Job Description

About Blitz

Blitz powers India's fastest e-commerce deliveries, enabling 60-minute and same-day fulfillment for brands like Decathlon, Adidas, Puma, and Purplle. Our systems use AI-driven logistics, real-time decisioning, and high-scale distributed architecture to deliver 98%+ success and 50% lower RTOs.

We're hiring a Senior Engineering Lead who focuses on solving problems, driving outcomes, and measuring impact. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who owns delivery end-to-end, leads critical systems, and raises engineering excellence across teams.

Role Overview

As a Senior Engineering Lead, you will:
- Lead multiple engineering initiatives from conception to measurable impact.
- Act as a hands-on IC for critical systems — design, code, review, and debug.
- Solve real business and operational problems, not just deliver requirements.
- Define success metrics for every project and validate solutions through data and monitoring.
- Improve reliability, observability, and performance across the tech stack.
- Influence engineers through technical depth,



clarity, and high execution standards.

Key Responsibilities

Outcome-Driven Engineering
- Work backwards from the problem and architect solutions tied to explicit business metrics (latency, reliability, throughput, DRR).
- Measure and monitor everything — dashboards, alerts, logs, SLOs.
- Iterate continuously until expected outcomes are achieved.

Hands-On Technical Leadership
- Write and review clean, scalable, high-quality code.
- Debug production issues quickly and lead root-cause analysis.
- Architect modular, fault-tolerant, and resilient systems.

Execution & Process Leadership
- Plan, track, and deliver multiple engineering projects on time.
- Create strong engineering processes: CI/CD, testing, deployment checks, observability.
- Maintain a high-velocity, low-defect release culture.

Mentorship & Influence
- Mentor engineers on system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
- Set and

📌 Senior Engineering Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Blitz
📍 Bengaluru