# Technical Lead

> Weekday AI · Bengaluru, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-05

**Salary:** INR 4,000,000–5,500,000

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

## Description

**This role is for one of Weekday’s clients  
Salary range: Rs 4000000 - Rs 5500000 (ie INR 40 - 55 LPA)**

  
Min Experience: 5+ years  
Location: Bengaluru  
JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced and technically strong **Technical Leader** to lead engineering initiatives, drive technical excellence, and build scalable, reliable technology solutions. The ideal candidate will combine strong hands-on technical expertise with engineering leadership, team management, and a deep understanding of **DevOps, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, automation, and software engineering best practices**.

This role is suited for an experienced **Engineering Manager / Technical Lead** who can work closely with engineering teams, product stakeholders, and business leadership to translate requirements into robust technical solutions while ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.

## Requirements

Key Responsibilities

-   Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, DevOps engineers, and technical professionals, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
-   Take ownership of the technical direction, architecture, development, deployment, and maintenance of critical applications and platforms.
-   Act as a hands-on **Technical Lead**, providing guidance on system design, coding standards, architecture, scalability, performance, and security.
-   Manage engineering projects from planning and design through development, testing, deployment, and production support.
-   Define and implement effective **DevOps practices**, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, release management, and deployment strategies.
-   Collaborate with Product, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, prioritize initiatives, and deliver solutions aligned with business objectives.
-   Drive engineering best practices around code reviews, automated testing, version control, documentation, observability, and incident management.
-   Identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and scalability challenges and proactively develop solutions.
-   Support hiring, onboarding, mentoring, performance management, and career development of engineering team members.
-   Establish engineering standards and processes that improve productivity, reliability, quality, and delivery velocity.
-   Evaluate new technologies and tools and recommend solutions that can improve system architecture, development workflows, and operational efficiency.
-   Participate in production troubleshooting and lead root-cause analysis for critical technical issues.

Must-Have Skills

-   **Engineering Manager** experience with strong people and technical leadership capabilities.
-   Proven experience as a **Technical Lead** managing complex software engineering initiatives.
-   Strong knowledge of **DevOps**, CI/CD, automation, deployment, and infrastructure management.
-   Experience with cloud platforms such as **AWS, Azure, or GCP**.
-   Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, databases, and scalable application design.
-   Hands-on experience with tools and technologies such as **Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab CI**, or equivalent.
-   Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills.
-   Ability to balance hands-on technical contribution with team leadership and project ownership.

Preferred Qualifications

-   Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
-   Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
-   Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as **Terraform or Ansible**.
-   Familiarity with observability, monitoring, logging, and cloud security practices.
-   Experience managing cross-functional technical projects and distributed engineering teams.

## Apply

[Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/C4BCAA0273/apply)

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