tech lead at Wekan · Bengaluru (Bangalore), Chennai · 6 - 15 years · ₹5L - ₹25L / yr · Profitable · Posted 14 Mar 2023

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Tech Architect/Lead – Node.js ( React & Angular) (Full Stack)
Experience: 8–15 years
Role Type: Technical Leadership / Hands-on Architecture & Development
Role Overview
We are looking for a hands-on Technical Architect / Tech Lead with strong expertise in Node.js and Angular/React who can own end-to-end technical delivery, lead an engineering team, make architecture and design decisions, and work closely with Product, QA, and DevOps teams.
The ideal candidate should have strong product development experience and be capable of taking ownership from requirements and architecture through development, deployment, and production support.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end technical delivery of applications/modules, ensuring quality, timelines, scalability, and maintainability.
- Design and evolve application architecture using Node.js, React, Angular TypeScript/JavaScript, and modern architectural patterns.
- Translate product/business requirements into technical architecture, system design, APIs, data flows, and implementation plans.
- Make key architecture and technology decisions, conduct design/code reviews, and establish engineering best practices.
- Remain hands-on and contribute to the development of critical and complex features.
- Lead and mentor the engineering team, provide technical direction, remove technical blockers, and drive engineering quality.
- Design and develop scalable backend services, REST APIs, integrations, and frontend applications.
- Define appropriate deployment, release, and environment strategies in collaboration with DevOps.
- Work with DevOps/Cloud teams on CI/CD, Docker/containerization, configuration, logging, monitoring, scalability, and production deployments.
- Identify and proactively address technical risks, performance issues, security concerns, and scalability challenges.
- Collaborate closely with Product, QA, Business, and DevOps stakeholders throughout the SDLC.
- Ensure effective practices around code quality, testing, version control, release management, and production readiness.
Must-Have Technical Skills
Backend
- Strong hands-on expertise in Node.js
- TypeScript / JavaScript
- REST API and service-oriented/microservices architecture
- API security, authentication/authorization, integrations
- Asynchronous and event-driven programming
- Strong understanding of databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or equivalent
Frontend
- Strong hands-on expertise in Angular & React
- React application architecture and component design
- State management and frontend design patterns
- Modern JavaScript/TypeScript
- Frontend performance and responsive application development
Architecture & System Design
- Strong experience in application architecture and system design
- Design patterns, scalability, performance, security, and maintainability
- Experience designing distributed/scalable applications and integrations
- Ability to evaluate technology options and make pragmatic architecture decisions
DevOps / Cloud – Working Knowledge
- Good understanding of CI/CD and deployment strategies
- Git and branching strategies
- Docker/containerization/Kubernetes concepts
- Environment/configuration management
- Logging, monitoring, observability, and production troubleshooting
- Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Ability to effectively collaborate with DevOps/Cloud teams
Scripting
- Good scripting/automation skills using JavaScript/TypeScript, Shell, Python, or similar
Leadership & Product Skills
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and mentoring developers.
- Strong ownership of product development and technical delivery.
- Ability to work with Product/Business teams and convert requirements into technical solutions.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to balance delivery timelines, technical debt, quality, scalability, and maintainability.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum product development environments.
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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.
Understand client business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
Conduct requirement gathering, analysis, solution design, and technical documentation.
Work closely with development, QA, infrastructure, and business teams throughout the project lifecycle.
Provide technical guidance and recommend suitable technologies, architectures, and solutions.
Participate in system integration, implementation, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting.
Analyze existing systems and identify opportunities for optimization and improvement.
Prepare technical specifications, solution documents, architecture diagrams, and project documentation.
Act as a technical point of contact for clients and internal stakeholders.
Identify technical risks, dependencies, and challenges and provide appropriate solutions.
Support pre-sales activities, including technical discussions, solution presentations, and proposal preparation when required.
Stay updated with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices.
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.






