Tech Lead - AWS

Rhythm Innovations, Inc.; Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhythm Innovations, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead - AWS to design and build cloud-native solutions while guiding a small engineering team through the full SDLC. You will directly contribute production code and shape the technical direction, architecture, and coding standards for AWS-based systems.

This role emphasizes close collaboration with product managers and architects to translate business needs into scalable AWS solutions, including Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and Glue.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership or lead-developer capacity.
• Strong hands-on development experience with AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Glue) in production.
• Proficiency in Python, Node.js (TypeScript), or Java with a track record of shipping production systems.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures with authentication and API gateway patterns.
• Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (RDS, DynamoDB) and data modeling.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform) and CI/CD tooling.
• Experience conducting code reviews, setting technical standards, and mentoring engineers.
• Ability to own technical designs end-to-end from requirements through implementation and production support.
• Strong communication skills to explain trade-offs to engineers and stakeholders.
• AWSCertified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional or AWS Certified Developer – Associate (or equivalent hands-on experience).
• Experience with containerized workloads (ECS, Fargate, EKS) is a plus
• Exposure to Kafka, Spark, or real-time streaming is a plus
• Familiarity with data governance and compliance standards (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2) is a plus

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services, APIs, and data pipelines on AWS, writing production-grade code in Python, Node.js, or Java (60-70% hands-on).
• Translate requirements into detailed technical designs, APIs, data models, and architecture.
• Lead serverless and event-driven solutions using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS, and SNS.
• Design data storage/processing using S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and Glue for ETL workloads.
• Own technical design decisions for a squad and drive design reviews to consensus.
• Conduct code reviews and enforce coding standards across the team.
• Break down epics into technical tasks and guide sprint planning with PM/Eng leader.
• Mentor engineers on AWS best practices, performance, and secure coding.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline/CodeBuild/GitHub Actions).
• Implement IaC using CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform and review IaC changes.
• Design for security/compliance: IAM, VPC, encryption, secrets management.
• Set up monitoring/logging/alerts (CloudWatch, X-Ray) and investigate production incidents.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and act as escalation point for stack.
• Evaluate new AWS services and potential adoption to reduce cost/complexity.
• Collaborate with QA to define testing strategies for new designs and features.

Skills

Hands-on coding

Technical leadership

AWS services

RESTful APIs design

Mentoring engineers

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

CodePipeline/CodeBuild

GitHub Actions

Job description

Bhubaneswar, India | Posted on 07/21/2026

At Rhythm, our values form the foundation of our business. We are passionate about customer success, innovation, and our employees. They guide our actions, decisions, and interactions, ensuring that we consistently make a positive impact on the world around us.

Job Description

Company Overview

Rhythm Innovations is an innovative startup specializing in fleetrisk management. We are committed to driving customer delight throughinnovative solutions and a customer-centric approach. As we continue to grow.

Position Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Tech Lead - AWS to design and developcloud-native applications and integration solutions, while guiding a small teamof engineers through the full software development lifecycle. This role is bestsuited to someone who wants to stay close to the code and the design table, notjust the roadmap: you will personally write production code, design solutionarchitecture for new features, and set the technical direction and codingstandards that the rest of the team follows on AWS.

You will work closely with product managers, architects, andfellow engineers to translate business requirements into well-designed,scalable, and maintainable AWS solutions, using services such as Lambda, APIGateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and Glue.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design anddevelop backend services, APIs, and data pipelines on AWS, writingproduction-grade code in Python, Node.js, or Java as a hands-on contributor(targeting roughly 60-70% hands-on coding/design, balanced with technicalleadership).
• Translatebusiness and product requirements into detailed technical designs, includingAPI contracts, data models, sequence diagrams, and component-levelarchitecture.
• Lead thedesign of serverless and event-driven solutions using AWS Lambda, API Gateway,Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS, and SNS.
• Design andimplement data storage and processing solutions using Amazon S3, RDS(PostgreSQL/MySQL/Aurora), DynamoDB, and AWS Glue for ETL/ELT workloads.
• Owntechnical design decisions for a squad/pod: evaluate trade-offs, documentdesign options, and drive design reviews to consensus.
• Conductthorough code reviews, enforce coding standards, and champion clean, testable,well-documented code across the team.
• Break down epics into technical tasks, estimate effort, and guide sprint planning inpartnership with the engineering manager and product owner.
• Mentor andcoach engineers on AWS best practices, secure coding, performance optimization,and design patterns.
• Build andmaintain CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, GitHub Actions) to supportfrequent, reliable, low-risk deployments.
• Implementinfrastructure-as-code using AWS CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform, and reviewIaC changes proposed by the team.
• Design forsecurity and compliance from the outset: IAM least-privilege roles, VPC networkdesign, encryption at rest and in transit, and secrets management.
• Set upmonitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, X-Ray) to proactively catchperformance and reliability issues, and lead root-cause analysis on productionincidents.
• Troubleshootand resolve complex production issues across the stack, acting as an escalationpoint for the team.
• Continuouslyevaluate new AWS services and features, and recommend adoption where theysimplify design or reduce cost.
• Collaboratewith QA to define testing strategy (unit, integration, load) for new designsand features.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor'sdegree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or arelated field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 6+ years ofprofessional software development experience, including at least 2 years in atechnical leadership or lead-developer capacity.
• Strong,hands-on development experience with AWS services, particularly Lambda, APIGateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and Glue, in production environments.
• Expert-levelproficiency in at least one of Python, Node.js (TypeScript), or Java, with atrack record of designing and shipping production systems.
• Provenexperience designing RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures, including APIversioning, authentication (OAuth2/JWT), and API gateway patterns.
• Solidunderstanding of relational and NoSQL database design, indexing, and queryoptimization (RDS and DynamoDB).
• Hands-onexperience with infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform) andCI/CD tooling.
• Experienceconducting code reviews, setting technical standards, and mentoring engineersof varying seniority.
• Comfortableowning technical designs end-to-end: from requirement discussions throughdesign documentation, implementation, and production support.
• Strongcommunication skills, able to explain technical trade-offs clearly to bothengineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• AWSCertified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional or AWS CertifiedDeveloper – Associate (or equivalent hands-on experience).
• Experiencewith containerized workloads (ECS, Fargate, or EKS) is a plus.
• Exposure toApache Kafka, Apache Spark, or real-time streaming architectures is a plus.
• Familiaritywith data governance and compliance standards (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2) is a plus.

What We Offer

• A hands-onleadership role with real influence over technical design and team practices ata growing startup.
• Collaborativeand dynamic work environment.
• Professionalgrowth and development opportunities.