About the role
Position Summary
As a Tech Lead, you are responsible for defining and maintaining the overall system architecture and high-level integration design to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with engineering standards. You guide technical decisions, ensure alignment across teams, and maintain end-to-end technical coherence across the our client's platform, working closely with Product, QA, DevOps, and external system owners.
Primary Responsibilities
* Define and maintain end-to-end system architecture, including non-functional requirements (performance, security, scalability, availability) and key technical trade-offs. * Define and review high-level design (HLD) for integrations (APIs, events, data flows), ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, integration patterns, and security requirements. * Translate architecture decisions into clear guidance for implementation, and provide targeted hands-on support for complex design, code review, and technical spikes as needed * Oversee technical release readiness, including dependency alignment, readiness checks, and go/no-go decisions, ensuring smooth deployment and rollback strategies. * Lead troubleshooting on critical technical issues and incidents: perform impact assessment, drive root cause analysis (RCA), and coordinate resolution with internal and external stakeholders. * Improve engineering operational excellence by promoting observability, alerting, runbooks, and continuous improvements to reduce recurring incidents. * Ensure alignment across backend, mobile, QA, and DevOps on technical approach, architecture decisions, and delivery risks. * Act as the key technical point of contact for the scrum team, ensuring alignment across backend, mobile, QA, and DevOps on technical approach and delivery risks.
Requirements
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. * Experience with mobile platforms (iOS/Android) and mobile-backend integration. * Minimum 15 years of software engineering experience, including experience leading technical design for distributed systems and integrations. * Strong understanding of system design principles, integration patterns (REST, event-driven), and API lifecycle management. * Experience with modern delivery practices (Agile/Scrum, CI/CD) and release management in * production environments. * Proven ability to troubleshoot complex production issues using logs, metrics, traces, and structured RCA approaches. * Strong communication skills to lead technical discussions with stakeholders across engineering, product, QA, DevOps, and vendors. * Experience in mobile application architecture and mobile-backend integration.
Originally posted on Himalayas