Senior Technical Lead (Product Releases & Engineering)

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀

𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: 𝗥𝘀 𝟱𝟬𝟬𝟬𝟬𝟬 - 𝗥𝘀 𝟯𝟬𝟬𝟬𝟬𝟬𝟬 (𝗶𝗲 𝗜𝗡𝗥 𝟱-𝟯𝟬 𝗟𝗣𝗔)

Experience: 5+ yrs

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for a mature, hands-on Senior Technical Lead – Product Releases & Engineering to bring structure, predictability, and ownership to the engineering and product release lifecycle.

The role sits at the intersection of Product, Delivery, Architecture, and Engineering , with primary responsibility for coordinating developers, features, integrations, and code changes into stable, high-quality SaaS releases.

This is neither a purely managerial position nor simply a senior developer role. The successful candidate will remain technically hands-on while taking ownership of release coordination, engineering discipline, technical delivery, production reliability, and continuous improvement.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own and coordinate the complete product release lifecycle across Development, Test/QA, UAT, Production, and Monitoring . • Coordinate release scope with Product and Delivery teams, maintaining clear visibility of features, fixes, dependencies, and risks. • Conduct technical release-readiness checks and ensure development, code reviews, integration, and testing are completed before deployment. • Coordinate application, API, database, and configuration changes across environments. • Manage Git branching, release branches, versioning, merges, hotfixes, and production fixes. • Coordinate deployments across Dev, Test, UAT, and Production environments. • Support UAT issue resolution and provide technical Go/No-Go recommendations for releases. • Ensure rollback, recovery, and production support procedures are clearly defined and understood. • Validate production releases and coordinate post-release monitoring and issue resolution. • Maintain visibility of engineering progress and dependencies across frontend, backend, databases, and integrations. • Identify blockers and technical risks early and drive them towards resolution. • Coordinate cross-functional development work where features span multiple components or services. • Strengthen pull-request, code-review, Git, branching, merge, and version-control practices . • Establish and maintain release-readiness criteria and Definition of Done standards. • Improve automated build, testing, deployment, code-coverage, and CI/CD practices. • Strengthen environment management, logging, monitoring, documentation, incident management, and RCA processes. • Manage technical debt and promote secure and maintainable development practices. • Lead production incident response, assess severity and impact, and coordinate engineering teams during investigations. • Manage hotfixes and emergency releases while maintaining appropriate technical and communication controls. • Conduct root-cause reviews and ensure preventative actions are implemented. • Review code and technical implementations, challenge design decisions where appropriate, and provide hands-on technical guidance. • Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, release reliability, and production operations. • Support adoption of AI technologies such as LLMs, agents, RAG, MCP, LangGraph/LangChain, OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini where relevant.

WHAT MAKES YOU A GREAT FIT

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with meaningful technical leadership responsibility in a production SaaS environment. • Proven experience personally owning or leading software releases across Dev, Test, UAT, and Production environments. • Strong hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for deployment, operations, monitoring, and production troubleshooting. • Strong experience with GitHub , including repository management, pull requests, branching strategies, merge management, permissions, and code reviews. • Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD automation . • Strong understanding of release management, deployment processes, release readiness, versioning, and code consolidation. • Strong programming experience with React/React.js, Python, REST APIs, backend services, and relational databases such as MySQL . • Experience troubleshooting production SaaS applications and resolving complex technical issues. • Strong understanding of automated testing, code quality, logging, monitoring, incident management, and root-cause analysis. • Experience coordinating engineers across frontend, backend, database, and integration workstreams. • Proven ability to work effectively with Product Owners, Technical Architects, Delivery Managers, QA, and engineering teams . • Strong technical judgement with the ability to decide when to proceed, challenge an approach, or escalate a risk. • Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive outcomes rather than simply coordinate activities. • Excellent organisation and communication skills, particularly during releases, incidents, and high-pressure situations. • Ability to guide and mentor developers without micromanaging. • Strong quality mindset with the ability to balance delivery speed, reliability, security, and maintainability. • Experience in AI applications, LLMs, AI agents, RAG, MCP, LangGraph, LangChain, OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini is an advantage. • Comfortable working in a fast-paced SaaS environment with evolving priorities and multiple technical dependencies.