Roles & Responsibilities :

- Write, review and merge production code across Vue.js frontend and Node.js backend.

- Own code quality for the India team - set review standards and refactor technical debt.

- Debug across the full stack - from Vue rendering issues to Mongo aggregations to Kubernetes pod issues.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

Ideal Candidate :

- Strong Hands-On Technical Team Lead Profile : (Vue.js + Node.js) with AI-assisted development and B2B e-commerce exposure.

- 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years leading a team of 5 or more engineers.

- Strong, current, hands-on Vue.js experience including component architecture, state management and performance optimisation.

- Strong, current, hands-on Node.js and Express experience for production API development at scale.

- Deep MongoDB experience including aggregation pipelines, index design, query performance tuning and schema decisions.

- AWS experience particularly Kubernetes/EKS with deployments, resource limits, health probes and production monitoring.

- Working understanding of Flutter including widget architecture, state management, platform channels and Play Store/App Store release pipelines.

- Demonstrable, daily professional use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI or equivalent) with real examples.

- Experience with spec-driven development including writing structured requirement and design documents and reviewing AI-generated output against acceptance criteria.

- Experience setting up and maintaining repo-level context files, rules files and custom commands for AI development.

- Git and CI/CD experience including branching strategy, review workflow and automated pipelines.

- Line-managed engineers (1 : 1s, feedback, performance, growth), mentored mid-to-senior, and participated in hiring.

- Communicate clearly to mixed technical/non-technical audiences and manage a time-zone gap with structured overlap and async documentation.

- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.

- Background in B2B e-commerce, wholesale/distribution or marketplace platforms.

Additional Information :

- Full-time role based in Bangalore, India (Development Centre).

- Hands-on leadership role - meaningful share of time in the codebase.

- Manages 6 - 10 engineers across web, mobile and QA.

- Product direction and business stakeholders sit in the UAE office; engineering execution runs from the India development centre.

- Structured interaction with UAE office product and business stakeholders.

- AI-assisted and spec-driven development is core to the engineering process at this company.