Tech Lead

Hi there

At Saleshandy, we're building the sales engagement platform of the future. We're building products toward eliminating manual processes and helping companies generate more replies/book more meetings/generate leads (faster). Since our founding in 2016, we've grown to become a profitable, 100% geographically dispersed team of 50 high-performing, happy people that are dedicated to building a product that our customers love.
What you'll be doing?
• Technical direction: Providing technical guidance and leadership to the development team and ensuring that the company's technology vision and goals are aligned with business objectives.
• Architecture and design: Overseeing the design and development of software solutions, ensuring that they are scalable, secure, and meet the needs of the business.
• Team management
• Managing and mentoring a team of software developers, including performance evaluations, coaching, and career development.
• Lead by example, share constructive feedback and encourage team members.
• Set vision for the Engineering team, define & refine initiative backlog for the future.
• Project management
• Managing software development initiatives, including defining project scope, setting project schedules, and ensuring that projects are delivered on time
• Build a transparent system for better visibility & track high-level progress.
• Measure & Improve key matrices which are essential for the product & services (Eg. Reduce # of 5xx by 8% in Q1 2024)
• Code review: Conduct code reviews to ensure that the code produced by the development team is of high quality and adheres to the company's coding standards.
• Technology evaluation: Evaluating new technologies and tools, recommending their adoption, and ensuring that the development team has the necessary resources and training to use them effectively.
• Stakeholder communication: Communicating technical information to stakeholders, including product owners, customers, and engineering managers, and ensuring that technical decisions are aligned with business goals.
• Be a bar raiser for overall product quality and user experience
You Should have...
• At least 5 years of total and 3 years of engineering team leadership experience
• Have hands-on experience in , React, AWS, CICD, Docker & Microservice Architecture.
• Have a product and user-centric mindset, which reflects in day-to-day activities.
• Have a retrospective & adaptive mindset.
• Think about long-term relationships, e.g., 5+ years.
• Passionate about the building products
• Be detail-oriented, organized, and great at oral/written communication.
• Be a continuous learner.
Why should you join Saleshandy?
• Growing SaaS company on a journey from $1M to $5M ARR
• Challenging roles to meet the changing needs of our customers.
• This role allows you to create impact beyond software quality, e.g., product strategy & positioning.
• Learning opportunities to turn yourself into a great product leader.
• Work closely with founders & business leaders
• Work with like-minded growth-oriented teammates.
• The young and geographically distributed team across India.
How do we work at Saleshandy?
• We've adopted the OKRs methodology to define the business goals and measure progress.
• Our product shaping process is loosely based on Shape Up.
• We're very much inspired by bootstrapped SaaS companies like 37Signals, Close, and VWO.
• We believe in building great products and businesses in the long term.
You'll be directly working with -

Rutvik (Engineering Manager) & Ravi (product manager, with Saleshandy for 4+ years) At times, you will find yourself working with Rahul from the solution team.

Safe to say, these folks are passionate about what they do.
Our taste in Engineering -
• Fast. Simple. Effective.
• Attention to detail
• Performant, Scalable & Reliable
• User centricity
Tools we use -

Check out our stack share profile.
Other Perks -
• Personal Development — an annual budget for books, courses, and conferences
• Medical Insurance — we offer health insurance allowance to all the teammates
• Annual team retreats — to amp up the entire team's energy every year, we take a retreat. you will decide the place. Checkout our recent trip to Udaipur
So, think you're a good fit? Then let's roll.

Step 1: You apply for the job (with your current portfolio).

Step 2: Quick call with the HR folks

Step 3: First round with Rutvik (Engineering Manager)

Step 4: Second round interview to gauge if you are a good software engineer.

Step 6: Job Offer (contingent on the above steps) & Welcome to the ikigai tribe
In the first week, expect to:
• Join our team, where you will be introduced to Sales handy's practices and processes.
• Start participating in team-level meetings.
• Get high-level product knowledge, and understand the value & different Saleshandy components.
• Release your first PR to production
In the first month, expect to:
• Develop a deeper understanding of our tools, processes, and product pipeline.
• Get In-depth product & team business domain.
• Contribute to our ongoing development initiatives.
• Ship a major package to production
• Own all the engineering team's KPIs
In the first three months, expect to:
• Actively supply development planning, Delive stable & reliable releases
• Optimize development practices to increase transparency and efficiency
• Play a key role in completing the team-level initiative
• Own all the engineering team's KRs
In the first six months, expect to:
• Become a key part of the team, be responsible for all engineering areas, and help others in a regular cadence. Inside and outside of the team.
• Contribute to planning and executing quarterly initiatives inside our team.
• Become a champion of new ideas that will thrive to achieve the purpose of our company while ensuring the quality culture we value the most