Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Write, review and merge production code across Vue.js frontend and Node.js backend.
• Own code quality for the India team; set review standards and refactor technical debt.
• Debug across the full stack, from Vue rendering issues to Mongo aggregations to Kubernetes pod issues.
• Guide the team on day-to-day development decisions and step in on unsolved problems.
• Design solutions for new modules from spec to schema to API contract to implementation.
• Own MongoDB data modelling decisions: document structure, embedding vs referencing, index strategy.
• Review Node.js service design: API structure, error handling, validation, authentication, rate limiting, background processing.
• Make and document build-vs-buy calls on third-party services with cost and integration effort.
• Ensure the platform stays stable and performant on a live, revenue-generating system.
• Demonstrate daily working use of AI coding tools and spec-driven development practice.
• Judge AI output quality and know when tasks should not be handed to agents.
• Set up and maintain repo-level context files and make the team's AI setup consistent.
• Coach the team on AI tools while holding the line on quality.
• Work with LLM APIs, embeddings, semantic search and understand where AI features help.
• Run sprint planning, estimation, standups and retros for the India team.
• Break requirements into technical tasks with clear acceptance criteria.
• Track velocity and flag slippage and blockers early.
• Own release coordination, deployment planning, rollback strategy and post-release monitoring.
• Line-manage 6-10 engineers across web, mobile and QA: 1:1s, feedback, performance conversations and growth planning.
• Mentor mid-level engineers into senior ones and build depth.
• Participate in hiring, technical screening, interviewing and onboarding.
• Keep the team's engineering practices consistent: documentation, testing, branching, incident handling.
• Act as the main technical point of contact between the India team and the UAE office product and business stakeholders.
• Communicate clearly to mixed technical and non-technical audiences status, risk, trade-offs and time cost.
• Manage the time-zone gap with structured overlap hours, written updates and async documentation.
• Own technical delivery on modules including product catalogue, pricing, ordering, workflows, order management, payments, invoicing and vendor onboarding.