About Aereo

Aereo (earlier known as Aarav Unmanned Systems) is a deep-tech company building the future of how the physical world is mapped, understood and managed.

We build end-to-end drone and geospatial intelligence solutions for enterprises and governments across mining & metals, infrastructure, energy, utilities, urban planning and other large-scale industries.

Our technology brings together aerial robotics, computer vision, GIS, AI and cloud software to solve complex, real-world problems at scale. We are backed by leading Indian VCs and have built a self-sustaining, rapidly growing business with a strong presence in the commercial drone ecosystem.

At Aereo, we believe in solving meaningful problems, moving with urgency, and building technology that creates measurable impact.

About Aereo Cloud

Aereo Cloud is our enterprise SaaS platform and the technology backbone of our geospatial intelligence ecosystem.

The platform enables organizations to securely store, manage, visualize and analyze massive volumes of drone and geospatial data, and turn that data into actionable business insights and workflows.

With workloads operating at PB-scale, Aereo Cloud brings together large-scale data processing, geospatial visualization, analytics and enterprise workflows. The platform is being built to support increasingly large datasets, customers and use cases across industries.

We are looking for a Technical Lead to help shape the next phase of Aereo Cloud.

The Role

As a Technical Lead– Cloud Solutions, you will lead and develop a high-performing engineering team while owning the technical direction and execution of a key area of Aereo Cloud.

This is first and foremost a people leadership and team development role. You will be responsible for building a strong engineering team, developing engineers, identifying and nurturing future technical leaders, setting a high bar for engineering excellence, and creating an environment where people can take ownership and do their best work.

You will work closely with engineers on their growth and career development, provide regular coaching and feedback, set clear expectations, and create a culture of accountability, ownership and continuous improvement. You will also play an active role in hiring and building the capabilities the team needs as Aereo Cloud scales.

Alongside people leadership, you will provide strong technical direction to the team. You should have enough technical depth and hands-on experience to make sound architectural decisions, challenge technical approaches, guide engineers through complex problems and ensure that product roadmaps translate into high-quality technical execution.

You will work closely with Product, Design, Engineering and Business teams to ensure the team is solving the right problems, making pragmatic technical trade-offs and delivering meaningful customer and business outcomes.

We are looking for someone who has grown from a strong engineering background into technical and people leadership, someone who can develop engineers, provide strong technical direction, bring clarity to complex problems and consistently turn product priorities into execution.

What You'll Do

People Leadership & Team Development

• Build, mentor and develop a high-performing engineering team with a strong culture of ownership, accountability and technical excellence.
• Take ownership of the career development and growth of engineers, helping them build the skills, experience and judgment required to progress to their next level.
• Conduct regular 1:1s and provide thoughtful, actionable feedback that helps engineers improve both technically and professionally.
• Identify high-potential engineers and actively develop them into future technical leaders.
• Set clear expectations, goals and measurable outcomes for team members, and create a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Understand the strengths, development areas and aspirations of individual team members and create opportunities for them to grow.
• Coach engineers through technical and professional challenges and help them become increasingly independent in their decision-making and ownership.
• Foster an environment where engineers are encouraged to take ownership, challenge ideas, make decisions and learn from failures.
• Build strong collaboration and trust within the team while maintaining a high bar for engineering quality and execution.
• Recognise and celebrate individual and team contributions while keeping the team focused on shared outcomes and business impact.
• Participate actively in hiring, interviewing and onboarding exceptional engineering talent as the team scales.
• Partner with engineering leadership to identify future capability gaps and build the team required to support Aereo Cloud's growth.

Technical Leadership & Execution

• Own the technical direction of your area of Aereo Cloud, aligned with product and business priorities.
• Work closely with Product and Engineering to translate product requirements and customer problems into clear technical priorities and executable plans.
• Lead architecture and system design discussions and make pragmatic trade-offs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, cost and engineering velocity.
• Guide engineers through complex technical problems and ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable and fit for purpose.
• Remain sufficiently hands-on to review designs, debug critical issues and contribute to implementation when required.
• Identify technical and architectural gaps that could limit the platform's ability to scale and drive initiatives to address them.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering standards, development practices and technical guidelines across the team.
• Drive strong practices around testing, CI/CD, observability, performance optimisation and production reliability.
• Own delivery of business-critical technical initiatives from planning through production, ensuring the team consistently delivers against committed outcomes.

Product & Customer Impact

• Understand the broader vision and business context of Aereo Cloud and help the engineering team connect their work to customer and business outcomes.
• Work closely with Product, Design, Business and customer-facing teams to understand complex problems and translate them into effective technical solutions.
• Influence the product roadmap by identifying technical opportunities, platform capabilities and improvements that can create meaningful customer and business impact.
• Balance short-term product requirements with long-term platform scalability, maintainability and technical health.
• Ensure the team focuses not just on building technically sound systems, but on solving the right problems for customers.

