Technical Lead

Requirements:

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with strong experience in building production systems.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Golang or Python.
• Experience working on consumer-facing / B2C products.
• Experience managing and mentoring an engineering team.
• Experience building and scaling systems handling high traffic / high request volumes.
• Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, databases, APIs and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with 10K+ RPM scale or comparable high-throughput systems.
• Experience working with products having significant user scale (1L+ DAU preferred).
• Strong product thinking and ability to understand the business impact of engineering decisions.
• Strong ownership, execution and problem-solving mindset.

Good to Have:

• Experience in a high-growth startup or product-led technology company.
• Experience working with AWS and modern cloud-native infrastructure.
• Exposure to data engineering, analytics, personalisation or AI/ML systems.
• Experience with transactional systems such as payments, orders or commerce platforms.
• Experience taking products/features from concept to production.
• Experience working in environments with rapidly changing requirements and high execution velocity.

What Success Looks Like

In the first 6-12 months, you will:

• Build a high-performing and accountable engineering team.
• Own reliable engineering delivery for your product/technology area.
• Improve system scalability, reliability and engineering quality.
• Make strong architectural decisions while remaining hands-on.
• Partner effectively with Product and Business teams to deliver customer impact.
• Develop engineers and create a strong pipeline of future technical leaders.