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With a strong focus on experiential learning, we equip students, graduates, and working professionals with the skills required to thrive in today's digital-first world. Backed by a community of 500,000+ learners and 250+ industry experts, IIDE delivers hands-on training, real-world projects, and robust placement support. With campuses in Mumbai and Delhi, we continue to expand our presence across India and globally.\nAbout the Role: As the Engineering Team Lead at IIDE Mumbai, you will own the technical execution of IIDE's product engineering function and lead a team of frontend and backend engineers. You will be responsible for taking products from business requirements and technical design through development, testing, deployment, and production. The role involves overseeing IIDE's product ecosystem, including the Learning Management System (LMS), Student and Admin Portals, public websites, backend services, APIs, internal applications, and third-party integrations. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role requiring strong technical depth, product thinking, delivery ownership, and people leadership. You will work closely with Product, Design, Technology, Marketing, CRM, Operations, and Business teams to build scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable technology products. What You'll Do:\nProduct Engineering Leadership:\nOwn engineering execution across IIDE's product development portfolio.\nLead, mentor, and provide technical guidance to frontend and backend engineers.\nEstablish engineering standards, coding practices, and development processes.\nReview technical designs, architecture, and implementation approaches.\nEnsure engineering decisions balance scalability, maintainability, security, performance, and delivery timelines.\nBuild a culture of ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.\nAct as the technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges.\nProduct & Project Delivery:\nOwn end-to-end technical delivery across multiple concurrent product initiatives.\nConvert business and product requirements into clear technical execution plans.\nBreak requirements into epics, modules, technical tasks, and development milestones.\nEstimate engineering effort and identify technical dependencies.\nPlan resources and assign work across the engineering team.\nTrack delivery progress, risks, dependencies, blockers, and milestones.\nWork with Product and Business stakeholders to manage scope and technical trade-offs.\nEnsure releases are delivered on time without compromising engineering quality.\nLMS & Product Platform Engineering:\nTake technical ownership of IIDE's Learning Management System, Student Portal, Admin Portal, public websites, backend services, APIs, internal business applications, third-party integrations, and future technology initiatives.\nPlay a key engineering role in the ongoing LMS rebuild using a modern technology stack.\nEnsure platform architecture can scale with IIDE's growing student and business requirements.\nArchitecture & System Design:\nDesign and review scalable application architectures across frontend, backend, APIs, and databases.\nReview database schemas, data models, queries, API contracts, and integration patterns.\nEvaluate technical approaches and recommend appropriate solutions.\nIdentify architectural risks, technical dependencies, and scalability challenges early.\nDrive improvements in reliability, maintainability, application performance, and security.\nEstablish appropriate authentication and authorization patterns.\nIdentify and reduce technical debt.\nEnsure important architectural decisions are properly documented.\nEngineering Quality & Production Reliability:\nEstablish and enforce code review standards.\nEnsure appropriate unit, integration, API, regression, and release testing practices.\nReview release readiness before production deployments.\nImprove application reliability and production stability.\nOwn engineering-side incident investigation and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).\nDrive preventive actions following production incidents.\nImprove observability, logging, and monitoring practices.\nMaintain documentation for critical systems and engineering processes.\nTechnology Ownership:\nLead engineering teams working across Java, Spring Boot, Angular, TypeScript, Next.js, React.js, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Git, and GitHub.\nGuide teams on software architecture, system design, database design, API design, authentication and authorization, integrations, microservices, caching, CI/CD, containers, cloud infrastructure, performance, and web security.\nEvaluate technologies based on their engineering and business value rather than adopting tools without a clear use case.\nProvide technical guidance across the stack without needing to personally be an expert in every technology.\nWebsite & Technical Performance:\nEnsure IIDE's Next.js websites follow modern engineering and performance practices.\nWork with Marketing and SEO teams to implement technical SEO requirements.\nMonitor and improve Core Web Vitals and frontend performance.\nEnsure applications are optimized for scalability, performance, and user experience.\nEnsure technical implementation supports crawlability, indexing, and other SEO requirements.\nEngineering Team Management:\nConduct sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and engineering reviews.\nMentor developers through technical guidance and regular feedback.\nConduct code and architecture reviews.\nIdentify skill gaps and create development plans for team members.\nSupport technical hiring, interviews, and onboarding.\nDefine clear ownership and responsibilities across the engineering team.\nImprove team productivity without compromising engineering quality.\nBuild a strong culture of ownership, accountability, and problem-solving.\nCross-functional Collaboration:\nWork closely with Product, Design, Marketing, CRM, Operations, and Business teams.\nUnderstand business problems before proposing technical solutions.\nCommunicate technical constraints, dependencies, timelines, and trade-offs clearly.\nPartner with Product stakeholders on technical feasibility and solution design.\nEnsure engineering priorities remain aligned with business priorities.\nTranslate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.\nContinuous Improvement:\nIdentify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and development processes.\nAutomate repetitive engineering and deployment processes wherever possible.\nImprove development, testing, release, and deployment workflows.\nReduce technical debt and recurring production issues.\nEvaluate new technologies where they provide meaningful business or engineering value.\nEncourage responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools.\nContinuously improve system scalability, reliability, maintainability, and engineering efficiency.\nAdditional Duties:\nMonitor technical risks and proactively resolve issues that could affect delivery or platform reliability.\nContribute to future product and technology initiatives as IIDE's engineering ecosystem expands.\nPerform any other reasonable duties as requested by management, aligned with the broad scope of the position.\nRequirements Who You Are:\nMust-Have:\n5-7 years of software engineering experience.\nAt least 1-2 years of experience leading engineers, projects, or technical initiatives.\nStrong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot.\nStrong understanding of Angular and modern frontend development.\nExperience working with REST APIs and PostgreSQL.\nStrong understanding of software architecture, system design, and database design.\nExperience delivering production applications used by real users.\nExperience managing multiple concurrent engineering initiatives.\nStrong understanding of the software development lifecycle and release management.\nExperience with code reviews, debugging, production issue resolution, and incident management.\nStrong stakeholder management and communication skills.\nStrong ownership and problem-solving mindset.\nAbility to balance product requirements, engineering quality, and delivery timelines.\nAbility to mentor developers and improve overall team capability.\nShould Have:\nStrong understanding of API design, authentication and authorization, third-party integrations, microservices architecture, caching, application performance, CI/CD, Docker and containerisation, cloud infrastructure, and web security.\nExperience establishing engineering standards, testing practices, monitoring, logging, and release processes.\nExperience working in product companies, SaaS companies, EdTech, FinTech, high-growth technology companies, or startups with complex web platforms.\nExperience working with large-scale internal or customer-facing applications.\nExperience building or managing LMS, ERP, CRM, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, portals, or other multi-module business applications.\nNice to Have:\nExperience with Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, message queues, or event-driven architecture.\nExposure to AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, or similar cloud platforms.\nExperience with monitoring and logging platforms.\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code.\nExperience contributing to or leading large-scale platform modernization or rebuild initiatives.\nBenefits Why Join IIDE? •Lead engineering for one of India's leading EdTech organisations. •Own technology for products used by thousands of students and business users. •Play a key role in the redevelopment of IIDE's core LMS platform using modern technologies. •Work across Spring Boot, Angular, Next.js, and modern backend systems. •Take significant ownership of architecture, engineering standards, and product delivery. •Work closely with senior business and technology leadership. •Build and grow an engineering team as IIDE's technology requirements scale. •Gain opportunities to take on larger technology leadership responsibilities over time. 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