Technical Lead

Lawyered Location: Gurgaon (In office)

Experience: 8+ years, with at least 2 years leading engineers

CTC: As per industry standards + ESOPs

Open positions: 2

The Role

- You'll own engineering execution for a major slice of the platform — either our shared product surfaces (ChallanPay / RSP / LOTS247 / Admin) or infrastructure and APIs. This is hands-on: ~60% architecture and code, ~30% mentoring and unblocking, ~10% sprint orchestration.
- You'll work directly with the CTO on roadmap, hiring, and the technical bar.
- You will lead 4-6 engineers (mids, juniors, interns), set the quality standard, and be the second technical voice in the room after the CTO for your area.

What You'll Do

- Own architecture decisions across your domain — schemas, API contracts, queue topology, integration patterns
- Run weekly architecture reviews; unblock the team; do real code reviews (not rubber-stamp)
- Set and enforce the engineering quality bar — testing discipline, observability, on-call hygiene, incident response
- Own production incidents — RCA, postmortem, prevention. (You'll inherit and extend tribal knowledge from incidents like the VehicleRCRecords missing-index issue that took CPU to 99%.)
- Mentor mids and juniors; pair on hard problems; grow at least 2 of them measurably in the year
- Interview and help close 4-5 hires for your area through FY27 Partner with the other Tech Lead, the Senior Engineers, and Product on cross-cutting concerns

Qualifications : Tech Stack

- Languages: TypeScript (primary), Javascript, Python
- Backend: NestJS, Prisma, Node.Js
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis




- Async / Jobs: BullMQ
- Web / Mobile: Next.js, React, React Native
- Infra: Coolify on GCP / AWS
- Observability: DataDog, Sentry
- AI / Voice (where relevant): Claude / OpenAI APIs, LiveKit, Pipecat, Soniox v4, Cartesia
- What We're Looking For
- Must-Have
- 8+ years building production backend / full-stack systems
- At least 2 years leading 4+ engineers (formal lead or de facto)
- Strong TypeScript + Node.js (NestJS preferred); strong PostgreSQL/MySQL schema and query design
- Has owned a system with real users, real money, and real incidents — not just greenfield
- Valuable at trade-off conversations: build vs buy, refactor vs rewrite, ship vs polish
- Comfortable in early-stage ambiguity; doesn't wait for perfectly written tickets
- Nice-to-Have
- Prior legal-tech, fintech, fleet/auto-tech, or B2B2C SaaS
- BullMQ or similar queue-heavy systems experience
- Indian regulatory complexity (GST, DPDP, e-challan, Pure Agent / Rule 33)
- Open-source contributions or visible technical writing

Additional Information : Success Looks Like

30 days — You've read every service in your area, met every engineer, and given the CTO a written take on the top 5 risks and top 5 quick wins

90 days — Two of those quick wins are shipped; architecture review cadence is running; one engineer is meaningfully unblocked because of you

6 months — Production incident rate down 40%+; you've hired 1-2 of the open roles in your area; your domain feels like a coherent platform

12 months — You're the trusted second technical voice for your area; one of your reports is ready for promotion

📌 Technical Lead (Gurugram)
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