Role Overview

We're looking for a hands-on Tech Lead to shape the architecture and technical direction of our Commerce platform, powering product recommendations, search, merchandising, and the data platform behind them.

This is a highly technical leadership role where you'll balance architectural thinking with hands-on engineering (approximately 30–50% coding). You'll lead the design of scalable distributed systems, mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, and work closely with Product and Engineering leadership to build a platform capable of serving large-scale commerce workloads. You'll partner closely with the Engineering Manager on execution while providing technical leadership across backend services, search infrastructure, and data engineering.

About

Wingify (VWO)

Wingify is backed by Everstone Capital, a leading global private equity firm with assets under management exceeding USD 8 billion across India and Southeast Asia. We are a global SaaS company building category-leading products in Digital Experience Platform Founded in India, Wingify is best known for its flagship product VWO (Visual Website Optimizer) — a powerful experimentation and personalization platform used by thousands of brands worldwide. In 2026, Wingify merged with AB Tasty, creating one of the world’s largest independent experimentation and personalization platforms.

Today, the combined entity:

Generates $100M+ in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)

Serves 4,000+ customers globally

Has 800+ employees across North America, Europe, and APAC

Operates from 11 global offices

Is valued at approximately $400–500M About the Commerce Team The Commerce (Recommendations & Merchandising) team builds the intelligence layer powering modern e-commerce experiences.

Our platform enables personalized recommendations, merchandising automation, intelligent search, and large-scale data processing that directly influence how users discover and purchase products.

Our engineering stack includes

Python & Go microservices

React & TypeScript

Google Cloud Platform

Airflow dbt / Dataform

BigQuery

ClickHouse

Kubernetes

You'll help evolve this platform while solving challenging problems in distributed systems, search, scalability, and data engineering.



What You'll Do

Define the technical vision and architecture for the Commerce platform across APIs, search, recommendation systems, and data infrastructure.

Design highly scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems.

Lead architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews across the engineering team.

Establish engineering best practices for system design, testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence.

Break complex initiatives into executable technical roadmaps while proactively managing technical risks and debt.

Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Partner with Product Managers and the Engineering Manager to make pragmatic technical trade-offs and execute the product roadmap.

Stay close to the code by building critical components, prototyping new ideas, and leading production incident resolution when required. What We're Looking For

Required

6–8 years of software engineering experience with a robust track record of designing and building large-scale distributed systems.

Proven experience leading technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction.

Strong expertise in Python or Go, with working knowledge of the other language.

Deep understanding of API design using REST and/or GraphQL.

Strong foundation in distributed systems, system design, scalability, and performance optimization.

Experience working with analytical databases such as ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake, or Redshift.

Experience with modern search technologies such as Meilisearch, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, or Vespa.

Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and observability tooling.

Familiarity with modern data engineering practices using Airflow, dbt, Dataform, or equivalent technologies.





Excellent communication, mentoring, and technical leadership skills. Nice to Have

Experience with recommendation engines, search relevance, ranking systems, or ML-powered products.

Exposure to frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript.

Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms.

Led platform modernization or monolith-to-microservices migrations.

Experience in e-commerce, personalization, martech, or customer data platforms. Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

Equivalent professional experience is equally valued. We Hire for Engineering Fundamentals

We hire for fundamentals, not exact tool matches. We value strong engineering fundamentals over experience with any specific technology. If you've worked with comparable tools, we'd love to hear about it.

Languages: Python / Go ↔ Java, Node.js / TypeScript, Scala, C++, Rust (strong fundamentals transfer)

Search engines: Meilisearch ↔ Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr / Lucene, Vespa, Typesense, Azure Cognitive Search

Analytical / columnar stores: ClickHouse / BigQuery ↔ Snowflake, Redshift, Apache Druid, Apache Pinot

Orchestration: Airflow ↔ Prefect, Dagster, Luigi, Temporal, AWS Step Functions

GraphQL: Strawberry ↔ Graphene, Ariadne, Apollo, gqlgen, Hasura

Cloud: GCP ↔ AWS, Azure Our Commerce tech stack

Backend: Python (FastAPI, Strawberry GraphQL, SQLAlchemy), Go

Frontend: React, TypeScript, Vite, GraphQL

Data & storage: PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Bigtable, Google Cloud Storage

Search: Meilisearch

Data engineering: Apache Airflow (Cloud Composer), dbt, Dataform

Platform & DevOps: Google Cloud (GKE / Kubernetes), Docker, Helm, GitLab CI, Sentry, Prometheus / Grafana What We Offer

Remote-first work culture within India

Flexible working hours

Competitive compensation

Opportunity to build and scale a modern commerce platform used in production

High ownership and technical autonomy

Collaborative engineering culture with experienced peers

Learning and development budget for conferences, certifications, and courses

Career growth through impactful technical leadership

📌 Lead Engineer - Backend & Search Platform (India)
🏢 Wingify
📍 India