Build the technology that helps solve India’s water crisis

Chandigarh Tricity | Full-time | On-site

7–10 years preferred | 6 years can be considered for an exceptional candidate

At Wattr.ai, we are building technology for one of India's most important and complex challenges — water.

We are creating the digital intelligence layer for real-world water infrastructure, connecting sensors, field systems, data, software and AI to help organisations monitor, understand and manage water infrastructure at scale.

And we are looking for a Technical Lead who wants to own the technology behind it.

This is not a role where you simply receive requirements and write tickets.

You will work across the entire product-engineering chain:

Business Requirement → Product Requirement → System Architecture → Technical Design → Engineering Sprints → Task Allocation → Development → Testing → Deployment → Production → Scale

You will architect it.

You will build it.

You will lead the engineering team that executes it.

You will own technical delivery against product goals, KPIs and deadlines.

What you will own

You will be the technical bridge between the Product team and Engineering team, translating what the business needs into systems that can actually be built, deployed and scaled.

You will

→ Understand business and product requirements and convert them into technical solutions

→ Design the overall system architecture — application, APIs, databases, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure and integrations

→ Break architecture and product requirements into engineering modules, technical tasks and deliverables

→ Plan and drive engineering sprints based on product priorities, dependencies and deadlines

→ Assign work across developers based on technical complexity, priorities and individual strengths

→ Track sprint execution and ensure engineering commitments translate into actual product delivery

→ Identify technical risks, dependencies and bottlenecks early and drive them to resolution

→ Remain hands-on with development, particularly on critical or complex components

→ Review architecture, code and implementation decisions to maintain engineering quality

→ Work closely with Product to balance speed, scalability, reliability and business priorities

→ Own technical delivery from 0→1 and beyond, taking products from an idea to a field-tested production system

Technology you will work across

This is a broad technical ownership role. You should be comfortable going deep across multiple layers of the stack:

Frontend → Backend → APIs → Data → Real-time Systems → IoT → Cloud → Infrastructure → AI

Full-stack Engineering

Strong hands-on experience with:

- Node.js and modern backend development
- React and frontend application development
- REST APIs and service integrations
- Databases and data modelling
- Authentication, authorization and application security
- Performance optimisation and production debugging

Cloud & Infrastructure

Strong experience with AWS and production cloud systems.

You should understand and ideally have hands-on experience with:

- EC2, S3, RDS / time-series databases and relevant AWS services
- AWS IoT Core or equivalent IoT cloud platforms
- Docker and containerised applications
- Kubernetes / EKS or equivalent
- CI/CD pipelines
- Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform
- Monitoring, logging and observability
- Cloud security, networking and reliability

The expectation is not simply to consume cloud infrastructure — you should understand how to design,



provision and evolve the infrastructure on which the product runs.

IoT, Real-time & Data Systems

Wattr works with real-world infrastructure and continuously generated data.

Experience with any of the following is highly valuable:

- IoT platforms and connected devices
- MQTT / pub-sub architectures
- Sensor telemetry and real-time data ingestion
- Event-driven systems
- Kafka or similar streaming technologies
- Data ingestion / ETL pipelines
- Time-series data
- High-volume event processing
- Real-time alerts, monitoring and reporting
- Edge/cloud architectures

You should be comfortable thinking about:

Device → Data → Backend → Processing → Intelligence → Dashboard → Action

AI & AI-assisted Engineering

AI is becoming an important part of how we build intelligent infrastructure.

Experience with

- LLMs / GenAI
- AI APIs and integrations
- RAG / agentic systems
- ML/AI pipelines
- AI-assisted development using tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude or equivalent is a strong advantage.

We are particularly interested in engineers who use AI tools practically to increase engineering velocity and solve problems better, rather than simply having theoretical exposure.

Architecture & System Design

Architecture ownership is mandatory for this role.

We are looking for someone with at least 2–3 years of genuine hands-on architecture / system-design experience.

