The Role
Lead a team to design, build, and deliver scalable full-stack web and backend systems for AI-driven automotive retail. Write and review code, make architectural decisions, mentor engineers, ensure timely releases, and maintain high reliability and performance of cloud-native applications.
Summary Generated by Built In
Technical Lead (SDE III)
Location: Bestech Business Tower, Sector 48, Gurugram (Work from Office)
Experience: 6+ years
Working Hours: 01 PM 10 PM IST
About Spyne
At Spyne, we are transforming how cars are marketed and sold with cutting-edge Generative AI. What started as a bold ideausing AI-powered visuals to help auto dealers sell faster onlinehas now evolved into a full-fledged, AI-first automotive retail ecosystem.
Backed by Accel, Vertex Ventures, and Storm Ventures, Spyne is emerging as one of the category leaders redefining how dealerships operate in the AI era.
- Launched industry-first AI-powered Image, Video & 360 solutions for automotive dealers
- Launching Gen AI powered Automotive Retail Suite to power Inventory, Marketing, CRM for dealers
- Onboarded 1500+ dealers across US, EU and other key markets in the past 2 years since launch
- Gearing up to onboard 10K+ dealers across a global market of 200K+ dealers
- 150+ member team with a near equal split across R&D and GTM
Learn more about our products:
- Studio AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0_CsQpCbwg
- Vini AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFjhPWp6gJU
About the Role
We're looking for a Technical Lead (SDE III) who enjoys building products, solving difficult engineering problems, and leading through technical excellence.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll own critical product areas, influence architecture, mentor engineers, and help shape how modern software is built using AI.
You'll work closely with Product, Design, AI, and Business teams to build systems that serve customers globally while helping raise the engineering bar across the organization.
What You'll Own
- Design and build scalable backend services and customer-facing products.
- Own architecture and technical direction for key product initiatives.
- Lead a team of engineers through design discussions, code reviews, execution planning, and delivery.
- Mentor engineers and help them grow technically.
- Build reliable, maintainable, and high-performance systems that scale.
- Partner with Product to convert customer problems into elegant technical solutions.
- Drive engineering best practices around system design, code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
- Champion AI-native engineering by leveraging modern AI tools to improve developer productivity, software quality, and delivery speed.
- Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
What We're Looking For
Strong Engineering Fundamentals
- 47 years of experience building production-grade software.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalable architecture, concurrency, databases, and API design.
- Excellent grasp of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
- Ability to make thoughtful architectural decisions balancing scale, reliability, speed, and maintainability.
Hands-on Development
- Strong experience building backend services using Node.js.
- Good understanding of modern frontend frameworks such as React.
- Experience with databases including MongoDB and MySQL.
- Familiarity with technologies like Redis, Kafka/Pub-Sub, queues, caching, background jobs, and event-driven systems.
- Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
AI-First Mindset
We're not looking for someone who has simply "used ChatGPT."
We're looking for engineers who understand how AI is changing software development.
You should have experience using AI-assisted development workflows, understand modern LLM capabilities, and actively explore ways AI can improve engineering productivity, software quality, and product experiences.
Bonus if you've built products powered by LLMs, AI agents, retrieval systems, or multimodal AI.
Technical Leadership
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.
- Comfortable owning projects from idea to production.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across Engineering, Product, Design, and Business teams.
- Ability to simplify complex technical problems and make pragmatic engineering decisions.
What Makes Someone Successful Here
- You thrive in ambiguity.
- You care about customers as much as code.
- You move fast without compromising engineering quality.
- You naturally take ownership instead of waiting for direction.
- You enjoy mentoring others and making the team better.
- You embrace AI as a force multipliernot just for the product, but for how engineering teams build software every day.
Why Join Spyne?
- Build AI-first products used by customers across the globe.
- Solve large-scale engineering challenges with real business impact.
- Own products end-to-end instead of working on isolated modules.
- Work alongside experienced founders and a high-calibre engineering team.
- Shape the engineering culture of one of India's fastest-growing AI companies.
- Competitive compensation, ESOPs, and significant ownership from day one.
- An environment where great ideas are valued over hierarchy.
If you're excited about building the future of AI-powered software and want to create products that redefine an industry, we'd love to talk.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of software engineering experience
- 1+ years in a lead or mentorship role
- Hands-on experience with MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js)
- Proficiency with Redis, Kafka/Pub-Sub, and MySQL
- Experience with job schedulers
- Experience architecting and developing cloud-native applications on AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Strong foundation in OOP, system design, concurrency, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience building and operating large-scale backend systems with high reliability and performance
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The Company
What We Do
One of the biggest pain points for any online seller is to showcase their products in the best possible manner to grab customer attention and increase conversions. Spyne is transforming the way businesses create their catalog using state-of-the-art AI technology. No studio. No photography skills. No complex processes. Just Spyne to create stunning catalogs that drive 40% better conversions. We are building first-of-its-kind AI that would transform the way businesses will create high-impact catalogs without the need for a physical studio. We are building computer vision and AI technology to automate image processing workflows. This will help any business or marketplace shoot, edit, and publish product visuals at scale, at a fraction of the cost, and time. We are helping large e-commerce marketplaces in the automotive, food, fashion, real estate, and retail industry create and upgrade high-quality visual catalogs at scale. Founded in 2018, Spyne is headquartered in Gurugram, India serving 80+ customers across 15+ countries including Amazon India, Karvi, OLACars, and The Luxury Closet Dubai. We are backed by Accel Partners, Storm Ventures, and other marquee investors.
