Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

About Wishlink

Wishlink is building the future of creator-led shopping. We help users discover and buy products through content creators they trust, sitting at the intersection of e-commerce and social media. In just 4 years, we've grown to 900k users daily, Rs 300cr+ monthly GMV, 30,000+ creators, and 200+ brand partners.

Team and Investors

We're 3 founders, Chandan, Shaurya, and Divyansh, with a shared passion to solve real-world problems at scale and consume content for hours. We started Wishlink in January 2022 and are based out of Gurugram. We have recently raised a series B round of $17.5M in February 2026, backed by leading global investors including Vertex Ventures SE Asia & India, Fundamentum, and Elevation Capital.

Why Join Us

Our team includes alumni from IITs, IIMs, and top tech companies, and we move fast while having a LOT of fun! We work with brands like Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, Nykaa, Ajio, H&M, and many more. At Wishlink, you get to work in a fast-emerging consumer-tech startup and play an integral part in building the creator-enabled eCommerce space.

What would you be doing

• Watch Reels and YouTube videos every day & level up on your fashion sense!
• Own end-to-end delivery for your domain — from requirements and system design to shipping and iteration.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a squad of 3–5 engineers; own hiring, performance, and career development.
• Build the technical roadmap for your domain and keep it aligned with product and business goals.
• Lead architecture reviews, set engineering standards, and maintain a high bar for quality and reliability.
• Write production-grade code in backend systems using Python/Django, Postgres, Redis, Celery, Kafka, async at scale; this is a hands-on role with 60% coding time.
• Own SLO targets for your domain; drive incident response, runbook discipline, and blameless post-mortems.
• Partner with product, business and other engineering squads; represent your team's health and risks in leadership forums.
• Continuously improve how the squad operates — CI/CD, code review culture, documentation, and on-call hygiene.

What are we looking for

• 7+ years of building production web applications, with 1–3+ years directly leading an engineering team.
• Proven distributed systems design, backed by real design docs and post-mortems.
• Product mindset: you think about user impact and business outcomes, not just technical correctness.
• Comfortable operating across product, business, and engineering functions — not just within your squad.
• Comfortable making hard tradeoffs under deadline pressure in a high-velocity startup environment.
• Proficient with REST APIs, SQL at scale, and debugging production issues without guessing.
• Hands-on with CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling (metrics, logs, alerting), and debugging production systems end-to-end.

Good to Have

• Background in eCommerce, affiliate marketing, or social commerce — understanding GMV, attribution, and creator-led commerce is a real head start.
• React.js frontend — fast UIs, thoughtful component architecture, rigorous PR reviews.

Perks and Benefits

We are committed to providing the best environment for you to thrive in. To help with this, we have the following benefits available for all our employees.

• Competitive Salary, Generous ESOPs, and Relocation Bonus
• Learning & Development Programs
• Company sponsored newsletters and books
• Subscription to AI tools
• Regular Team Outings

Experience Wishlink

Explore our Creator App: iOS | Android

Explore our Shopping App: iOS | Android

LinkedIn: Wishlink

Founders

Shaurya Gupta - Founder & CEO

Divyansh Ameta - Founder & COO

Chandan Yadav - Founder & CTO

Engineering Team

Anuj Gupta

Shantanu Verma

Manav Rao

Arjun Salyan

Amit Jonwal

Dipendra Singh

Navneet Kumar