Technical Team Leader

Title: Technical Team Lead/ Engineering Team lead

Location: New Delhi, India (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: 6-12+ Years

Who We Are

At ThrivePass, we’re on a mission to help employees and businesses Thrive - because benefits should be more than just checkboxes. Through personalized benefits technology, data-driven insights, and meaningful experiences, we empower companies to support their teams in ways that truly matter.We don’t just talk about culture - we build it. Everything we do is rooted in our CARE values:

Courageous – We embrace new challenges and fresh ideas.

Accountable – We show up as our true selves and value transparency.

Resourceful – We find creative solutions and make things happen.

Engaged – We hold ourselves accountable and take pride in our work.

At ThrivePass, performance isn’t just about hitting goals - it’s about how you show up. We invest in our employees’ growth and encourage bold thinking, collaboration, and continuous learning. Join us in shaping the future of employee benefits!

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Technical Team Lead to lead a team of software engineers, drive technical excellence, and oversee the delivery of scalable, reliable, and high-quality software solutions.

This is a hands-on leadership role that combines people management, architecture leadership, software development, and delivery ownership. The ideal candidate is passionate about building high-performing teams, designing scalable systems, and driving engineering best practices while remaining actively involved in technical decision-making and problem-solving.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and manage a team of software engineers, providing technical guidance, regular feedback, mentoring, and support for professional development.

Break down business requirements into technical solutions and drive execution from design through deployment.

Lead technical design discussions and ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with engineering standards.

Review system architecture, application design, and implementation approaches for new features and platform enhancements.

Contribute to the design and development of critical components, complex features, and high-impact technical initiatives.

Establish and maintain engineering best practices for coding, testing, documentation, code reviews, and deployment processes.

Drive adoption of clean architecture principles, design patterns, and software development standards across the team.

Collaborate with Product Managers, QA Engineers, Architects, and other stakeholders to align technical solutions with business priorities.

Identify technical risks, dependencies, performance bottlenecks, and scalability concerns early in the development lifecycle.

Ensure applications are designed for reliability, fault tolerance, performance, and operational supportability.

Lead root cause analysis for production issues and drive corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

Monitor system health and work with the team to improve observability through logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to engineering processes, development efficiency, automation, and quality.

Review and prioritize technical debt, system modernization efforts, and platform improvement initiatives.

Support release planning, deployment activities, and post-release monitoring to ensure smooth production operations.

Work closely with engineering leadership to define technical roadmaps, resource planning, and team objectives.

Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team.

Required Skills

Strong experience with C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Web APIs, SQL and Microservices Architecture.

Strong SQL skills with experience in database design, query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning.

Experience designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems in production environments.

Strong understanding of software design principles, object-oriented programming, design patterns, SOLID principles, and clean architecture.

Experience with RESTful APIs, system integration, and service-oriented architectures.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, source control, automated testing, and release management practices.

Experience troubleshooting production systems using logs, monitoring tools, metrics, and traces.

Familiarity with message queues, event-driven systems, and asynchronous processing patterns.

Working knowledge of Angular as front end

Strong understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, and secure development practices.

Experience working within Agile development environments.

Join Us!

If this role sounds like your next great adventure, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and let’s build something amazing together!