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.