Technical Lead / Solution Architect

https://drone-port.in/; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

drone-port.in is seeking an experienced backend engineer to own API service contracts, manage critical releases, and lead incident post-mortems. The role requires deep Java expertise, strong SQL with PostgreSQL, and Python familiarity for review work.

You will supervise merges, drive two-person reviews on payments, and oversee onboarding of nine new engineers during the first weeks. Expect a high-responsibility leadership position with CTO collaboration.

Qualifications

• Eight to ten years in backend engineering.
• Depth in Java and strong SQL on a PostgreSQL‑class database, plus enough Python to review it.
• Designed and versioned API contracts that other teams built against.
• Run real incidents and write reviews afterwards.
• Onboarded a group, not just an individual — this seat inducts nine people in its third week.

Responsibilities

• Own the seven API service contracts, draft them by the end of August and sign the freeze with all fifteen seats present
• Approve every merge to main — no exceptions, not for a one-line fix, not at eleven at night
• Require two-person review on settlement and payments, with no exception for hot fixes
• Hold review turnaround at 24 hours, and at 6 hours on the money and dispatch paths
• Own the architecture decision log, release and rollback calls, incident triage and post-incident reviews
• Run the engineering track of the induction week and get all nine joiners to a merged commit by the Friday
• Share the on-call rota with DevOps — one week on, two weeks off

Skills

Java

SQL

PostgreSQL

Python

API design

Incident reviews

Team leadership

Onboarding

Job description

The role

Key responsibilities

• Own the seven API service contracts, draft them by the end of August and sign the freeze with all fifteen seats present
• Approve every merge to main — no exceptions, not for a one-line fix, not at eleven at night
• Require two-person review on settlement and payments, with no exception for hot fixes
• Hold review turnaround at 24 hours, and at 6 hours on the money and dispatch paths
• Own the architecture decision log, release and rollback calls, incident triage and post-incident reviews
• Run the engineering track of the induction week and get all nine joiners to a merged commit by the Friday
• Share the on-call rota with DevOps — one week on, two weeks off

Eligibility

• Eight to ten years in backend engineering, at least three of them leading a team or owning a critical service
• Depth in Java and strong SQL on a Postgres-class database, plus enough Python to review it
• You have designed and versioned API contracts that other teams built against
• You have run real incidents and written the reviews afterwards
• You have onboarded a group, not just an individual — this seat inducts nine people in its third week

What you get

• Seven services and fifteen engineers, from the first line of code
• A daily working relationship with the CTO, and the authority that goes with the seat