Engineering Lead

Role & responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Set engineering architecture, standards, and best practices across front-end, full-stack, and telephony/dialer workstreams for HookedCRM and other products in the portfolio.
• Team Management: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of front-end, fullstack, and junior engineers owning hiring, performance reviews, career development, and day-to-day workload distribution.
• Delivery Ownership: Own sprint planning, technical scoping, and delivery timelines; unblock engineers and escalate risks to US leadership early.
• Hands-On Engineering: Stay active in the codebase code reviews, architecture decisions, and direct contribution on the highest-leverage or highest-risk work.
• AI-Native Development: Drive adoption of AI-assisted development (Claude, Cursor, Antigravity, MCP-connected tools) across the team to accelerate velocity and improve code quality.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Design, QA, and US engineering leadership to translate roadmap priorities into technical execution plans.
• Quality & Reliability: Champion testing discipline, code review standards, and production reliability practices across the team's output.
• Process & Reporting: Run stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retros; report engineering progress, risks, and capacity to US leadership.

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent demonstrated experience).
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a lead or management capacity.
• GitHub portfolio or code samples demonstrating senior/lead-level work (required).
• Ability to commute to or relocate to the GCC office location in India.
• Availability for regular overlap with US Eastern Time for cross-team leadership syncs and planning.

Perks and benefits

• Group Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision) for employee and dependents
• Provident Fund (PF) & Gratuity as per statutory requirements
• Earned Leave, Casual Leave & Sick Leave per India labor standards
• Performance Bonuses and Incentives tied to individual and team outcomes
• Paid Learning & Development Allowance certifications, courses, and conferences
• Growth Opportunities: promotions and advancement driven from within
• Hybrid Work Model: structured flexibility with in-person collaboration days
• Dynamic, AI-first work environment at the forefront of innovation