Lead Software Engineer

Company Description

InLustro accelerates workforce readiness for enterprises through AI-powered Job Simulations, enabling precise hiring, efficient training, and scalable talent management. Partnering with organizations across industries such as IT, BFSI, and engineering, InLustro delivers simulation-based pathways that replicate real work and role-specific responsibilities. Since 2020, InLustro has partnered with over 60 institutions and 50 enterprises, empowering 20,000+ learners and driving measurable improvements in hiring efficiency and onboarding outcomes. Headquartered in Chennai, InLustro is supported by Accelerating Asia Ventures (Singapore) and has received national accolades, such as the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Award, Young Achiever Award, and The CEO Story Award.

Role Description

This role is responsible for designing, building, and owning the core backend systems that power InLustros job-simulation platform. The Lead Software Engineer will implement and evolve server-side business logic that models real-world workflows, decisions, and outcomes; design clean data models and APIs that remain stable as product requirements change; and build extensible engines rather than hard-coded flows. The role is deeply hands-on, with direct ownership of production reliability, deployments, debugging, and technical trade-offs around performance, correctness, scalability, and development speed, while working closely with the founders to translate ambiguous product ideas into concrete, durable system architecturewithout formal people-management responsibilities.

Qualifications

• 812+ years of hands-on experience building and running real production software used by paying customers
• Has personally designed and built a backend system where core business logic lives on the server , not just CRUD APIs
• Experience working on products where user actions lead to different outcomes (rules, conditions, states, scoring, approvals, workflows, etc.)
• Strong ability to break messy, real-world problems into clear technical components and data models
• Deep proficiency in at least one backend language (Node.js, Python, Java, Go, or similar) with clean, readable code
• Comfortable designing APIs and databases that continue to work even as product requirements change frequently
• Has owned software in production, including deployments, monitoring, debugging failures, and fixing issues under pressure
• Experience making hard technical trade-offs that affected product speed, reliability, or future flexibility
• Able to work directly with founders and product leaders to turn vague ideas into concrete systems
• Known for being the engineer others turn to when decisions are unclear or stakes are high
• Experience guiding code quality and technical direction without managing a team
• Comfortable starting as a hands-on individual contributor, with responsibility expanding as the company grows