Technical Team Lead (Vue.js, Node.js, B2B E-Commerce platform)

Hiring for a client - Traderz.com

Roles and Responsibilities

• Write, review and merge production code across Vue.js frontend and Node.js backend
• Own code quality for the India team — set review standards and refactor technical debt
• Debug across the full stack — from Vue rendering issues to Mongo aggregations to Kubernetes pod issues
• Guide the team on day-to-day development decisions and step in on unsolved problems
• Design solutions for new modules from spec to schema to API contract to implementation
• Own MongoDB data modelling decisions — document structure, embedding vs referencing, index strategy
• Review Node.js service design: API structure, error handling, validation, authentication, rate limiting, background processing
• Make and document build-vs-buy calls on third-party services with cost and integration effort
• Ensure the platform stays stable and performant on a live, revenue-generating system
• Demonstrate daily working use of AI coding tools and spec-driven development practice
• Judge AI output quality and know when tasks should not be handed to agents
• Set up and maintain repo-level context files and make the team's AI setup consistent
• Coach the team on AI tools while holding the line on quality
• Work with LLM APIs, embeddings, semantic search and understand where AI features help
• Run sprint planning, estimation, standups and retros for the India team
• Break requirements into technical tasks with clear acceptance criteria
• Track velocity and flag slippage and blockers early
• Own release coordination — deployment planning, rollback strategy and post-release monitoring
• Line-manage 6–10 engineers across web, mobile and QA — 1:1s, feedback, performance conversations and growth planning
• Mentor mid-level engineers into senior ones and build depth
• Participate in hiring — technical screening, interviewing and onboarding
• Keep the team's engineering practices consistent: documentation, testing, branching, incident handling
• Act as the main technical point of contact between the India team and the UAE office product and business stakeholders
• Communicate clearly to mixed technical and non-technical audiences — status, risk, trade-offs and time cost
• Manage the time-zone gap with structured overlap hours, written updates and async documentation
• Own technical delivery on modules including product catalogue, pricing, ordering, workflows, order management, payments, invoicing and vendor onboarding

Requirements

1Strong Hands-On Technical Team Lead Profile (Vue.js + Node.js) with AI-assisted development and B2B e-commerce exposure

2Mandatory (Experience) - Must have 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years leading a team of 5 or more engineers

3Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong, current, hands-on Vue.js experience including component architecture, state management and performance optimisation

4Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have strong, current, hands-on Node.js and Express experience for production API development at scale

5Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have deep MongoDB experience including aggregation pipelines, index design, query performance tuning and schema decisions

6Mandatory (Tech skill 4): Must have AWS experience particularly Kubernetes/EKS with deployments, resource limits, health probes and production monitoring

7Mandatory (Tech skill 5): Must have working understanding of Flutter including widget architecture, state management, platform channels and Play Store/App Store release pipelines

8Mandatory (Tech skill 6): Must have demonstrable, daily professional use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI or equivalent) with real examples

9Mandatory (Tech skill 7): Must have experience with spec-driven development including writing structured requirement and design documents and reviewing AI-generated output against acceptance criteria

10Mandatory (Tech skill 8): Must have experience setting up and maintaining repo-level context files, rules files and custom commands for AI development

11Mandatory (Tech skill 9): Must have Git and CI/CD experience including branching strategy, review workflow and automated pipelines

12Mandatory (Leadership): Must have line-managed engineers (1:1s, feedback, performance, growth), mentored mid-to-senior, and participated in hiring

13Mandatory (Communication): Must communicate clearly to mixed technical/non-technical audiences and manage a time-zone gap with structured overlap and async documentation (works with the UAE office)

14Mandatory (Education): Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

15Mandatory (Domain): Background in B2B e-commerce, wholesale/distribution or marketplace platforms

16Preferred (Offshore Experience): Experience working as the offshore technical counterpart to an overseas leadership team

17Preferred (AI Integration): Experience integrating LLM APIs into a production product

18Preferred (Observability): Exposure to observability tooling such as CloudWatch, Datadog or Sentry and analytics instrumentation

19Preferred (Third-party Integrations): Experience with payment gateways, e-signature, logistics APIs, mapping and geolocation integrations