Senior Technical Lead
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Role Overview
SAMA is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead for its India engineering team.
The role focuses on designing, building, reviewing, debugging, and shipping production software rather than people management or architecture alone.
The position serves as a technical point of contact for engineering excellence and talent development across the India team.
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Role Summary
SAMA is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead for its India engineering team.
The role focuses on designing, building, reviewing, debugging, and shipping production software rather than people management or architecture alone.
The position serves as a technical point of contact for engineering excellence and talent development across the India team.
What You’ll Do
- Write and ship production-quality code across the AI and fintech platform.
- Own complex features from design through deployment and operation.
- Establish standards for code quality, testing, security, performance, scalability, observability, reliability, and documentation.
- Conduct code reviews and provide actionable technical feedback.
- Coach junior and intermediate engineers through hands-on technical guidance.
- Define effective engineering practices through code and technical decisions.
- Support onboarding, development plans, mentoring, and engineering practices for India engineering talent.
- Identify capability gaps and help create practical training and coaching programs.
- Partner with Product, AI/ML, Security, and Compliance teams to deliver production-ready financial technology.
- Participate in architecture and design discussions while remaining accountable for implementation.
- Contribute to hiring and technical evaluation of engineers.
What We’re Looking For
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience building production systems.
- Proficiency in one or more modern languages, preferably Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, or Go.
- Strong backend/API and distributed-systems fundamentals.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or another cloud platform.
- Strong understanding of testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and production operations.
- Ability to mentor engineers through hands-on technical coaching.
- Excellent code-review and technical communication skills.
- Experience working in fast-moving product environments.
Particularly Valuable
- Experience building AI/ML-enabled applications or agentic systems.
- Fintech, financial services, or regulated-industry experience.
- Experience with LLMs, APIs, RAG, agents, MCP, or AI infrastructure.
- Experience building systems where auditability, security, and compliance matter.
Pay
- The advertised pay range is ₹1,053,191.24 to ₹2,385,621.54 per year.
Work Location
- Work is performed in person in India.
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