Engineering Excellence & Operational Ownership

• Define and track engineering metrics around reliability, performance, quality, delivery and operational health.
• Own production health for your area, including incidents, on-call processes, performance issues, bugs and root-cause analysis.
• Drive the platform towards high availability and reliability, with a target of 99.99% availability.
• Establish strong practices around monitoring, observability, capacity planning and proactive identification of production risks.
• Lead the team through complex production issues and ensure learnings are translated into lasting improvements.
• Identify engineering bottlenecks and continuously improve development and delivery processes.
• Make pragmatic decisions that balance speed, quality and long-term technical sustainability.

What We're Looking For

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production-grade systems.
• 1+ years of experience in a technical leadership and/or people management role, with demonstrated experience mentoring and developing engineers.
• Strong experience designing and building distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, APIs, databases and cloud-native application development.
• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Java, Go or similar.
• Experience working with production systems with a strong focus on scalability, performance, reliability and security.
• Demonstrated ability to take technical initiatives from ambiguity through execution and production.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, Design, Business and customer-facing teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a product or SaaS company, preferably building customer-facing products.
• Experience managing and developing a team of engineers, including career development, performance management and hiring.
• Experience mentoring engineers and developing them into greater technical ownership or leadership.
• Experience owning or significantly influencing a product or engineering roadmap.
• Experience working with large-scale data-intensive or distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure and modern cloud-native technologies.
• Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience working with geospatial, GIS, mapping, imagery, computer vision or other spatial/data-heavy applications.
• Experience balancing technical debt, product velocity and long-term architectural investments.
• Experience working in an environment where engineering teams have significant ownership of product and technical decisions.

Why Aereo

You will have the opportunity to work on a genuinely complex engineering problem at the intersection of cloud software, geospatial intelligence, aerial robotics and large-scale data.

At Aereo, your work will directly influence how enterprises understand and operate physical assets across some of the world's largest mining, infrastructure, energy and industrial environments.

If you enjoy building and developing great engineering teams, helping engineers grow, solving hard technical problems and turning ambitious product roadmaps into reality, this is an opportunity to play a meaningful role in building the next generation of Aereo Cloud.

Software Development Engineer – IV

Technical Leadership | People Leadership | Aereo Cloud

About Aereo

Aereo (earlier known as Aarav Unmanned Systems) is a deep-tech company building the future of how the physical world is mapped, understood and managed.

We build end-to-end drone and geospatial intelligence solutions for enterprises and governments across mining & metals, infrastructure, energy, utilities, urban planning and other large-scale industries.

Our technology brings together aerial robotics, computer vision, GIS, AI and cloud software to solve complex, real-world problems at scale. We are backed by leading Indian VCs and have built a self-sustaining, rapidly growing business with a strong presence in the commercial drone ecosystem.

At Aereo, we believe in solving meaningful problems, moving with urgency, and building technology that creates measurable impact.

About Aereo Cloud

Aereo Cloud is the technology backbone of our geospatial intelligence ecosystem and our enterprise SaaS platform.

The platform enables organizations to securely store, manage, visualize and analyze massive volumes of drone and geospatial data, turning complex spatial data into actionable insights and enterprise workflows.

With workloads operating at PB-scale, Aereo Cloud brings together large-scale data processing, geospatial visualization, analytics and enterprise workflows. As our customer base and use cases grow, we're solving increasingly complex problems around scale, performance, reliability and engineering velocity.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer – IV to help lead this next phase of engineering at Aereo Cloud.

The Role

This is a senior engineering leadership role combining strong technical ownership with people leadership.

You will lead a team of engineers across one or more key areas of Aereo Cloud while remaining deeply connected to the technical problems the team is solving.

We are looking for someone who has grown from a strong software engineering background into technical and people leadership, someone who can design systems, challenge technical decisions, solve complex engineering problems and still get hands-on when required, while simultaneously building, mentoring and developing a high-performing engineering team.

You won't be expected to spend your days writing code. But you also won't be expected to step away from engineering.

You should be comfortable getting into the details - reviewing designs and code, debugging difficult production issues, prototyping solutions, driving architectural decisions and contributing to critical implementations when needed.

At the same time, you will be responsible for building a team where engineers take ownership, grow in their careers, develop strong technical judgment and consistently raise the engineering bar.

We are not looking for someone who has moved away from engineering into management. We are looking for an engineer who has grown into leadership.

What You'll Do

1. Technical Leadership

• Own the technical direction of your engineering area, aligned with Aereo Cloud's product and business priorities.

• Lead architecture and system design for scalable, reliable and maintainable services and platforms.

• Make pragmatic engineering decisions across scalability, performance, reliability, security, cost and engineering velocity.

