The Lead Engineer (AVP - Engineering) will own the end-to-end technology build and delivery of the BLive Mobility platform - a SaaS platform for fleet management, logistics operations, EV charging, driver workflows, and carbon tracking.

This is a hands-on leadership role.

The candidate must have prior experience building fleet, logistics, or IoT-based platforms and should be comfortable architecting systems, writing production code, and leading delivery.

The role will lead the transition from a monolithic system to a scalable microservices architecture and scale the platform across India and global markets.

Key Responsibilities :

Technology & Platform Ownership :

- Own engineering strategy, architecture, and delivery for the platform.

- Build a scalable, multi-tenant SaaS architecture across Fleet, Logistics, Charging, and Carbon modules.

- Translate product requirements into sprint-ready engineering plans.

- Ensure platform reliability, performance, uptime, and cloud cost efficiency on AWS.

Hands-On Architecture & Development :

- Lead from the front code, review, and architect critical components when required.

- Design microservices and API-first systems using Node.js / NestJS.

- Architect event-driven systems for real-time fleet and IoT data using Kafka, SQS, SNS.

- Lead monolith-to-microservices migrations and database transitions.

- Own integrations with telematics systems, IoT devices, ERP platforms, and external APIs.

- Partner with DevOps on CI/CD, Kubernetes (EKS), observability, and security.

Execution & Team Leadership :

- Build and lead a high-performing engineering team (Backend, Frontend, DevOps, QA).

- Drive strong engineering culture, code quality, and predictable delivery.

- Work closely with Product and Business teams to meet release timelines.

AI & Data :

- Drive AI/ML use cases such as route optimization, predictive maintenance, and operational analytics.

- Build real-time data pipelines for fleet and logistics intelligence.

Required Experience (Non-Negotiable) :

- 815 years of experience in software engineering and leadership.

- Mandatory experience building fleet management, logistics, or IoT-based SaaS platforms.

- Strong hands-on expertise in Node.js / NestJS, microservices, and AWS.

- Experience with Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code.

- Experience with Kafka / SQS / SNS, observability tools, and high-availability systems.

- Strong database experience with Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB.

- Proven experience leading monolith-to-microservices migrations.