Engineering Lead

Overview

Engineering Lead responsible for designing scalable backend systems, guiding technical decisions, and raising engineering quality. The role combines hands-on development with team mentorship and cross-functional collaboration.

What you'll do

• Architect and design scalable backend systems.
• Lead code reviews and enforce quality standards.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance.
• Establish testing, deployment, monitoring, and observability practices.
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams on technical solutions.
• Lead critical feature implementation, performance optimization, and architecture improvements.
• Champion security, scalability, and operational best practices.

What you'll need

• Minimum 8 years of professional software development experience.
• Hands-on production experience with Java/JEE, Spring, and Spring Boot.
• Experience with Node.js/JavaScript, design patterns, and application architecture.
• Advanced SQL, data modeling, and database optimization skills.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and working with protocols such as Kafka, SFTP, HTTP/S, or message queues.
• Experience with testing, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, containers, and AWS services.
• Ability to mentor engineers, define architectural standards, and communicate technical concepts.

Nice to have

• Experience with microservices, API gateways, event-driven architectures, or stream processing.
• Hands-on Docker, Kubernetes, or infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Experience with large-scale migrations or legacy modernization.
• Familiarity with security hardening, encryption, and compliance.
• Experience coaching Agile teams or improving processes.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.