Lead Engineer - India

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of engineers, providing technical direction, coaching and support.
• Design, build, deploy and monitor scalable, high-quality software systems supporting Ten’s global member base.
• Work closely with Product, Data and Platform teams to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Drive frequent, high-quality software releases, ensuring delivery is aligned with product priorities and business objectives.
• Champion a DevOps and “you build it, you run it” mindset, taking ownership across the full product lifecycle.
• Maintain high engineering standards, with a strong focus on automated testing, reliability, performance and measurable quality.
• Monitor and analyse engineering metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and ensure system health and performance.
• Evaluate and select appropriate technical solutions, balancing scalability, performance, complexity, cost and other key trade-offs.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance, helping the team make informed decisions on engineering approaches and technologies.
• Partner closely with Product to shape the technical vision, contribute ideas and build industry-leading products and services.
• Continuously improve engineering practices and processes, encouraging innovation, collaboration and a culture of ownership.

Skills & Qualifications

• Fluent English (C2 proficiency) – Essential.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring software engineering teams, providing technical direction and supporting team development.
• Strong experience building and optimising systems for performance, scalability and reliability.
• Excellent hands-on proficiency in Python.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms, specifically AWS and Azure, as well as Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps and infrastructure tooling, including CI/CD, Docker and Kubernetes (K8s).
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog.
• Proven experience building, deploying and monitoring distributed systems, across both frontend and backend environments.
• Hands-on experience working with multiple data stores, including both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Demonstrable experience using AI to empower engineering teams and accelerate the software development lifecycle.

Desirable

Benefits

• Our people are at the heart of the business, and we have a culture of recognition and reward - both through regular appraisals but also annual Extra Mile Awards where we celebrate those who have gone that extra mile in their role. We also encourage all our staff to incorporate their aspirations and interests into their career at Ten and we are there every step of the way in supporting development.

All our employees also enjoy a range of benefits

• Offer flexible work arrangements including Hybrid work possibilities
• One (1) month paid Sabbatical after 5 years of Service, without tapping into annual leave
• Access to lots of great travel and entertainment discounts as our clients’ members would!
• Global Team, with diversity at its core.
• Possibility of growth within a dynamic and international company

Commitment to Diversity