Technical Lead - Full Stack Development
Description
About the Role :
We're looking for a Tech Lead who can own technical direction while mentoring a team of engineers. You'll balance hands-on coding with architecture decisions, code reviews, and cross-functional collaboration with product and design.
Education : B.Tech/B.E.
Experience & Skills :
- 5 - 7 years of software engineering experience, with proven ownership of significant systems end-to-end.
- Full-stack development is a must - end-to-end development experience including quality aspects like unit testing, e2e testing, performance and load testing.
- Expertise in AI-assisted coding, debugging, and reviewing, following spec-driven engineering practices.
- 2+ years in a tech lead / engineering manager capacity - leading a team of 3 - 8 engineers.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Deep expertise in modern full-stack technologies - backend (Node.js/Java/Python), frontend (React/Angular), databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), microservices architecture, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Experience owning architecture decisions and driving them through to production.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and improving team practices (code quality, CI/CD, testing).
- Comfortable working directly with product managers to translate requirements into technical plans.
- Strong business acumen - able to understand product goals, customer impact, and business tradeoffs, not just technical correctness; translates business priorities into technical decisions and vice versa.
What You'll Do :
- Lead technical design and execution for the product area.
- Drive best practices in code quality, testing, and deployment.
- Partner with product and design to shape roadmap and technical strategy.
- Partner with business/product stakeholders to understand customer and revenue impact, ensuring technical decisions align with business priorities.
- Mentor and grow a team of engineers.
- Be the escalation point for complex technical decisions.