Team Lead – Engineering

Bengaluru · Full-time · On-site

About Edmingle

Edmingle is a leading SaaS platform that enables educators, training companies, and learning businesses to build, manage, and scale their online learning operations — all under their own brand.

With 700+ customers and learners across 160+ countries, Edmingle is trusted by some of the most renowned and fast-growing EdTech organizations to deliver impactful, scalable, and data-driven learning experiences.

Our platform empowers teams to launch and manage online academies, automate operations, enhance learner engagement, and measure performance through advanced analytics — all within a single, unified system.

As a rapidly growing global company, Edmingle is driven by a strong commitment to innovation, customer success, and excellence in learning technology.

Role Description

This is a full-time, in office role for a Team Lead - Engineering at Edmingle, located in Bengaluru.

The Team

Lead will own both the technical direction and people management of an engineering team — staying hands-on with a significant share of development themselves, while driving architecture decisions, code quality, and the growth of their direct reports. They will work closely with Product, Design, and cross-functional engineering teams to ship high-quality, scalable features on our live SaaS platform.

You Should Apply If You

- Have 5+ years of experience in software development, with 2+ years leading a team of engineers as direct reports
- Are comfortable owning a significant chunk of hands-on development yourself, not just reviewing/delegating
- Have strong hands-on experience across our stack: MongoDB, MySQL, Node.js, Websockets,



ReactJS/NextJS and PHP
- Are comfortable using AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or similar to boost personal and team productivity
- Love solving complex data, scalability, and system design problems
- Have experience with AWS or a similar cloud platform, and setting up security/infra best practices
- Have prior experience with performance reviews, appraisals, and career growth conversations for reportees
- Can break down ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans and delegate effectively
- Have experience working on complex analytics dashboards or high-scale SaaS products
- Love working collaboratively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced startup environment

Responsibilities

Technical delivery (hands-on)

- Personally own and ship a meaningful share of development work — features, modules, and critical fixes
- Own architecture and design decisions for your team's modules, balancing scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Conduct code reviews and enforce clean code, SOLID principles, and engineering best practices
- Monitor production health (uptime, performance, error rates) and drive resolution of critical issues
- Set up and enforce security protocols and infrastructure best practices for the team

Team ownership (people management)

- Manage a team of engineers as direct reports — including 1:1s, performance reviews.
- Mentor and grow engineers through regular feedback, pairing, and technical guidance
- Break down epics into well-scoped tasks and manage sprint planning/execution with the team
- Own hiring and onboarding for open roles on the team
- Report progress, risks, and blockers to engineering leadership

📌 Lead Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Edmingle
📍 Bengaluru