About the Role We're seeking a Tech Lead to drive technical direction for a core engineering team. You'll balance hands-on coding with architectural ownership, guiding a team of engineers while ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and well-designed.

Responsibilities

Own high-level design (HLD) and low-level design (LLD) for services and systems within your team's scope
Lead design and architecture discussions for new microservices and platform capabilities
Drive technical decisions around Kafka-based event streaming, data storage (MongoDB, PostgreSQL), and service architecture
Guide the team on AWS infrastructure choices and cloud-native best practices
Establish and enforce engineering standards: code quality, testing, CI/CD practices (Git, Gradle pipelines)
Review designs and code from team members; provide technical mentorship
Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to translate requirements into technical plans
Identify and resolve architectural bottlenecks, technical debt, and scalability risks
Balance individual contribution (coding) with team leadership and unblocking

Requirements

7–10 years of software engineering experience, with 1–2+ years in a technical leadership capacity
Expert-level proficiency in Java and Kotlin
Deep experience with Spring Boot, microservices, and distributed systems design
Strong hands-on experience with Kafka for event-driven architectures
Proven experience with MongoDB and PostgreSQL at scale
Strong AWS expertise (compute, storage, networking, managed services)
Demonstrated ability to own HLD and LLD for complex systems
Experience setting up robust CI/CD pipelines (Git, Gradle)
Strong leadership, mentorship, and stakeholder communication skills
Track record of leading a team through delivery of complex technical projects

Tech Lead Backend / Platform Engineering

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