Tech Lead

Job Locations: Rajkot, Remote

Type: Full-time

Experience Level: Senior/Lead

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Tech Lead to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading complex, distributed software projects from inception to release and support. You will be responsible for overseeing all phases of the software development lifecycle and ensuring the successful delivery of multiple projects, of type greenfield and brownfield.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead one or more projects from inception to release and support, managing a team of 5 or more members.
• You should love hands-on development. Apply only if youre passionate about programming and ready to lead your teammates while actively coding.
• Oversee all phases of the software project development lifecycle: discovery, requirement gathering and analysis, solutioning and architecture, design and implementation, release, and support.
• Plan and execute project delivery milestones, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
• Independently manage multiple projects post-release, including feature enhancements, troubleshooting, and critical (P1) bug fixes.
• Design and architect solutions considering concurrency, responsiveness, data integrity, data consistency, performance, and security.
• Interact with various internal and external stakeholders, to effectively handle all types of communications, related to business requirements, solutioning, planning and delivery.
• Refine fuzzy requirements in collaboration with business and technical stakeholders.
• Model data and objects, including entity relationships, entity life-cycles, temporal events, and snapshot modeling.
• Implement business process automations for real-time business events, scheduled batch processing, and UI-driven workflow automations.
• Conduct data analysis to identify patterns and incorporate findings into solutions.
• Integrate internal and external systems using various strategies such as API-driven, event-driven, and batch integrations.
• Perform data migration activities with appropriate data validation and reconciliation.
• Generate required documentation at various stages, including architecture diagrams, design diagrams, database/object models, process flows, and post-release documentation.
• Learn and adopt new technologies, tools, frameworks, and programming languages as needed.
• Apply architectural patterns like Layered architecture, microservices, modular monoliths, event-driven systems, and component-based architecture.
• Maintain strong development practices and methodologies, including design patterns, data modeling principles, unit testing, clean code, SOLID/CUPID principles, and continuous refactoring.
• Proficiently use two or more programming languages for backend services, such as C#, Java, or others.
• Communicate effectively at different levels of abstraction based on the target audience.
• Nurture and mentor team members.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies or cloud-hosted solutions.
• Familiarity with front-end development tools, frameworks, and technologies.

Must-have Requirements

• Must have led a team of 5+ members for the last 3 or more years
• Must have led and delivered multiple software projects of medium to high scale and complexity.
• Must have led at least one greenfield project, i.e. developed and released a project from scratch
• Must have worked on all phases of the software development lifecycle, from inception and requirements gathering to solutioning, architecture, design and development, and finally software deployment, release and support.
• Proven track record of effectively handling communications with various stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Strong hold on cultivating and implementing various development practices like CI/CD, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Clean Code and Continuous Refactoring.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong design and architectural skills, including data and object modeling.
• Experience in implementing business process automations and various system integrations.
• Proficiency in data analysis and data migration activities.
• Strong documentation skills to effectively describe solution, architecture and design, as well as being able to generate other documentation artifacts through various stages of software development life cycle.
• Ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies and tools.
• Proficiency in two or more backend programming languages.
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Experience in mentoring and nurturing team members.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies and front-end development tools.