Roles & Responsibilities
- Write, review and merge production code across Vue.js frontend and Node.js backend
- Own code quality for the India team — set review standards and refactor technical debt
- Debug across the full stack — from Vue rendering issues to Mongo aggregations to Kubernetes pod issues
- Guide the team on day-to-day development decisions and step in on unsolved problems
- Design solutions for new modules from spec to schema to API contract to implementation
- Own MongoDB data modelling decisions — document structure, embedding vs referencing, index strategy
- Review Node.js service design: API structure, error handling, validation, authentication, rate limiting, background processing
- Make and document build-vs-buy calls on third-party services with cost and integration effort
- Ensure the platform stays stable and performant on a live, revenue-generating system
- Demonstrate daily working use of AI coding tools and spec-driven development practice
- Judge AI output quality and know when tasks should not be handed to agents
- Set up and maintain repo-level context files and make the team's AI setup consistent
- Coach the team on AI tools while holding the line on quality
- Work with LLM APIs, embeddings, semantic search and understand where AI features help
- Run sprint planning, estimation, standups and retros for the India team
- Break requirements into technical tasks with clear acceptance criteria
- Track velocity and flag slippage and blockers early
- Own release coordination — deployment planning, rollback strategy and post-release monitoring
- Line-manage 6–10 engineers across web, mobile and QA — 1:1s, feedback, performance conversations and growth planning
- Mentor mid-level engineers into senior ones and build depth
- Participate in hiring — technical screening, interviewing and onboarding
- Keep the team's engineering practices consistent: documentation, testing, branching, incident handling
- Act as the main technical point of contact between the India team and the UAE office product and business stakeholders
- Communicate clearly to mixed technical and non-technical audiences — status, risk, trade-offs and time cost
- Manage the time-zone gap with structured overlap hours, written updates and async documentation
- Own technical delivery on modules including product catalogue, pricing, ordering, workflows, order management, payments, invoicing and vendor onboarding
Ideal Candidate
- Strong Hands-On Technical Team Lead Profile (Vue.js + Node.js) with AI-assisted development and B2B e-commerce exposure
- Mandatory (Experience) - Must have 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years leading a team of 5 or more engineers
- Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong, current, hands-on Vue.js experience including component architecture, state management and performance optimisation
- Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have strong, current, hands-on Node.js and Express experience for production API development at scale
- Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have deep MongoDB experience including aggregation pipelines, index design, query performance tuning and schema decisions
- Mandatory (Tech skill 4): Must have AWS experience particularly Kubernetes/EKS with deployments, resource limits, health probes and production monitoring
- Mandatory (Tech skill 5): Must have working understanding of Flutter including widget architecture, state management, platform channels and Play Store/App Store release pipelines
- Mandatory (Tech skill 6): Must have demonstrable, daily professional use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI or equivalent) with real examples
- Mandatory (Tech skill 7): Must have experience with spec-driven development including writing structured requirement and design documents and reviewing AI-generated output against acceptance criteria
- Mandatory (Tech skill 8): Must have experience setting up and maintaining repo-level context files, rules files and custom commands for AI development
- Mandatory (Tech skill 9): Must have Git and CI/CD experience including branching strategy, review workflow and automated pipelines
- Mandatory (Leadership): Must have line-managed engineers (1:1s, feedback, performance, growth), mentored mid-to-senior, and participated in hiring
- Mandatory (Communication): Must communicate clearly to mixed technical/non-technical audiences and manage a time-zone gap with structured overlap and async documentation (works with the UAE office)
- Mandatory (Education): Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- Mandatory (Domain): Background in B2B e-commerce, wholesale/distribution or marketplace platforms
- Preferred (Offshore Experience): Experience working as the offshore technical counterpart to an overseas leadership team
- Preferred (AI Integration): Experience integrating LLM APIs into a production product
- Preferred (Observability): Exposure to observability tooling such as CloudWatch, Datadog or Sentry and analytics instrumentation
- Preferred (Third-party Integrations): Experience with payment gateways, e-signature, logistics APIs, mapping and geolocation integrations
Pay: From ₹100,000.00 per month
Benefits:
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
Application Question(s):
- Your Current CTC and Your Notice Period
Work Location: In person