Backend Tech Lead, TypeScript, AWS

Zeller

full-time

Posted on: 9/24/2025

Origin: • 🇮🇳 India

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Senior

AWSDynamoDBNoSQLPostgresRayTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Drive architectural solutions collaboratively with your team and engineering leadership to build and scale Zeller’s payments platform
Write production code regularly as a core contributor while maintaining oversight of your team's technical deliverables
Own operational excellence for your team’s systems including monitoring, incident response, and reliability improvements
Champion modern development practices including active use of LLMs within your team
Lead and manage a team of software engineers, identifying skill gaps and managing personal development plans
Partner closely with product managers as joint owners of product success, contributing technical and delivery insight

You have owned backend systems and scaled customer facing platforms
You have coached software engineers and have driven a team’s capability uplift through mentorship and personal example
You have worked in product-driven companies and have a track record of driving pace and delivery
You are experienced in backend system design and demonstrate well reasoned, rational decision making
Exceptional written and verbal communication
Strong self-learning drive and actively using/adapting workflows to incorporate generative AI tools
Prior experience with payment acquiring systems is highly valued
Comfortable writing production Typescript code
Experience with AWS serverless stack: Lambda, EventBridge, API Gateway, SQS
Experience with relational and NoSQL datastores (Aurora Postgres, DynamoDB)
Familiarity with monitoring tools (CloudTrail, X-Ray, Datadog)
Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (CDK, Terraform), and high test coverage using GitHub Actions