• Break down ambiguous and complex problems into clear technical approaches and executable plans.

• Review technical designs, RFCs and critical code changes, raising the quality of engineering decisions across the team.

• Stay close enough to the codebase to understand how systems actually work and where they can fail.

• Dive into complex technical and production problems when the team needs deeper technical expertise.

• Prototype or contribute to implementation for critical, technically challenging or high-leverage problems.

• Identify architectural gaps and technical debt that could limit Aereo Cloud's ability to scale, and drive initiatives to address them.

• Establish and continuously improve engineering standards, development practices and technical guidelines.

• Raise the bar on testing, CI/CD, observability, performance optimisation and production reliability.

2. Engineering Execution

• Own delivery of business-critical engineering initiatives from problem definition through production.

• Translate product requirements and customer problems into clear technical priorities and execution plans.

• Work closely with Product, Design and other engineering teams to make effective technical and product trade-offs.

• Build strong engineering execution rhythms without creating unnecessary process.

• Identify bottlenecks in development, architecture and delivery and continuously improve how the team works.

• Balance short-term product requirements with long-term platform scalability and technical health.

• Take ownership of production health for your area, including reliability, incidents, performance, bugs and root-cause analysis.

• Drive proactive capacity planning, observability and identification of production risks.

• Ensure learnings from incidents and failures translate into lasting engineering improvements.

3. People Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing engineering team with a strong culture of ownership and technical excellence.

• Conduct regular 1:1s and provide clear, thoughtful and actionable feedback.

• Understand the strengths, development areas and aspirations of individual engineers and help them grow.

• Coach engineers towards greater technical ownership, independence and decision-making.

• Identify high-potential engineers and develop them into future technical leaders.

• Set clear expectations, goals and measurable outcomes for team members.

• Create an environment where engineers can challenge ideas, take ownership, experiment and learn from failures.

• Maintain a high bar for engineering quality while creating psychological safety for healthy technical debate.

• Support engineers through technical and professional challenges and help them become increasingly effective.

• Take responsibility for performance management, including recognising strong performance and addressing performance gaps.

• Participate actively in hiring, interviewing and onboarding engineering talent.

• Identify capability gaps within the team and work with engineering leadership to build the capabilities required for Aereo Cloud's growth.

4. Product & Business Impact

• Understand the customer and business context behind the problems Aereo Cloud is solving.

• Help engineers connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and business impact.

• Partner closely with Product, Design, Business and customer-facing teams to understand complex problems.

• Influence product and engineering roadmaps through strong technical judgment and a deep understanding of the platform.

• Identify opportunities where engineering investments can unlock new product capabilities or improve customer experience.

• Make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, scalability and long-term technical sustainability.

What We're Looking For

Must Have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 6+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production-grade systems.

• Meaningful experience providing technical leadership and/or people leadership to a team of engineers.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems at scale.

• Strong understanding of system design, distributed systems, microservices, APIs, databases and cloud-native architectures.

• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, Java, Go or similar.

• Experience designing systems with considerations around scalability, performance, reliability and security.

• Demonstrated ability to take technically ambiguous problems from definition through execution and production.

• Experience mentoring engineers and helping them develop greater technical ownership.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, Design and Business teams.

• A strong sense of ownership and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment.

Preferred

• Experience leading or managing a team of 5+ engineers.

• Experience working in a product or SaaS company.

• Experience owning or significantly influencing a product or engineering roadmap.

• Experience working with large-scale, data-intensive or distributed systems.

• Experience with AWS, GCP or Azure and modern cloud-native technologies.

• Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability and infrastructure-as-code.

• Experience working with high-volume data processing, analytics or data platforms.

• Experience with geospatial, GIS, mapping, imagery, computer vision or other spatial/data-heavy applications.

• Experience balancing technical debt, product velocity and long-term architectural investments.

• Experience hiring and developing engineers into technical leadership roles.

• Experience working in engineering teams where engineers have significant ownership of technical and product decisions.

What Success Looks Like

In this role, success isn't simply measured by whether the team delivers its roadmap.

You should leave the engineering organisation stronger than you found it.

Within your first 6–12 months, we expect you to:

• Build a high-trust, high-accountability engineering team.

• Develop engineers into stronger technical owners and future leaders.

• Improve the quality and consistency of technical decision-making.

• Drive meaningful improvements in architecture, reliability and engineering velocity.

• Take ownership of critical technical initiatives and see them through to production.

• Build strong collaboration between Engineering, Product and Business.

• Establish a culture where engineers are encouraged to think deeply, challenge assumptions and own outcomes.

• Become someone engineers actively seek out when they face difficult technical problems.

The goal is not to be the person who has all the answers.

The goal is to build a team that becomes significantly better because you're there.

