Technical Lead

Responsibilities:
Research, design, and build highly reliable, available, and scalable platforms.
Complete ownership of the Service/Services that your team is responsible for, lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.
Platformize components as libraries, utilities, and services, and promote reuse.
Own large technical deliverables and execute in an exemplary way.
Be able to conceptualise and develop a prototype quickly.
Drive the technical road map of the team in collaboration with Engineering and Product.
Distributed Systems Architecture, components modeling, data flow, Scaling and managing large pieces of data.
Articulating system requirements, problem comprehension, and identifying high-level building blocks.
Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) like Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, High Availability, Sharding, Replication, Load balance, and Application-level Security, etc.
Able to take high ownership of complex system components and drive them to the next level.
Machine Coding (Able to write modular and functionally complete object-oriented code, NFR implementation, abstractions, separation of concerns, concurrency and thread safety, extensibility, hooks, etc. ).
Requirements:
Deep expertise in at least one programming language and tech stack.
Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions.
Strong object-oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
The ability to do deep problem solving and build elegant, maintainable solutions to complex problems.
Experience leading multi-engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers.
Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform.
Comprehensive operational experience, including optimisations, deployments, and tuning servers like apache/mysql/tomcat/solr.
Prior experience in working with Agile software methodologies (XP, Scrum), TDD, and Continuous Integration(CI/CD) is a plus.
B. Tech, M. Tech, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
High technical acumen and rich technical experience.
Experience in building data-driven web application design and development is a plus.
Expert-level experience in building scalable, large, and complex business applications using some of the above technologies and mentoring junior engineers.
Deep expertise with any or combination of programming languages: Java, C++, C#, Ruby, PHP, any objected oriented high level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs.
Strong System Characterisation and identification of technical requirements.
Architectural and Design Choices, Deep knowledge on one or more tech stacks, identify alternative tech choices, and trade-offs.
Strong problem-solving skills, identify feasible alternatives, and freeze on the optimal choice of data structures and advanced algorithms.
Ability to work in fuzzy environments and complex environments.
Good exposure both with tech breadth and tech depth.
Good skills in Metrics and Monitoring.

Experience
9-13 yrs