Engineering Lead

Location: Remote, India; Hyderabad, India

Department: Engineering

Experience: 7 - 15 years

• Hands-On Engineering & Technical Delivery
  • Spend at least 60% of your time actively contributing to software engineering and development activities.
  • Design, develop, test, and deliver product features using technologies such as React, Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.
  • Take ownership of complex, high-risk, or architecturally significant development work.
  • Translate business and product requirements into secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable technical solutions.
  • Lead by example through high-quality code, thoughtful technical design, appropriate testing, and strong engineering practices.
  • Maintain sufficient hands-on knowledge of the codebase to effectively guide technical decisions, review implementations, troubleshoot issues, and support engineers.
• Team Leadership & Coaching
  • Serve as the player-coach for a small engineering team, typically 3–6 engineers, while remaining a hands-on contributor.
  • Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with engineers to provide feedback, coaching, and support.
  • Support engineers' career development by identifying strengths, development opportunities, and appropriate growth objectives.
  • Mentor Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers on technical design, problem-solving, architecture, engineering practices, and professional development.
  • Establish clear expectations and reinforce individual and team accountability.
  • Foster a culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, ownership, continuous learning, and constructive technical debate.
  • Recognize performance issues or skill gaps early and partner with engineering leadership to address them appropriately.
  • Model and promote effective use of Claude and AI-assisted development workflows, coaching engineers on best practices for using AI to improve development velocity, code quality, testing, documentation, and problem-solving.
• Engineering Quality & Shift-Left Testing
  • Establish and enforce a shift-left quality mindset, where quality is owned by engineering throughout the development lifecycle rather than treated as a downstream QA responsibility.
  • Ensure appropriate unit, integration, system, and end-to-end testing is a non-negotiable part of software delivery.
  • Perform code reviews and ensure changes meet Woundtech's standards for quality, maintainability, performance, security, and test coverage.
  • Reject or require remediation of pull requests that lack adequate automated test coverage or fail to meet established engineering standards.
  • Partner with QA to continuously improve test automation and reduce reliance on manual regression testing.
  • Drive improvements in defect prevention, automated testing, code quality, deployment confidence, and production reliability.
  • Ensure technical documentation is maintained for important systems, architectural decisions, and development standards.
• Technical Leadership & Architecture
  • Lead technical design and architectural discussions within the team's domain.
  • Make sound technical decisions while evaluating tradeoffs across scalability, performance, security, reliability, maintainability, cost, and delivery speed.
  • Conduct architectural and technical design reviews for significant changes.
  • Partner with Architecture and DevSecOps to ensure solutions align with broader platform, cloud, security, and engineering standards.
  • Identify and proactively address technical debt while balancing immediate product priorities with long-term platform sustainability.
  • Promote reusable patterns and solutions that improve consistency across Woundtech's technology ecosystem.
• Sprint Leadership & Delivery
  • Lead the team's technical execution throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Actively participate in and help lead sprint planning, refinement, estimation, demos, and retrospectives.
  • Partner with Product Managers to ensure initiatives are appropriately scoped, technically feasible, and ready for engineering execution.
  • Break complex initiatives into clear and achievable technical deliverables.
  • Ensure engineers understand technical requirements, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and quality expectations before development begins.
  • Identify delivery risks and blockers early and drive them toward resolution.
  • Remove technical and organizational blockers that prevent engineers from delivering effectively.
  • Hold the team accountable for commitments while maintaining appropriate engineering quality and technical standards.
  • Use delivery and engineering metrics to identify opportunities to improve predictability, quality, and team effectiveness.
• Product & Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner closely with Product Managers to balance technical and business priorities and ensure engineering considerations are incorporated into product decisions.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, DevSecOps, Architecture, Data, Security, and other engineering teams to resolve dependencies and deliver cohesive solutions.
  • Participate early in product discovery to help evaluate technical feasibility, complexity, dependencies, and risks.
  • Communicate technical concepts, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Challenge assumptions constructively and help the team make pragmatic, data-informed decisions.
  • Escalate significant delivery, architectural, security, or organizational risks early rather than allowing them to become blockers.
• Production Reliability & Continuous Improvement
  • Participate in production deployments, incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for critical systems.
  • Lead technical investigations for significant production issues and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented.
  • Partner with DevSecOps to improve observability, deployment reliability, application performance, and operational resilience.
  • Proactively identify recurring problems and implement systemic improvements rather than relying on short-term fixes.
  • Continuously improve engineering processes, tooling, automation, development workflows, and standards.
  • Take ownership of production outcomes—not simply feature completion.
• Security & Healthcare Engineering
  • Ensure secure development practices are incorporated throughout solution design and development.
  • Partner with Security and DevSecOps to identify and remediate vulnerabilities and reduce technical and security risk.
  • Understand the responsibilities associated with developing software that processes sensitive healthcare information.
  • Ensure solutions are designed and developed consistent with applicable healthcare security, privacy, and interoperability requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience developing production full-stack applications.
• Strong proficiency with Claude and AI-assisted software development practices, with the ability to model, teach, and reinforce effective AI development practices in day-to-day engineering work.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a technical lead, team lead, or senior engineer responsible for guiding other engineers.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to remain a hands-on software engineer while leading a team.
• Advanced proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern full-stack technologies, preferably Node.js and React.
• Strong experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and designing data-intensive applications.
• Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, application architecture, and modern web development.
• Strong knowledge of automated testing strategies across unit, integration, system, and end-to-end testing.
• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable production systems.
• Strong understanding of Git-based development workflows, pull requests, code reviews, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum product development environments.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and provide constructive feedback to software engineers.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• • Experience with React, Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.
  • Experience designing and operating cloud-native applications in AWS or similar cloud environments.
  • Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and distributed systems.
  • Experience with observability, application performance monitoring, and production reliability practices.
  • Experience improving CI/CD, test automation, developer productivity, or engineering quality metrics.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and modern DevSecOps practices.
  • Experience developing software in regulated environments, particularly healthcare.
  • Understanding of HIPAA, HITECH, HITRUST, SOC 2, or related security and compliance frameworks.
  • Healthcare interoperability experience, including FHIR, HL7, HAPI-FHIR, or related technologies.
  • Experience integrating AI/ML or generative AI capabilities into production software is a plus.
  • Experience with Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, or equivalent engineering collaboration tools.

• Remains a highly productive engineer, spending at least 60% of their time hands-on with software development and technical work.
• Leads from within the team as a player-coach rather than operating primarily as a project or people manager.
• Consistently delivers complex, high-impact initiatives while maintaining strong engineering quality.
• Develops engineers through regular coaching, feedback, mentorship, and career development discussions.
• Creates a team where automated testing and shift-left quality are fundamental parts of development rather than downstream QA activities.
• Maintains high standards for code quality and does not allow inadequate testing or technical shortcuts to become normalized.
• Provides clear technical direction without becoming a bottleneck for the team.
• Anticipates architectural, security, reliability, and delivery risks before they become significant issues.
• Removes technical and organizational blockers and holds the team accountable for delivery.
• Builds scalable solutions that balance immediate business needs with Woundtech's long-term technology strategy.
• Partners effectively with Product to balance roadmap priorities, technical debt, quality, and platform investment.
• Takes ownership of production outcomes and continuously improves the systems and engineering practices within their area.

• • Participate in an engineering on-call rotation and provide support for critical production issues as required.
  • Occasional evening or weekend work may be required for production releases, maintenance, or critical incident response.
  • Must be willing to work a flexible schedule when necessary to collaborate with Woundtech's distributed Product & Technology organization.