Lead Full Stack Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Full description
About the Role
We're hiring a Lead Full-Stack Engineer to design, build, and operate AI-powered products end-to-end. You'll own complex features across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure - combining strong full-stack engineering with a passion for building intelligent, AI-driven applications - while mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence.
What You'll Do
•Lead design and delivery of end-to-end AI products and platform capabilities
•Define architecture, coding standards and best practices across backend, frontend and data layers
•Build scalable, secure backend services and REST/GraphQL APIs
•Lead data-centric React UIs: dashboards, tables, workflows, audit trails
•Architect and manage AWS deployments for scale, reliability and cost efficiency
•Drive observability and CI/CD best practices
•Mentor engineers, run code reviews, and partner with product & data teams
Must-Have Skills
•Backend: Node.js with TypeScript (deep expertise); Python preferred
•API design: auth, RBAC, rate limiting, pagination
•Distributed systems: event-driven architecture, queues, async processing
•AWS: EC2/EKS/Lambda, S3, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch
•Docker, containerized deployments, CI/CD pipelines
•Frontend: React, state management, performance optimization
•Data: MongoDB, SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL), Kafka/RabbitMQ
Good to Have
•Agentic AI / LLM-based workflows
•Airflow (or similar) and ETL/ELT concepts
•Microservices & DDD
•High-scale, data-intensive environments
What We're Looking For
•A proven technical leader or senior IC
•Strong ownership: concept to production
•Comfortable in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
•Passionate about mentoring and building high-performing teams