Lead Software Engineer

MoxiWorks; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance for employees

Catered lunch

Office snacks

Annual leaves

Team events

Job summary

MoxiWorks in Pune, India is seeking an Engineering Team Lead to steer the ActivePipe platform. This role combines hands-on development with technical leadership to shape architecture, code quality, and delivery for a high-volume Ruby on Rails service and Kafka-driven pipelines.

You'll mentor engineers across time zones, drive design reviews, and partner with Product, Design, and Global teams to translate roadmaps into well-scoped work with reliable, on-time releases.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with 2+ years in tech lead roles.
• Deep Ruby on Rails background with production experience in large systems.
• Strong systems thinking: distributed architectures, ETL pipelines, SQL at scale.
• Hands-on with Kafka or similar streaming platforms; familiar with Sidekiq.
• RESTful APIs design; GraphQL knowledge considered a plus.
• Relational databases design, indexing, and large-scale migration safety.
• Mentoring engineers, fair code reviews, and healthy hiring practices.
• Excellent written communication across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and technical direction of ActivePipe Rails platform and ETL pipelines.
• Drive design reviews and RFCs on Kafka topology and data contracts.
• Stay hands-on: contribute code, review PRs, and debug incidents.
• Set engineering standards: RSpec coverage, Rubocop, observability via Datadog, and Buildkite hygiene.
• Coach engineers into senior tracks and run interview loops and onboarding.
• Run sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and OKRs.
• Translate roadmaps into well-scoped engineering work for thousands of users.
• Represent ActivePipe Engineering in cross-team initiatives.
• Lead incident response and on-call reliability improvements.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

Sidekiq

GraphQL

Datadog

Buildkite

Job description

Position: Engineering Team Lead - ActivePipe Platform

Location: Pune, India – In office Role

Reports to: Director of Engineering

Years of experience: 7+ years

Who We Are

MoxiWorks is the leading real estate AI marketing platform built by real estate pros, for real estate pros. Our AI-powered system helps brokerages and their agents find, win, and close more deals.

Drawing on decades of industry expertise, we build tools that remove complexity and let real estate professionals focus on what matters most. Our newest innovation, RISE, is a native-AI sales and marketing tool designed to help agents stay ahead in an increasingly competitive landscape.

At MoxiWorks, you’ll find a team of innovators, collaborators, and doers who care deeply about our customers, our craft, and each other. If you’re excited by meaningful work, big ideas, and building technology that empowers people, you’ll fit right in.

Our Pune team plays a critical role in delivering these innovations. As part of our global engineering and technology organization, you'll collaborate with talented colleagues across the United States and India to build products used by more than 3,000 brokerages and 400,000 real estate professionals worldwide.

If you're passionate about solving meaningful problems, building high-quality software, and working in a collaborative, growth-oriented environment, we'd love to have you on our team.

Our Core Values

• Customer First
• Sense of Urgency
• Accountable & Reliable
• Relentless Execution

Join MoxiWorks in Pune and help shape the future of PropTech while growing your career with a global team committed to innovation, collaboration, and delivering exceptional customer outcomes.

Job Overview

We are hiring an Engineering Team Lead to lead a small team of engineers in Pune building the MoxiWorks / ActivePipe platform - a Ruby on Rails service plus PHP integrations and Kafka-driven ETL pipelines that ingest millions of MLS, contact, and identity records every day. You will set technical direction, raise the engineering bar, stay hands-on to write code and review designs on the highest-leverage parts of the system.

You will partner closely with Product, Design, Global engineering leadership, and adjacent MoxiWorks teams to translate roadmap into well-scoped engineering work that thousands of brokerages depend on every day.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical direction of the ActivePipe Ruby on Rails platform, ETL pipelines, and PHP integration services.
• Drive design reviews and RFCs on Kafka topology, ETL idempotency, GraphQL evolution, and cross-product data contracts.
• Stay hands-on - contribute code, review the hard PRs, and debug the gnarly incidents (roughly 30-40% of your time).
• Set and enforce engineering standards: RSpec coverage, Rubocop, observability via Datadog, deployment hygiene via Buildkite, and on-call quality.
• Coach mid-level engineers into seniors and seniors into staff-track contributors; run a healthy interview loop and onboarding plan.
• Run sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and quarterly OKR planning aligned with MoxiWorks engineering rituals.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Platform stakeholders to translate roadmap into well-scoped engineering work; own delivery commitments — estimation accuracy, scope discipline, and on-time releases.
• Represent ActivePipe Engineering in cross-team initiatives across the broader MoxiWorks technology org and in collaborations with global engineering leadership.
• Drive incident response and post-incident learning; own the on-call posture and reliability of the platform.

Required Skills

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years leading a team of 3+ engineers (tech lead, or staff engineer with people leverage).
• Deep Ruby on Rails background - you have shipped, scaled, and rescued non-trivial Rails systems in production.
• Strong systems thinking - distributed systems, event-driven architecture, ETL / data pipelines, and SQL at scale.
• Hands-on Kafka (or equivalent streaming platform) and Sidekiq (or equivalent background processing).
• Solid experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs; familiarity with GraphQL is a strong plus.
• Working knowledge of relational databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL), including schema design, indexing, query optimization, and migration safety at scale.
• Track record of mentoring engineers, conducting fair code reviews, and running healthy hiring loops.
• Excellent written communication - design docs, PR descriptions, incident write-ups, and clear async updates with global teammates.
• Comfortable operating in a multi-team, cross-product organization with stakeholders in multiple time zones.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to Have

• Real estate, MLS, CRM, MarTech, or other high-volume data-driven SaaS domain experience.
• Familiarity with real estate data standards (RESO Data Dictionary, RESO Web API, RETS).
• AWS infrastructure literacy - ability to read Terraform, debug an ECS deployment, or reason about RDS performance.
• Prior experience contributing to or owning observability and SRE practices (Datadog, on-call rotations, SLOs).
• Experience leading a polyglot team - specifically Ruby + PHP, or Ruby + JVM/Go.

Ruby on Rails, PHP, REST and GraphQL APIs, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Sidekiq, Karafka / Kafka, AWS, Docker, Git/GitHub, Buildkite, Datadog, Protobuf, and a growing set of internal tooling for building, monitoring, and operating the platform at scale.

• Work on scalable, SaaS products with real-world impact on thousands of users.
• Gain hands-on experience with modern technologies, architecture, and best engineering practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, and Customer Success.
• Continuous learning through mentorship, feedback cycles, and access to learning resources.

All benefits are subject to review on an annual basis whereas we continuously assess our total reward proposition aligning with the needs of our people, our business and the market. Benefits are effective on 1st day of employment

Your Benefits at a Glance - Designed to support your health, wellbeing, and peace of mind

• Medical insurance for employees and family, including parents/in-laws
• Accident coverage for employees
• EAP powered by Living App
• Catered lunch
• Indoor games and team engagement
• Office snacks and refreshments
• Public holidays 10 days
• 20 PTOs and 6 CL/SL, full maternity and 4 weeks paternity