Job Summary

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

- 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.
- Robust 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.
- Demonstrated ability to lift a team s engineering practices, not just your own output, through standards, review and mentorship.
- Excellent written and verbal communication - you can write a design doc an executive and a junior engineer both understand.
- Comfortable with influence rather than authority: you get the team to a better answer without owning anyone s performance review.
- Fluent in Agile delivery and the tooling around it Jira, Confluence, Git branching and rebasing.
- Comfortable working with a distributed US-India team and with customers directly.

What you ll be doing

- - - - - Set technical direction

- - - - - Hold the engineering bar for the whole team

- - - - - Multiply the team

- - - - Work across the org

- - - Education Qualification

Graduate from B.E/ B.Tech / MCA / M.Tech Background.

Bonus points

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📌 Technical Lead (Chennai)
🏢 fourkites
📍 Chennai