Anakin - Engineering Technical Lead - Java/Python (6-8 yrs)

About us :

At Anakin, we're revolutionizing Pricing intelligence by enabling large global e-commerce companies to optimize their pricing strategies and stay one step ahead of their competitors. Our technology engine has the capability to automatically find, analyze, and generate insights around hundreds of millions of online listed products across more than 15+ countries in real-time.

By leveraging advanced algorithms and intelligent automation, Anakin empowers its clients to make dynamic and real-time pricing adjustments that align with market demands and competitor strategies.

Founded in 2020 by Mohit Prateek (IIT Bombay) and Rashmi Bala (IIT Kanpur), Anakin is a Y-Combinator 21-backed team of 60+ members and revenue growth of 20%+ month on month.

Role Brief :

At Anakin, Lead Engineer will own, solve problem statements and derive solutions that enable us to productize our solution, find out ways to automate workflows to bring out efficiencies and mentor engineers to do their best.

If you are someone who likes to work with an early age startup that is building a SAAS product from scratch and is solving customers' data related challenges, this is an amazing opportunity.

What will you do?

- Understand the team's technical needs and design smart, scalable solutions, using your knowledge of Anakin's innovative product ecosystem.

- Take ownership of projects by guiding engineers through every phase-design, coding, testing, deployment, and ongoing improvements.

- Lead the development of key components and systems, ensuring they are designed, built, and improved to meet high standards of performance and reliability.

- Use best practices like clean code, modular design, and efficient refactoring to create scalable and maintainable solutions.

- Help build new features and products that shape the future of pricing solutions for global markets.

- Ensure the team follows effective engineering processes while delivering high-quality work.

- Lead projects from idea to execution, making a direct impact on how businesses use pricing strategies.

- Analyze system data and performance to find and fix areas for improvement.

- Provide technical leadership, helping engineers grow and work effectively as a team.

- Review work (code, design) and give feedback to maintain a consistent, high-quality output.

- Write clear and simple documentation to help team members easily onboard and contribute.

What do you bring to the table?.

- M.Tech

- 6+ years of engineering experience, including 1+ years in a leadership, mentoring, or coaching role.

- Proven ability to take ownership of projects from requirements to release, delivering impactful solutions.

- Skilled at mentoring and guiding engineers, fostering growth and innovation.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of tackling complex technical challenges.

- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, enabling seamless teamwork.

- Deep expertise in system design and building scalable, robust architectures.

Our current tech stack :

- Python /Java /NodeJS /TypeScript.

- AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, ECR & ECS).

- Database Postgres/Any SQL database, MongoDB.

- GCP BigQuery.

- CI/CD (Jenkins, Docker) JIRA & Confluence.

You would be a great fit, if you know :

- Web crawling/Scraping knowledge.

- Good experience in reverse engineering.

- Django/Flask.

- Redis.

- Kubernetes.

Perks and Benefits :

- Medical Insurance coverage.

- Breakfast and Lunch in the pantry.