Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Drive the tech strategy and roadmap, collaborating with the Head of Engineering and Engineering Managers of Groceries teams to co-create a development plan that aligns with business priorities.
• Architectural Excellence: Design robust, scalable, and high-performance architectural solutions, particularly focusing on handling high-load systems to meet the demanding needs of inDrive’s platform.
• Raise Engineering Maturity: Deep dive to current technical implementations of our Groceries business, preparing strategic plan for growing maturity and evolution systems, introducing best practice in reliability, observability and CI/CD processes.
• Product Excellence: Ensure product quality by adhering to SLAs, enhancing testability, and ensuring scalability to support millions of users worldwide.
• Mentor & Influence: Guide senior engineers, drive architectural reviews, and champion a culture of technical excellence across teams. Collaborate with Groceries teams to strengthen their architecture, stability, and engineering culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2+ years in Staff, Principal, or similar senior technical leadership roles.
• Product and Business Mindset: Ability to balance technical leadership with a strong understanding of business goals, ensuring engineering projects align with product vision, market demands, and revenue objectives. Experience making technology decisions that drive measurable business outcomes.
• Proven experience designing or scaling high-load, high-availability platforms.
• Experience building or evolving technical maturity frameworks, standards, and best practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills – able to influence across engineering, product, and partner organizations.
• Hands-on mindset: able to dive into architecture and code when needed, while staying strategic and pragmatic.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, microservice architectures, and system design patterns.

Conditions & Benefits

• Stable salary, official employment.
• Health insurance.
• Hybrid work mode and flexible schedule.
• Relocation package offered for candidates from other regions.
• Access to professional counseling services including psychological, financial, and legal support.
• Discount club membership.
• Diverse internal training programs.
• Partially or fully paid additional training courses.
• All necessary work equipment.