Senior Technical Lead

Overview

Senior Technical Lead architecting and overseeing development of high-performance backend systems and distributed applications.

What you'll do

• Lead the design and architecture of complex backend systems, distributed services, and mission-critical APIs.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance and mentor engineers.
• Define coding standards, enforce code quality, and conduct code reviews.
• Own end-to-end delivery from technical feasibility to deployment and maintenance.
• Architect and implement backend services using Python/FastAPI (preferred) or Java.
• Design scalable REST & GraphQL APIs focused on performance, security, and maintainability.
• Deploy and optimize systems on AWS and ensure observability via logging, monitoring, and tracing.

What you'll need

• 10–13 years of backend engineering experience.
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Strong experience with Python (FastAPI preferred) OR Java.
• Experience building REST & GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with asynchronous systems (Celery / async processing).
• Experience with AWS cloud services.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

Nice to have

• Frontend development experience using ReactJS and TypeScript.
• Experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, SNS/SQS).
• Exposure to domain-driven design (DDD) and clean architecture.
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Experience with performance tuning, load testing, and AWS cost optimization.

Details

• Location: India.
• Work modes mentioned: fully remote and full-time in physical offices (India not specified).