About the Role :

We are looking for a Tech Lead who can lead a team of engineers while remaining deeply hands-on with architecture, coding and technical problem-solving. You will own the engineering execution for a product or technology area, work closely with Product and other stakeholders, and ensure that the team builds systems that are scalable, reliable, maintainable and business-focused. This is a player-coach role - you will continue to write code and make critical technical decisions while managing and mentoring a team of engineers.

Technical Leadership :

- Own the technical direction and engineering execution for a product/technology area.

- Design and review scalable backend systems, APIs, services and data flows.

- Make pragmatic architecture and technology decisions balancing speed, scale and maintainability.

- Identify and solve complex technical problems across performance, reliability, scalability and system design.

- Establish strong engineering practices around code quality, testing, observability and documentation.

- Participate actively in design reviews and critical code reviews.

Hands-on Engineering:

- Remain hands-on with coding and contribute to critical parts of the system.

- Build and evolve high-scale backend services and APIs.

- Debug production issues and drive root-cause analysis for complex problems.

- Work on performance optimisation, reliability and system scalability.

Tech Stack :

- Strong experience in Golang or Python is expected.

Team Management & Mentorship :

- Manage and mentor a team of engineers.

- Set clear technical and execution expectations for the team.

- Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback and support career development.

- Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality and execution.

- Participate in hiring, onboarding and developing engineering talent.

- Help engineers grow into stronger individual contributors and future technical leaders.

Product & Business Collaboration :

- Partner closely with Product, Design, Data and Business teams to translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.

- Understand product and customer problems, not just technical requirements.

- Influence product decisions through technical feasibility, trade-offs and data.

- Balance short-term delivery with long-term engineering health.

Scale & Reliability :

- Build systems capable of supporting significant user and transaction growth.

- Work on high-traffic consumer-facing products and distributed systems.

- Drive improvements in system performance, availability and observability.

- Contribute to engineering standards for production readiness and operational excellence.

What is needed for this role :

- 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.