Technical Lead

  • Gurugram
  • Zupee

Tech Lead


We are the biggest online gaming company with largest market share in the Indian gaming sector’s largest segment — Casual & Boardgame. We make skill-based games that spark joy in the everyday lives of people by engaging, entertaining, and enabling earning while at play.


In the three plus years of existence, Zupee has been on a mission to improve people’s lives by boosting their learning ability, skills, and cognitive aptitude through scientifically designed gaming experiences. Zupee presents a timeout from the stressful environments we live in today and sparks joy in the lives of people through its games.


Zupee invests in people and bets on creating excellent user experiences to drive phenomenal growth. We have been running profitable at EBT level since Q3, 2020 while closing Series B funding at $102 million, at a valuation of $600 million. Zupee is all set to transform from a fast-growing startup to a firm contender for the biggest gaming studio in India.




ABOUT THE JOB


Role: Tech Lead

Reports to : Engineering Manager

Location : Gurgaon


Responsibilities :


  • We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Tech Lead to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating multiple projects across diverse teams. Your primary focus will be on developing efficient processes, executing effective strategies, and ensuring the timely completion of projects.
  • As an Tech Lead, you will be Architecting and tuning both SQL and NoSQL database for handling scale/high transaction volume.
  • Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team.
  • Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
  • Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.
  • Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
  • Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
  • Represent Zupee and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
  • Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
  • Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.


Qualifications

  • Knowledge of languages (JavaScript, Python) and frameworks/systems (nodejs)
  • Strong analytical skills and aptitude
  • Understanding of data architecture, software design and best coding practices
  • Ability to learn new languages and technologies
  • Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
  • Working knowledge of Linux.
  • Familiarity with open source frameworks/libraries used in building RESTful services and distributed systems.
  • Good experience with architecting and tuning both SQL and NoSQL database for handling scale/high transaction volume
  • Good understanding of message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