technical lead

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.

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 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

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.

3

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

2

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

3

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)

4

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

5

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 Tech Lead / Staff Engineer / Lead Engineer Profiles

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Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have minimum 6+ years of overall Software Engineering/Development experience building production backend systems.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have Tech Lead ownership, with experience setting technical direction, architecture, frameworks, or engineering standards used by other engineers.

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Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have strong hands-on Backend development experience with deep proficiency in at least one backend programming language. (Python, Java, Golang etc)

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Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have strong System design/distributed systems experience, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, failure modes, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have strong CS fundamentals in Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, and Networking, with the ability to apply them to complex backend/system problems

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Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have owned complex, ambiguous, or business-critical engineering problems end-to-end, demonstrating clear technical judgment, trade-offs, problem-solving, and measurable technical/business impact; not limited to feature implementation.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) - Must have formal technical leadership experience, including mentoring Senior Engineers, conducting design/code reviews, driving engineering quality, and leading technical decisions across a team.

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Mandatory (Experience 8) - Must be a hands-on IC + Tech Lead, with approximately 70–80% hands-on coding/engineering involvement, not a pure people-management profile.

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Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies / Startups / B2B SaaS

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Mandatory (Education) - CS degree or equivalent (B.Tech/B.E./B.S.)

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Preferred (Skills) - Experience with Kafka/NATS/RabbitMQ, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security/compliance, multi-tenant systems, and financial/billing platforms.

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.

3

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)

4

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

5

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.

6

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.

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

2

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

3

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)

4

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

5

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.

6

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.

7

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

8

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

9

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 looking for a Backend Software Development Engineer with 6+ years building scalable, high-availability server-side systems. You'll design and own microservices and REST APIs, model data in SQL, and deploy on AWS, partnering with product and frontend teams end-to-end.

Mandatory skills

• 6+ years of backend development in Java and/or Python

• Strong hands-on experience designing microservices and RESTful APIs

• Solid database design and SQL optimization

• Production experience on AWS (or equivalent cloud)

• Strong CS fundamentals — data structures, concurrency, system design

• Experience owning services from design through production support