This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Min Experience: 7+ years

Location: Chennai

JobType: full-time

We are looking for a hands-on Tech Lead to drive technical direction, solve complex engineering problems, and help build scalable, reliable, high-quality software for our AI + IoT platform.

Responsibilities

- Provide technical leadership and guidance to software engineers.
- Design and review scalable software architectures and system designs.
- Stay hands-on with coding and solve complex technical problems.
- Drive technical decisions across APIs, databases, cloud, and application architecture.
- Conduct code reviews and maintain high standards for code quality, testing, and performance.
- Identify and resolve technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural challenges.
- Mentor engineers and help raise the team's technical capabilities.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to translate requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Improve system reliability, scalability, observability, and engineering practices.





Requirements

- 7+ years of software engineering experience.• Strong hands-on programming and system design experience.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, databases, and cloud technologies.
- Experience making and owning technical architecture decisions.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with code reviews, testing, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices.
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

Nice to Have

- Experience with SaaS, AI/ML, or data-driven products.
- Experience with Python and modern backend technologies.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
- Experience working in a fast-growing startup workplace.

Must-have skillsSystem Design, Distributed Systems, Backend Engineering

Good-to-have skillsPython, RAG, LLM

📌 Tech Lead-AI (Chennai)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 Chennai