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What started as a bold ideausing AI-powered visuals to help auto dealers sell faster onlinehas now evolved into a full-fledged, AI-first automotive retail ecosystem.\nBacked by Accel, Vertex Ventures, and Storm Ventures, Spyne is emerging as one of the category leaders redefining how dealerships operate in the AI era.\nLaunched industry-first AI-powered Image, Video & 360 solutions for automotive dealers\nLaunching Gen AI powered Automotive Retail Suite to power Inventory, Marketing, CRM for dealers\nOnboarded 1500+ dealers across US, EU and other key markets in the past 2 years since launch\nGearing up to onboard 10K+ dealers across a global market of 200K+ dealers\n150+ member team with a near equal split across R&D and GTM\nLearn more about our products:\nStudio AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0_CsQpCbwg\nVini AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFjhPWp6gJU\nAbout the Role\nWe're looking for a Technical Lead (SDE III) who enjoys building products, solving difficult engineering problems, and leading through technical excellence.\nThis is a hands-on leadership role where you'll own critical product areas, influence architecture, mentor engineers, and help shape how modern software is built using AI.\nYou'll work closely with Product, Design, AI, and Business teams to build systems that serve customers globally while helping raise the engineering bar across the organization.\nWhat You'll Own\nDesign and build scalable backend services and customer-facing products.\nOwn architecture and technical direction for key product initiatives.\nLead a team of engineers through design discussions, code reviews, execution planning, and delivery.\nMentor engineers and help them grow technically.\nBuild reliable, maintainable, and high-performance systems that scale.\nPartner with Product to convert customer problems into elegant technical solutions.\nDrive engineering best practices around system design, code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.\nChampion AI-native engineering by leveraging modern AI tools to improve developer productivity, software quality, and delivery speed.\nFoster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.\nWhat We're Looking For\nStrong Engineering Fundamentals\n47 years of experience building production-grade software.\nStrong understanding of distributed systems, scalable architecture, concurrency, databases, and API design.\nExcellent grasp of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.\nAbility to make thoughtful architectural decisions balancing scale, reliability, speed, and maintainability.\nHands-on Development\nStrong experience building backend services using Node.js.\nGood understanding of modern frontend frameworks such as React.\nExperience with databases including MongoDB and MySQL.\nFamiliarity with technologies like Redis, Kafka/Pub-Sub, queues, caching, background jobs, and event-driven systems.\nExperience building cloud-native 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