Hybrid Technical Lead

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Tech Lead responsible for reliability and system performance of Almabase's products in India. Leading technical execution while collaborating across teams for system stability and scalability.

Responsibilities

  • You are responsible for reliability metrics across the engineering org
  • Uptime & SLA adherence
  • P95 latency for pages and APIs
  • Sentry error trends & bug leakage
  • Distributed system correctness (sync, async, batching, retries)
  • Queue depth & worker throughput
  • Redis performance and stability
  • Event/Giving day high-traffic readiness
  • Systemic root-cause analysis & permanent fixes
  • Work closely with the Sr. Technical Lead to shape architecture across all products
  • Improve data models and API design
  • Introduce distributed system patterns (idempotent flows, orchestration, fan-out)
  • Build scalable async pipelines
  • Design fail-safes, timeouts, and circuit breakers
  • Lead design reviews across teams
  • Unblock engineers on complex issues
  • Own cross-product refactors
  • Drive clean code, testing standards, and observability-first development
  • Define SLIs/SLOs across products
  • Build dashboards and alerting (Datadog, Sentry, logs, traces)
  • Ensure issues are detected before customers notice
  • Work with Core Systems to instrument distributed flows deeply
  • Ensure product work aligns with SOC 2 Type II requirements
  • Secure coding practices and proper secrets handling

Requirements

  • 3–4+ years backend engineering experience (Python preferred)
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems
  • Deep understanding of sql databases and query optimisation
  • Deep experience with Redis, queues, async jobs, retries, and fan-out flows
  • Strong debugging skills across infra + app layers
  • Ability to lead design decisions across multiple teams
  • Solid data modeling & performance optimization experience
  • Experience improving system reliability at scale
  • Excellent communication & collaboration skills
  • Nice to Have: Datadog / Sentry / Elasticsearch
  • Experience with RE NXT, Salesforce, or large CRM systems
  • Prior reliability ownership for multi-product SaaS
  • Experience with secure coding / SOC 2 practices

Benefits

  • great salary & equity
  • holistic growth opportunities
  • full transparency
  • unlimited PTO & WFH flexibility
  • health insurance
  • great food & workplace perks

Job title

Technical Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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