Lead Software Engineer

Mowka Enterprises Private Limited; India; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mowka Enterprises Private Limited is seeking a senior engineering leader to build and maintain the infrastructure for creator-led shopping in India. This role involves end-to-end ownership, including system design and hands-on coding in technologies like Python and Django.

The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of experience in web applications and demonstrate strong distributed systems instincts. If you want an impactful role in the fast-growing creator commerce segment, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in building production web applications.
• 1–3+ years of experience leading an engineering team.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery for your domain, including coding and iteration.
• Lead architecture reviews and set engineering standards.
• Build and maintain the technical roadmap.

Skills

Python

Django

Postgres

Redis

Kafka

Job description

We're building the infrastructure behind creator-led shopping in India — where 30,000+ creators drive ₹300cr+ in monthly GMV. The systems underneath that scale have to be fast, reliable, and correct at every layer.

What you’ll build

• Own end-to-end delivery for your domain — requirements, system design, shipping, and iteration, with ~60% hands‑on coding in Python/Django, Postgres, Redis, Kafka
• Lead architecture reviews and set engineering standards across a squad of 3–5 engineers, including hiring, performance, and career development
• Build and maintain the technical roadmap for your domain, keeping it aligned with product and business goals
• Own SLO targets, drive incident response, and raise the bar on CI/CD, observability, and on‑call hygiene

Who you are

• 7+ years building production web applications, with 1–3+ years leading an engineering team
• Strong distributed systems instincts — backed by real design docs and post‑mortems, not just opinions
• Product mindset — you think about user impact and business outcomes, not just technical correctness
• You’ve made hard tradeoffs under deadline pressure and shipped in a high‑velocity environment

Why this

• Creator commerce is one of the fastest‑growing segments in Indian e‑commerce; you’re building the infrastructure beneath it
• If you want to own a domain end‑to‑end — roadmap, team, architecture, reliability — and not just execute someone else’s plan, this is that role