About this role

This is an ownership role.

You will inherit a working but evolving production system built by someone else. There is a real list of things that need fixing. Your first job is to understand it deeply, make it reliable, and make it something a small team can safely change.

After that, you will extend it — one module at a time, sequenced against business priorities, alongside one other engineer.

We want to be direct about what this is: it is a rescue-and-build role at a company with real revenue and real clients, where you will be the most senior technical person and your decisions will stand. If you have been waiting for a role where you own the whole system rather than a slice of it, this is that role.

What you will do

First 60 days — take custody

Run the technical handover from our development partner
Read and map the entire codebase; produce the architecture documentation
Audit security, infrastructure, backup and restore, and access control
Produce a prioritised risk and remediation plan and walk the founders through it

Months 3–4 — make it solid





Fix the defect backlog, working directly with our agents who use the platform daily
Build automated test coverage on the paths that cost money when they break: booking, ticketing, cancellation, refund, amendment
Harden supplier integrations — timeouts, retries, idempotency, reconciliation when our records and a supplier's disagree
Improve search and booking performance
Set up proper CI/CD, staging, monitoring and alerting

Ongoing — own it

Lead technical design and make the architecture calls
Write code. This role is roughly 60% hands-on and stays that way.
Review all code that ships, including your own team's
Interview and onboard our second engineer, then mentor them
Own production: uptime, incidents, escalation
Work directly with the founders who know the travel domain deeply and act as product owners to turn business requirements into technical plans
Advise on what we should build versus buy

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📌 Lead-Full-Stack Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 ConnectXenia
📍 Bengaluru