About the role
About the Role
We are looking for a hands-on MERN Stack Technical Lead who can lead a development team, own architecture and cloud infrastructure end to end, and bring practical Generative AI capabilities into client products. You will work closely with product, pre-sales, QA, DevOps, and UI/UX teams to turn business requirements into scalable, secure, production-grade systems.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of frontend and backend developers.
• Define application architecture, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
• Drive technical decisions and own end-to-end delivery of projects.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality, performance, and security.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions alongside product managers, architects, and stakeholders.
Cloud Architecture & DevOps (Critical)
• Design and implement scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant architectures on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Manage containerised workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Provision infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Implement cloud security, IAM, monitoring, logging, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Optimise infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost.
AI & Generative AI Integration
• Evaluate and integrate LLM services (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or similar) into MERN applications.
• Build AI features such as chatbots, intelligent automation, document processing, and RAG pipelines.
• Apply prompt engineering, embeddings, and vector databases to real product use cases.
• Ensure AI implementations follow security, data privacy, and responsible AI practices.
Delivery & Team Management
• Lead sprint planning, technical discussions, and architecture reviews.
• Identify technical risks early and resolve complex engineering challenges.
• Ensure timely, high-quality delivery within Agile/Scrum processes.
• Maintain clear technical documentation.