Technical Lead

Tech Lead - Platform & AI Engineering
About the Role Own a critical slice of Nanonets' AI first document automation platform. You'll lead a 4 8 person squad of senior engineers, ship high impact features that touch billions of documents per year, and set technical direction across backend, ML infra, and DevEx. This is a hands on leadership role: % coding/architecting, % mentoring and roadmap ownership.
Key Responsibilities Architecture & Delivery
• Design scalable, event driven micro services (Python/Golang), REST APIs, and low latency ML inference pipelines (sub 100 ms).
• Own end to end project execution-from RFC to prod rollout and post launch KPIs.
AI & Data
• Integrate state of the art CV/NLP models (LLMs, transformers) into our Confidence Scoring and Instant Learning loops.
• Champion data quality tooling, active learning, and continuous fine tuning workflows.
DevEx & Reliability
• Evolve our K8s based platform on AWS/GCP for 4 nines uptime, autoscaling, and cost efficiency.
• Level up CI/CD, observability, and on call rotations; kill toil with automation.
Leadership & Collaboration
• Grow and coach engineers, run design reviews, enforce code health.
• Partner with Product, GTM, and Customer Success on quarterly OKRs and customer visible SLAs.
Must Have Qualifications
•  7 + years engineering experience
•  Previous experience working in a Product focused Tech Startup
•  Deep expertise in at least one of: Python, Go; proven design of distributed, fault tolerant systems (>10 k rps).
•  Production ML/AI exposure-model serving, feature stores, A/B testing, or retraining loops.
•  Strong DevOps chops: Docker, Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), metrics/logging stacks.
•  Bias for execution-comfortable shipping fast, refactoring later, and owning failures.
Why Nanonets
•   Own the outcome - your code touches customers within days.
•   Serious tech - Series B backed, profitable,
•   Velocity culture - weekly releases, lightweight process, zero bureaucracy.
•   People first - top tier comp, ESOP, global offsites, MacBook, unlimited PTO.