Lead Engineer / SDE - III

Spyne; Gurgaon; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOPs

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Spyne is seeking a Technical Lead (SDE III) to own critical backend product areas and mentor engineers while guiding architectural direction. You will partner with Product, Design, AI, and Business teams to deliver scalable systems that serve customers globally.

This role emphasizes hands-on leadership, AI-enabled development practices, and building solutions at scale with a fast-growing, AI-first automotive retail platform.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building backend services using Node.js.
• Excellent grasp of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Experience with cloud-native applications on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Ability to lead through architectural decisions and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services and customer-facing products.
• Own architecture and technical direction for key product initiatives.
• Lead a team of engineers through design discussions, code reviews, execution planning, and delivery.
• Mentor engineers and help them grow technically.
• Build reliable, maintainable, and high-performance systems that scale.
• Partner with Product to convert customer problems into elegant technical solutions.
• Drive engineering best practices around system design, code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
• Champion AI-native engineering by leveraging modern AI tools to improve developer productivity, software quality, and delivery speed.

Skills

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Databases

API design

Node.js

React

MongoDB

MySQL

Redis

Kafka/Pub-Sub

Cloud platforms

Architecture

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Node.js

React

MongoDB

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Location: Bestech Business Tower, Sector 48, Gurugram (Work from Office)

Experience: 6+ years

Working Hours: 01 PM 10 PM IST

About Spyne

At Spyne, we are transforming how cars are marketed and sold with cutting-edge Generative AI. What started as a bold ideausing AI-powered visuals to help auto dealers sell faster onlinehas now evolved into a full-fledged, AI-first automotive retail ecosystem.

Backed by Accel, Vertex Ventures, and Storm Ventures, Spyne is emerging as one of the category leaders redefining how dealerships operate in the AI era.

• Launched industry-first AI-powered Image, Video & 360 solutions for automotive dealers
• Launching Gen AI powered Automotive Retail Suite to power Inventory, Marketing, CRM for dealers
• Onboarded 1500+ dealers across US, EU and other key markets in the past 2 years since launch
• Gearing up to onboard 10K+ dealers across a global market of 200K+ dealers
• 150+ member team with a near equal split across R&D and GTM

We're looking for a Technical Lead (SDE III) who enjoys building products, solving difficult engineering problems, and leading through technical excellence.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll own critical product areas, influence architecture, mentor engineers, and help shape how modern software is built using AI.

You'll work closely with Product, Design, AI, and Business teams to build systems that serve customers globally while helping raise the engineering bar across the organization.

What You'll Own

• Design and build scalable backend services and customer-facing products.
• Own architecture and technical direction for key product initiatives.
• Lead a team of engineers through design discussions, code reviews, execution planning, and delivery.
• Mentor engineers and help them grow technically.
• Build reliable, maintainable, and high-performance systems that scale.
• Partner with Product to convert customer problems into elegant technical solutions.
• Drive engineering best practices around system design, code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
• Champion AI-native engineering by leveraging modern AI tools to improve developer productivity, software quality, and delivery speed.
• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.

What We're Looking For

• 47 years of experience building production-grade software.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalable architecture, concurrency, databases, and API design.
• Excellent grasp of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Ability to make thoughtful architectural decisions balancing scale, reliability, speed, and maintainability.

Hands-on Development

• Strong experience building backend services using Node.js .
• Good understanding of modern frontend frameworks such as React .
• Experience with databases including MongoDB and MySQL .
• Familiarity with technologies like Redis , Kafka/Pub-Sub , queues, caching, background jobs, and event-driven systems.
• Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

AI-First Mindset

We're not looking for someone who has simply "used ChatGPT."

We're looking for engineers who understand how AI is changing software development.

You should have experience using AI-assisted development workflows, understand modern LLM capabilities, and actively explore ways AI can improve engineering productivity, software quality, and product experiences.

Bonus if you've built products powered by LLMs, AI agents, retrieval systems, or multimodal AI.

Technical Leadership

• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.
• Comfortable owning projects from idea to production.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across Engineering, Product, Design, and Business teams.
• Ability to simplify complex technical problems and make pragmatic engineering decisions.

What Makes Someone Successful Here

• You thrive in ambiguity.
• You care about customers as much as code.
• You move fast without compromising engineering quality.
• You naturally take ownership instead of waiting for direction.
• You enjoy mentoring others and making the team better.
• You embrace AI as a force multipliernot just for the product, but for how engineering teams build software every day.

Why Join Spyne?

• Build AI-first products used by customers across the globe.
• Solve large-scale engineering challenges with real business impact.
• Own products end-to-end instead of working on isolated modules.
• Work alongside experienced founders and a high-calibre engineering team.
• Shape the engineering culture of one of India's fastest-growing AI companies.
• Competitive compensation, ESOPs, and significant ownership from day one.
• An environment where great ideas are valued over hierarchy.