AppsForBharat
Website:
appsforbharat.com
Job details:
Tech Lead – Engineering
Location: Bengaluru | Full-time
Experience: 6–10 years
Work Mode: 5 days WFO
About AppsForBharat
AppsForBharat is building technology products for India’s large and rapidly growing devotion and spirituality ecosystem. Our flagship product, Sri Mandir, is one of the largest platforms serving Hindu devotees globally.
As we scale our products, users, transactions and engineering systems, we are looking for a Tech Lead who can combine strong hands-on engineering skills with technical leadership and people management.
About the Role
We are looking for a Tech Lead who can lead a team of engineers while remaining deeply hands-on with architecture, coding and technical problem-solving.
You will own the engineering execution for a product or technology area, work closely with Product and other stakeholders, and ensure that the team builds systems that are scalable, reliable, maintainable and business-focused.
This is a player-coach role — you will continue to write code and make critical technical decisions while managing and mentoring a team of engineers.
What You Will Do
1. Technical Leadership
- Own the technical direction and engineering execution for a product/technology area.
- Design and review scalable backend systems, APIs, services and data flows.
- Make pragmatic architecture and technology decisions balancing speed, scale and maintainability.
- Identify and solve complex technical problems across performance, reliability, scalability and system design.
- Establish strong engineering practices around code quality, testing, observability and documentation.
- Participate actively in design reviews and critical code reviews.
2. Hands-on Engineering
- Remain hands-on with coding and contribute to critical parts of the system.
- Build and evolve high-scale backend services and APIs.
- Debug production issues and drive root-cause analysis for complex problems.
- Work on performance optimisation, reliability and system scalability.
- Strong experience in Golang or Python is expected.
3. Team Management & Mentorship
- Manage and mentor a team of engineers.
- Set clear technical and execution expectations for the team.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback and support career development.
- Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality and execution.
- Participate in hiring, onboarding and developing engineering talent.
- Help engineers grow into stronger individual contributors and future technical leaders.
4. Product & Business Collaboration
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Data and Business teams to translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
- Understand product and customer problems, not just technical requirements.
- Influence product decisions through technical feasibility, trade-offs and data.
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term engineering health.
5. Scale & Reliability
- Build systems capable of supporting significant user and transaction growth.
- Work on high-traffic consumer-facing products and distributed systems.
- Drive improvements in system performance, availability and observability.
- Contribute to engineering standards for production readiness and operational excellence.
What We Are Looking For
Must Have
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with strong experience in building production systems.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Golang or Python.
- Experience working on consumer-facing / B2C products.
- Experience managing and mentoring an engineering team.
- Experience building and scaling systems handling high traffic / high request volumes.
- Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, databases, APIs and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with 10K+ RPM scale or comparable high-throughput systems.
- Experience working with products having significant user scale (1L+ DAU preferred).
- Strong product thinking and ability to understand the business impact of engineering decisions.
- Strong ownership, execution and problem-solving mindset.
Good to Have
- Experience in a high-growth startup or product-led technology company.
- Experience working with AWS and modern cloud-native infrastructure.
- Exposure to data engineering, analytics, personalisation or AI/ML systems.
- Experience with transactional systems such as payments, orders or commerce platforms.
- Experience taking products/features from concept to production.
- Experience working in environments with rapidly changing requirements and high execution velocity.
What Success Looks Like
In the first 6–12 months, you will:
- Build a high-performing and accountable engineering team.
- Own reliable engineering delivery for your product/technology area.
- Improve system scalability, reliability and engineering quality.
- Make strong architectural decisions while remaining hands-on.
- Partner effectively with Product and Business teams to deliver customer impact.
- Develop engineers and create a strong pipeline of future technical leaders.
Why Join AppsForBharat?
- Build technology for a large and underserved consumer ecosystem.
- Work on products used by millions of devotees.
- Solve interesting problems across scale, payments, commerce, personalisation, content and AI.
- High ownership and direct impact on business and product outcomes.
- Opportunity to grow into an Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Leader role as the organisation scales.
If you are a strong hands-on engineer who enjoys building scalable systems, solving complex problems and leading people, we would love to hear from you.
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