Lead Engineer - Funnels (Full-stack)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Engineer - Funnels (Full-stack) based in India. This is a high-impact technical leadership role at the core of a high-scale Funnel and Website Builder ecosystem used by millions of businesses worldwide. You will lead the development of real-time, collaborative, and high-performance web building experiences that power funnels, websites, publishing systems, and AI-assisted creation tools. The role combines hands-on full-stack engineering with strong technical and team leadership responsibilities, requiring you to guide architecture decisions while still contributing directly to code. You will operate in a highly distributed, microservices-driven environment handling massive global traffic, where performance, scalability, and reliability are critical. A key part of your mission will be enabling predictable delivery across multiple engineering squads while continuously improving engineering quality and developer experience. This is a highly visible role where your work directly impacts product performance, customer success, and platform scalability at global scale.

Accountabilities

• Lead end-to-end technical execution of the Funnels and Website Builder ecosystem, ensuring scalable and reliable delivery across multiple engineering squads.
• Contribute hands-on to full-stack development across Vue 3, Nuxt, Node.js, NestJS, and distributed backend services.
• Design and review scalable architectures for high-traffic systems, including rendering pipelines, CDN strategies, publishing workflows, and real-time collaboration features.
• Drive system reliability and performance improvements by identifying bottlenecks, stability risks, and optimization opportunities across the platform.
• Collaborate with infra, SRE, product, and design teams to ensure global-scale performance, stability, and seamless user experience.
• Define architectural standards, engineering guardrails, and best practices across frontend and backend systems.
• Lead sprint planning, execution tracking, reporting, and cross-functional alignment to ensure predictable delivery.
• Mentor and guide engineers across squads, supporting career growth, code quality, and technical decision-making.
• Debug and resolve complex production issues across distributed systems, CDN layers, and microservices architecture.
• Improve developer experience through tooling, automation, and build pipeline enhancements.

Requirements

• 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience building scalable web applications and high-throughput backend systems.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Vue 3, Nuxt, Module Federation, Node.js, and NestJS.
• Solid experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, caching strategies, and microservices environments.
• Proficiency with databases and infrastructure tools such as MongoDB, Firestore, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Nginx, and CDN-based systems.
• Deep understanding of system design principles including scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
• Experience with real-time systems, collaborative editing, rendering engines, and asynchronous processing workflows.
• Strong ability to define and work with SLOs, observability tools, logging, tracing, and performance monitoring.
• Proven experience leading engineers or squads, including mentoring, technical leadership, and delivery ownership.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence across engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders.
• Hands-on mindset with the ability to balance architecture leadership and direct engineering contributions.
• Strong ownership mentality with the ability to drive execution in fast-paced, high-scale environments.

Benefits

• Remote-first work environment within India
• Opportunity to lead and build high-scale, globally distributed product systems
• Strong technical ownership across both architecture and hands-on engineering work
• Exposure to large-scale real-time systems, microservices, and modern full-stack architecture
• Collaborative, high-performance engineering culture focused on impact and innovation
• Continuous learning opportunities in advanced distributed systems and platform engineering
• Inclusive, global team environment with strong emphasis on autonomy and ownership.

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