Tech Lead

Company Description

About MastersIndia

MastersIndia is a leading technology company building compliance-focused SaaS products that simplify complex business processes like GST, e-invoicing, and e-way bills. We work at scale, handle mission-critical systems, and believe in strong engineering ownership.

Job Description

Role Overview

We are looking for a Tech Lead (Full-stack) who will own the end-to-end technical design and quality of our product systems — across backend and frontend.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a people-manager position. You will work closely with Product Managers, Backend and Frontend engineers, QA, and DevOps to design scalable systems and deliver reliable product features, while continuing to write production code.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & System Design

• Own end-to-end system design across backend and frontend
• Make architectural decisions focused on scalability, performance, security, and maintainability
• Drive clean architecture, SOLID principles, and long-term technical direction Review and guide both backend and frontend technical designs

Backend & Frontend Oversight

• Design and build scalable backend services using Python, Django, and FastAPI
• Define API contracts and build high-performance RESTful services
• Guide frontend architecture, data flow, and performance patterns
• Ensure clean API–frontend contracts and seamless end-to-end workflows

(Deep frontend framework expertise is not mandatory; architectural understanding is.)

Reliability & Quality

• Work with DevOps on deployments, monitoring, and system reliability
• Design systems for high availability and fault tolerance
• Lead code and design reviews
• Ensure strong test coverage and production readiness
• Debug production issues and drive root-cause analysis

Collaboration

• Partner with Product Managers on feasibility, scope, and technical trade-offs
• Break down requirements into clear technical plans
• Collaborate closely with QA and Platform teams to ensure release quality
• Act as the final technical decision-maker for assigned product areas

AI & Modern Development 

• Experience integrating AI/LLM APIs into production systems
• Understanding of prompt design, response handling, and AI reliability patterns
• Experience building AI-powered product features or workflows
• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tools and workflows

Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience

• 7-10 years of backend development experience

• Experience building high-scale SaaS or B2B platforms

• Prior experience acting as a Tech Lead or senior technical owner

• Strong hands-on expertise in Python, FastAPI, Django, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, Async programming, 

• Background task processing (Celery, RQ, or Prefect, AirFlow)

• Solid knowledge of  microservices, data structures, algorithms, and system design

• Exposure to security best practices and compliance-driven systems

• Experience mentoring or leading team.

Additional Information

What We’re Looking For

• Strong ownership and accountability

• Ability to balance speed with long-term maintainability

• Clear communicator who can guide and unblock teams

• Comfortable taking architectural responsibility

• Passion for writing clean, efficient, and reliable code

Why Join Us

• Build systems that power mission-critical business compliance

• High ownership and impact on architecture and scale

• Opportunity to lead and grow a strong backend team

• Work on complex engineering problems at scale

• Competitive compensation and growth opportunities