Tech Lead-AI at Weekday AI in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Min Experience: 7+ years Location: Chennai JobType: full-time

We are looking for a hands-on Tech Lead to drive technical direction, solve complex engineering problems, and help

build scalable, reliable, high-quality software for our AI + IoT platform.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to software engineers.

• Design and review scalable software architectures and system designs.

• Stay hands-on with coding and solve complex technical problems.

• Drive technical decisions across APIs, databases, cloud, and application architecture.

• Conduct code reviews and maintain high standards for code quality, testing, and performance.

• Identify and resolve technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural challenges.

• Mentor engineers and help raise the team's technical capabilities.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to translate requirements into effective technical solutions.

• Improve system reliability, scalability, observability, and engineering practices.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.• Strong hands-on programming and system design experience.

• Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, databases, and cloud technologies.

• Experience making and owning technical architecture decisions.

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

• Experience with code reviews, testing, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices.

• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with SaaS, AI/ML, or data-driven products.

• Experience with Python and modern backend technologies.

• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.

• Experience working in a fast-growing startup environment.

Must-have skills

System Design, Distributed Systems, Backend Engineering

Good-to-have skills

Python, RAG, LLM