Technical Architect – Product Engineering

Technical Architect – Product Engineering Experience: 15+ Years Location: Pune, India Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect to lead the architecture, design, and technical evolution of an enterprise SaaS product. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, strong product engineering experience, and the ability to build scalable, secure, and high-performance platforms. The ideal candidate should be passionate about solving complex engineering problems, driving innovation, mentoring development teams, and effectively leveraging AI to accelerate software development.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the overall product architecture and technical roadmap.

• Design and build scalable, secure, and highly available enterprise applications.

• Lead the design and implementation of new product features from concept to production.

• Remain hands-on with coding and contribute to critical product components.

• Drive architecture reviews, code quality, performance optimization, and engineering best practices.

• Lead cloud architecture, security, scalability, and DevOps initiatives.

• Evaluate and adopt modern technologies to improve product capabilities and engineering efficiency.

• Leverage AI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) to accelerate software development, code reviews, testing, documentation, debugging, and productivity.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 15+ years of software product engineering experience with at least 5 years in a Technical Architect role.

• Strong hands-on expertise in Python and modern backend frameworks.

• Deep experience with AWS services and cloud-native application architecture.

• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.

• Experience designing microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.

• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Experience with scalable SaaS platforms, multi-tenant architectures, and secure application design.

• Excellent understanding of software design patterns, performance tuning, observability, and system reliability.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.