ePropelled
Website:
epropelled.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/epropelled
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Industries: Manufacturing
Job details:
Company Description: ePropelled designs and manufactures advanced propulsion systems for uncrewed vehicles, focusing on intelligent, data-driven performance and energy efficiency. Its Sparrow and Falcon motor families deliver high thrust-to-weight ratios and real-time operational data, enabling analytics and mission optimization for a wide range of drone and autonomous vehicle applications. Solutions are engineered for demanding environments, supporting use cases from small agricultural drones to large autonomous platforms with high thermal tolerance, low weight, and integrated power systems. The Falcon and Hercules families add intelligent motor controllers and compact power management systems that optimize energy consumption and extend range. All products are manufactured in the USA with rigorous testing to ensure durability, reliability, and consistent performance in challenging conditions.
Job Summary: The Technical Lead – Cloud Platform & Connected Systems (India) is a full-time on-site role based in Chennai, responsible for leading the design, implementation, and operation of cloud-based platforms that connect and manage ePropelled propulsion systems. Day-to-day responsibilities include overseeing cloud architecture, integrating connected systems and data pipelines, coordinating with hardware and firmware teams to ensure seamless telemetry and control, and maintaining secure, scalable infrastructure for real-time monitoring and analytics. The role involves guiding technical support processes for connected solutions, resolving complex issues related to cloud services and device connectivity, and collaborating with product and engineering stakeholders to define requirements and deliver high-quality features. The Technical Lead will also establish best practices, mentor team members, and contribute to documentation, tooling, and continuous improvement of cloud and connected systems.
Job Description:
Job title: Technical Lead – Cloud Platform & Connected Systems
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Work model: Primarily Office Based
Reporting to: Engineering Manager
Team size: Initially 4–7 software engineers, with close collaboration across QA, DevOps/platform engineering, and firmware/hardware-adjacent teams
Role Description:
We are hiring a hands-on Technical Lead to own the design and delivery of cloud and application-platform capabilities for connected software systems. This role is best suited to a senior engineer who is strongest in backend and cloud-native platform engineering, can lead a small team, and has practical exposure to telemetry, IoT, edge-connected, or hardware-integrated software products.
You will lead the software architecture and execution of APIs, services, data flows, deployment patterns, and operator-facing applications that connect cloud systems with devices or field systems. This is not a firmware lead role and it is not a pure people-management role. The center of gravity is modern cloud/platform engineering with real-world connected-systems integration.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the technical design and delivery of cloud-native services, APIs, and platform components for connected software products.
- Provide day-to-day technical leadership for a small engineering team, including task breakdown, code review, mentoring, and technical decision-making.
- Design resilient backend systems for telemetry, device or edge integration, data ingestion, event processing, and operational workflows.
- Work with frontend engineers, or contribute directly where needed, to support internal tools, dashboards, and operator-facing web applications.
- Define and improve engineering standards for system design, testing, release quality, observability, and operational reliability.
- Collaborate closely with product, QA, DevOps/platform, and firmware or hardware-adjacent teams to deliver end-to-end outcomes.
- Support production operations through incident review, root-cause analysis, and iterative improvements to reliability and visibility.
- Contribute to architecture roadmaps, technical hiring, and capability-building within the software team.
Must Have Skills & Experience:
- 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a technical lead, staff engineer, or architecture-ownership role.
- Strong hands-on experience in one primary backend language: Python or Java or JVM. Working familiarity with the other is useful but not mandatory.
- Proven experience building and operating cloud-native or distributed systems using at least one major cloud platform and modern container tooling such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong design and implementation experience with APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, SQL/PostgreSQL, and production-grade backend services.
- Practical experience with connected systems such as telemetry platforms, IoT products, industrial software, remote monitoring, edge-connected services, device integration, or hardware-adjacent applications.
- Experience leading engineers through architecture reviews, delivery planning, code quality, and technical problem-solving.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with React, Angular, or TypeScript for internal tools, operational dashboards, or web applications.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or Splunk.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and Git-based release workflows.
- Exposure to message brokers or streaming systems such as Kafka, MQTT, RabbitMQ, or cloud-native event services.
- Familiarity with security-by-design, identity/access patterns, and secure API/platform engineering.
- Domain exposure in industrial automation, mobility, robotics, drones, smart devices, or connected equipment.
- Exposure to AI-enabled features or ML-backed services is welcome, but not required.
Experience & Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline. Equivalent practical experience is also acceptable.
- Typical fit: 8–12 years of software engineering experience in product, platform, GCC, or high-quality engineering-services environments.
- What success looks like in the first year
- Within 3 months, build a strong understanding of the current architecture, deployment model, engineering workflow, and product roadmap.
- Within 6 months, own one or more critical platform or service areas end to end, and drive measurable improvements in code quality, delivery predictability, and system reliability.
- Within 9 months, establish clearer engineering standards across APIs, observability, testing, and release readiness.
- Within 12 months, have materially improved the platform’s ability to support connected-system workflows, scaled team delivery, and reduced recurring production or integration issues.
What Success Looks Like in the First Year:
- Within 3 months, build a strong understanding of the current architecture, deployment model, engineering workflow, and product roadmap.
- Within 6 months, own one or more critical platform or service areas end to end, and drive measurable improvements in code quality, delivery predictability, and system reliability.
- Within 9 months, establish clearer engineering standards across APIs, observability, testing, and release readiness.
- Within 12 months, have materially improved the platform’s ability to support connected-system workflows, scaled team delivery, and reduced recurring production or integration issues.
If you are interested, please share your updated resume to hr-india@epropelled.com or anithak@epropelled.com
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