Technical Lead

Experience: 5 Years
Location: Phase-7 Industrial Area Mohali (On-site)
Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

Competent Groove is looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to lead the design and development of scalable enterprise applications. The ideal candidate should have strong backend expertise experience with distributed systems and the ability to mentor developers while actively contributing to architecture and coding.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead backend development using and .
  

• Design scalable secure and high-performance REST APIs.
  

• Build real-time applications using and optimize MySQL databases queries and indexing.
  

• Implement caching and messaging using Redis and queue systems.
  

• Review code mentor developers and enforce coding standards.
  

• Collaborate with Product QA DevOps and Frontend teams.
  

• Troubleshoot production issues and drive performance improvements.
  

• Participate in architecture sprint planning and technical decision-making.
  

Required Skills

• 5 years of experience in backend development.
  

• Strong hands-on experience with and .
  

• Excellent knowledge of MySQL query optimization indexing and transactions.
  

• Experience with for real-time applications.
  

• Experience with Redis (Caching Pub/Sub Sessions).
  

• Hands-on experience with BullMQ Amazon SQS Azure Queue/Service Bus RabbitMQ or similar queueing systems.
  

• Working knowledge of Angular (integration and architecture).
  

• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
  

• Experience with Git REST APIs JWT Authentication and CI/CD pipelines.
  

• Strong debugging performance optimization and production support skills.
  

Leadership Expectations

• Lead and mentor a team of developers.
  

• Conduct code reviews and technical interviews.
  

• Break down requirements into technical tasks.
  

• Drive engineering best practices and coding standards.
  

• Take ownership of technical decisions and project delivery.
  

Good to Have

• Azure / AWS Cloud
  

• Microservices & Event-Driven Architecture
  

• AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)
  

• Monitoring tools (Sentry Grafana Prometheus)
  

• TypeScript
  

What Were Looking For

A proactive technical leader who combines strong coding skills with architecture mentoring and ownership. The candidate should be comfortable building scalable enterprise applications solving production challenges and leading engineering teams.

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