Lead Engineer Application Architecture & Scalability

About the role

We are looking for a hands‑on engineering lead who owns the architecture and scalability of our real‑time grocery‑delivery platform. You will work closely with development teams to ensure services are designed, built and released to handle high load while maintaining performance and reliability.

Key responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end application scalability, identify bottlenecks and drive fixes.
• Define and enforce architecture standards that support clean scaling as traffic grows.
• Maintain Helm charts and release models, keeping them simple for the team.
• Implement application‑level observability (tracing, profiling, metrics) and monitor performance under load.
• Lead the AI‑driven SDLC initiative, building internal tools and agents for triage, diagnostics and operational reporting.
• Introduce appropriate developer tooling and mentor a small team on architecture and engineering quality.

Required profile

• 5‑8 years of strong software engineering experience with a proven track record in architecture and scalability.
• Hands‑on experience with modern web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Node.js or Django.
• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and caching solutions (Redis or Memcached).
• Experience with messaging/streaming systems like Apache Kafka, Azure Service Bus or RabbitMQ.
• Familiarity with frontend build and release processes for Angular, React or Vue.
• Practical knowledge of containers, Kubernetes and Helm chart authoring.
• Experience defining engineering standards and building CI/CD quality gates.
• Interest in applying AI to engineering workflows.

Required skills

• Ruby on Rails
• Node.js
• Django
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Redis
• Memcached
• Apache Kafka
• Azure Service Bus
• RabbitMQ
• Angular
• React
• Vue
• Containers
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• CI/CD