You should have experience with:

- Designing production systems from business requirements
- Defining system and service boundaries
- Making technology and architecture decisions
- Designing APIs and integrations
- Database and data architecture
- Distributed and event-driven systems
- Scalability and performance
- Reliability and fault tolerance
- Security and observability
- Cloud architecture and infrastructure
- Evolving architecture as products scale

Importantly, you should have built the systems you architected.

We are not looking for a pure enterprise architect or consulting architect who primarily produces diagrams and documents.

Technical Leadership

You will lead the engineering team technically and drive execution.

This includes

Translating product requirements into technical plans

Breaking large requirements into manageable engineering tasks

Planning sprints and sequencing technical dependencies

Assigning work to engineers

Reviewing progress against sprint commitments

Unblocking developers when technical issues arise

Conducting code and architecture reviews

Mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards

Working with Product to manage technical trade-offs and delivery priorities

Ensuring engineering execution remains aligned with business KPIs and product deadlines

You may lead a small team of engineers, but your primary identity should remain that of a strong hands-on engineer and technical leader.

0→1 Ownership

We want someone who has experienced the journey:

Idea → Architecture → First Build → MVP → Production → Scale

You should have personally contributed to taking at least one product, platform or major system from 0→1 and subsequently helped scale or productionise it.

Startup experience is a strong advantage,



particularly experience working in environments where engineers have to make decisions independently and move quickly.

What makes this role different

You won't be responsible for just one layer of the technology stack.

You will have visibility into the entire product.

You will understand why the product needs to exist → decide how it should be built → architect the system → break it into engineering work → lead the team through execution → write critical code yourself → deploy it → see it working in the real world.

And the real-world application is meaningful.

Water infrastructure

Connected devices

Live operational data

AI-driven intelligence

Large-scale infrastructure

Real impact across India

This is an opportunity to build technology where the systems you design don't just live inside a software product — they interact with the physical world.

What success looks like In your first 6–12 months, you should be able to:

Take ownership of the technical architecture of key Wattr products

Translate product requirements into clear engineering plans

Establish an effective sprint and engineering execution rhythm

Build and ship a field-tested MVP rapidly

Bring live sensor/device data into reliable production systems

Build scalable backend and frontend systems

Establish robust APIs, data pipelines, alerts and reporting

Improve automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring and observability

Identify architectural bottlenecks before they become production problems

Help build an engineering culture focused on ownership, quality and delivery

Most importantly

The technology you build should become a competitive advantage for Wattr.ai.

What we're looking for

7–10 years of software engineering experience preferred

6 years can be considered for an exceptional candidate

2–3 years of hands-on architecture / system-design ownership is mandatory

Strong hands-on full-stack engineering experience

Strong Node.js React experience

Robust AWS / cloud experience

Experience setting up and evolving infrastructure

Strong understanding of APIs, databases and distributed systems

Experience with data pipelines / high-volume or real-time systems

0→1 product or platform development experience

Experience leading or mentoring engineers

Strong sprint planning, task breakdown and engineering execution skills

IoT / MQTT / telemetry / real-time systems experience is a strong advantage

AI / GenAI and AI-assisted development experience is a strong advantage

Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate independently

This role is NOT A pure people-management role A pure enterprise architect role A consulting / documentation-heavy architecture role A backend-only or frontend-only role A role where requirements are simply converted into tickets

We want someone who can:

Understand → Architect → Break Down → Assign → Build → Review → Ship → Scale

Why Wattr.ai?

Because this is an opportunity to build something that matters.

You will be working at the intersection of:

Software × Cloud × IoT × Data × AI × Physical Infrastructure and applying those technologies to one of India's biggest real-world challenges.

If you are the kind of engineer who looks at a complex problem and thinks:

“Let me understand the whole system — and then let me build it.”

We would love to hear from you.

Pay: From ₹2,000,000.00 per year

Application Question(s)

- Expected CTC
- Notice Period
- Current CTC
- Are you willing to relocate to Zirakpur

Work Location: In person

📌 Technical Lead- Architecture and Engineering (Zirakpur)
🏢 Wattr.ai
📍 Zirakpur