Leadership Role

# Leadership Role
> Weekday AI · Mumbai, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-09
**Workplace:** on_site
**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform
## Description
**This role is for one of Weekday’s clients**
Min Experience: 13+ years

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced and highly accountable **Engineering Leader** to lead backend engineering teams and drive the design, development, and delivery of scalable, reliable, and high-performance technology systems. This is a senior leadership position for a hands-on technology professional who combines strong backend engineering expertise with exceptional **people management, ownership, and execution skills**.

The ideal candidate will have **13–25 years of experience** building and scaling backend systems and leading high-performing engineering teams. You will work closely with senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Business, and Operations to translate organizational goals into robust technology solutions and deliver measurable business outcomes.

## Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop backend engineering teams, creating a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Take **end-to-end ownership** of engineering initiatives, from technical strategy and architecture through execution, deployment, and ongoing optimization.
• Define and drive backend engineering strategy aligned with product and business objectives.
• Architect and oversee the development of scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performance backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Establish strong engineering practices around code quality, testing, observability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Partner closely with Product and Business leaders to prioritize initiatives, manage trade-offs, and ensure timely delivery.
• Build and maintain a strong engineering talent pipeline, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development.
• Identify technical risks and bottlenecks proactively and drive effective solutions across teams.
• Review and guide critical architectural and technical decisions while maintaining appropriate engineering standards.
• Drive engineering excellence through automation, process improvements, technical documentation, and operational best practices.
• Ensure teams consistently deliver high-quality software while balancing speed, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Act as a technical and organizational leader, influencing decisions beyond the immediate engineering function.

Must-Have Skills

### People Management

• Proven experience leading and scaling backend engineering teams.
• Strong ability to hire, mentor, motivate, and retain high-performing engineers and engineering managers.
• Experience managing performance, setting goals, developing talent, and building effective team structures.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

### Ownership

• Strong sense of accountability with a track record of taking initiatives from concept to successful execution.
• Ability to operate independently, make sound decisions, and drive outcomes in ambiguous and fast-changing environments.
• Strong execution mindset with the ability to balance strategic thinking and operational details.

### Backend Engineering

• Deep expertise in backend development and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with one or more backend programming languages such as **Java, Python, Go, Node.js, or similar**.
• Experience designing scalable APIs, microservices, databases, messaging systems, and cloud-based architectures.
• Strong understanding of system design, performance optimization, reliability, security, and scalability.
• Experience working with modern cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and production-grade engineering environments.

Experience

• **13–25 years of overall software engineering experience**, with significant experience in backend engineering and technical leadership.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex, large-scale technology initiatives.

## Apply
[Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/E1CF2657E2/apply)
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