Technical Lead (India)

Thakral One; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Thakral One, a consulting and technology services company, is seeking a Senior Technical Lead to steer architecture, development, and scaling of a SaaS platform from Bengaluru. You will guide engineers, translate business needs into technical solutions, and drive strategic technology initiatives with cross-functional teams.

You will lead and mentor engineers, oversee architecture decisions, and ensure delivery against timelines while maintaining high standards of security, reliability, and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of backend service and web app development experience.
• 10+ years building and operating cloud-based AWS applications.
• 5+ years leading development teams on multi-year projects.
• Experience managing direct reports is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and operation of SaaS platform solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, timelines, and implementation strategies.
• Drive technical decisions balancing quality, scalability, performance, and delivery objectives.
• Contribute to architecture, coding, research, and technical problem solving across a variety of technologies and platforms.
• Rapidly assess and contribute to new codebases, projects, and technologies.
• Lead and mentor engineers, providing technical guidance and supporting their professional development.
• Review solutions and implementation approaches to ensure alignment with project goals and engineering standards.
• Foster a collaborative, high performing engineering culture focused on continuous improvement.
• Support teams in refining business requirements into robust and demonstrable applications.
• Work closely with Product Management, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Architecture

Mentorship

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Decision making

Tools

AWS

React

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Terraform

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

GitHub Copilot

Job description

As a Technical Lead, you will lead the architecture, development, and scaling of a SaaS platform while guiding a team of engineers in delivering secure, resilient, and high performing solutions. Working closely with Architecture, Information Security, DevOps, and Product Management teams, you will translate business requirements into technical solutions and drive the successful delivery of strategic technology initiatives.

What You'll Do and How You'll Succeed

Technical Leadership and Solution Delivery

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and operation of SaaS platform solutions.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to define requirements, delivery timelines, and implementation strategies.
• Drive technical decision making that balances quality, scalability, performance, and delivery objectives.
• Contribute directly to architecture, coding, research, and technical problem solving across a variety of technologies and platforms.
• Rapidly assess and contribute to new codebases, projects, and technologies.

Team Leadership and Mentorship

• Lead and mentor engineers, providing technical guidance and supporting their professional development.
• Review solutions and implementation approaches to ensure alignment with project goals and engineering standards.
• Foster a collaborative, high performing engineering culture focused on continuous improvement.
• Support teams in refining business requirements into robust and demonstrable applications.

Product and Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with Product Management, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Drive alignment between product vision, technical architecture, and delivery outcomes.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non technical audiences.

We'd Love to Hear From You If...

Experience

• You have at least twelve years of experience developing highly available backend services and web applications.
• You have more than ten years of experience building and operating cloud based applications on AWS.
• You have at least five years of experience leading development teams on multi year projects.
• Experience managing direct reports is an advantage.

Technical Expertise

• Strong backend development experience using Golang or C# (.NET Framework or .NET Core).
• Senior level experience building production React and TypeScript applications, including testing, tooling, and deployment.
• Strong experience architecting and building cloud native solutions on AWS.
• Strong understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB.
• Strong hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience implementing observability solutions using technologies such as AWS CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, or similar platforms.
• Experience using AI assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot to accelerate design, testing, code review, and documentation.

Ways of Working

• Strong leadership experience delivering large scale projects through structured milestones.
• Commitment to continuous learning and adoption of emerging technologies.
• Strong collaboration and teamwork skills within cross functional environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to make informed technical decisions while balancing business priorities and delivery timelines.

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Who We Are

Thakral One is a consulting and technology services company headquartered in Singapore, with a pan-Asian presence. We focus primarily around technology-driven consulting, adoption of value-added bespoke solutions, enabling enhanced decision support through data analytics, and embracing possibilities in the cloud. We are heavily inclined towards building capabilities collaboratively with clients and believe strongly in improving grounded and practical outcomes.

This approach is possible through our partnership with leading global technology providers and internal R&D teams. Our clients come from Financial Services, Banking, Telco, Government, Healthcare, and Consumer-oriented organisations.