Senior Technical Architect & Engineering Lead (Node.js / Distributed Systems)

8–12+ Years Experience About Cidroy

Cidroy builds mission-critical software for enterprises, industrial, and high-security environments, spanning enterprise platforms, real-time monitoring systems, and complex data-intensive applications where correctness and reliability aren't optional. The Role

You will be the technical architect and engineering lead for a large-scale water infrastructure monitoring platform that tracks water from source through city zones and reservoirs to consumers, built on live SCADA telemetry (flow, pressure, quality, geolocation) ingested at scale.

You will own the architecture end to end: distributed systems design, data modelling for a deep zone hierarchy, high-availability and failover planning, and the integrations that bring third-party SCADA data in reliably. You will lead a small engineering team while staying hands-on, writing code, reviewing designs, and driving decisions from concept to production. This is not an architect-from-a-distance role; you will be as comfortable in an infrastructure review as you are in production code.

What You Will

Own

Architecture and delivery of scalable backend systems, APIs, and event-driven pipelines that ingest and process high-frequency SCADA telemetry across a citywide zone hierarchy

Data modelling and system design for reliable aggregation of leakage, pressure and Non-Revenue Water (NRW) metrics as data volume grows

Engineering leadership for a small team, spanning architecture, development and delivery

System reliability: high availability,



failover planning, observability and scalability across the platform

Integrations with third-party SCADA systems, industrial platforms and operational data sources

Technical and infrastructure design reviews, catching expensive mistakes before they are built

Direct work with stakeholders to translate ambiguous, evolving requirements into working systems Must-Have

Architecture & Leadership

Experience building and delivering production-grade software systems at scale

Strong backend architecture and distributed systems experience

Experience leading engineering teams while remaining hands-on with development

Core Technical Stack

Hands-on expertise with Node.js, TypeScript and NestJS (deep Java backgrounds with equivalent architecture experience also welcome)

Strong PostgreSQL knowledge, including performance tuning and data modelling

Experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms

Experience with TimescaleDB, PostGIS and GIS or geospatial technologies

Integrations & Operations

Experience integrating with SCADA systems, OPC UA, MQTT, Industrial IoT or telemetry platforms

Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes or K3s, Prometheus and Grafana





Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant systems, including capacity planning and infrastructure reviews Positive to Have

GeoServer, MapLibre or related geospatial platforms

Keycloak, Kong, API gateways and secure platform design

Exposure to mobile architecture (Flutter), analytics, ML-driven systems, or other mission-critical platforms What Strong Looks Like Here

You would rather be handed a problem than a fully-defined ticket, and you learn unfamiliar domains quickly

You look at a hierarchy like City > Zone > Sub-zone > Reservoir and design for it to stay fast and reliable as data volume grows, not just at demo scale

You move comfortably between architecture discussions, infrastructure reviews, integrations and production code, not just one of them

You can spot an expensive mistake before it is built, not after it ships Who This Is Not For

Architects who prefer to design from a distance and hand off implementation entirely

Candidates without experience leading a team while remaining hands-on with code

Candidates who have not worked with distributed, high-availability systems in production Why Cidroy

Cidroy builds software for environments where failure is not an option: defence-adjacent, industrial, and high-security deployments across India. You will be leading architecture and engineering for a platform that tracks water across an entire city network and helps pinpoint exactly where it is being lost. Direct access to the founding team, real ownership, and problems that matter.

📌 Senior Technical Architect (India)
🏢 Cidroy Infotech
📍 India