Lead Engineer - Full-Stack

Role Overview

As a Lead Engineer at Adalat AI, you will own technical leadership for several of our products - spanning frontend, backend, database and infra. You will shape and drive our product roadmap, set best practices for architecture, code quality and deployment. You will mentor and grow a team of engineers, help transform mid-level developers into senior contributors, and ensure the team consistently delivers high-impact, production-grade features.
Youll work closely with product/design/legal/QA and domain-experts (judiciary, linguists, policy stakeholders). Your role is less about just shipping features, and more about building foundation: processes, standards, scalable architecture, developer culture, and long-term technical vision.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical leadership & architecture: Define and own the overall architecture and technical direction of the product (frontend, backend, data, infra) - ensuring scalability, reliability, maintainability, and performance under load.
• Make high-level design decisions (e.g. code structure, modules, APIs, services, database schema, infra, CI/CD, monitoring, security).
• Product & roadmap collaboration: Work with product, design and domain teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Help define, prioritize and estimate features, technical improvements, refactors, technical debt, and non-functional requirements.
• Hands-on & delivery ownership: Continue writing production-quality code (frontend and backend) when needed, especially for complex, critical or foundational components.
• Own delivery of core features end-to-end: from database schema design to frontend UI, APIs, backend services, infra/deployment.
• Ensure high-quality releases, monitor production performance, handle incidents / debugging / performance tuning / scalability issues.
• Team leadership & mentoring: Mentor and coach junior/mid-level engineers; provide guidance on design, patterns, coding style, testing, debugging, and best practices.
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and building a strong engineering culture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience building and shipping production-grade web applications, with significant exposure across full-stack (frontend + backend + data + infra).
• Strong proficiency with relevant technologies: for example - modern frontend frameworks (React / Next.js, TypeScript), backend languages (Go), and relational databases (PostgreSQL) - reflecting the current stack at Adalat AI.
• Proven track record of delivering complex products end-to-end - from requirement gathering to architecture to delivery and maintenance.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup / early-stage environment where requirements can evolve; flexible mindset, self-driven, hands-on when needed.

Bonus / Nice-to-have:

• Experience with audio/video/web-media (e.g. real-time audio playback, streaming, media APIs), if platform involves features like courtroom audio transcription.
• Familiarity or interest in working at the intersection of technology + social impact / public systems / legal domain.
• Experience with GraphQL, event-driven architectures, or microservices at scale.