Engineering Lead - Python / MERN Stack

Location : Delhi NCR (Hybrid)

Experience : Minimum 5 years in software development, with prior exposure to leading projects or mentoring team members

Employment Type : Responsibilities :

• Lead development efforts across backend, frontend, and infrastructure in collaboration with the product team.
• Be hands-on in MERN stack and Python while mentoring junior developers.
• Design and maintain microservices and event-driven systems on AWS.
• Manage deployments and scaling on AWS ECS, Lambda, SQS, S3, SES, CloudFront, ELB.
• Build and optimize data pipelines & reporting using BigQuery.
• Set up and manage Dockerized applications with proper CI / CD pipelines.
• Implement and own monitoring & alerting systems (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Ensure best practices for code quality, security, and system performance.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and testers to deliver features on Skills & Experience :
• 5-8 years of experience in full-stack / backend engineering.
• Strong expertise in MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js).
• Working knowledge of Python (APIs, scripting, or data processing).
• Experience with AWS services - ECS, Lambda, SQS, S3, SES.
• Hands-on with Docker & container orchestration.
• Exposure to data warehousing / analytics with BigQuery (or similar).
• Experience in CI / CD automation.
• Familiarity with logging & monitoring tools (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, or AWS CloudWatch).
• Ability to mentor junior developers and take ownership of to Have :
• Experience in SaaS product development.
• Knowledge of multi-tenant architectures.
• Familiarity with AI / RAG-based chatbots.

(ref : hirist.tech)