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-Karnataka-Bengaluru

Schedule: Full-time

Travel: No

Req ID: 265356

Job Hire Type Experienced Not Applicable #BMI N/A