Website:
wattr.ai
Job details:
Build the technology that helps solve India’s water crisis 💧
📍 Chandigarh Tricity | Full-time | On-site
🧑💻 7–10 years preferred | 6+ years can be considered for an exceptional candidate
At Wattr.ai, we are building technology for one of India's most important and complex challenges — water.
We are creating the digital intelligence layer for real-world water infrastructure, connecting sensors, field systems, data, software and AI to help organisations monitor, understand and manage water infrastructure at scale.
And we are looking for a Technical Lead who wants to own the technology behind it.
This is not a role where you simply receive requirements and write tickets.
You will work across the entire product-engineering chain:
Business Requirement → Product Requirement → System Architecture → Technical Design → Engineering Sprints → Task Allocation → Development → Testing → Deployment → Production → Scale
🚀 You will architect it.
💻 You will build it.
👥 You will lead the engineering team that executes it.
📈 You will own technical delivery against product goals, KPIs and deadlines.
🎯 What you will own
You will be the technical bridge between the Product team and Engineering team, translating what the business needs into systems that can actually be built, deployed and scaled.
You will:
→ Understand business and product requirements and convert them into technical solutions
→ Design the overall system architecture — application, APIs, databases, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure and integrations
→ Break architecture and product requirements into engineering modules, technical tasks and deliverables
→ Plan and drive engineering sprints based on product priorities, dependencies and deadlines
→ Assign work across developers based on technical complexity, priorities and individual strengths
→ Track sprint execution and ensure engineering commitments translate into actual product delivery
→ Identify technical risks, dependencies and bottlenecks early and drive them to resolution
→ Remain hands-on with development, particularly on critical or complex components
→ Review architecture, code and implementation decisions to maintain engineering quality
→ Work closely with Product to balance speed, scalability, reliability and business priorities
→ Own technical delivery from 0→1 and beyond, taking products from an idea to a field-tested production system
🏗️ Technology you will work across
This is a broad technical ownership role. You should be comfortable going deep across multiple layers of the stack:
Frontend → Backend → APIs → Data → Real-time Systems → IoT → Cloud → Infrastructure → AI
💻 Full-stack Engineering
Strong hands-on experience with:
• Node.js and modern backend development
• React and frontend application development
• REST APIs and service integrations
• Databases and data modelling
• Authentication, authorization and application security
• Performance optimisation and production debugging
☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure
Strong experience with AWS and production cloud systems.
You should understand and ideally have hands-on experience with:
• EC2, S3, RDS / time-series databases and relevant AWS services
• AWS IoT Core or equivalent IoT cloud platforms
• Docker and containerised applications
• Kubernetes / EKS or equivalent
• CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform
• Monitoring, logging and observability
• Cloud security, networking and reliability
The expectation is not simply to consume cloud infrastructure — you should understand how to design, provision and evolve the infrastructure on which the product runs.
📡 IoT, Real-time & Data Systems
Wattr works with real-world infrastructure and continuously generated data.
Experience with any of the following is highly valuable:
• IoT platforms and connected devices
• MQTT / pub-sub architectures
• Sensor telemetry and real-time data ingestion
• Event-driven systems
• Kafka or similar streaming technologies
• Data ingestion / ETL pipelines
• Time-series data
• High-volume event processing
• Real-time alerts, monitoring and reporting
• Edge/cloud architectures
You should be comfortable thinking about:
Device → Data → Backend → Processing → Intelligence → Dashboard → Action
🤖 AI & AI-assisted Engineering
AI is becoming an important part of how we build intelligent infrastructure.
Experience with:
• LLMs / GenAI
• AI APIs and integrations
• RAG / agentic systems
• ML/AI pipelines
• AI-assisted development using tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude or equivalent
is a strong advantage.
We are particularly interested in engineers who use AI tools practically to increase engineering velocity and solve problems better, rather than simply having theoretical exposure.
🧠 Architecture & System Design
Architecture ownership is mandatory for this role.
We are looking for someone with at least 2–3 years of genuine hands-on architecture / system-design experience.
