Technical Team Lead
First seen by Alion on Sep 10, 2026.
Roles & Responsibilities :
- Write, review and merge production code across Vue.js frontend and Node.js backend.
- Own code quality for the India team - set review standards and refactor technical debt.
- Debug across the full stack - from Vue rendering issues to Mongo aggregations to Kubernetes pod issues.
- Guide the team on day-to-day development decisions and step in on unsolved problems.
- Design solutions for new modules from spec to schema to API contract to implementation.
- Own MongoDB data modelling decisions - document structure, embedding vs referencing, index strategy.
- Review Node.js service design: API structure, error handling, validation, authentication, rate limiting, background processing.
- Make and document build-vs-buy calls on third-party services with cost and integration effort.
- Ensure the platform stays stable and performant on a live, revenue-generating system.
- Demonstrate daily working use of AI coding tools and spec-driven development practice.
- Judge AI output quality and know when tasks should not be handed to agents.
- Set up and maintain repo-level context files and make the team's AI setup consistent.
- Coach the team on AI tools while holding the line on quality.
- Work with LLM APIs, embeddings, semantic search and understand where AI features help.
- Run sprint planning, estimation, standups and retros for the India team.
- Break requirements into technical tasks with clear acceptance criteria.
- Track velocity and flag slippage and blockers early.
- Own release coordination - deployment planning, rollback strategy and post-release monitoring.
- Line-manage 6 - 10 engineers across web, mobile and QA - 1:1s, feedback, performance conversations and growth planning.
- Mentor mid-level engineers into senior ones and build depth.
- Participate in hiring - technical screening, interviewing and onboarding.
- Keep the team's engineering practices consistent: documentation, testing, branching, incident handling.
- Act as the main technical point of contact between the India team and the UAE office product and business stakeholders.
- Communicate clearly to mixed technical and non-technical audiences - status, risk, trade-offs and time cost.
- Manage the time-zone gap with structured overlap hours, written updates and async documentation.
- Own technical delivery on modules including product catalogue, pricing, ordering, workflows, order management, payments, invoicing and vendor onboarding.
Ideal Candidate :
- Technical Lead Profile: Strong Hands-On Technical Team Lead Profile (Vue.js + Node.js) with AI-assisted development and B2B e-commerce exposure.
- Experience: Must have 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years leading a team of 5 or more engineers.
- Tech Stack: Vue.js, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, AWS/Kubernetes, Flutter, AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), Git, CI/CD.
- Leadership: Must have line-managed engineers, mentored mid-to-senior, and participated in hiring.
- Education: Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
- Domain: Background in B2B e-commerce, wholesale/distribution or marketplace platforms.
- Observability: Exposure to observability tooling such as CloudWatch, Datadog or Sentry and analytics instrumentation.
- Third-party Integrations: Experience with payment gateways, e-signature, logistics APIs, mapping and geolocation integrations.
Skills
Node.js, Vue.js, MongoDB, AWS, Full Stack, Javascript, Express.js