- Define and own scalable, multi-layered system architecture across frontend, backend, integration, and data layers.

- Establish design standards for APIs, data models, and distributed system interactions.

- Drive architecture decisions for performance, scalability, and maintainability.

- Maintain architecture documentation, design artifacts, and decision records.

Backend & Integration :

- Design and implement robust API architectures and integration patterns (REST, event-driven, message-based).

- Define and govern asynchronous communication using messaging systems.

- Ensure reliable and scalable system integrations across platforms.

Cloud & Platform Engineering :

- Architect and manage cloud-native solutions using Azure (or equivalent cloud platforms).

- Define strategies for compute, storage, caching, and secure configuration management.

- Oversee CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and environment management.

Data & Performance :

- Design efficient data architectures using relational databases and caching systems.

- Establish best practices for query optimization, indexing, and high-performance data access.

- Define performance tuning and scalability strategies across system layers.

Security & Compliance :

- Define and enforce authentication and authorization frameworks (OAuth, JWT, RBAC).

- Ensure secure system design including data protection, encryption, and access controls.

- Establish audit, logging, and compliance-ready system practices.

Team Leadership :

- Lead and mentor a team of full stack developers.

- Drive technical planning, task breakdown, and estimation.

- Conduct code reviews and enforce engineering best practices.

- Identify technical risks and proactively drive mitigation strategies.

AI-Assisted Development :

- Drive adoption of AI-powered development tools such as Claude and GitHub Copilot to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and development efficiency.

Required Qualifications :

- 10 to 15 years of experience in software development with at least 4 years in a technical leadership role.

- Strong expertise in frontend (React or equivalent SPA frameworks) and backend (Node.js/Express or similar) technologies.

- Deep hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable) and PaaS services.

- Proven experience designing scalable, distributed, and event-driven systems.

- Strong experience in API design, system integration, and messaging architectures.

- Solid database design expertise (relational databases, performance optimization, indexing strategies).

- Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams in Agile environments.

- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and release management.

- Expertise in authentication and authorization mechanisms (OAuth 2.0, JWT, RBAC).

- Strong technical documentation and communication skills.

Mandatory skills : Full Stack, Architect (2 years), NodeJS (4+ yrs) & ReactJS (4+ yrs).