Technical Lead

Weekday AI · Bengaluru, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-05

Salary: INR 4,000,000–5,500,000

Workplace: on_site

Department: Weekday's Client via platform

Description

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 4000000 - Rs 5500000 (ie INR 40 - 55 LPA)

Min Experience: 5+ years
Location: Bengaluru
JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced and technically strong Technical Leader to lead engineering initiatives, drive technical excellence, and build scalable, reliable technology solutions. The ideal candidate will combine strong hands-on technical expertise with engineering leadership, team management, and a deep understanding of DevOps, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, automation, and software engineering best practices.

This role is suited for an experienced Engineering Manager / Technical Lead who can work closely with engineering teams, product stakeholders, and business leadership to translate requirements into robust technical solutions while ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, DevOps engineers, and technical professionals, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Take ownership of the technical direction, architecture, development, deployment, and maintenance of critical applications and platforms.
• Act as a hands-on Technical Lead, providing guidance on system design, coding standards, architecture, scalability, performance, and security.
• Manage engineering projects from planning and design through development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Define and implement effective DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, release management, and deployment strategies.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, prioritize initiatives, and deliver solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Drive engineering best practices around code reviews, automated testing, version control, documentation, observability, and incident management.
• Identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and scalability challenges and proactively develop solutions.
• Support hiring, onboarding, mentoring, performance management, and career development of engineering team members.
• Establish engineering standards and processes that improve productivity, reliability, quality, and delivery velocity.
• Evaluate new technologies and tools and recommend solutions that can improve system architecture, development workflows, and operational efficiency.
• Participate in production troubleshooting and lead root-cause analysis for critical technical issues.

Must-Have Skills

• Engineering Manager experience with strong people and technical leadership capabilities.
• Proven experience as a Technical Lead managing complex software engineering initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, automation, deployment, and infrastructure management.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, databases, and scalable application design.
• Hands-on experience with tools and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, or equivalent.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical contribution with team leadership and project ownership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, logging, and cloud security practices.
• Experience managing cross-functional technical projects and distributed engineering teams.

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