Tech Lead

About the role

As a Principal Engineer you own architecture and engineering standards for full-stack engineering across teams. You stay hands-on and set the bar for hiring. The role is backend-heavy, and you also build the React interfaces for the features you deliver.

What you'll do

• Own the architecture of TypeScript and Node.js or Python systems across multiple teams
• Set and maintain our engineering standards for API design, data, reliability, security, observability and testing
• Review designs and architecture decision records across teams, challenge assumptions, and make sure decisions are made on evidence and recorded with their trade-offs
• Decide, with Platform Engineering, how we use AWS Lambda and Kubernetes, and own the cost, capacity and reliability consequences of those choices
• Lead the response to the most serious production incidents and performance problems, find the root cause and make sure it does not happen again

What you need

• 3–6 yrs of experience
• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Python
• Git
• REST APIs
• AWS
• B.Tech or B.E.

Good to have

• ISO 27001
• Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• Unit testing
• Redis