Job Summary

Vortech is a fast-growing B2B SaaS company building enterprise-grade platforms for global partners. We are establishing our Hyderabad engineering hub and looking for a Java

Team Lead to be one of its founding members. You will own technical delivery end-to-end,

collaborate as a peer with our engineering teams across hubs, and help define what great engineering looks like in Hyderabad.

You will sit at the intersection of hands-on engineering and team leadership — writing code,

guiding juniors, and ensuring what gets shipped is reliable, scalable, and delivers real value to our enterprise clients.

Key Responsibilities

● Lead the design and delivery of microservices and backend systems that form the core of Vortech's B2B platform.

● Make and defend architectural decisions — data models, API contracts, service boundaries — in collaboration with senior engineers across hubs.

● Set and enforce coding standards, PR review practices.

● Be the technical point of contact for the Hyderabad hub in cross-team discussions with other hubs.

● Contribute hands-on code — this is a lead role, not a manager role.

● Guide and mentor junior and mid-level engineers in the Hyderabad team; accelerate their growth through structured feedback and pairing.

● Participate in hiring — technical interviews, code assessments, and culture-fit evaluations for the growing Hyderabad team.

● Foster a team culture of ownership, peer accountability, and continuous improvement.

● Own sprint-level delivery commitments — plan, estimate, identify risks early, and unblock the team.

● Champion engineering quality: test coverage, CI/CD discipline, observability, and zero-surprise production deployments.





● Track and improve DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate,

MTTR) as a measure of team health.

● Collaborate with QA to embed quality upstream — not as a handoff, but as a shared responsibility.

● Translate technical constraints into business language clearly — proactively, not reactively.

● Identify technical debt that impacts product velocity or client experience and build a case for addressing it.

Required Qualifications

MUST HAVE

● Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or any relevant field.

● 7+ years of Java engineering experience, with at least 1–2 years in a tech lead or senior engineer capacity.

● Deep proficiency in Java (Java 11+), Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, REST APIs, and microservices architecture.

● Fluency in English. Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

● Knowledge of project management methodologies.

● Ability to work effectively across time zones

● Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) — schema design, query optimisation, indexing.

● Build tools (Maven or Gradle) and standard Java logging/observability frameworks

(SLF4J, Logback, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana).

NICE TO HAVE





● Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Docker, Kubernetes,

and CI/CD pipelines.

● Experience with event-driven architecture — Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.

● Exposure to frontend technologies (ReactJS) — enough to collaborate meaningfully with full-stack & frontend engineers.

● Familiarity with enterprise SaaS integration patterns — webhooks, OAuth, multi-tenancy,

API gateways.

● Experience working in a multi-hub global engineering team.

● Understanding of SaaS business metrics — churn, NPS, SLA — and how engineering decisions affect them.

● WebSocket workflow

● Comfortable with exploring recent technologies.

● Have a strong understanding of software development lifecycles and modern transaction processing environments.

● Experience with distributed caching (Redis) or NoSQL databases (MongoDB,

DynamoDB).

● Self-motivated with a “can-do” attitude, result-oriented, organized and ability to work independently with priorities under tight timelines, in a complex customer environment.

● Excellent interpersonal skills to establish and maintain good relationships with colleagues, clients and head quarter management.

What We Offer

● A founding role in Vortech's Hyderabad engineering hub — high visibility, high impact from day one.

● Peer-level collaboration with experienced engineering teams across the globe.

● Direct mentorship from the Head of Engineering with a clear growth path

● Competitive compensation benchmarked to Hyderabad senior engineering market rates.

● A culture that values engineering craft, business awareness, and user empathy equally.

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