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Technical Lead Manager

Nexla
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted
27 days ago
Department
Engineering
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 10+ years building backend systems, and you are still hands-on.
  • Deep JVM experience.
  • Production depth in Kafka, Redis or Memcached, and APIs over gRPC and REST, Kubernetes at high throughput.
  • Experience leading engineers technically: design review, mentoring, raising the bar on a team.
  • Experience using AI tools in your actual work.
Nice to have
  • Data integration, ETL, or iPaaS background.
  • Experience wrangling JSON, Parquet, Avro, and worse at scale.
  • Experience carrying direct reports, including performance conversations.
What the job really is

As a Technical Lead Manager at Nexla, you will oversee the architecture of the connector layer that integrates with over a thousand systems, ensuring high throughput and reliability. Your role involves hands-on design and coding, managing a small team of engineers, and defining the connector roadmap based on customer needs. You will also be responsible for improving the reliability of the systems your team delivers and mentoring engineers through design reviews and technical guidance.

Benefits
  • Compensation includes base salary, bonus, and equity, set by depth and experience rather than by title.
  • Hybrid work model with some overlap with Pacific hours.
Things to weigh
  • Role requires a significant hands-on coding component, not suitable for those looking to step away from coding.
  • Expectations for urgency and ownership of outcomes may lead to a high-pressure environment.
  • The role emphasizes technical depth and scope over team expansion.
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