Lead Engineer - Full Stack

Lead Engineer – Full Stack

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 6–10 yrs

Job Summary:

We are looking for a hands-on Lead Engineer for a balanced full-stack role, with strong expertise in React.js and solid experience in at least one backend technology such as Python or Node.js (Java experience is a plus). This is a senior technical role with informal leadership responsibilities, where you will guide a small team, drive technical decisions, and remain deeply involved in design and development. The role requires strong ownership across the full software development lifecycle, including delivery, production support, and on-call responsibility for the solutions you build. Familiarity with cloud and DevOps practices is expected.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of scalable full-stack applications across frontend and backend components.
• Work hands-on across React.js and backend services to deliver end-to-end features.
• Drive technical decision-making across frontend, backend, APIs, and databases.
• Develop backend services using at least one of the following technologies: Python or Node.js (Java experience is a plus).
• Provide technical guidance, code reviews, and informal leadership to a small engineering team.
• Work within a small engineering team, contributing to both individual delivery and team-level execution.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, QA, DevOps, and other stakeholders to deliver solutions.
• Establish engineering standards, mentor team members, and support strong development practices.
• Design and build scalable APIs, microservices, and frontend components with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Work closely with DevOps teams and contribute to deployment, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and containerized applications.
• Contribute to database design and work with relational or NoSQL databases based on solution needs.
• Participate in sprint planning, technical estimations, roadmap discussions, and engineering process improvements.
• Own end-to-end lifecycle of your solutions, including development, deployment, production support, and participation in on-call rotations.
• Continuously improve system quality, security, scalability, and operational stability.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 6–10 years of experience in full-stack software development.
• Strong frontend development experience using React.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Strong experience in at least one backend technology such as Python or Node.js (Java experience is a plus).
• Experience designing and developing scalable REST APIs and microservices.
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, component design, and state management.
• Good understanding of system design, software architecture patterns, and distributed systems concepts.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and practical understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Experience with Git, collaborative development workflows, and Agile delivery practices.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and production support skills.
• Willingness to participate in on-call support for owned solutions.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Familiarity with GraphQL and API gateway implementations.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or ELK Stack.
• Knowledge of security best practices across frontend and backend systems.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and quality engineering practices.
• Exposure to data-intensive applications is a plus.