
Tech Lead
Hevo Data
🇮🇳 India
On-site
Staff / Principal
2 weeks ago
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
- Databricks
- Apache Iceberg
- System Design
- ETL
2 weeks ago
What You’ll Do:
- Lead, mentor and inspire a team of software engineers who take pride in ownership and delivering impact.
- Ensureoperational excellence through proactive monitoring, automated processes, and a culture of continuous improvement with strong accountability.
- Drive a strongquality-first mindset, embedding it into the development lifecycle—from design to deployment.
- Drive technical leadership througharchitecture reviews, code guidance, and solving critical platform challenges.
- Build and operatemulti-tenant, distributed backend systems at scale.
- Act as atechnical leader—you’ve operated at least at Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, or Principal Engineer level in your career.
- Champion a culture ofhigh accountability, clear ownership, and high visibility across engineering and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Collaborate deeply withProduct, Program, Support, and Business functions to drive alignment and execution.
- Embed principles ofobservability, reliability, security, and auditability into all aspects of the platform.
- Inspire the team to pursueengineering excellence, drivingbest-in-class implementations and visible results.
- Define and trackdata-driven KPIs to ensure operational efficiency, performance, and team effectiveness.
- Take end-to-end ownership of product lines, ensuringon-time delivery and customer success.
- Contribute toteam growth, hiring, and building an inclusive, learning-focused engineering environment.
What We’re Looking For:
- 9+ years of experience in backend or systems software development.
- 2+ years in a formal or informalEngineering Manager, Sr. Engineering Manager, or Tech Lead role in a fast-paced engineering environment.
- Progression through senior IC roles likeTech Lead, Staff, or Principal Engineer.
- Strong experience withdistributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and multi-tenant platforms.
- Proven ability to drivecross-team collaboration with product, support, business, and program teams.
- Demonstrated ability todrive accountability, set clear goals, and raise the performance bar for the team.
- Expertise in system design, scalability, performance optimization, and cost control.
- Proven track record ofmentoring engineers, guiding architecture, and leading impactful initiatives.
- Clear communicator, adept at both strategy and execution.
Bonus Points:
- Experience withdata engineering platforms, ETL systems, or database internals.
- Exposure toproduct-driven companies, especially in infrastructure, SaaS, or backup/data systems.
- Demonstrated history offast-tracked growth or high-visibility impact.
- Led or contributed tore-architecture or greenfield systems at scale.
Tech Lead · Hevo Data