Full stack

Position: Technical Lead Engagement Mode: Not specified Location: Not specified Position Overview: seeking a Technical Lead who is a 'Builder' at heart and a 'Leader' by choice. In this role, you will be the primary driver of product velocity and quality, managing the technical delivery of edtech platforms and making critical daily decisions on engine fine-tuning and system scalability. This is a high-stakes role designed for those who thrive in ambiguity, ownership, and speed. You will directly influence the engineering culture and impact the educational journey of students. Key Responsibilities: • Work with product, design and other stakeholders for understanding of requirements and turn them into architectural and design plans with implementation roadmap • Own the delivery of i/o optimized low latency APIs and DB Schema that supports 24/7 uptime and exponential scalability • Drive an Agentic-first approach to solution design, utilizing AI-driven development (AIDD) to solve complex engineering hurdles • Identify bottlenecks in queries, execution plans, and overall system design to ensure a low-latency end-user experience • Work across functional teams to fine-tune system health and guide developers in writing efficient, high-performance code • Implement Security Principles and PII Compliance within the application schema and access policies • Architect, develop, and sustain large scale distributed platform services • Provide hands-on technical leadership: software design and development, coding, debugging complex issues, prototyping new features and reviewing code for quality • Help the team plan and execute technical deliverables • Mentor junior engineers capable of developing and running scalable, reliable, maintainable services • Keep a focus on the usage/metrics of the owned services and be super customer focused Required Skills: • 6-10 years of experience in schema and distributed system design, performance tuning, and cloud-based best practices • Hands-on experience of building and improving a high scale D2C, B2B, attribution applications, order management systems, product catalog • Deep expertise of LLD, HLD, ACID, caching, distributed system design, DBMS, Garbage Collector, microservices, VM, K8S, data pipelines, kafka, nsqd • 0-to-1 Mindset with proven ability to navigate the challenges and pace of early-stage product journeys • Experience setting up monitoring frameworks to proactively identify slow-running processes and blocking issues • Mastery of Git-based workflows, including rigorous PR reviews and configuration management • Expertise in leveraging Profilers and Performance Insights to assist teams in tuning complex stored procedures • Golang • Python • .Net • kafka • nsqd • redis • elasticsearch • mongoDB • Unit Test • HTTP/TCP • nginx • MCP • AIDD • AIRD • Mobile First APIs • Advanced expertise in Cursor and Windsurf for AI-driven development and code generation • Strong grasp of micro-service scalable architecture and asset hosting for edge performance • Practical skills in database partitioning, sharding, and query optimization • Familiarity with AWS/Azure ecosystems, Linux Kernels, and automated backup/DR strategies • Expertise in Sprints and SDLC Managemen