Senior Technical Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the complete backend architecture: event-driven core, Postgres partitioning, durable eventing patterns, and multi-tenant scalability.

• Create APIs, define microservice boundaries, and establish service contracts for a high-throughput, multi-tenant platform.

• Develop the AI integration layer: a foundation for RAG, asynchronous classification, and various AI applications.

• Lead technical phasing across multiple product stages (foundations → review workflows → external delivery → search/AI → migration).

• Collaborate with platform architects to ensure alignment with company-wide standards (eventing, observability, deployment).

• Guide a team of 4–5 engineers technically — conducting design reviews, code reviews, and enhancing the engineering standards.

• Support and mentor junior engineers — collaborate on challenging problems, facilitate learning sessions, provide actionable feedback, and create clear pathways for their advancement to senior roles.

• Manage production health — SLOs, runbooks, and incident postmortems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of backend engineering experience, including 5+ years in Python (or a strong polyglot background in Python/Java).

• Proven production experience with asynchronous Python (FastAPI / asyncio) at scale.

• Proficient in API design — REST/gRPC, versioning, schema evolution, and backward compatibility.

• Knowledgeable in microservices and distributed systems — understanding service boundaries, contracts, eventing patterns, idempotency, and outbox/saga.

• Strong expertise in PostgreSQL — partitioning, complex queries, replication, and performance tuning.

• Experience in scaling and performance — capacity planning, caching, query optimization, and balancing latency/throughput trade-offs.

• In-depth AWS knowledge — ECS/EKS, S3, SNS/SQS, Aurora, IAM, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Familiarity with observability and production ownership — metrics, tracing, on-call responsibilities, SLOs, and postmortems.

• Experience in leading project-level technical direction for over 12 months with measurable outcomes.

• A successful track record of grooming and mentoring junior and mid-level engineers — guiding them from execution-level tasks to ownership of design and delivery.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Professional development opportunities.