Tech Lead

GreedyGame; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

GreedyGame is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to own backend architecture across our platform and consumer products in Bengaluru. You’ll lead a team of 4-10 engineers, remain deeply hands-on, and collaborate with Product and founders to shape scale decisions and critical technology choices.

You will design real-time pipelines, own services and data flows, and drive performance, reliability, and data consistency for both B2B and B2C products. Strong Go and Kubernetes experience is required.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of software engineering experience with strong backend expertise.
• Deep hands-on experience with Go/Golang; working knowledge of React.
• Proven track record of technically leading 4-10 engineers, while staying hands-on.
• Experience building and scaling applications with significant traffic or user volume.
• Strong system design fundamentals and experience with high-throughput, real-time, or event-driven systems.
• Strong ownership, product thinking, and ability to make pragmatic technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale backend systems handling billions of requests and events per day.
• Design real-time or near-real-time pipelines for ads, clicks, conversions, offers, rewards, and analytics.
• Solve complex problems around scale, performance, reliability, and data consistency across B2B and B2C products.
• Own architectural decisions across services, databases, caching, queues, and infrastructure.
• Build and evolve backend services using Go and Kubernetes.
• Lead a team of 4-10 engineers through technical direction, mentoring, and code reviews while staying hands-on.
• Drive engineering quality through code reviews, observability, CI/CD, and production ownership.
• Identify and drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices across the team.

Skills

Leadership

Backend systems

Go

Tools

Go/Golang

React

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

Job description

About GreedyGame

GreedyGame powers app and game monetization and growth through two lines of business: PubScale, our platform for publishers -a single dashboard spanning ad monetization (AdX, Immersive Ads, Offerwall), user acquisition (Grow), analytics (Insights), and in-app gaming (Plug); and our own B2C consumer apps (Incent Apps, House of Apps) that put reward and offer-based experiences directly in front of millions of users.

You’ll work at the inyersection of ad- tech, real-time data and consumer- scale traffic

About the Role

We'relooking for a hands-on Tech Lead to own backend architecture across our platform and consumer products. This is a role for someone ready to move beyond owning individual services and take ownership of systems, architecture, people, and technical decisions. You'll lead a team of 4-10 engineers while remaining deeply hands-on, and work directly with Product and founders to shape what we build and how we scale it.

What You'll Solve & Own

• Build and scale backend systems handling billions of requests and events per day.
• Design real-time or near-real-time pipelines for ads, clicks, conversions, offers, rewards, and analytics.
• Solve complex problems around scale, performance, reliability and data consistency, across B2B and B2C products.
• Own architectural decisions across services, databases, caching, queues, and infrastructure.
• Build and evolve backend services using Go and Kubernetes.
• Lead a team of 4-10 engineers through technical direction, mentoring, and code reviews while staying hands-on.
• Drive engineering quality through code reviews, observability, CI/CD, and production ownership.
• Identify and drive meaningful adoption of AI-assisted development practices across the team.

What We're Looking For

• 6-10 years of software engineering experience with strong backend expertise.
• Deep hands-on experience with Go/Golang; working knowledge of React.
• Experience technically leading 4-10 engineers, while remaining hands-on.
• Proven track record of building and scaling applications with significant traffic or user volume.
• Strong system design fundamentals and experience with high-throughput, real-time, or event-driven systems.
• Strong ownership, product thinking, and ability to make pragmatic technical decisions.
• Regular user of AI-assisted development tools.
• Startup or fast-paced product-company experience preferred.

Good to Have

• Ad-tech, programmatic advertising, app monetization, or rewards experience.
• AWS/GCP, observability, and high-volume event/analytics systems.
• Experience building both B2B platforms and B2C products.