Role Summary :

We are looking for a highly skilled Tech Lead with 10-15 years of hands-on software development experience to drive technical design, architecture, and delivery across complex, cloud-native applications. The ideal candidate is technically strong, has deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, Angular, and Node.js and hands-on experience with AWS cloud-hosted applications. Exposure to Go, Rust, Java, or React is an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead end-to-end technical design, architecture, and implementation of SaaS-based applications.

- Own and govern coding standards, best practices, and development guidelines across teams.

- Perform technical reviews, drive performance optimizations, and ensure high-quality code delivery.

- Guide engineering teams in selecting appropriate technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns.

- Troubleshoot complex system issues and provide hands-on support in solving critical production challenges.

- Develop and maintain scalable applications using Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Angular.

- Build RESTful and event-driven microservices with distributed systems principles.

- Provide guidance in implementing CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and DevOps best practices on AWS.

- Drive refactoring initiatives, modernization of legacy components, and cloud-native improvements.

- Ensure compliance with security, performance, and resiliency standards.

- Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers.

- Collaborate closely with Product, QA, DevOps, and Business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.

- Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and delivery tracking.

- Ensure transparent communication and alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Integrate Gen AI and LLM technologies into core workflows

- Own reliability, observability, and uptime -ensuring system stability across all environments

Required Skills :

- 10 to 15 years of strong hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, Angular and Node.js for high-throughput backend systems

- Solid understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs, event-driven systems.

- Proven ability to lead architecture decisions in AWS-based environments

- Expertise in relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB).

- Experience in distributed caching and message queuing mechanisms

- Proven ability to lead engineering teams and provide technical direction.

- Experience integrating GenAI/LLMs or working with AI infrastructure (e.g., vector DBs, model APIs)

- Excellent debugging, profiling, and system performance tuning capabilities

- Knowledge of security best practices, OWASP, and cloud-native security

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience building or scaling commercial lending or financial SaaS platforms

- Experience with observability tools (Datadog, ScoutAPM, New Relic, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana)

- Familiarity with DevOps/SRE principles and maintaining production-grade SaaS platforms.