At FourKites we have the opportunity to tackle complex challenges with real-world impacts. Whether it’s medical supplies from Cardinal Health or groceries for Walmart, the FourKites platform helps customers operate global supply chains that are productive, agile and sustainable.

Join a team of curious problem solvers that celebrates differences, leads with empathy and values inclusivity.

We are hiring Technical Lead for the most data-intensive parts of our platform: Ocean Visibility and/or Order Inventory Visibility (OV/IV).
Select which domain you are drawn to, or let us help you pick.

As a Technical Lead you are the engineering owner of your team’s delivery. You are accountable for what ships, when it ships and how well it is built. You set the technical direction, you hold the bar on engineering practices, and you stay hands-on in the code — typically 40–60% of your week. This is explicitly not a people management role. You will not own headcount, performance reviews, compensation or career ladders — your Engineering Manager does.



You own the technical and delivery outcome of the team, and the Engineering Manager owns the people. You operate

Who you are:

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8+ years building and operating production software, including 2+ years as a tech lead, staff engineer or equivalent leading a team’s technical delivery.
• Deep backend expertise in Java (Spring Boot) and/or Go, with strong fundamentals in distributed systems and object-oriented design.
• Hands-on experience designing microservices and event-driven systems — Kafka or similar — including idempotency, ordering, replay and failure handling.
• Strong data modelling and SQL skills on PostgreSQL (or equivalent), plus practical experience with caching (Redis) and query/performance tuning at scale.

• Production experience on AWS with containerised deployments, CI/CD and modern observability tooling.
• A track record of shipping complex, multi-quarter work on time — and of being the person who found the risk early.

📌 Technical Lead (Chennai)
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📍 Chennai