Technical Lead

IMMEDIATE HIRING

Role Purpose

Own day-to-day engineering execution end-to-end and ensure predictable delivery, strong engineering governance, and high-quality releases across all products and projects. Build a scalable engineering operating system that does not depend on any single individual's availability.

Employment Type

Full-time

Work Arrangement

Hybrid or on-site based on business needs, with mandatory availability during core working hours and for critical releases and escalations.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery Ownership and Execution Excellence

• Own engineering delivery from planning through production release across all products.
• Convert requirements into clear technical plans, milestones, sprint goals, and weekly execution targets.
• Lead daily execution follow-up, remove blockers fast, and enforce accountability.
• Establish a predictable release cadence and manage cross-team dependencies.
• Drive structured escalation and decision-making to prevent stalled delivery.

Engineering Governance and Jira Discipline

• Enforce full transparency and end-to-end work tracking using Jira.
• Define and mandate standards for ticket readiness, including acceptance criteria and definition of done.
• Enforce consistent workflows, statuses, ownership, and WIP limits across teams.
• Produce weekly CEO-ready reporting: progress, delays, root causes, risks, and decisions needed.

Architecture and Technical Leadership

• Lead system design and architecture decisions for new and existing systems.
• Ensure scalability, reliability, performance, maintainability, and security of core platforms.
• Own technical debt management with a structured monthly debt-repayment plan.
• Standardize API design guidelines, coding standards, and engineering best practices.

Quality Engineering and Release Readiness

• Build and enforce a quality strategy covering unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing where appropriate.
• Establish mandatory peer code reviews and PR quality gates before merge.
• Define release readiness checklists and block risky releases.
• Track and reduce production defects and defect leakage month over month.

DevOps, Reliability, and Environments

• Ensure CI/CD pipelines are robust and environments are stable across dev, staging, and production.
• Implement observability standards: logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and dashboards.
• Lead incident response, postmortems, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Define and enforce rollback, backup, and disaster recovery procedures.

Security and Secure Engineering

• Implement secure SDLC practices and OWASP-aligned controls.
• Govern secrets management, access control, and data protection practices.
• Ensure compliance-ready engineering practices for sensitive and regulated use cases.

Team Leadership and Capability Building

• Lead, coach, and develop engineers, senior engineers, and team leads.
• Set performance standards and run structured technical evaluations.
• Build a leadership bench and continuous improvement routines.
• Drive a culture of ownership and execution, not meeting coordination.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 1418 years of professional software engineering experience with a proven delivery track record.
• 6+ years in engineering leadership roles leading multiple engineers and teams.
• Strong system design and architecture expertise for SaaS platforms and scalable backends.
• Proven experience establishing engineering governance, delivery discipline, and quality systems.
• Hands-on understanding of CI/CD, release engineering, observability, and incident management.
• Strong security mindset with experience applying secure engineering practices.

Preferred

• Experience in FinTech, HealthTech, or compliance-driven platforms.
• Experience taking over troubled projects and restoring delivery predictability within 3090 days.
• Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance.
• Strong backend engineering in at least one of Node.js, .NET, Java, or Python.
• API design expertise in REST and event-driven patterns when applicable.
• Strong database skills including SQL design and performance optimization, plus NoSQL familiarity.
• Git workflows, branching strategies, and PR governance.
• Testing frameworks and automation strategy.
• Cloud experience in AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
• Observability tooling and best practices.

Behavioral Competencies

• High ownership and accountability.
• Firm decision-making under pressure with professional stakeholder management.
• Excellent communication, escalation, and reporting to the Top Management.
• Ability to challenge weak practices and enforce standards.
• Execution-focused leadership.

KPIs and Success Metrics

Weekly

• Sprint commitment accuracy: delivered vs planned.
• Ticket aging by type and team.
• Percent of tickets with clear acceptance criteria before start.
• Blocker resolution time.
• Jira hygiene compliance: updates, ownership, and workflow adherence.

Monthly

• Lead time from ticket creation to production release.
• Defect leakage: defects found in production vs pre-production.
• Change failure rate: releases causing incidents.
• MTTR: mean time to recovery.
• PR quality gate compliance: reviews and checks before merge.
• Release predictability and cadence stability.