Technical Lead

Fifth Generation Technologies; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Fifth Generation Technologies is seeking a Technical Lead to drive architecture, design, and technical execution for manufacturing-focused software solutions. You will own technical decisions across the product lifecycle and mentor a team of engineers.

The role requires strong hands-on system design, experience with distributed/edge deployments, and the ability to balance coding with technical leadership across global teams.

Qualifications

• 6/8 years of software development experience with 2+ years in technical leadership or architect-level role.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical designs and break tasks down for engineering teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for multi-layered technical issues.
• Mentoring engineers and driving technical upskilling within the team.

Responsibilities

• Own technical decision-making across the product lifecycle.
• Architect, design and execute scalable, reliable industrial software solutions.
• Mentor and guide a team of engineers and ensure coding/design standards are met.
• Serve as the primary technical contact between development, product management and customer-facing teams.
• Lead code reviews, set best practices and manage technical debt.

Skills

Leadership experience

System design

Architecture patterns

CI/CD

Cloud/On-prem deployment

Security considerations

Mentoring engineers

Git workflows

Release management

Cross-functional communication

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Containerization

Job description

Working as part of our product team, the Technical Lead will drive the architecture, design, and technical execution of solutions applicable to manufacturing customers. The Technical Lead will own technical decision-making across the product lifecycle, mentor and guide a team of engineers, ensure adherence to coding and design standards, and act as the primary technical point of contact between the development team, product management, and customer-facing teams.

The Technical Lead is expected to be passionate about building scalable, reliable, and secure industrial software, curious about manufacturing technologies (IoT, Edge computing, OT/IT integration), and comfortable balancing hands-on coding with technical leadership responsibilities.

• Must have at least 6/8 years of experience in software development, with 2+ years in a technical leadership or architect-level role.
• Strong hands-on expertise in system design, architecture patterns, and technology trade-off decisions for distributed and edge-deployed systems.
• Proven experience leading code reviews, setting engineering best practices, and owning technical debt management.Ability to translate business and product requirements into technical designs and break them down into actionable engineering tasks.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex, multi-layered technical issues (application, integration, infrastructure).
• Experience mentoring engineers, conducting design/architecture reviews, and driving technical upskilling within the team.
• Effective communicator, able to represent technical decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences, and collaborate with a geographically spread-out team.
• Well-versed in Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipeline design and ownership, and release management practices.
• Working knowledge of cloud and/or on-premise deployment models, containerization, and security considerations relevant to industrial/OT environments is a plus.