You should have experience with:
• Designing production systems from business requirements
• Defining system and service boundaries
• Making technology and architecture decisions
• Designing APIs and integrations
• Database and data architecture
• Distributed and event-driven systems
• Scalability and performance
• Reliability and fault tolerance
• Security and observability
• Cloud architecture and infrastructure
• Evolving architecture as products scale
Importantly, you should have built the systems you architected.
We are not looking for a pure enterprise architect or consulting architect who primarily produces diagrams and documents.
👥 Technical Leadership
You will lead the engineering team technically and drive execution.
This includes:
→ Translating product requirements into technical plans
→ Breaking large requirements into manageable engineering tasks
→ Planning sprints and sequencing technical dependencies
→ Assigning work to engineers
→ Reviewing progress against sprint commitments
→ Unblocking developers when technical issues arise
→ Conducting code and architecture reviews
→ Mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards
→ Working with Product to manage technical trade-offs and delivery priorities
→ Ensuring engineering execution remains aligned with business KPIs and product deadlines
You may lead a small team of engineers, but your primary identity should remain that of a strong hands-on engineer and technical leader.
🌱 0→1 Ownership
We want someone who has experienced the journey:
Idea → Architecture → First Build → MVP → Production → Scale
You should have personally contributed to taking at least one product, platform or major system from 0→1 and subsequently helped scale or productionise it.
Startup experience is a strong advantage, particularly experience working in environments where engineers have to make decisions independently and move quickly.
🔥 What makes this role different
You won't be responsible for just one layer of the technology stack.
You will have visibility into the entire product.
You will understand why the product needs to exist → decide how it should be built → architect the system → break it into engineering work → lead the team through execution → write critical code yourself → deploy it → see it working in the real world.
And the real-world application is meaningful.
💧 Water infrastructure
📡 Connected devices
📊 Live operational data
🤖 AI-driven intelligence
🏗️ Large-scale infrastructure
🇮🇳 Real impact across India
This is an opportunity to build technology where the systems you design don't just live inside a software product — they interact with the physical world.
🏆 What success looks like
In your first 6–12 months, you should be able to:
→ Take ownership of the technical architecture of key Wattr products
→ Translate product requirements into clear engineering plans
→ Establish an effective sprint and engineering execution rhythm
→ Build and ship a field-tested MVP rapidly
→ Bring live sensor/device data into reliable production systems
→ Build scalable backend and frontend systems
→ Establish robust APIs, data pipelines, alerts and reporting
→ Improve automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring and observability
→ Identify architectural bottlenecks before they become production problems
→ Help build an engineering culture focused on ownership, quality and delivery
Most importantly:
The technology you build should become a competitive advantage for Wattr.ai.
✅ What we're looking for
• 7–10 years of software engineering experience preferred
• 6+ years can be considered for an exceptional candidate
• 2–3+ years of hands-on architecture / system-design ownership is mandatory
• Strong hands-on full-stack engineering experience
• Strong Node.js + React experience
• Strong AWS / cloud experience
• Experience setting up and evolving infrastructure
• Strong understanding of APIs, databases and distributed systems
• Experience with data pipelines / high-volume or real-time systems
• 0→1 product or platform development experience
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers
• Strong sprint planning, task breakdown and engineering execution skills
• IoT / MQTT / telemetry / real-time systems experience is a strong advantage
• AI / GenAI and AI-assisted development experience is a strong advantage
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate independently
🚫 This role is NOT
❌ A pure people-management role
❌ A pure enterprise architect role
❌ A consulting / documentation-heavy architecture role
❌ A backend-only or frontend-only role
❌ A role where requirements are simply converted into tickets
We want someone who can:
Understand → Architect → Break Down → Assign → Build → Review → Ship → Scale
🚀 Why Wattr.ai?
Because this is an opportunity to build something that matters.
You will be working at the intersection of:
Software × Cloud × IoT × Data × AI × Physical Infrastructure
and applying those technologies to one of India's biggest real-world challenges.
If you are the kind of engineer who looks at a complex problem and thinks:
“Let me understand the whole system — and then let me build it.”
We would love to hear from you.
Click on Apply to know more.
