Description
We are looking for a Technical Lead who will operate at a cross-team level, driving architecture, engineering standards, and technical governance across multiple projects. This role goes beyond a typical team-level Tech Lead and focuses on enabling other Tech Leads, ensuring consistency, and improving overall engineering maturity. The ideal candidate is a strong full-stack engineer (Python React) with deep architectural expertise and the ability to guide teams hands-on.
Key Responsibilities:
1.
Architecture & Design Governance:
- Define and standardize architecture patterns and design principles
- Review and guide critical technical designs across teams
- Ensure systems are scalable, secure, and aligned with long-term vision
- Drive technology selection and standardization
2. Engineering Standards & Best Practices:
Establish and enforce:
- Coding standards
- Code review practices
- Testing strategies
- Drive adoption of:
CI/CD pipelines:
- Code quality tools (e.g., SonarQube)
- DevOps best practices
- Ensure consistency across all teams
3. Tech Lead Enablement:
- Mentor and support team-level Tech Leads
- Help resolve complex technical challenges
Conduct:
- Design reviews
- Knowledge-sharing sessions
- Technical workshops
- Act as a technical escalation point
4. Full Stack Technical Leadership:
Provide hands-on guidance in:
- Backend development using Python
- Frontend development using React
Ensure best practices in:
- API design and integration
- UI architecture and performance
- End-to-end system design
- Support teams in building scalable full-stack applications
5. Cross-Team Alignment:
Break silos and promote reusable components and shared services
Ensure alignment across projects on:
- Architecture
- Tools
- Frameworks
- Collaborate with Engineering Managers and Product teams
6. Innovation & Productivity:
- Drive initiatives around:
- AI adoption
- Developer productivity
- Automation
- Improve developer experience and delivery efficiency
Required Skills & Experience:
- Strong full-stack development experience using Python and React
- Hands-on experience with Python backend frameworks, including:
- Django
- Django REST Framework
- FastAPI
- Flask
- Strong experience in designing and developing REST APIs and third-party system integrations
- Hands-on experience with React, including:
- Modern frontend architecture
- State management
- Component design and reusability
- Frontend performance optimization
- Experience with PostgreSQL, including:
- Relational database design
- Query optimization
- Indexing and performance tuning
Deep understanding of:
- System design and distributed systems
- Microservices and service-oriented architecture
- API design, authentication, and integrations
- Scalable and high-performance application architecture
Cloud & DevOps:
Strong hands-on experience with GCP is preferred; equivalent experience with Azure or AWS may be considered
Experience with GCP services such as:
- Cloud Run
- Cloud SQL
- BigQuery
- Secret Manager
- Cloud Scheduler
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Knowledge and hands-on experience with:
- CI/CD pipelines
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Docker and containerized deployments
- Cloud Run or Kubernetes
- Git-based development and branching workflows
- Redis or equivalent caching solutions
Engineering Practices:
- Strong understanding of application security, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization
- Experience with application monitoring, logging, observability, and troubleshooting
- Experience with code quality and static analysis tools such as SonarQube
Strong understanding of testing strategies, including:
- Unit testing
- Integration testing
- API testing
- End-to-end testing
- Knowledge of secure coding practices and common application security standards
- Experience with code reviews, coding standards, and engineering best practices
- AI & Modern Stack (Good to Have):
- Exposure to AI/ML or LLM-based solutions
- Familiarity with agentic development / automation frameworks
Soft Skills:
- Strong technical leadership and mentoring ability
- Excellent communication and collaboration
- Ability to influence without authority
- Strong problem-solving mindset
Qualifications
- 10–12 years of experience in software engineering
- B.Tech/B.E, BCA, B.Sc degree in Information Technology.
- Proven full-stack development experience (Python React) in production systems
- Experience in leading multiple projects or mentoring Tech Leads
- Strong exposure to architecture and system design
This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.
Job Information Technology
Primary Location India-Maharashtra-Mumbai
Schedule: Full-time
Travel: No
Req ID: 263328
Job Hire Type Experienced Not Applicable #BMI N/A
