Engineering Team Lead
Location: India (Delhi, Hybrid)
Experience: 6 12+ years
Role Overview
We are hiring an Engineering Team Lead to drive the technical direction, execution excellence, and operational integrity of our COBRA platform.
This role combines hands-on technical leadership with team management and delivery ownership. The platform operates in a highly regulated environment where accuracy, data integrity, compliance, and system reliability are non-negotiable.
You will lead a team responsible for evolving a mission-critical system that supports complex eligibility rules, time-sensitive workflows, and regulatory requirements. Strong logical reasoning, systems thinking, and the ability to translate regulatory complexity into robust technical solutions are essential.
Core Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Execution
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers through structured feedback, coaching, and technical guidance.
- Own sprint planning, delivery predictability, and execution quality.
- Ensure alignment between engineering priorities and product/regulatory requirements.
- Proactively identify risks, technical gaps, and compliance impacts during planning.
- Build a culture of accountability, disciplined execution, and high engineering standards.
Architecture & System Design
- Own the technical health and long-term evolution of the team's system.
- Drive architectural decisions for new features, refactors, and system improvements.
- Ensure architecture supports scalability, reliability, and maintainability goals.
- Maintain up-to-date technical documentation and architecture diagrams.
- Identify technical debt and prioritize remediation aligned with business impact.
Design, Development & Quality
- Contribute hands-on to critical or complex parts of the system.
- Lead technical design discussions and ensure robust solution architecture.
- Set and enforce engineering standards through code reviews and design reviews.
- Ensure high-quality testing strategies and safe release practices.
- Balance speed of delivery with long-term system sustainability.
Logical Design & Regulatory System Modeling
- Translate complex COBRA rules, timelines, and eligibility requirements into deterministic, auditable system behavior.
- Design rule engines and workflows that are predictable, testable, and resilient to edge cases.
- Ensure time-bound triggers, notifications, and compliance-sensitive events are implemented with precision.
- Apply strong analytical and reasoning skills to identify hidden edge cases and systemic risks.
Scalability, Reliability & Operational Excellence
- Ensure systems are designed for fault tolerance, retries, graceful degradation, and observability.
- Lead root cause analysis of production incidents and drive permanent systemic fixes.
- Improve monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting for compliance-sensitive workflows.
- Establish reliability metrics and operational KPIs aligned with business impact.
- Continuously reduce operational overhead and repeat failures.
Security & Compliance
- Ensure the platform adheres to HIPAA compliance requirements and internal security standards.
- Drive secure coding practices, data encryption (in transit and at rest), and proper access control mechanisms.
- Ensure auditability, traceability, and data integrity across distributed services.
- Collaborate with security and compliance teams during audits and risk assessments.
- Proactively identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities and compliance gaps.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with Product, Operations, and Compliance stakeholders.
- Communicate technical trade-offs, regulatory risks, and architectural constraints clearly.
- Ensure engineering decisions align with business goals and regulatory obligations.
Required Technical Skills
Backend & Distributed Systems
- Strong expertise in C# / .NET Core (API design, async patterns, clean architecture, SOLID principles).
- Strong SQL expertise (schema design, indexing, query optimization, data consistency).
- Proven experience building and operating microservices in production.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts (consistency models, retries, idempotency, failure modes).
- Experience handling transactional integrity across distributed services.
Architectural Patterns
- Experience with CQRS pattern and event-driven architectures (good to have).
- Familiarity with message brokers and asynchronous processing models.
- Understanding of distributed transactions and compensating transaction patterns (good to have).
Frontend & Cross-Stack
- Working knowledge of Angular / TypeScript to review architecture and debug cross-stack issues.
- Ability to define robust API contracts and reason about system interactions.
Engineering Practices
- Strong discipline in code reviews, testing strategies, and release safety.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and production troubleshooting.
- Comfort debugging live systems using logs, metrics, and traces.
- Experience driving engineering process improvements.
Domain Knowledge (Good to Have)
- Working knowledge of US COBRA regulations and lifecycle workflows.
- Experience building or operating systems in healthcare, benefits administration, or other regulated domains.
- Familiarity with HIPAA compliance requirements and data privacy best practices.
Experience & Expectations
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers.
- Proven experience delivering scalable production systems in regulated environments preferred.
- Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving ability.
- Demonstrated ability to reason about complex rule-based systems.
- Excellent communication skills across technical and business stakeholders.
What Success Looks Like
- The COBRA platform handles complex regulatory workflows accurately and predictably.
- Compliance-sensitive workflows execute without failure or ambiguity.
- Security and audit requirements are consistently met.
- Production incidents decline in both frequency and severity.
- Architecture evolves deliberately with scalability and compliance in mind.
- The team demonstrates strong ownership, technical rigor, and operational discipline.
