Lead Software Engineer - Backend

Company Overview:

ITILITE is a leading global brand in the Business Travel, Expense & Cards Management space.

Our mission is to help companies simplify their travel and expense processes, making it an enjoyable experience for employees. We operate on a B2B SaaS model, with a strong presence in India and the USA, serving over 500 customers.

We are a Series C funded company, having raised over $45 million from Global Tier 1 VCs like Tiger Global, VY Capital, Greenoaks, and Z47 (Matrix Partners).

As a Tech Lead, you will lead a team of 4 to 6 people and own the deliverables of one or two modules of our flagship product.

You will be responsible for:

• Design, architecture and development of our flagship product.
• Leading a team of 4-6 people and responsible for getting work done from the team.
• To liaise with the product manager and technical architect to explore and suggest
• High quality technical solutions to achieve the required product features as well as monitoring technical progress against plans. While safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance
• Actively participate in code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
• Ensure high scalability and performance of the platform.
• Build proof of concepts and early prototypes systems and scale it to production.
• Advocate for good, clean, well-documented and performing code; define and follow standards and best practices for front-end development.

We want you if you have..

• Over 5 years of proven work experience in a product-based company delivering mission critical projects
• Design, code, test, debug, and document software according to functional requirements
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
• Provide cost-optimized solutions and approaches while addressing scalability and performance concerns.
• Expert knowledge in databases, language runtimes, multithreading, caches and different types of architectures
• Knowledge of setting up right monitoring and alerts for your services
• Extensive experience with AWS, particularly in CDK, Lambda, ECS etc.
• Extensive experience in message queue systems, including Celery, RabbitMQ, and Kafka.
• A strong sense of ownership and quality for your deliverables

Good to Have:

• Working experience with Python and its frameworks OR at least 2 different languages.
• Experience in building analytics or reporting engines is a plus
• Experience in full-stack development

Even if you don’t meet all these skills set above, we’d still love to hear from you. Tell us about your unique qualifications and why we need to consider your resume in your cover letter.