Software Technical Lead

Job title: Software

Technical Lead

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
• Work model: Primarily Office Based
• Reporting to: Engineering Manager
• Team size: Initially 4–7 software
• engineers, with close collaboration across QA, DevOps/platform engineering, and
• firmware/hardware-adjacent teams
• Compensation: TBD

About the role

• ePropelled develops intelligent propulsion and power management
• systems for uncrewed vehicles. We are looking for a hands-on Software Technical
• Lead to develop cloud-based software that connects our hardware products with
• user applications.
• Your strongest experience will be in software development, backend
• services and full-stack delivery. You will bring strong production development
• skills in Python or Java, experience delivering containerised services, and
• practical exposure to IoT, telemetry or other connected-device systems.
• You will lead technical decisions, contribute code and help other
• engineers deliver reliable software. Working with firmware and hardware
• colleagues, you will develop a deeper understanding of our devices, their
• interfaces and the environments in which they operate.
• Prior experience developing embedded firmware, motor-control
• software or autonomous-vehicle software is not required.

What you will do

• ·Lead the design and delivery of
• backend services, APIs, telemetry processing and supporting web applications.
• ·Remain directly involved in
• implementation, code review, troubleshooting and technical problem-solving for
• approximately 70–80% of your time.
• ·Design service boundaries, data
• models and interfaces, choosing an appropriate architecture for the product’s
• scale and complexity.
• ·Develop and deploy
• containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes, working with colleagues
• responsible for infrastructure and operations.
• ·Build and improve automated
• tests, CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• ·Use logs, metrics and traces to
• diagnose problems and improve service reliability.
• ·Work with firmware and hardware
• engineers to define device-to-platform interfaces, data formats, version
• compatibility and failure behaviour.
• ·Address connected-system
• concerns such as intermittent connectivity, retries, duplicate messages, device
• identity and access control.
• ·Contribute to web dashboards
• and operational interfaces, and guide integration between frontend and backend
• components.
• ·Mentor engineers, explain
• technical trade-offs and help translate product requirements into achievable
• development work.
• ·You will work with an
• experienced Software Engineering Manager who will handle day-to-day line
• management and scheduling. This is a technical leadership role, not a
• line-management role.
• Essential experience

We are looking for evidence of the following capabilities

• Hands-on technical leadership. You have
• taken responsibility for substantial software delivery, made and explained
• architectural decisions, reviewed code and supported other engineers. You
• continue to write and debug production code.
• Strong Python or Java development. You
• have built and maintained production backend services in at least one of these
• languages and can explain your approach to testing, performance, concurrency
• and maintainability. You are willing to learn other languages where the work
• requires them.
• Cloud and distributed systems. You have
• delivered services on a cloud platform and have practical experience with
• microservices, APIs and asynchronous messaging. You understand trade-offs
• involving consistency, failure handling, scalability and operational
• complexity.
• Containers and Kubernetes. You have
• practical experience packaging, deploying and troubleshooting applications
• using Docker and Kubernetes.
• CI/CD and production quality. You have
• worked with version control, automated builds, tests and controlled releases,
• and have contributed to improving these practices.
• Observability. You have used logs,
• metrics and tracing to investigate production behaviour. Experience with tools
• such as Prometheus, Grafana or OpenTelemetry is relevant; familiarity with
• every named tool is not required.
• Genuine connected-system exposure. You
• have contributed to a deployed IoT, telemetry, device-management, industrial
• monitoring, telematics or comparable hardware-connected system. You can explain
• your own contribution, how device data reached the application, and how you
• investigated integration or reliability problems.
• Full-stack delivery. You understand how modern web applications
• interact with backend services and have contributed to delivering user-facing
• functionality. Your deepest expertise may be in backend development; direct
• ownership of cloud infrastructure is not the primary focus of this role.
• Data and security fundamentals. You have
• practical SQL and relational database experience, together with an
• understanding of authentication, authorisation, secrets handling and secure
• service communication.
• Collaboration and learning. You
• communicate clearly, investigate unfamiliar problems systematically and work
• effectively with colleagues from other engineering disciplines.
• At least seven years of relevant software engineering experience,
• including technical leadership responsibilities, is required.
• If you are interested, kindly share your updated resume to [email protected] or [email protected]

Requirements

Useful

• additional experience
• Any of the following would be valuable. You do not need experience
• in all of them:
• ·MQTT, device provisioning,
• device identity or remote software updates.
• ·Edge gateways, Linux-based
• devices or systems that operate with unreliable connectivity.
• ·PostgreSQL, time-series data or
• telemetry storage and processing.
• ·Practical development
• experience in both Python and Java. Proficiency in at least one is essential;
• experience with both is an advantage.
• ·Frontend frameworks such as
• React, Angular or Vue.
• ·Robotics, manufacturing,
• industrial automation or uncrewed vehicles.
• ·Integrating AI or
• machine-learning services into a production application.

Technical

• ownership and development
• Your initial technical ownership will focus on software development.
• You will lead the development of software deployed on cloud platforms and
• integrated with connected devices and user applications. Firmware and hardware
• colleagues will contribute their specialist knowledge and collaborate on
• interfaces, diagnostics and system behaviour. Platform Engineering colleagues
• will provide infrastructure and specialist expertise in CI/CD, deployment and
• platform operations.
• You will be expected to develop a broader understanding over time,
• ask informed questions and recognise when specialist input is needed.
• This is a hands-on technical leadership role. It involves guiding
• software engineers in their approach to software development and taking
• responsibility for technical delivery.

Background

• and qualifications
• A relevant degree or equivalent practical experience is welcome.
• We consider candidates from different industries. What matters is
• evidence of production software development and delivery, technical leadership
• and relevant connected-system experience.
• If you meet the essential capabilities but have not used every
• technology mentioned, we encourage you to apply. Please describe a system you
• helped deliver, your personal contribution and a difficult technical problem
• you resolved.

Benefits

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