Aviation - Engineering Lead

Company Description

ZestIoT Technologies, founded in 2016, operates globally with offices in the Netherlands and India. Our mission is to connect People, Places, Assets, and Operations across diverse industries such as Aviation, Manufacturing, Food & Beverages, and Oil & Gas through advanced technology. Our Ground Radar and iView platform offer quick-to-deploy solutions, leveraging IoT, AI, and custom UI/UX to enhance resource management, operational safety, and product quality assessment, leading to significant cost savings and efficiencies for our clients.

Role Description

This is a full-time role for an Aviation Engineering Lead, located in Hyderabad, with some work-from-home flexibility. The Engineering Lead will oversee the development and implementation of aviation-related technology solutions. Responsibilities include managing aircraft turnaround automation projects, optimizing resource management, ensuring compliance with operational plans, coordinating with different teams, and providing technical leadership in the implementation of IoT and Camera-AI applications. Role involves end-to-end ownership of technical delivery, design, architecture, and quality for our multi-customer multi use case SaaS platform. You will lead and mentor the engineering team, drive scalable design and high-quality delivery, manage releases across customer environments, and ensure the stability and performance of the product in production. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivery & Release Management:

  Plan and deliver product features and customer-specific releases on time with high quality, ensuring operational readiness and stability across environments. 

• Technical Design & Architecture:

  Lead

  technical design and high-scale architecture

  for new and existing modules, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability. 

• Team Management:

  Mentor and guide engineers, ensure clarity in priorities, unblock challenges, and foster a culture of ownership and quality within the team. 

• Requirement to Delivery:

  Work with product and customer teams to understand requirements, translate them into designs and implementation plans, and track them through to delivery. 

• Product Quality:

  Establish and maintain engineering best practices, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure

  high product quality and reliability.

   

• Troubleshooting & Support:

  Lead the team in debugging complex issues in development and production, ensuring minimal downtime and strong customer satisfaction. 

• Hands-on Contribution:

  Actively contribute technically where needed, providing architectural guidance and coding support aligned with the team’s stack. 

Qualifications

• Experience:

  8–12 years in software engineering with at least 3+ years in a lead role. 
• Proven experience in

  designing scalable, high-performance architectures and technical solutions.

   
• Experience delivering

  multi-customer SaaS product releases

  , including phased and customer-specific configurations. 
• Strong track record of

  ensuring product quality and stability through structured processes, testing, and monitoring.

   
• Ability to

  troubleshoot complex issues and guide teams towards resolution.

   
• Experience in

  mentoring and managing engineering teams

  to drive aligned delivery and high performance. 
• Hands-on experience with your relevant tech stack (e.g.,

  Python, Django, Angular, AWS, Docker, Redis, RabbitMQ

  ). 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with Product, QA, and Customer Support teams. 
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or related field.