Oversee delivery for all products, including scope management, release schedule, quality controls, and alignment with stakeholders.
Directly manage the engineering team, handling hiring, performance assessments, coaching, providing feedback, conflict resolution, and talent retention.
Responsibility for the system architecture across the complete stack: web applications, APIs, infrastructure, and AI integrations.
Establish the release pipeline, including CI/CD practices, environment setups, quality checkpoints, and deployment automation.
Responsible for engineering security measures, including access control, secrets management, audit trails, and SDLC security protocols.
Define AI governance policies, ensuring that AI tools utilized promote speed while preventing vulnerabilities.
Construct the engineering team, delineate roles, maintain hiring standards, conduct technical interviews, and develop the engineering organization.

Requirements

10-18 years in software engineering, including a minimum of 4 years in engineering management, overseeing delivery, managing personnel, and making architectural decisions (beyond just having the title of "team lead").
Managed teams of 5-20+ engineers - direct oversight, recruitment, performance evaluations, mentorship, and, when necessary, termination.
System architecture - Designed and advanced SaaS systems. Capable of reasoning across front-end, back-end, database, and infrastructure components. Has made significant trade-off decisions while working within real constraints.
CI/CD and release engineering - Created or significantly enhanced release pipelines, quality gates, and environment management. Understands what it means to "ship confidently".
Cloud infrastructure (Azure or AWS) - Managed production systems. Possesses knowledge of security, reliability, and cost trade-offs.
Full-stack technical depth - While not in an IC role, is hands-on enough to review code, debug production issues, and question engineers on design choices. Developers value your technical insights.
Security fundamentals - Proficient in access control, secrets management, audit trails, and basic SDLC security. These are essential in healthcare.
Strong English communication skills - Async-first, produces clear written decision memos, engineering plans, and risk escalations. You document decisions as well as make them.
Startup or high-growth experience - You have successfully delivered in environments characterized by ambiguity, limited resources, and urgent timelines. Backgrounds solely in enterprise settings may find it challenging here.
Experience in healthcare SaaS (EHR, billing, clinical workflows, HIPAA).
Familiarity with the TypeScript/Node/React ecosystem.
Understanding of observability and SRE practices (logging, metrics, tracing, incident response).
Experience with AI/ML productization — delivering AI features safely in production.
Experience in building QA/test automation into the engineering culture.
Familiarity with EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) or similar operating frameworks.
Leadership of remote-first teams across multiple time zones.

Benefits

Salary range of ₹40–60 LPA, depending on skills and responsibilities
Equity participation (ESOP) — as you contribute to building the engineering organization, you will have ownership of a part of it
Fully remote work opportunities available across India
Equipment allowance provided
Comprehensive health insurance
Culturally recognized local holidays (India)
Flexible paid time off
Budget for leadership development and coaching
Direct and regular communication with the founder-CEO — you will have direct access without intermediaries
The opportunity to establish an engineering organization from scratch

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

system architectureCI/CDcloud infrastructurefull-stack developmentsecurity fundamentalsTypeScriptNode.jsReactobservabilityAI/ML productization

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationconflict resolutionmentorshipperformance assessmenthiringcoachingdocumentationteam buildingadaptability