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We are building India’s largest marketplace platform for flexible workspaces helping individuals and teams across 25+ cities find workspaces that just work.\nWe’re a small, product-first team backed by ANAROCK, moving fast and solving real engineering problems at scale. This is where you’ll get to own systems end-to-end, not just push tickets.\nAbout the role\nWe’re looking for a Backend Technical Lead who can own the engineering vision for the platform end-to-end. 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