Web Application Technical Lead - Large Scale

Experience : 10+ Years
Shift : 2pm to 11pm/9am to 6pm
Job Location : Ahmedabad (Onsite)/Bengaluru (Hybrid)

Job Description:

We are looking for a Web Application Technical Lead – Large Scale to maintain and improve a mission-critical, high-traffic web application used by millions of customers daily. This role requires deep technical expertise across modern web application architecture, large-scale distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure. The candidate will drive technical decisions, performance optimization, observability, and incident response while upskilling our team to work confidently with enterprise-grade tools, frameworks, and platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead technical operations, troubleshooting, and enhancements for large-scale, customer-facing web applications.
Act as the technical escalation point during production incidents.
Oversee and mentor the team on end-to-end web application architecture, spanning frontend, backend, database, DevOps, and monitoring.
Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of the application.
Work closely with product, QA, and DevOps teams to align deliverables with business priorities.
Guide adoption and implementation of advanced observability, logging, and monitoring practices.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Provide leadership in cross-team and cross-time-zone collaborations.

Technical Skills & Experience:

1) Web application architecture:

In-depth understanding of full-stack development for high-traffic applications.
Experience with multiple backend stacks (PHP, Java/Spring Boot, etc.) and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React).
Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and microservices.

2) Infrastructure & Cloud:

AWS expertise (EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, IAM).
Kubernetes (K8s) with Pods, Shards, and scaling strategies.
CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.

3) Data & Messaging:

Strong database experience (MySQL, PostgreSQL) with replication and partitioning.
Hands-on experience with messaging/event streaming platforms such as Kafka.
Caching and performance tuning using Redis.

4) Monitoring, Logging, and Observability:

Hands-on experience with Wavefront, Splunk, Datadog, and Grafana.
Designing and managing observability dashboards.
Implementing log aggregation and alerting strategies.

5) Security & Performance:

Strong knowledge of web application security best practices.
Experience with performance profiling, load testing, and optimization at scale.

6) Leadership & Communication:

Proven experience leading cross-functional teams across multiple time zones.
Excellent communication skills for client and leadership reporting.
Strong ability to explain technical topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience mentoring teams to adopt new tools and modern architectures.

7) Desirable Experience:

Managing applications with millions of daily active users.
Strong background in incident management and post-mortem analysis.

Web Application Technical Lead - Large Scale