Lead Engineer
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Emergence SoftwareSoftware
India - RemoteFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6-9 years of software engineering
- Required Skills
- Node.jsPythonExpress.jsTypeScriptDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 6-9 years of software engineering, with a track record of owning both architectural decisions and the delivery machinery around them, not just writing code but making sure the right code gets written by the right people at the right time
- Deep Node.js and TypeScript in production - owned a backend, debugged performance issues, optimised queries
- Designed and shipped distributed systems - async queues, caching layers, pub-sub, background job orchestration
- Python engineering experience sufficient to review architectural decisions and own automation layer integration boundaries
- Acted as technical lead for a team of 5+ engineers - owned resource allocation, sequencing, and delivery quality without relying on a product manager or engineering manager to run the execution layer
- Owned a production incident end-to-end - detected, diagnosed, fixed, post-mortem, and prevention deployed
- Communicated architectural trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated track record of building high-output engineering culture in a lean team - using AI tools, smart tooling choices, and rigorous technical standards to punch above headcount
Responsibilities
- Own all architectural decisions across Node 20, Express, TypeScript and be accountable for production outcomes
- Write and review production code regularly - estimated 40-60% of your time, with the remainder owning architectural oversight, resource allocation, and technical coordination across the stack
- Define engineering standards across the team - code review gates, testing coverage, observability requirements, and incident post-mortems
- Lead technical decisions on LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, MCP integrations, and AI cost management
- Own the integration layer between the Node/TypeScript backend and Python automation layer, preventing cascading failures
- Drive infrastructure maturity with the DevOps Engineer - IaC standards, observability baselines, AWS ECS Fargate migration
- Own how the engineering team operates - allocate technical resources across workstreams, sequence priorities, remove blockers, and ensure the team is running at full technical capacity at all times
- Identify and resolve technical debt proactively through architecture reviews and refactoring sprints
- Communicate architectural trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, translating constraints into business impact
- Serve as the technical counterpart to the Product leads in translating product and business direction into engineering decisions, surfacing risks early, and owning the feedback loop between what is being built and how it is being buitl
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