About the job
We're looking for an Head of Technology : who can own the technical health and growth of our backend platform. You'll be part architect, part tech lead, part engineering manager. You won't just review code — you'll set the standard for how code is written, how systems are designed, and how the team thinks about quality, cost, and customer impact. This is not a senior IC role where you write code all day. And it's not a pure management role where you're in meetings all day. It's the balance between the two — the person who makes the team better while staying close enough to the code to make good decisionsWhat You'll Own
- System Reliability & Upkeep
- Own the health of a production multi-tenant Node.js/TypeScript backend serving real-time messaging traffic
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortem culture
- Identify and drive reduction of technical debt — proactively, not reactively
- Ensure monitoring, alerting, and observability are in good shape (we use Current Relic, Sentry, Pino structured logging)




- Work across multiple backend services and ensure they integrate reliably
- Scalable, Quality Engineering
- Design and review system architecture decisions — schema changes, service boundaries, async workflows (we use Temporal.io), queue design
- Drive engineering standards: code review culture, PR quality, test coverage, error handling patterns
- Establish and enforce engineering practices that let the team ship fast without accumulating hidden risk
- Evaluate build vs. buy decisions with a clear eye on long-term maintainability
- Cost Consciousness
- Maintain a clear understanding of infrastructure costs (AWS, third-party APIs, LLM usage, DB compute)
- Actively flag cost anomalies and propose architectural or operational changes to address them
- Balance engineering investment against business return — know when "good enough" is the right call
- Team Standards & Culture
- Set a high bar for code quality — not pedantry, but clarity, ma

📌 Head of Technology (Bengaluru)
🏢 Remotestar
📍 Bengaluru