Technical Leadership :

- Guide the team on day-to-day development decisions and step in on unsolved problems.

- Design solutions for new modules from spec to schema to API contract to implementation.

- Own MongoDB data modelling decisions - document structure, embedding vs referencing, index strategy.

- Review Node.js service design: API structure, error handling, validation, authentication, rate limiting, background processing.

- Make and document build-vs-buy calls on third-party services with cost and integration effort.

- Ensure the platform stays stable and performant on a live, revenue-generating system.

AI Integration :

- Demonstrate daily working use of AI coding tools and spec-driven development practice.

- Judge AI output quality and know when tasks should not be handed to agents.

- Set up and maintain repo-level context files and make the team's AI setup consistent.

- Coach the team on AI tools while holding the line on quality.

- Work with LLM APIs, embeddings, semantic search and understand where AI features help.

Project Management :

- Run sprint planning, estimation, standups and retros for the India team.

- Break requirements into technical tasks with clear acceptance criteria.

- Track velocity and flag slippage and blockers early.

- Own release coordination - deployment planning, rollback strategy and post-release monitoring.

Team Management :

- Line-manage 6 - 10 engineers across web, mobile and QA - 1:1s, feedback, performance conversations and growth planning.

- Mentor mid-level engineers into senior ones and build depth.

- Participate in hiring - technical screening, interviewing and onboarding.

- Keep the team's engineering practices consistent: documentation, testing, branching, incident handling.

Communication & Strategy :

- Act as the main technical point of contact between the India team and the UAE office product and business stakeholders.

- Communicate clearly to mixed technical and non-technical audiences - status, risk, trade-offs and time cost.

- Manage the time-zone gap with structured overlap hours, written updates and async documentation.

- Own technical delivery on modules including product catalogue, pricing, ordering, workflows, order management, payments, invoicing and vendor onboarding.