Senior Technical Lead

Job Title: Senior Technology / Team Lead

Location: Kolkata

Job Type: Full-Time

Industry: Insurance, BFSI, Any

About Us: We Are Ginteja promoted by Shyam Steel Industries and Satasundar group. Our Head office is at Saltlake, Kolkata, West Bengal. We are one of the fastest growing Retail Insurance Broking firms based out of Kolkata.

We are a dynamic and forward-thinking startup dedicated to delivering innovative and inspiring solution for the Insurance Brokering industry.

Position Overview:

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Technology Lead to guide the architecture, design, and evolution of our next-generation products and platforms. This role requires deep technical expertise in building scalable systems, a strong understanding of modern architectural paradigms, and the ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams from concept through implementation. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of modern client-side frameworks (React, React Native, Flutter), robust server-side technologies , Java), and a solid grasp of cloud-native architectures. As a key technology member, you will help design, and guide hands-on the design & development of scalable, secure, and high-performance digital solutions, working closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure successful product / project outcomes. You will be responsible for technical leadership and Agile delivery across complex, enterprise-grade digital products.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

• Lead system architecture and high-level design for complex platforms and products, ensuring alignment with business objectives, scalability, and security.
• Provide hands-on technical direction and resolve architectural, design, and implementation challenges.
• Lead code reviews, define coding standards, and drive engineering excellence across teams e.g. test-driven software development
• Contribute to technical roadmaps, risk assessments, and capacity planning.

Team & Task Management

• Manage & monitor assigned high-level tasks using Agile tools like Jira etc.
• Ensure proper Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban) are followed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Proactive and on-time reporting of work status per communication schedule

Cloud-Native & DevOps development

• Design and manage cloud-native application delivery using platforms like AWS (pref.)
• Drive DevOps initiatives: containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), automation (CI/CD), and monitoring.
• Ensure infrastructure is scalable, secure, and cost-effective.

Mentoring & Team Development

• Mentor junior engineers and project team members to enhance their technical and professional growth.
• Strong collaborative mindset to foster high-performance team culture

Primary Skills (Required):

Platform Architecture / Design

• Solid in-depth experience in designing and evolving medium to large-scale platform architectures that support modular, reusable, and extensible components across multiple products and services.
• Hands-n exposure in multi-tenant, cloud-native platforms with high availability, fault tolerance, and horizontal scalability using microservices and API first principles.
• Previous experience in contributing on platform re-architecture, tech debt mitigation and/or greenfield product development would be preferred.

Frontend / Mobile (Client-Side)

• Proficiency in market leading client-side scripting framework - React, React Native, and/or Flutter. Some Angular experience would be useful.
• Strong skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, Dart, HTML/CSS, Redux/MobX, responsive and accessible UI/UX design and application in multiple products/projects
• Experience in mobile app publishing (App Store, Play Store) and mobile CI/CD tools (preferred)

Backend (Server-Side)

• Expertise in Java (Spring Boot/Jakarta EE), , Python. PHP (Laravel/Symfony) exposure.
• Demonstrated advance experience of REST APIs, Microservices, and serverless computing in multiple products / projects execution
• Proficient in RDBMS (MySQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB)

Cloud & DevSecOps

• Proficiency in Container and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.), CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, AWS DevOps)
• Experience in secure cloud native development through integration of tools like Sonar & deploying applications on AWS.
• Understanding of monitoring/logging tools (Grafana, CloudWatch)

Team & Task Management

• Hands-on exposure in Agile delivery methodology (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid Agile models) and tools like JIRA (Pref)

Security & Testing

• Experience in solution design and guide implementation following web OWASP guidelines and mitigating risks through
• Hands-on experience in implementation of any Unit Testing framework.

Secondary Skills (Preferred):

AI & RPA Solutions

• Preferred hands-on experience in implementation and integration of of AI/ML technologies and frameworks (e.g., Python, TensorFlow, Amazon AI Stack) & RPA tools into application workflows
• Exposure in design, development, and deployment of AI and RPA-driven automation solutions.
• Desired experience in implementation of any LLM in Agentic AI or Conversational AI (e.g., chatbots) context in enterprise applications.

Performance Optimization

• Exposure in system performance optimization techniques across platform, application & database
• Basic exposure to Linux as development work environment.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 10-15 years of extensive professional experience in end-to-end enterprise system design & development.
• Strong portfolio showcasing applications developed, with links to live projects or GitHub.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a team environment. Guide and mentor junior developers to achieve the target development state.
• Ability to roll up sleeves and write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code as situation demands.