Why Aereo

You will work on genuinely complex engineering problems at the intersection of cloud software, geospatial intelligence, aerial robotics and large-scale data.

Aereo Cloud processes massive volumes of drone and spatial data and is becoming the digital backbone through which enterprises understand and manage physical assets across mining, infrastructure, energy and other industrial environments.

You'll have the opportunity to influence both the technology we're building and the engineers who build it.

If you've grown from a strong software engineer into someone who enjoys solving hard technical problems, building scalable systems, mentoring engineers and taking ownership of teams and outcomes, this is an opportunity to play a meaningful role in building the next generation of Aereo Cloud.

We are looking for Hybrid and Rotarcraft  Drone pilots at Aereo.

Location:Uttarpradesh (North India)

Work type:contractual

Eligibility criteria: Diploma/ Degree/AME/Gradudate

RPC:Small-Hybrid, Rotarcraft

You would be part of:

• GIS Data collection. 
• Large scale UAV mapping project 
• GIS Data output reporting. 
• On-field client engagement. 
• RPAS (drone) flying, repair and maintenance.

We expect you to be:

• A graduate/ diploma (any stream). 
• Willing to travel anywhere in Uttar Pradesh region on a project deployment on everyday basis. 
• Eager to learn and apply. 
• Of sound aptitude and patience 
• With a sincere and strict SOP adherence attitude. 
• Able/ ready to work in a remote site and tackle new challenges almost every day. 
• Proficiency in English (read & write) 
• Local language or Hindi proficiency (speaking only). 
• Teamwork and coordination. 
• Physically fit and mentally sharp. 
• Capable of taking up responsibility of leadership when called for. 

You are awesome if you are:

• From a science/drones environment education background. 
• Willing to be deployed and traveling for projects for at least 1 year. 
• An outdoor-loving person. 
• A local person of Uttar Pradesh region. 
• Wish to begin a career in drones industry. 
• Have prior experience or under gone training of operating drones for UAV based mapping 
application.

AEREO (earlier known as Aarav Unmanned Systems) is India’s leading drone solution tech startup in the commercial segment. We provide end to end solutions to government and private enterprises in the field of mining & metals, urban planning, large infrastructure, irrigation, agriculture and energy. We are early starters and market leaders in the Indian drone industry. Our belief is to solve real problems and use drone technology as a revolution. Our strength is our perseverance, clarity, collaborative approach, innovation and our team.   

We are funded by some of the well-known Indian VCs in our growth journey so far. However, our business is already self-sustaining and growing at a fast pace. We love machines, especially aerial robots and believe that drones are shaping the future of the world. Aereo is actively looking for self-driven and process-oriented individuals who would be interested in joining team Aereo in this fascinating growth journey and be an early contributor to the drone ecosystem of the country which is growing at a very exciting and fast pace.   

The role pertains to the Platform Team in Aereo whose charter is to build and maintain our cloud-based enterprise SaaS platform, Aereo Cloud. Aereo Cloud is a powerful platform that enables organizations to store, manage, visualize, and analyze their drone-based geospatial data at the scale and generate critical and actionable business insights based on this data

About the Role

We are looking for a Frontend Developer Intern who is passionate about software 
quality, modern web technologies, and test automation practices. You will work closely 
with the engineering team to build and maintain end-to-end test automation for a React based web application.

This internship offers hands-on experience with React, Playwright, TypeScript, Docker, 
and Git while contributing to real-world production workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain end-to-end test cases using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Analyze application workflows and identify positive, negative, and edge-case 
scenarios.
• Follow Page Object Model (POM) and reusable automation patterns.
• Execute and debug tests in local and Docker environments.
• Collaborate with developers to improve testability and application quality.
• Report defects with clear reproduction steps.

Required Skills

• Good understanding of React, JavaScript or TypeScript fundamentals.
• Ability to understand and work with existing codebases.
• Ability to think through positive, negative, boundary, and edge-case scenarios.
• Basic understanding of web applications and browser behaviour.
• Familiarity with Git and version control workflows.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication and willingness to learn.

Preferred Skills
• Familiarity with Docker, Git and Browser DevTools.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude, or GitHub 
Copilot.

What You’ll Learn
• End-to-end automation using Playwright.
• Test architecture using Page Object Model and fixtures.
• CI/CD testing workflows.
• Docker-based test execution.
• Real-world software quality engineering practices.

By the End of the Internship, You'll Be Able To

• Build production-grade Playwright test suites.
• Understand and implement test architecture using Page Object Model and 
fixtures.
• Design scalable automation frameworks using Page Object Model and fixtures.
• Execute tests in Docker and CI environments.
• Debug flaky tests and automation failures.
• Contribute to real-world software quality processes.

Duration: 6 Months 
Location: Work From Office (WFO), Bangalore