Engineering Lead / Staff Engineer

IFCS is the creator of Galley Xai, a specialized SaaS platform that simplifies complex inflight logistics, provisioning, and catering management for airlines and aviation caterers.

Purpose-built for aviation, Galley Xai integrates flight schedules, galley and meal planning, inventory, caterer execution, compliance, invoicing, analytics, and crew tools into a single system.

The platform supports critical functions such as HACCP and FSMA 204 compliance monitoring, real-time reporting, and ML/AI-driven consumption tracking and waste reduction.

IFCS brings together aviation experts, software developers, implementation specialists, and customer support professionals to help airline and catering teams operate with greater precision, visibility, and control.

The company is focused on delivering intuitive software that users genuinely enjoy, driving better adoption, stronger compliance, and higher ROI.

Remote (India) · Gulf timezone overlap

8+ years, including 3+ leading engineers

₹45-75 LPA depending on experience

This full-time, remote Engineering Lead / Staff Engineer role is responsible for driving the technical direction and delivery of core Galley Xai platform components.

The person in this role will architect and implement scalable, secure, and reliable services, collaborating closely with product management, design, and domain experts in aviation and inflight catering.

Day-to-day work includes hands-on coding, conducting code reviews, defining technical standards, and mentoring engineers to elevate the overall quality of the codebase and architecture.

The Engineering Lead / Staff Engineer will lead complex technical initiatives, break down projects into executable plans, and ensure alignment with product and business priorities.

This role will also contribute to continuous improvement of engineering practices, observability, performance, and DevOps workflows to support a mission-critical SaaS platform used by global aviation customers.

What you’ll do

· Own the overall architecture: multi-tenant isolation, event-driven processing, multi-region disaster recovery.

· Set code standards and lead reviews across backend, frontend, and mobile.

· Mentor senior engineers and help grow the team as we scale.

· Work with the product owner to turn airline requirements into sound technical plans.

· Keep the platform reliable, secure, and scalable as we add customers.

What you need

· 8+ years building production software, 3+ leading engineers.

· Built and operated multi-tenant SaaS on AWS at real scale.

· Deep Node.js / Express and PostgreSQL.

· Strong AWS architecture: ECS Fargate, Lambda, EventBridge, SQS.

· Designed for high availability and disaster recovery (multi-region, RTO/RPO).

· Clear written and spoken communication; comfortable meeting on camera

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working with data-intensive applications, reporting/analytics, ML/AI-powered features, including performance tuning and data quality best practices.

Send your CV and a short note on a multi-tenant or high-availability system you designed and ran.

Shortlisted candidates complete a technical assessment before interview.