Technical Team Lead
First seen by Alion on Sep 11, 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:
- Strong Hands-On Technical Team Lead Profile: (Vue.js + Node.js) with AI-assisted development and B2B e-commerce exposure.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years leading a team of 5 or more engineers.
- Strong, current, hands-on Vue.js experience including component architecture, state management and performance optimisation.
- Strong, current, hands-on Node.js and Express experience for production API development at scale.
- Deep MongoDB experience including aggregation pipelines, index design, query performance tuning and schema decisions.
- AWS experience particularly Kubernetes/EKS with deployments, resource limits, health probes and production monitoring.
- Working understanding of Flutter including widget architecture, state management, platform channels and Play Store/App Store release pipelines.
- Demonstrable, daily professional use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI or equivalent) with real examples.
- Experience with spec-driven development including writing structured requirement and design documents and reviewing AI-generated output against acceptance criteria.
- Experience setting up and maintaining repo-level context files, rules files and custom commands for AI development.
- Git and CI/CD experience including branching strategy, review workflow and automated pipelines.
- Line-managed engineers (1:1s, feedback, performance, growth), mentored mid-to-senior, and participated in hiring.
- Communicate clearly to mixed technical/non-technical audiences and manage a time-zone gap with structured overlap and async documentation (works with the UAE office).
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
- Background in B2B e-commerce, wholesale/distribution or marketplace platforms.
- Preferred: Experience working as the offshore technical counterpart to an overseas leadership team, integrating LLM APIs into a production product, observability tooling (CloudWatch, Datadog or Sentry), and third-party integrations (payment gateways, logistics, etc.).
Skills
Vue.js, Node.js, MongoDB, AWS, eCommerce, API, Full Stack, AI Tools, Express.js