Job Description – Tech Lead
Full-stack, backend-heavy
Remote: Remote
Experience: 2.5+ years experience
ABOUT TENACIO (THE COMPANY)
Tenacio is a B2B SaaS API platform helping businesses integrate digital verification and financial data services. We crossed ₹10 Cr of revenue in our first year of operations and are growing strong. We have offices in Mumbai and Visakhapatnam and operate remotely.
We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Tech Lead — full-stack with a strong backend bias — with real depth across DevOps, Information Security and database administration, setting the bar on architecture and code while still shipping yourself.
WHAT YOU WILL OWN
Platform & APIs — Node.js/TypeScript services powering a high-throughput, multi-tenant public API estate. API contracts, versioning, idempotency, webhooks and backward compatibility for enterprise clients in production. Gateway-level controls: per-API and per-client rate limits, quotas, IP whitelisting and abuse prevention.
Data & third-party integrations — Verification and financial data provider integrations with retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, vendor failover and reconciliation of per-call vendor cost against usage. MongoDB and PostgreSQL schema and index design, query tuning, backup/restore and recovery testing. Retention, masking and least-privilege access to KYC and financial PII.
Infrastructure & reliability — AWS estate: containerised workloads, load balancing, auto-scaling. Observability via Grafana/Loki/Alloy, alerting, log retention and logging-spend control. Incident response and RCA against client uptime commitments
Security & compliance — ISO 27001 readiness, audit and GRC evidence, and our obligations as a data processor under the DPDP Act, 2023.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Must have — Strong Node.js/TypeScript, REST API and system design experience at production scale · AWS/cloud infrastructure and CI/CD. Working competence in both PostgreSQL and MongoDB, including basic performance tuning and backup/restore · Practical application security: authentication, authorisation, secrets handling, common vulnerability classes.
WAYS OF WORKING
Self-driven, with high ownership and the ability to hold upto 2-3 threads at any given time without dropping either
Willing to engage and support clients across every mode of support — email, chat, call and live escalation.
Proposes opportunities to automate work, improve systems and reduce tech debt ather than waiting to be asked.
Leverages AI in software development and day-to-day functioning rigorously, and is comfortable being the escalation point during a production incident.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Upto 15 LPA, all-inclusive.
ESOPs.
Senior-most technical voice in a 4-person engineering team (growing further).
Remote, with primary working hours between 10 AM and 7 PM · access to a Claude paid plan · direct ownership of work
Tech stack: Node.js · TypeScript · MongoDB · PostgreSQL · AWS · Cloudflare · Grafana/Loki · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform/IaC · GitHub CI/CD
Website: https://tenacio.io/