Lead Engineer – Application Architecture & Scalability

About the role

We are seeking a hands‑on Lead Engineer to own the architecture and scalability of our real‑time grocery delivery platform. You will work closely with development teams to ensure services are designed, built, and released to handle high load efficiently.

Key responsibilities

• Identify and resolve bottlenecks, heavy queries, and weak design points across applications.
• Define and enforce architecture standards that enable clean scaling as traffic grows.
• Maintain CI guardrails and Helm charts to prevent bad practices from reaching production.
• Implement application‑level observability (tracing, profiling, metrics) and monitor performance at scale.
• Lead the AI‑driven SDLC initiative, building internal tools and agents for triage, diagnostics, code review, and operational reporting.
• Introduce appropriate developer tooling and mentor a small team on architecture and engineering quality.

Required profile

• 5–8 years of strong software engineering experience with a proven track record in architecture and scalability.
• Hands‑on expertise with modern web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Node.js, or Django.
• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and caching solutions (Redis or Memcached).
• Experience with messaging/streaming systems like Apache Kafka, Azure Service Bus, or RabbitMQ.
• Familiarity with frontend build/release processes using Angular, React, or Vue.
• Practical knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, and Helm chart authoring.
• Experience defining engineering standards and building CI/CD quality gates.
• Interest in applying AI to engineering workflows, with some hands‑on tooling experience.

Required skills

• Ruby on Rails
• Node.js
• Django
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Redis
• Memcached
• Apache Kafka
• Azure Service Bus
• RabbitMQ
• Angular
• React
• Vue
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• CI/CD pipelines
• AI tooling for software development