Tech Engineering Lead (Product /Enterprise SaaS / HR Tech)

Location Preference: Bangalore / Pune

Role Type: Individual Contributor (with future team build-out)

About the Company

Our client is a next-generation, product-first HR Tech platform built for enterprises that demand configurability, scale, and intelligence. Designed by experienced HR practitioners and engineered for complex enterprise environments, the platform enables organisations to reimagine talent, skills, and employee experiencewithout legacy constraints.

Following successful productmarket validation, the company is now entering a focused scale-up phase , working with enterprise customers across India and global markets.

The Opportunity

This role is ideal for a hands-on engineering leader who enjoys owning outcomes end-to-end. As the Tech Engineering Lead, you will be responsible for execution, architecture, quality, security, and delivery of critical platform capabilities.

This is not a coordination role. You will diagnose problems, challenge assumptions, and design pragmatic solutions , while remaining deeply involved in coding, reviews, and production ownership.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering & Architecture

• Own end-to-end delivery of core product modules and platform capabilities
• Design scalable, secure, and maintainable systems
• Make pragmatic architectural trade-offs balancing speed, quality, and scale
• Stay hands-on through coding, code reviews, and production debugging

Quality, Security & Compliance

• Enforce high engineering standards across quality, testing, performance, and reliability
• Own information security and compliance standards (ISO 27001, SOC 2, DPDP, etc.)
• Design and monitor data security controls and support audits

Team & Delivery Ownership

• Lead and mentor engineers with clear ownership and accountability
• Align team capacity and skills to delivery priorities
• Own delivery execution, releases, and production stability
• Lead incident management, root-cause analysis, and preventive improvements

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Business, and Customers
• Participate in client-facing technical discussions and own relationships with client IT teams

Ideal Candidate Profile

Must-Have

• 812 years of strong, hands-on engineering experience
• Background in product-led SaaS or platform companies (non-services mindset)
• Proven ability to deliver complex systems with high quality
• Strong problem-solving and structured thinking
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous startup environments
• Ability to clearly articulate technical trade-offs to stakeholders

Good to Have

• Experience in HR Tech or enterprise B2B platforms
• Exposure to cloud-native and microservices architectures
• Experience working with distributed teams

What Success Looks Like

• Predictable, high-quality engineering delivery
• Stable, scalable, and secure production systems
• Minimal critical production incidents and reduced technical debt
• Strong trust with Product, Business, Customers, and client stakeholders
• Audit-ready security and compliance posture

Why This Role

• Join a company post-validation, pre-scale where your decisions matter
• Work closely with founders and product leadership
• Shape core architecture, engineering standards, and quality culture
• Build a platform used by real enterprises solving real problems
• Strong growth runway as the organisation scales

If Interested?

Apply now or reach out to directly for a confidential discussion.

Only shortlisted candidate will be notified.

Thank you!

Sapna Oberai

TechClover Pte. Ltd.

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