[Hyderabad] NodeJS Team Lead

VORTECH SERVICE COMPANY LIMITED
Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Job Summary:

Vortech is a fast-growing B2B SaaS company building enterprise-grade platforms for global partners. We are establishing our Hyderabad engineering hub and looking for a NodeJS Team Lead to be one of its founding members. You will own technical delivery end-to-end, collaborate as a peer with our engineering teams across hubs, and help define what great engineering looks like in Hyderabad.

You will sit at the intersection of hands-on engineering and team leadership — writing code, guiding juniors, and ensuring what gets shipped is reliable, scalable, and delivers real value to our enterprise clients.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the design and delivery of microservices and backend systems that form the core of Vortech's B2B platform.
  • Make and defend architectural decisions — data models, API contracts, service boundaries — in collaboration with senior engineers across hubs.
  • Set and enforce coding standards, PR review practices.
  • Be the technical point of contact for the Hyderabad hub in cross-team discussions with other hubs.
  • Contribute hands-on code — this is a lead role, not a manager role.
  • Guide and mentor junior and mid-level engineers in the Hyderabad team; accelerate their growth through structured feedback and pairing.
  • Participate in hiring — technical interviews, code assessments, and culture-fit evaluations for the growing Hyderabad team.
  • Foster a team culture of ownership, peer accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Own sprint-level delivery commitments — plan, estimate, identify risks early, and unblock the team.
  • Champion engineering quality: test coverage, CI/CD discipline, observability, and zero-surprise production deployments.
  • Track and improve DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) as a measure of team health.
  • Collaborate with QA to embed quality upstream — not as a handoff, but as a shared responsibility.
  • Translate technical constraints into business language clearly — proactively, not reactively.
  • Identify technical debt that impacts product velocity or client experience and build a case for addressing it.
  • Required Qualifications:

MUST HAVE

  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or any relevant field.
  • 6+ years of backend engineering experience with Node.js, deep proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, Express.js / NestJS / Fastify, REST APIs, and microservices architecture.
  • Knowledge of project management methodologies.
  • Strong problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work effectively across time zones
  • Ownership mindset — you don't wait to be told what needs doing.
  • Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) — schema design, query optimisation, indexing.
  • Deep understanding of the Node.js event loop, asynchronous programming (async/await, Promises), stream management, and memory leak profiling/debugging.
  • Package managers (npm, yarn, or pnpm), semantic versioning (semver), and dependency lockfile management.
  • Structured logging libraries (e.g., Winston, Pino) and APM/tracing tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Datadog).
  • Unit and integration testing frameworks for Node.js (e.g., Jest, Mocha, Chai, Supertest).

NICE TO HAVE

  • Experience with event-driven architecture — Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
  • Exposure to frontend technologies (ReactJS) — enough to collaborate meaningfully with full-stack & frontend engineers.
  • Familiarity with enterprise SaaS integration patterns — webhooks, OAuth, multi-tenancy, API gateways.
  • Experience working in a multi-hub global engineering team.
  • Understanding of SaaS business metrics — churn, NPS, SLA — and how engineering decisions affect them.
  • WebSocket workflow
  • Comfortable with exploring new technologies.
  • Have a strong understanding of software development lifecycles and modern transaction processing environments.
  • Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, AWS/GCP, and distributed caching (Redis).

What We Offer

  • A founding role in Vortech's Hyderabad engineering hub — high visibility, high impact from day one.
  • Peer-level collaboration with experienced engineering teams across the globe.
  • Direct mentorship from the Head of Engineering with a clear growth path
  • Competitive compensation benchmarked to Hyderabad senior engineering market rates.
  • A culture that values engineering craft, business awareness, and user empathy equally.

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