Lead Software Engineer - Python

Responsibilities :

- End-to-end ownership : Translate product vision into secure, scalable features; drive design, coding, review, testing, and deployment.

- Platform evolution : Design fault-tolerant, multi-tenant architectures; weave in multi-agent LLM workflows, vector search, and RAG pipelines.

- Dev-excellence : Champion CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CDK), automated testing, observability, and cost-aware cloud operations.

- Technical leadership : Mentor 2-4 engineers, set coding standards, lead architecture reviews, and sprint planning.

- Cross-functional collaboration : Pair with Product, DevRel, and GTM to ship business-impacting releases every 2-3 weeks.

- 4-6 yrs building production SaaS; 3 yrs in Python back-ends (FastAPI/Django/Flask) and React (hooks, TS).

- Deep SQL and Postgres tuning; distributed systems know-how (caching, queues, event-driven design).

- Hands-on AWS (EKS/Lambda, S3 Aurora, IAM) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).

- Proven track record of shipping at > 1 M MAU or > 10K TPS scale.

- Strong DSA, design patterns, code review, and mentoring chops.