Description
Senior Engineering Lead
Location: Bengaluru, India
Department: Technology
Experience: 7 -8 years
About Blitz
Blitz powers India’s fastest e-commerce deliveries, enabling 60-minute and same-day fulfillment for brands like Decathlon, Adidas, Puma, and Purplle. Our systems use AI-driven logistics, real-time decisioning, and high-scale distributed architecture to deliver 98%+ success and 50% lower RTOs.
We’re hiring a Senior Engineering Lead who focuses on solving problems, driving outcomes, and measuring impact. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who owns delivery end-to-end, leads critical systems, and raises engineering excellence across teams.
Role Overview
As a Senior Engineering Lead, you will:
- Lead multiple engineering initiatives from conception to measurable impact.
- Act as a hands-on IC for critical systems — design, code, review, and debug.
- Solve real business and operational problems, not just deliver requirements.
- Define success metrics for every project and validate solutions through data and monitoring.
- Improve reliability, observability, and performance across the tech stack.
- Influence engineers through technical depth, clarity, and high execution standards.
Key Responsibilities
Outcome-Driven Engineering
- Work backwards from the problem and architect solutions tied to clear business metrics (latency, reliability, throughput, DRR).
- Measure and monitor everything — dashboards, alerts, logs, SLOs.
- Iterate continuously until expected outcomes are achieved.
Hands-On Technical Leadership
- Write and review clean, scalable, high-quality code.
- Debug production issues quickly and lead root-cause analysis.
- Architect modular, fault-tolerant, and resilient systems.
Execution & Process Leadership
- Plan, track, and deliver multiple engineering projects on time.
- Create strong engineering processes: CI/CD, testing, deployment checks, observability.
- Maintain a high-velocity, low-defect release culture.
Mentorship & Influence
- Mentor engineers on system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
- Set and enforce engineering standards for quality, clarity, and measurable impact.
- Lead by example — influencing through capability, not hierarchy.
Required Qualifications
Technical Expertise
- Graduates from IITs, NITs or other Tier-1 colleges.
- 8–10 years of backend/full-stack engineering experience, with leadership responsibilities.
- Strong command of Java (Spring Boot), Python (Django/FastAPI), or Golang.
- Deep understanding of microservices, CQRS, DDD, and event-driven architecture.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Redis/Hazelcast and opensearch.
- Familiarity with messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS.
- Comfortable with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS (ECS, EC2, API Gateway, Cognito).
- Knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing.
Leadership Experience
- Led multiple engineering projects to measurable outcomes.
- Strong ability to identify risks early and design preventive systems.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards.
- Able to balance hands-on execution with architecture and planning.
Mindset & Culture Fit
- Outcome-first, not output-first.
- Thinks in metrics and root causes, not assumptions.
- Ownership-driven — uptime, reliability, and system health matter personally.
- Thrives in fast-paced, high-accountability environments.
Bonus Skills
- Experience with AI-assisted development or AI agents.
- Background in logistics, supply chain, fintech, or high-scale transactional platforms.
- Expertise in performance engineering or incident management.
Why Blitz
- Contribute to systems powering millions of deliveries and decisions daily.
- Be part of a culture that values speed, clarity, reliability, and impact.
- Work on real-world, high-scale challenges that deliver immediate measurable outcomes.
- Shape India’s next-generation commerce and logistics ecosystem.
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