Technical Lead

Job Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead to drive the design, development, and delivery of scalable, cloud-native applications. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineering leader with strong expertise in Node.js, React, AWS, and Microservices, capable of leading high-performing development teams while making key architectural decisions.

You will collaborate closely with Product Managers, UI/UX Designers, QA Engineers, and DevOps teams to build secure, reliable, and high-performance software solutions. This role combines technical leadership, solution architecture, and hands-on development while mentoring engineers and driving engineering excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Technical Leadership

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Drive technical strategy, architecture, and engineering best practices across projects.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards, security, and quality guidelines.
• Guide technical decision-making and resolve complex engineering challenges.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Participate in sprint planning, technical estimation, release planning, and backlog refinement.
• Identify technical risks, manage technical debt, and recommend long-term architectural improvements.
• Support production releases and participate in incident analysis and resolution when required.

2. System Design & Microservices

• Lead the design and architecture of scalable, secure, and highly available applications using modern software architecture principles.
• Drive High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) discussions, ensuring alignment with business and technical objectives.
• Design, develop, and optimize Microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures for enterprise-scale applications.
• Architect scalable asynchronous workflows and inter-service communication using messaging and event-streaming technologies.
• Define API standards, service contracts, and integration patterns to ensure interoperability and maintainability across distributed systems.
• Ensure system scalability, fault tolerance, resilience, observability, performance, and reliability through industry best practices.
• Evaluate and recommend architectural improvements, technology choices, and design patterns to support long-term platform growth and engineering excellence.

3. Full-Stack Development

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of enterprise-grade web applications using Node.js, Express.js, React.js, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Develop scalable backend services, RESTful APIs, and reusable frontend components following industry best practices.
• Optimize application performance, responsiveness, and security.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, UI/UX Designers, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Define and maintain API contracts, integration patterns, and coding standards to ensure seamless communication between frontend and backend systems.
• Conduct code reviews, mentor developers, and promote engineering best practices across the development team.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and drive continuous improvements in application architecture, performance, and maintainability.

4. Cloud & DevOps

• Design, architect, and deploy scalable, secure, and highly available applications on AWS using services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to design cloud-native infrastructure, deployment strategies, and production environments.
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, automated, and efficient application deployments.
• Containerize applications using Docker and support orchestration using Kubernetes in collaboration with platform engineering teams.
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives using tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Drive cloud security, cost optimization, scalability, and performance best practices across AWS environments.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging solutions.
• Support production deployments, troubleshoot cloud infrastructure issues, and ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.

5. Database & Performance

• Design scalable data models using MongoDB and relational databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL).
• Implement caching strategies using Redis.
• Optimize database performance, indexing, and query efficiency.
• Ensure application scalability and efficient resource utilization.

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or Senior Engineering role.
• Strong expertise in Node.js, Express.js, React.js, Next.js, and TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Proven experience designing and building scalable Microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and High-Level/Low-Level Design (HLD/LLD).
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, cloud-native application development, and scalable infrastructure.
• Experience with Docker, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines; exposure to Kubernetes is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of MongoDB and relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with caching technologies such as Redis and performance optimization techniques.
• Solid understanding of application security, API security, OWASP best practices, and secure software development principles.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS/SNS.
• Proven experience conducting architecture reviews, code reviews, technical mentoring, and engineering governance.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with cross-functional teams.

Tech Stack:

• Frontend: React.js, Next.js (Preferred), TypeScript, Redux
• Backend: Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, WebSockets
• Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, CloudWatch)
• Architecture: Microservices, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture
• Databases: MongoDB, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis
• DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes (Preferred), CI/CD, Terraform (Preferred)
• Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch

Good to Have:

• Experience with AI/LLM integrations, RAG, or Generative AI applications.
• Knowledge of WebRTC or real-time communication systems.
• Exposure to DevSecOps and cloud security best practices.
• Experience in AR/VR, gaming, immersive technologies, or streaming platforms.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.