Lead Full Stack Engineer

Lead Full-Stack Engineer - AI Product Development

Experience: 6-9 Years | Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu (Work from Office)

Job Summary

We're hiring a Lead Full-Stack Engineer to design, build, and operate AI-powered products end-to-end. You'll own complex features across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure - combining strong full-stack engineering with a passion for building intelligent, AI-driven applications - while mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence.

What You'll Do

• Lead design and delivery of end-to-end AI products and platform capabilities
• Define architecture, coding standards, and best practices across backend, frontend, and data layers
• Build scalable, secure backend services and REST/GraphQL APIs
• Lead development of data-centric React UIs - dashboards, tables, workflows, audit trails
• Architect and manage AWS deployments for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Drive observability and CI/CD best practices
• Mentor engineers, run code reviews, and collaborate with product data teams

Must-Have Skills

Backend

• Node.js with TypeScript - deep expertise required
• REST/GraphQL API design: auth, RBAC, rate limiting, pagination
• Distributed systems: event-driven architecture, queues, async processing
• Strong debugging skills across distributed systems

AWS

• Hands-on architecture, deployment monitoring on AWS (EC2/EKS/Lambda, S3, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch)
• Docker, containerized deployments, CI/CD pipelines

Frontend

• React and modern frontend practices
• State management, component design, performance optimization

Data Fundamentals

• SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) - query optimization, indexing
• Working knowledge of MongoDB
• Core ETL/ELT concepts: idempotency, data quality, schema evolution

Good to Have

• Agentic AI / LLM-based workflows exposure
• Event-driven messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Data ingestion pipeline experience with Airflow (or equivalent orchestration tools)
• Microservices domain-driven design (DDD)
• Experience in high-scale, data-intensive environments

What We're Looking For

• Proven track record as a technical leader or senior IC
• Strong ownership - takes initiatives from concept to production
• Comfortable in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
• Passion for mentoring and building high-performing teams

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