Lead Engineer - Full-Stack

About the company:

About the Role

• We are looking for a Lead Engineer to drive the development and delivery of key product features end-to-end. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on owning complex initiatives from idea to production, working with a hybrid team, shaping technical direction, and ensuring execution excellence.
• As a Lead Engineer, you will be hands-on in development while also providing technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance to the team. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable systems and ensure timely, high-quality delivery.
• This role combines deep technical expertise with strong ownership and leadership, making you a core driver of our engineering culture and product success.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Ownership: Lead the planning, design, development, deployment, and monitoring of major product features and systems.
• Drive Architecture: Define system design and architectural choices with a focus on scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Execution Leadership: Ensure projects are delivered on time with high quality, balancing trade-offs between speed and technical debt.
• Hands-On Development: Build and optimize full-stack applications using Next.js, React.js, Node.js, and MySQL.
• Mentorship & Guidance: Conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
• Performance & Reliability: Lead efforts to improve performance (TTFB, LCP, Lighthouse), reliability, and observability across the stack.
• Collaboration: Work with other dev teams, product managers, designers, and DevOps to align business goals with technical execution.
• Modern Practices: Champion CI/CD, testing, documentation, and AI-powered developer tools to enhance team productivity.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 6–10 years of professional experience in full-stack web development, with at least 2+ years in a managerial role and a proven track record of leading projects end-to-end — from technical scoping through deployment.
• Strong understanding of user interface/experience principles.
• Project & Release Management: Break down initiatives into tasks, assign responsibilities, manage release cycles, track progress against timelines, communicate updates proactively.
• Stakeholder Management: Effectively align technical execution with business priorities by managing expectations, communicating progress, and driving stakeholder buy-in.
• Team Management: Guide, mentor, and coordinate engineers by delegating tasks, resolving blockers, and fostering a culture of accountability and growth.
• Technical - Expertise in system design & performance optimization. Advanced proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), React.js, Next.js(SSR, routing, data fetching), and Node.js. Deep understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and distributed system patterns.
• Familiarity with AI-powered developer tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) for productivity and team workflows.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to drive cross-functional initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in developing/maintaining a scalable e-commerce application along with performance optimization at scale
• Familiarity with AWS stack (EC2, S3, RDS, etc.).

What You’ll Get

• A high-ownership role where your leadership directly drives product outcomes.
• The autonomy to architect systems, make impactful technical decisions, and set standards for the team.
• Opportunity to work with a modern, performance-driven JavaScript stack.
• A chance to shape engineering culture in a fast-paced, high-impact startup environment.
• The satisfaction of building systems and features that scale globally.

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