Principal Software Engineer

Job Title : Technical Lead

Experience : 9+ years

Location : Onsite

Industry : Media & Entertainment

About the Role

We are looking for a Tech Lead with deep expertise in modern application development and technologies to provide technical leadership and guidance to our engineering team. This role is primarily focused on technical direction, mentorship, and hands-on contributions . You will drive design and architecture decisions across multiple systems and teams, ensure engineering best practices, and work across multiple groups to deliver scalable, reliable and secure solutions.

As a Tech Lead, you will act as the technical point of accountability for your team, balancing hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities. You will play a key role in adopting emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development tools , to enhance team productivity and maintain modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and guide the technical direction of multiple systems and services.
• Design and build client-facing APIs that are scalable, reliable, and secure , ensuring services and APIs comply with security best practices in collaboration with the security team.
• Design and build internal APIs that are consumed by frontend applications and services
• Own design and architecture for assigned modules, escalating major architectural decisions when needed
• Stay hands-on in coding, particularly for common libraries, proof-of-concepts, and complex features
• Write and review clean , maintainable , and performant code across multiple languages
• Ensure engineering best practices are followed for CI / CD pipelines, Git workflows, and containerization
• Collaborate with Product Managers to ensure requirements are clearly captured and prioritized for Engineering and QA
• Collaborate with Engineers to ensure technical solutions meet product requirements and align with business needs
• Guide the team in Agile practices , ensuring effective sprint planning, backlog refinement, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure the scrum team maintains strong quality by verifying sufficient unit and integration test coverage
• Oversee database design and optimization for relational and non-relational databases.
• Mentor both junior and senior engineers through code reviews, technical coaching, and knowledge sharing
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and AI-assisted development tools , introducing best practices to keep engineering approaches current, efficient, and future-ready.
• Support the hiring process by participating in interviews and evaluations
• Champion observability and monitoring best practices to ensure high availability and performance of systems

Required Skills & Experience

Preferred Qualifications