Technical Team Lead

Job Description About the Role: We're looking for an experienced Technical Lead (5+ years experience) who can lead the design, development, and scaling of backend systems powering large-scale logistics. In this role, you'll architect high-throughput systems, guide a team of engineers, and integrate AI tools and agentic frameworks (Model Context Protocol (MCP), Multi Agent Systems (MAS), etc.) into your development and decision-making workflows. You'll drive engineering excellence, contribute to architectural decisions, and nurture a culture of ownership, innovation, and AI-native development. This is a hands-on leadership position where you'll build systems, lead design reviews, and mentor a high-performing team while pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted engineering. What You'll Do: - Technical Leadership & Ownership: - Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable RESTful and gRPC APIs. - Guide system design and backend workflows for microservices handling millions of transactions daily. - Drive engineering best practices in code quality, testing, observability, and deployment. - Team Leadership: - Mentor and coach a team of backend and frontend developers, helping them grow technically and professionally. - Conduct regular design/code reviews and set high standards for system performance, reliability, and scalability. - Drive sprint planning, task breakdowns, and technical execution with a bias for action and quality. - AI-Native Development: - Leverage modern AI tools (e.g., Cursor AI, Copilot, Codex, Gemini, Windsurf) for: - Prompt-based code generation, refactoring, and documentation. - Intelligent debugging and observability enhancements. - Test case generation and validation. - Experiment with and implement agentic frameworks (MCP, MAS etc) in building tools, automating workflows, optimization tasks, or intelligent system behavior. - Contribute and maintain to internal AI prompt libraries and lead adoption of AI-assisted development practices. - Systems & Infrastructure: - Own the end-to-end lifecycle of backend services from design to rollout and production monitoring. - Work with data models across PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, or MongoDB. - Optimize services using metrics, logs, traces, and performance profiling tools. - Cross-functional Collaboration: - Partner closely with Product, Design, QA, DevOps, and other Engineering teams to deliver cohesive product experiences. - Influence product roadmaps and business decisions through a technical lens. What We're Looking For: - 5+ years of backend development experience with at least 1+ years as a team/tech lead. - Deep expertise in Java/Python/Go/Nodejs and comfort across multiple backend frameworks. - Solid understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, and SQL. - Proven experience in building, scaling, and maintaining microservices. - Strong hands-on experience with REST/gRPC APIs, containerized deployments, and CI/CD pipelines. - Strong database fundamentals indexing, query optimization, replication, consistency models, and schema design - Exposure to system scalability concepts horizontal/vertical scaling, sharding, partitioning, rate-limiting, load balancing, and caching strategies.. - Effective use of AI developer tools (Cursor AI, Codex, Copilot, Gemini, Windsurf) in real-world engineering workflows. - Exposure to agentic frameworks and AI concepts such as: - MCP, Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI), or NLP pipelines. - Cloud proficiency (any cloud, AWS preferred), including deployment, cost optimization, and infrastructure scaling. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. - A strong sense of ownership, problem-solving ability, and collaborative mindset.