Weekday AI
Senior Technical Lead (Product Releases & Engineering)
Industry Cloud & Infrastructure
Job description
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Experience: 5+ yrs
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job Type: Full-time
We are looking for a mature, hands-onย Senior Technical Lead โ Product Releases & Engineering ย to bring structure, predictability, and ownership to the engineering and product release lifecycle.
The role sits at the intersection ofย Product, Delivery, Architecture, and Engineering , with primary responsibility for coordinating developers, features, integrations, and code changes into stable, high-quality SaaS releases.
This is neither a purely managerial position nor simply a senior developer role. The successful candidate will remain technically hands-on while taking ownership of release coordination, engineering discipline, technical delivery, production reliability, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Own and coordinate the complete product release lifecycle acrossย Development, Test/QA, UAT, Production, and Monitoring . - Coordinate release scope with Product and Delivery teams, maintaining clear visibility of features, fixes, dependencies, and risks. - Conduct technical release-readiness checks and ensure development, code reviews, integration, and testing are completed before deployment. - Coordinate application, API, database, and configuration changes across environments. - Manage Git branching, release branches, versioning, merges, hotfixes, and production fixes. - Coordinate deployments across Dev, Test, UAT, and Production environments. - Support UAT issue resolution and provide technicalย Go/No-Go recommendations ย for releases. - Ensure rollback, recovery, and production support procedures are clearly defined and understood. - Validate production releases and coordinate post-release monitoring and issue resolution. - Maintain visibility of engineering progress and dependencies across frontend, backend, databases, and integrations. - Identify blockers and technical risks early and drive them towards resolution. - Coordinate cross-functional development work where features span multiple components or services. - Strengthenย pull-request, code-review, Git, branching, merge, and version-control practices . - Establish and maintain release-readiness criteria and Definition of Done standards. - Improve automated build, testing, deployment, code-coverage, and CI/CD practices. - Strengthen environment management, logging, monitoring, documentation, incident management, and RCA processes. - Manage technical debt and promote secure and maintainable development practices. - Lead production incident response, assess severity and impact, and coordinate engineering teams during investigations. - Manage hotfixes and emergency releases while maintaining appropriate technical and communication controls. - Conduct root-cause reviews and ensure preventative actions are implemented. - Review code and technical implementations, challenge design decisions where appropriate, and provide hands-on technical guidance. - Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, release reliability, and production operations. - Support adoption of AI technologies such asย LLMs, agents, RAG, MCP, LangGraph/LangChain, OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini ย where relevant.
WHAT MAKES YOU A GREAT FIT - 5+ years of software engineering experience ย with meaningful technical leadership responsibility in a production SaaS environment. - Proven experience personally owning or leadingย software releases across Dev, Test, UAT, and Production environments. - Strong hands-on expertise withย Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ย for deployment, operations, monitoring, and production troubleshooting. - Strong experience withย GitHub , including repository management, pull requests, branching strategies, merge management, permissions, and code reviews. - Hands-on experience withย GitHub Actions and CI/CD automation . - Strong understanding of release management, deployment processes, release readiness, versioning, and code consolidation. - Strong programming experience withย React/React.js, Python, REST APIs, backend services, and relational databases such as MySQL . - Experience troubleshooting production SaaS applications and resolving complex technical issues. - Strong understanding of automated testing, code quality, logging, monitoring, incident management, and root-cause analysis. - Experience coordinating engineers across frontend, backend, database, and integration workstreams. - Proven ability to work effectively withย Product Owners, Technical Architects, Delivery Managers, QA, and engineering teams . - Strong technical judgement with the ability to decide when to proceed, challenge an approach, or escalate a risk. - Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive outcomes rather than simply coordinate activities. - Excellent organisation and communication skills, particularly during releases, incidents, and high-pressure situations. - Ability to guide and mentor developers without micromanaging. - Strong quality mindset with the ability to balance delivery speed, reliability, security, and maintainability. - Experience inย AI applications, LLMs, AI agents, RAG, MCP, LangGraph, LangChain, OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini ย is an advantage. - Comfortable working in a fast-paced SaaS environment with evolving priorities and multiple technical dependencies.