Role Overview

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will work on distributed systems and building next generation platform and products. You will help the team to bring industry best practices in software development and operations while improving their engineering skills to build pioneering e-commerce experience in recent global markets. Working closely with a group of engineers in multiple geographic locations, you ll solve challenge problems at scale with high reliability. Your efforts will directly have an impact on tens of millions of users every single day!

What You Will Do
Lead architecture design for scalable, extensible, and reliable systems
Align technology roadmaps with leadership and stakeholders
Build productivity tools using Claude and Windsurf
Remove technical blockers and simplify complex problems into actionable solutions
Write code when needed to guide teams and support high-priority initiatives
Identify business and tech opportunities; evaluate and adopt recent technologies
Recruit, mentor, and grow top-tier engineering talent

Basic Qualifications




Bachelors degree and/or master s degree in computer science or equivalent
8+ years building and operating backend services and web applications
Deep expertise in distributed systems, storage, data processing, and server technologies
Solid coding skills in Java and Spring Framework; object-oriented design
Experience with AWS-based service development and operations
Experience with NoSQL and relational/columnar databases

Preferred Qualifications
Git, CI/CD automation, and Agile methodologies
Experience driving improvements in code quality
Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)
Passion and inclination towards Reliability and observability

Type of work model
Hybrid

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📌 Staff Backend Engineer Hyderabad
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📍 Hyderabad