Experience Senior · 6+ yrs (5+ years)
About the role
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# Technical Lead (QC08923) Share via: Share via WhatsappShare via Facebook About Aereo Aereo (earlier known as Aarav Unmanned Systems) is a deep-tech company building the future of how the physical world is mapped, understood and managed. We build end-to-end drone and geospatial intelligence solutions for enterprises…
What you will do
- Build, mentor and develop a high-performing engineering team with a strong culture of ownership, accountability and technical excellence.
- Take ownership of the career development and growth of engineers, helping them build the skills, experience and judgment required to progress to their next level.
- Conduct regular 1:1s and provide thoughtful, actionable feedback that helps engineers improve both technically and professionally.
- Identify high-potential engineers and actively develop them into future technical leaders.
- Set clear expectations, goals and measurable outcomes for team members, and create a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Understand the strengths, development areas and aspirations of individual team members and create opportunities for them to grow.
- Coach engineers through technical and professional challenges and help them become increasingly independent in their decision-making and ownership.
- Foster an environment where engineers are encouraged to take ownership, challenge ideas, make decisions and learn from failures.
- Build strong collaboration and trust within the team while maintaining a high bar for engineering quality and execution.
- Recognise and celebrate individual and team contributions while keeping the team focused on shared outcomes and business impact.
- Participate actively in hiring, interviewing and onboarding exceptional engineering talent as the team scales.
- Partner with engineering leadership to identify future capability gaps and build the team required to support Aereo Cloud's growth.
- Own the technical direction of your area of Aereo Cloud, aligned with product and business priorities.
- Work closely with Product and Engineering to translate product requirements and customer problems into clear technical priorities and executable plans.
- Lead architecture and system design discussions and make pragmatic trade-offs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, cost and engineering velocity.
- Guide engineers through complex technical problems and ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable and fit for purpose.
- Remain sufficiently hands-on to review designs, debug critical issues and contribute to implementation when required.
- Identify technical and architectural gaps that could limit the platform's ability to scale and drive initiatives to address them.
- Establish and continuously improve engineering standards, development practices and technical guidelines across the team.
- Drive strong practices around testing, CI/CD, observability, performance optimisation and production reliability.
- Own delivery of business-critical technical initiatives from planning through production, ensuring the team consistently delivers against committed outcomes.
- Understand the broader vision and business context of Aereo Cloud and help the engineering team connect their work to customer and business outcomes.
- Work closely with Product, Design, Business and customer-facing teams to understand complex problems and translate them into effective technical solutions.
- Influence the product roadmap by identifying technical opportunities, platform capabilities and improvements that can create meaningful customer and business impact.
- Balance short-term product requirements with long-term platform scalability, maintainability and technical health.
- Ensure the team focuses not just on building technically sound systems, but on solving the right problems for customers.
- Define and track engineering metrics around reliability, performance, quality, delivery and operational health.
- Own production health for your area, including incidents, on-call processes, performance issues, bugs and root-cause analysis.
- Drive the platform towards high availability and reliability, with a target of 99.99% availability.
- Establish strong practices around monitoring, observability, capacity planning and proactive identification of production risks.
- Lead the team through complex production issues and ensure learnings are translated into lasting improvements.
- Identify engineering bottlenecks and continuously improve development and delivery processes.
- Make pragmatic decisions that balance speed, quality and long-term technical sustainability.
What they are looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production-grade systems.
- 1+ years of experience in a technical leadership and/or people management role, with demonstrated experience mentoring and developing engineers.
- Strong experience designing and building distributed systems and microservices architectures.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, APIs, databases and cloud-native application development.
- Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python , JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Java, Go or similar.
- Experience working with production systems with a strong focus on scalability, performance, reliability and security.
- Demonstrated ability to take technical initiatives from ambiguity through execution and production.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, Design, Business and customer-facing teams.
Nice to have
- Experience working in a product or SaaS company , preferably building customer-facing products.
- Experience managing and developing a team of engineers, including career development, performance management and hiring.
- Experience mentoring engineers and developing them into greater technical ownership or leadership.
- Experience owning or significantly influencing a product or engineering roadmap.
- Experience working with large-scale data-intensive or distributed systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure and modern cloud-native technologies.
- Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability and infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience working with geospatial, GIS, mapping, imagery, computer vision or other spatial/data-heavy applications.
- Experience balancing technical debt, product velocity and long-term architectural investments.
- Experience working in an environment where engineering teams have significant ownership of product and technical decisions.
Software ArchitectureSystem DesignMicroservicesDistributed SystemsAPIsDatabasesCI/CDObservabilityPerformance OptimisationComputer VisionGISPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsJavaGoAWSGCPAzure
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