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Experience: 5+ yrs

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for a mature, hands-on Senior Technical Lead - Product Releases & Engineering to bring structure, predictability, and ownership to the engineering and product release lifecycle.

The role sits at the intersection of Product, Delivery, Architecture, and Engineering , with primary responsibility for coordinating developers, features, integrations, and code changes into stable, high-quality SaaS releases.

This is neither a purely managerial position nor simply a senior developer role. The successful candidate will remain technically hands-on while taking ownership of release coordination, engineering discipline, technical delivery, production reliability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own and coordinate the complete product release lifecycle across Development, Test/QA, UAT, Production, and Monitoring
- Coordinate release scope with Product and Delivery teams, maintaining explicit visibility of features, fixes, dependencies, and risks
- Conduct technical release-readiness checks and ensure development, code reviews, integration, and testing are completed before deployment
- Coordinate application, API, database, and configuration changes across environments
- Manage Git branching, release branches, versioning, merges, hotfixes, and production fixes
- Coordinate deployments across Dev, Test, UAT, and Production environments
- Support UAT issue resolution and provide technical Go/No-Go recommendations for releases
- Ensure rollback, recovery, and production support procedures are clearly defined and understood
- Validate production releases and coordinate post-release monitoring and issue resolution
- Maintain visibility of engineering progress and dependencies across frontend, backend, databases,



and integrations
- Identify blockers and technical risks early and drive them towards resolution
- Coordinate cross-functional development work where features span multiple components or services
- Strengthen pull-request, code-review, Git, branching, merge, and version-control practices
- Establish and maintain release-readiness criteria and Definition of Done standards
- Improve automated build, testing, deployment, code-coverage, and CI/CD practices
- Strengthen environment management, logging, monitoring, documentation, incident management, and RCA processes
- Manage technical debt and promote secure and maintainable development practices
- Lead production incident response, assess severity and impact, and coordinate engineering teams during investigations
- Manage hotfixes and emergency releases while maintaining appropriate technical and communication controls
- Conduct root-cause reviews and ensure preventative actions are implemented
- Review code and technical implementations, challenge design decisions where appropriate, and provide hands-on technical guidance
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, release reliability, and production operations
- Support adoption of AI technologies such as LLMs, agents, RAG, MCP, LangGraph/LangChain, OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini where relevant

WHAT MAKES YOU A GREAT FIT

- 5+ years of software engineering experience with meaningful technical leadership responsibility in a production SaaS setting




- Proven experience personally owning or leading software releases across Dev, Test, UAT, and Productionenvironments
- Strong hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for deployment, operations, monitoring, and production troubleshooting
- Robust experience with GitHub, including repository management, pull requests, branching strategies, merge management, permissions, and code reviews
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD automation
- Strong understanding of release management, deployment processes, release readiness, versioning, and code consolidation
- Strong programming experience with React/React.js, Python, REST APIs, backend services, and relational databases such as MySQL
- Experience troubleshooting production SaaS applications and resolving complex technical issues
- Strong understanding of automated testing, code quality, logging, monitoring, incident management, and root-cause analysis
- Experience coordinating engineers across frontend, backend, database, and integration workstreams
- Proven ability to work effectively with Product Owners, Technical Architects, Delivery Managers, QA, and engineering teams
- Strong technical judgement with the ability to decide when to proceed, challenge an approach, or escalate a risk
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive outcomes rather than simply coordinate activities
- Excellent organisation and communication skills, particularly during releases, incidents, and high-pressure situations
- Ability to guide and mentor developers without micromanaging
- Strong quality mindset with the ability to balance delivery speed, reliability, security, and maintainability
- Experience in AI applications, LLMs, AI agents, RAG, MCP, LangGraph, LangChain, OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini is an advantage
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced SaaS environment with evolving priorities and multiple technical dependencies

📌 Senior Technical Lead (Product Releases & Engineering) (Hyderabad)
🏢 Weekday AI (YC W21)
📍 Hyderabad