Lead Software Engineer

Company Overview :

ITILITE is a leading global brand in the Business Travel, Expense & Cards Management space. Our mission is to help companies simplify their travel and expense processes, making it an enjoyable experience for employees.

We operate on a B2B SaaS model, with a strong presence in India and the USA, serving over 500 customers. We are a Series C funded company, having raised over $45 million from Global Tier 1 VCs like Tiger Global, VY Capital, Greenoaks, and Z47 (Matrix Partners).

As a Tech Lead, you will lead a team of 4 to 6 people and own the deliverables of one or two modules of our flagship product.

You will be responsible for :

- Design, architecture and development of our flagship product.

- Leading a team of 4-6 people and responsible for getting work done from the team.

- To liaise with the product manager and technical architect to explore and suggest.

- High quality technical solutions to achieve the required product features as well as monitoring technical progress against plans.

- While safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance.

- Actively participate in code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.

- Ensure high scalability and performance of the platform.

- Build proof of concepts and early prototypes systems and scale it to production.

- Advocate for good, clean, well-documented and performing code; define and follow standards and best practices for front-end development.

We want you if you have :

- Over 5 years of proven work experience in a product-based company delivering mission critical projects.

- Design, code, test, debug, and document software according to functional requirements.

- Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.

- Provide cost-optimized solutions and approaches while addressing scalability and performance concerns.

- Expert knowledge in databases, language runtimes, multithreading, caches and different types of architectures.

- Knowledge of setting up right monitoring and alerts for your services.

- Extensive experience with AWS, particularly in CDK, Lambda, ECS etc.

- Extensive experience in message queue systems, including Celery, RabbitMQ, and Kafka.

- A strong sense of ownership and quality for your deliverables.

Good to Have :

- Working experience with Python and its frameworks OR at least 2 different languages.

- Experience in building analytics or reporting engines is a plus.

- Experience in full-stack development.

- Even if you don't meet all these skills set above, we'd still love to hear from you.

- Tell us about your unique qualifications and why we need to consider your resume in your cover letter.