of delivering complex, scalable software systems
- Experience driving technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions
- Strong collaboration experience with product, design, and cross-functional teams.
Technical Leadership & Management
- Ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers across different experience levels
- Experience conducting performance reviews and providing technical feedback
- Strong ownership of team delivery, timelines, and quality
- Experience balancing hands-on technical work with people management
Backend & System Architecture Expertise
- Strong proficiency in modern backend architectures, design patterns, and microservices architecture.
- Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Java, Python, etc.)
- Solid understanding of API design principles and implementation
- Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases and knowledge of data pipelines and data warehousing concepts.
Technical Competencies
- Strong system design and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of caching strategies, performance optimization, and scalability
- Understanding of data modeling and query optimization
- Familiarity with search and indexing technologies
- Understanding of security best practices in backend systems
Culture:
- Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
- Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
- No strict deadlines, focus on delivering quality work.
- Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
- Very high visibility regarding which startups and markets are exciting globally.

About Tracxn
About
We at Tracxn are building one of the world’s largest platform for tracking Startups, Private Companies and Emerging Innovative Sectors. Tracxn is powered by artificial intelligence and big data technology that scans through the company datapoints and incorporates the relevant information in its platform offering. A 100+ strong Sector-focussed Analyst team further enhances the relevance of the platform data. We work with over 5000 subscribers in over 30 countries across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America & Middle East. Our clientele includes Venture Capitalists, Private Equity Funds, M&A and Innovation teams of Fortune 500 companies and Investment Banks who use Tracxn data for daily deal sourcing, identifying M&A targets, deal diligence and tracking emerging themes across Industries & Markets. Tracxn platform is also being used by the various Governments, Accelerators, Incubators and Universities for tracking innovative companies and sectors. Tracxn was founded in 2013 by, Neha Singh and Abhishek Goyal, ex-Venture Capitalists from Accel Partners & Sequoia Capital. With its unique offering, Tracxn has featured in Forbes Top 100 Global Analytics Startup List (2015), and Fortune 40 under 40 (2016, 2017). Tracxn was also ranked as the Coolest Startup of the year by Busine0ss Today (2017), Our investors include SAIF Partners, Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital along with marquee angel investors including Ratan Tata, Nandan Nilekani, Sachin Bansal, Binny Bansal amongst others. Whether you are researching companies in emerging sectors like Blockchain, IoT or AI or you want to do a targeted discovery in niche segments like Plant based Meat Products or AI based Payment Fraud Detection, we have got you covered.
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