Experience: 7.00 + years
Salary: INR 4000000.00 / year (based on experience)
Expected Notice Period: 15 Days
Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)
Opportunity Type: Office ()
Placement Type: Full Time Permanent position(Payroll and Compliance to be managed by: ZestIot)
(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers client - ZestIot)
What do you need for this opportunity
Must have skills required:
Python, Rabbit MQ, Django /Flask, AWS, Distributed Systems, SaaS, IoT, Aviation
ZestIot is Looking for:
We are looking for an
Engineering Lead to take
end-to-end ownership of Product features technical delivery which comprises of taking UX/Features requirement as input to produce technical design, development, system tested quality delivery for our
multi-customer SaaS product. This role requires a strong technical background, clear process thinking, and proven people leadership to drive execution and build reliable systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ability to lead, review & produce technical delivery: Lead technical design for new and existing modules, impact analysis to existing features for comprehensive design to implement features & product enhancement ensuring scalability, security, performance, and long-term maintainability of the platform. Own system design decisions across backend, and platform services.
- Engineering Process Ownership: Define and drive engineering (design & development) processes across requirement intake, sprint planning, code reviews, testing, and release management. Ensure team follows structured development practices, documentation standards, and delivery discipline.
- Team Management: Mentor and guide engineers, conduct performance reviews, and support individual growth plans. Ensure clarity in priorities, remove blockers, and build a strong culture of ownership, accountability, and quality.
- Continuous Improvement: Drive quality improvement, learnings from failures & retrospection, root cause analysis feeding into continuous improvement of engineering processes
- Requirement to Delivery: Work closely with product, presales, and customer teams to understand requirements, translate them into system designs and execution plans, and track progress through delivery and post-release support.
- Quality, Stability & Reliability: Drive automation, ensure testing discipline, and reduce defect leakage. Own incident/customer discovered defects RCA, and continuous improvement of system performance and uptime.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, QA, Support, and Presales teams to align engineering execution with business goals. Support customer discussions and technical solutioning when required.
- Tools & automation: Stay up to date on new tech developments, bring new ways of technology delivery with focus on faster, cheaper & high quality product featuresTrack, identify & reduce technical debt, improve development workflows, and adopt better tools and standards. Promote learning culture and excellence in engineering practices.
Requirements:
Must Have :
- Attitude to learn & grow self along with the team. Demonstrate the latest learnings & its application in a professional environment
- Experience: 9+ years of experience in software engineering with a minimum of 4 years in an engineering leadership with minimum 3 or more projects with major software releases & end to end delivery responsibility
- At least 3+ years experience in 50% of tech stack: Python, Django, Angular, Docker, cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), Redis, and RabbitMQ
- Team Leadership: Experience in mentoring, managing, and growing engineering teams ( at least 4-5 engineers directly ), driving high performance, accountability, and skill development.
- Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to debug and resolve complex technical issues across systems, integrations, and infrastructure layers.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong communication and collaboration skills to work closely with Product, QA, Support, and Customer teams, ensuring smooth execution and alignment.
Good to Have :
- Process & Quality Ownership: Strong track record of ensuring product quality, stability, and release readiness through structured engineering processes, reviews, testing strategies, and monitoring practices.
- Design: Proven experience in designing scalable, high-performance, and reliable systems for enterprise or SaaS platforms. Architecture experience is an added advantage
- Technical Expertise: Hands-on experience with modern backend and platform stacks such as Python, Django, Angular, Docker, cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), Redis, and RabbitMQ.
- SaaS Delivery: Hands-on experience delivering multi-customer configurable software products, including tenant-based configurations, phased rollouts, and customer-specific deployments.
- Customer Orientation (Good to have): Exposure to customer-facing technical discussions, solution design, or presales support is a plus.
Interview Process :
- Round 1 -HR Screening
- Round -2 ( Technical Round 1 ): Coding -Python, Engineering fundamentals
- Round -3 ( Technical Round 2 ) : System Design, Architecture, Team Management
- Round 4 - Founder Round ( Techno-Managerial )
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- Step 2: Complete the Screening Form & Upload updated Resume
- Step 3: Increase your chances to get shortlisted & meet the client for the Interview!
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