Description
This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Salary range: Rs 4000000 - Rs 8000000 (ie INR 40 - 80 LPA)

Min Experience: 7+ years
Location: Noida
JobType: full time

As the Backend Architect, you will act as the Backend Lead with complete end-to-end ownership of all backend systems — from architecture and API design to deployment, reliability, observability, and team leadership. You design and own the scalable backend systems, APIs, and distributed services powering millions of learners across India. This person sets the technical direction for how services are built, deployed, and operated at scale, and owns reliability, performance, and architectural evolution of the backend platform.

Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the backend architecture: service decomposition, inter-service communication, and failure isolation strategies.
- Design high-throughput, low-latency APIs and microservices for learner-facing and internal product features.
- Build event-driven systems using Kafka for async workflows, real-time notifications,



and data pipeline integration.
- Own reliability engineering: SLAs, SLOs, circuit breakers, retry strategies, and graceful degradation patterns.
- Lead database selection and design: PostgreSQL, MongoDB or DynamoDB, Redis — trade-off decisions and schema design.
- Establish Kubernetes-based deployment architecture: service mesh, autoscaling, health management, and resource governance.
- Define observability standards: distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), logging aggregation, alerting (Prometheus, Grafana).
- Drive API design decisions (REST, gRPC, GraphQL) and integration patterns with AI/ML inference services.
- Mentor engineering teams on distributed systems patterns, code quality, and architectural best practices.
- Define and govern DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines: automated testing, deployment automation, and release reliability.
- Establish test automation and quality assurance standards across backend se

📌 Backend Architect (Noida)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 Noida