Founding Tech Lead

Role & responsibilities

1. Own and evolve technology for a fast growing startup as founding tech lead!

• Take ownership of existing systems, understand and improve the architecture, and reduce dependency on external vendors.
• Leverage AI assisted coding to design modular, secure and scalable systems,
• Make pragmatic technology and build-versus-buy decisions.

1. Implement AI driven features
2. Fraud prevention with automatic identification of vehicle number plate and vehicle dashboard data
3. Leverage proprietary data to implement SAS solution for insurance, finance and other industries
4. Create Fleet Management System with AI features

5. Propose and implement new offerings to drive additional revenue workstreams for PowerPod

6. Establish engineering & technology cost discipline

• Implement effective practices for code reviews, testing, deployments, access controls and production support.
• Ensure systems are well-documented, secure and maintainable.
• Track and optimize technology costs while monitoring system health, charger uptime and operational performance.

1. Partner with business teams

Work with the founders, Finance, Operations and Data to understand business priorities and identify bottlenecks.
Translate business needs into practical technology solutions that reduce manual work and improve productivity.

Preferred candidate profile

Experience: approximately 5-10 years, with demonstrated ownership mattering more than tenure.

Core profile

A strong backend or full-stack engineer who has owned production systems end to end.
Comfortable taking over an existing codebase, understanding unfamiliar architecture, and improving it without unnecessarily rebuilding everything
Can work directly with founders and operational teams, translating messy real-world problems into reliable software.
Has independently shipped products from business requirements to deployment and ongoing maintenance.
Understands APIs, databases, networking, integrations, monitoring, security and production debugging.
Uses AI-assisted coding tools to increase development speed, but can independently evaluate, test and debug the resulting code.

Role: Founding Technical Lead
Industry Type: Automobile (Electric Vehicle (EV))
Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Category: Software Development
Education
UG: B.Tech / B.E. in Any Specialization