Company Profile :

Its a logistics automation platform solving NP-Hard route and load optimization problems at scale for enterprise customers across industries. Its algorithms move goods across India smarter, faster, and with fewer kilometres wasted.

What You Will Own :

Technical Leadership :

- Lead a pod of 5 to 8 engineers across backend and frontend. Drive architecture, design decisions, and technical reviews not just approvals.

Delivery :

- Own sprint cadence, remove technical bottlenecks, and ensure timely delivery of features that enterprise customers rely on for their operations.

AI Tooling Adoption :

- Champion the use of AI coding tools across the engineering team. Measure productivity impact, evaluate outcomes, and drive informed adoption decisions.

Quality & Reliability :

- Own the team's engineering quality bar, including automated test coverage, performance benchmarks, production reliability, and rigorous RCA practices.

Mentorship :

- Conduct meaningful 1:1s and actively develop engineers. Help senior engineers grow toward Staff-level responsibilities and mid-level engineers progress toward senior roles.

Cross-Team Influence :

- Work closely with Principal Architects, Product, and Customer Success to shape the roadmap, identify technical risks, and influence key engineering decisions.

Minimum Bar :





- 8 to 14 years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years leading a team
- Deep hands-on backend experience (Java preferred; Python acceptable)
- Proven ability to design and deliver distributed, multi-tenant SaaS systems
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases at production scale
- Demonstrable use and measurement of AI coding tools in a team context
- Strong written and verbal communication - you will interact with enterprise customers and founders
- B.E / B.Tech in CS, IS, ECE or equivalent demonstrable experience
- A fundamentally strong, unbounded problem solver - someone who sees a hard constraint and looks for a way around it, not a reason to stop
- Bonus: awareness of Operations Research techniques - linear programming, heuristics, metaheuristics, VRP variants. Not a requirement; we will teach you. But if you already think in constraints and objectives, you will love it here The Stack Required :

You do not need to know all of this. You need to lead engineers who do, and you need to learn fast what you do not.

- Backend: Java, Python
- Messaging: Apache Kafka
- Databases: PostgreSQL (PGBouncer), MongoDB, Redis / Hazelcast, ClickHouse, Elastic Search
- Cloud: Azure (AKS, ADLS, Service Bus)
- Frontend: React, Redux
- AI/ML: Familiar with embedding pipelines, RAG, and agentic frameworks is a bonus
- CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Pipelines

📌 Staff Software Engineer - Backend Architecture (India)
🏢 Zecruit
📍 India