Technical Team Lead - Vue.js/Node.js

Roles & Responsibilities: - Write, review and merge production code across Vue.js frontend and Node.js backend. - Own code quality for the India team - set review standards and refactor technical debt. - Debug across the full stack - from Vue rendering issues to Mongo aggregations to Kubernetes pod issues. - Guide the team on day-to-day development decisions and step in on unsolved problems. - Design solutions for new modules from spec to schema to API contract to implementation. - Own MongoDB data modelling decisions - document structure, embedding vs referencing, index strategy. - Review Node.js service design: API structure, error handling, validation, authentication, rate limiting, background processing. - Make and document build-vs-buy calls on third-party services with cost and integration effort. - Ensure the platform stays stable and performant on a live, revenue-generating system. - Demonstrate daily working use of AI coding tools and spec-driven development practice. - Judge AI output quality and know when tasks should not be handed to agents. - Set up and maintain repo-level context files and make the team's AI setup consistent. - Coach the team on AI tools while holding the line on quality. - Work with LLM APIs, embeddings, semantic search and understand where AI features help. - Run sprint planning, estimation, standups and retros for the India team. - Break requirements into technical tasks with clear acceptance criteria. - Track velocity and flag slippage and blockers early. - Own release coordination - deployment planning, rollback strategy and post-release monitoring. - Line-manage 6 - 10 engineers across web, mobile and QA - 1:1s, feedback, performance conversations and growth planning. - Mentor mid-level engineers into senior ones and build depth. - Participate in hiring - technical screening, interviewing and onboarding. - Keep the team's engineering practices consistent: documentation, testing, branching, incident handling. - Act as the main technical point of contact between the India team and the UAE office product and business stakeholders. - Communicate clearly to mixed technical and non-technical audiences - status, risk, trade-offs and time cost. - Manage the time-zone gap with structured overlap hours, written updates and async documentation. - Own technical delivery on modules including product catalogue, pricing, ordering, workflows, order management, payments, invoicing and vendor onboarding. Ideal Candidate: - Strong Hands-On Technical Team Lead Profile: (Vue.js + Node.js) with AI-assisted development and B2B e-commerce exposure. - 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years leading a team of 5 or more engineers. - Strong, current, hands-on Vue.js experience including component architecture, state management and performance optimisation. - Strong, current, hands-on Node.js and Express experience for production API development at scale. - Deep MongoDB experience including aggregation pipelines, index design, query performance tuning and schema decisions. - AWS experience particularly Kubernetes/EKS with deployments, resource limits, health probes and production monitoring. - Working understanding of Flutter including widget architecture, state management, platform channels and Play Store/App Store release pipelines. - Demonstrable, daily professional use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI or equivalent) with real examples. - Experience with spec-driven development including writing structured requirement and design documents and reviewing AI-generated output against acceptance criteria. - Experience setting up and maintaining repo-level context files, rules files and custom commands for AI development. - Git and CI/CD experience including branching strategy, review workflow and automated pipelines. - Line-managed engineers (1:1s, feedback, performance, growth), mentored mid-to-senior, and participated in hiring. - Communicate clearly to mixed technical/non-technical audiences and manage a time-zone gap with structured overlap and async documentation (works with the UAE office). - Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or related field. - Background in B2B e-commerce, wholesale/distribution or marketplace platforms. - Preferred: Experience working as the offshore technical counterpart to an overseas leadership team, integrating LLM APIs into a production product, observability tooling (CloudWatch, Datadog or Sentry), and third-party integrations (payment gateways, logistics, etc.).