Lead Software Engineer

About the role

As a Lead Software Engineer at Keka, you’ll be the technical anchor of your squad, the engineer your team turns to for the hardest problems in your domain. You’ll work with your Product Manager, Designer and adjacent squads to shape scope, surface technical risk early and ship systems that stay fast and reliable as usage grows.

What you'll do

• Own the technical design for your squad’s services, turning product requirements into clear designs your team can build with confidence
• Write production code every sprint as one of the strongest hands-on contributors on the squad
• Build and maintain APIs, data models and background workflows that are clean, well-documented and easy for other teams to use
• Design for growth so your services stay fast and predictable under higher load and larger data volumes
• Own production quality end to end, from instrumentation and incident response to root-cause analysis and lasting fixes

What you need

• 5–8 years in software engineering
• System design
• REST APIs
• Kafka
• NoSQL
• RabbitMQ
• CI/CD
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Incident response
• Root cause analysis
• Instrumentation
• HRMS