Unico Connect is seeking a Tech Lead to own architecture and technical direction across multiple concurrent client engagements spanning web, mobile, AI, and cloud. The role combines deep technical contribution with engineering mentorship, architecture review, and the establishment of standards that scale the engineering practice. The position suits senior engineers who have led teams, designed systems at production scale, and remained close to the code throughout.

Responsibilities

- Own technical architecture for 3-5 concurrent client products across web, mobile, AI, and cloud
- Lead architecture reviews, design documents (ADRs), and trade-off discussions with engineering and stakeholders
- Remain hands-on; build proof-of-concepts, write critical-path code, conduct deep code reviews on production diffs
- Mentor 6-10 engineers across Backend, Frontend, Mobile, and AI tracks; conduct 1:1s and performance reviews
- Set engineering standards covering testing, observability, security, performance, and deployment
- Partner with Product Managers on technical scoping, effort estimation, and risk assessment
- Drive engineering interview loops and calibrate the technical bar across hiring rounds
- Run engineering rituals: design reviews, retrospectives, incident post-mortems, technical brown-bags
- Coordinate cross-team architecture decisions when client products share platform components
- Govern security and compliance posture across engagements, including SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR work
- Author internal technical write-ups, runbooks, and onboarding documentation




- Represent Unico Connects engineering capability in technical conversations with prospects and clients

Qualifications

- 7+ years of software engineering with at least 2 years in a Tech Lead, Staff, or Principal Engineer role
- Deep expertise in at least 2 of: Node.js + TypeScript, Python (FastAPI / Django), React or Next.js, Flutter, or native mobile
- Production experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and at least 1 message queue (BullMQ, Kafka, SQS)
- Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines on GCP and AWS
- Robust fundamentals in distributed systems, system design, security, and performance engineering
- Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable leading architecture discussions with non-technical stakeholders
- Experience hiring, calibrating, and mentoring engineers from junior to senior level
- Track record of shipping at least 1 system at production scale (1M+ users, 99.9%+ uptime, or comparable)
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Direct experience working with international clients across regulated and unregulated industries

Skills

- System Design
- Architecture
- Code Review
- Mentorship
- Distributed Systems
- Kubernetes
- Performance Engineering
- Security

Job Type

- Full-time

Location

Mumbai, Maharashtra

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📌 Tech Lead (Mumbai)
🏢 Unico Connect
📍 Mumbai