# Team Lead (L6)

**Company**: Twilio
**Location**: Remote - India
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Team Lead (L6) to join Twilio's Emerging Technologies team as an Applied Research Tech Lead. You will contribute hands-on technical expertise, collaborate on rapid prototyping, and develop innovative solutions as part of Twilio's incubation team.

Responsibilities:

- Architect & Deliver: Design, develop, and own the end-to-end implementation of high-stakes prototypes and robust, production-ready solutions.

- Spearhead AI R&D: Drive the technical direction and collaborate with cross-functional teams to experiment with, validate, and integrate AI, machine learning, and frontier technologies.

- Champion Engineering Excellence: Establish governance for code reviews and pioneer continuous improvements to engineering standards, mentoring peers to elevate overall code quality.

- Influence & Evangelize: Articulate complex technical concepts, architectural decisions, and project velocity clearly to executive stakeholders and engineering peers alike.

- Drive Agility: Navigate ambiguity and rapidly pivot technical strategies in response to shifting requirements, user feedback, and fast-paced market dynamics.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

- 10+ years of professional software development experience.

- Proficiency across modern programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, Java or Go with the ability to select the right tool for the job.

- Experience building applications using front-end (React, Angular) and/or back-end (Node.js, Springboot) frameworks.

- Data Architecture: Solid understanding of database technologies, including both SQL and NoSQL paradigms and when to select them.

- Next-Gen Workflow: Mastery of an agentic coding operating model; highly effective at leveraging advanced dev tools, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and LLMs to drastically accelerate AI-assisted development.

- Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset with effective communication skills for technical discussions.

- Extreme Autonomy: Exceptional ability to navigate intense ambiguity, self-unblock execution, and ruthlessly solve ambiguous problems without requiring constant structural support.

- Leadership & Collaboration: Strong communication and mentorship skills, with a collaborative mindset suited for high-bandwidth technical discussions.

Location: This role will be remote, and based in India (only in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Maharashtra, Delhi).

What We Offer: Working at Twilio offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more.

## Skills

### Required
- JavaScript
- Python
- Java
- Go
- React
- Angular
- Node.js
- Springboot
- SQL
- NoSQL
- Machine Learning
- AI
- Data Architecture
- Next-Gen Workflow

### Nice to have
- LLM
- Cloud Architecture
- Distributed Systems
- Open Source Projects

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