Tech Lead
About the role
Tech Lead role at SalaryBox, a fast-growing startup building attendance and payroll solutions for MSMEs in India. Hands-on engineer and technical leader responsible for architecture, system design, and delivering production-grade applications in a startup environment.
Responsibilities
- Make sound decisions around architecture, system design, scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Remain deeply hands-on with the codebase and contribute to critical product initiatives.
- Take ownership of technically challenging and business-critical projects.
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers and help them grow technically.
- Take end-to-end ownership of projects from requirement understanding through design, development, deployment, and monitoring.
- Build systems and processes from the ground up rather than relying on established enterprise processes.
- Be comfortable wearing multiple hats and solving problems beyond a defined job description.
Qualifications
- 6–8 years of software engineering experience, with significant hands-on development experience.
- 4+ years of experience in a technical leadership capacity.
- Strong understanding of DSA, OOP, databases, APIs, distributed systems, system design, and software engineering fundamentals.
- Strong hands-on experience building and shipping production-grade applications.
- Proven experience owning architecture and technical decisions for products or large engineering initiatives.
- Strong experience with backend and frontend development, with the ability to understand and contribute across the stack.
- Strong understanding of engineering quality, testing, security, scalability, and performance.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strong startup experience or demonstrated ability to operate in a startup-like environment.
About SalaryBox
Gusto for India
Salarybox is a payroll app for small businesses in India. There are 63 Million small businesses in India and 90% still manage payroll manually. Today, business owners manage attendance on pen-paper; calculate salary on excel and pay employees in cash. Using our App, the entire process can be performed with the click of a button. Our app reduces the time taken to process payroll from 5 days to 5 minutes. We use Payroll data to build a credit profile of 300 Million+ blue-collar workers and improve access to financial products.
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