Technical Lead & Architect
Gurugram, Haryana, India
About the Role
Hands-on leadership role combining system architecture, technical decision-making, and team mentorship. You will be responsible for designing scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions across our cloud, backend, mobile, and AI/ML stack as we build and grow our real estate product.
Responsibilities
Architecture & Technical Design
• Define and own the overall system architecture, technology stack, and design patterns for the product
• Make high-level technical decisions and trade-offs around scalability, performance, security, and maintainability
• Produce and maintain architecture documentation and diagrams
• Set and enforce coding standards, conventions, and engineering best practices
Technical Leadership
• Guide and mentor developers through code reviews, design reviews, and pair programming
• Resolve complex technical problems and remove technical blockers
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate technical risk
• Ensure technical consistency across teams and components
Delivery & Execution
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and provide effort estimates
• Oversee implementation to ensure alignment with the agreed architecture
• Own the testing strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and non-functional requirements
• Balance technical debt against delivery timelines
Collaboration & Communication
• Translate business and product requirements into technical solutions
• Liaise with product owners, project managers, and joint venture stakeholders
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
• Coordinate across teams, vendors, and external integrations
Governance & Strategy
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and U.S. real estate–relevant standards
• Evaluate and select tools, frameworks, and third-party services
• Align solutions with the product's long-term technical and business roadmap
Requirements
Cloud & Infrastructure
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (compute, storage, networking, IAM)
• Container orchestration with ECS / containerization (Docker)
• Designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, VPC, security groups, TLS)
Backend & Data
• Expert proficiency in Node.js / TypeScript
• Strong PostgreSQL experience — schema design, query optimization, performance tuning
Mobile
• Native Android development with Kotlin
AI / ML
• Experience deploying ML models in production, including model serving with vLLM
• Familiarity with tokenizer configuration and inference optimization
Nice to Have
• Experience building products for the real estate & proptech
• Experience leading distributed or cross-functional teams
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Background in high-availability, high-throughput systems
What We're Looking For
• Proven track record as a technical lead or architect on production software products
• Ability to balance hands-on coding with strategic technical leadership
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, mentoring mindset
• Comfort operating across the full stack — cloud, backend, mobile, and AI
Experience & Education
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 3 years in a technical lead or architect role
• Proven track record of taking products from concept to production at scale
• Experience building or scaling SaaS / web-based products (real estate or proptech experience strongly preferred)