What You’ll Do

- Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers, providing technical guidance and support.
- Own features and technical initiatives end-to-end: design → development → testing → deployment → production support.
- Understand business and product requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
- Assign tasks, track progress, manage dependencies, and ensure timely delivery of team commitments.
- Conduct technical discussions, knowledge-sharing sessions, and mentoring within the team.
- Identify technical risks, blockers, and dependencies and work with stakeholders to resolve them.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code following robust engineering principles.
- Design and build RESTful APIs and event-driven microservices. • Monitor and troubleshoot production issues; drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Optimize application performance across CPU, memory, database queries and GC behavior.
- Participate in and drive technical design and architectural discussions.
- Contribute to architectural improvements and long-term platform scalability.
- Review code and ensure adherence to coding quality standards, design principles and engineering best practices.
- Support team members in solving complex technical and production challenges.
- Participate in resource planning, estimation and technical effort assessment for projects and features.

LEAD THE TEAM

Leadership & Management

Team leadership

- Assign work based on skills and priorities
- Set goals & expectations for team members & track deliverables.
- Provide constructive technical feedback
- Own performance reviews, evaluations, and ratings.
- Identify skill gaps and enable team growth
- Mentor engineers through complex challenges




- Manage team leave and attendance. Cross-functional leadership
- Coordinate with Product, QA, DevOps and Architecture
- Handle technical escalations and blockers
- Contribute to technical evaluations and interviews
- Support onboarding and knowledge transfer
- Balance hands-on contribution with delivery ownership THE ENGINEERING BAR

Technical Expectations

We are looking for a Tech Lead with strong backend depth and the ability to guide implementation across the team.

BACKEND & FRAMEWORKS

- Core Java (JDK 17+)
- Spring Boot (latest releases)
- Deep JPA/Hibernate internals: entity lifecycle, caching, fetch strategies, N+1 problems and query optimization
- Design patterns and clean architecture principles
- Ability to review and guide technical implementation across the team

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS & MESSAGING

- Apache Kafka (preferred) or similar pub-sub systems
- Event-driven architecture
- Distributed systems challenges: idempotency, retries and eventual consistency
- Designing and reviewing distributed, scalable backend solutions

DATABASES & PERFORMANCE • Strong RDBMS expertise: MySQL / PostgreSQL

- Query optimization and indexing strategies
- Performance tuning and memory management
- Heap usage, GC behavior, CPU utilization and DB performance monitoring
- Ability to identify and guide resolution of application and database performance issues

OBSERVABILITY & RELIABILITY • Distributed tracing and centralized logging

- Production monitoring and alerting systems
- Real-time production incident handling
- Leading teams during incidents and driving effective RCA and resolution

DEVOPS & CLOUD • CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar)

- Maven and Git
- Azure or Google Cloud Platform is a plus

📌 Tech Lead (Java Backend) (Pune)
🏢 ScopeSys Innovation
📍 Pune