SUMMARY
Wizcart is building the next generation of AI-powered commerce and marketplace solutions. Our mission is to help businesses digitize, automate, and scale their operations using modern cloud-native technologies, intelligent automation, and data-driven decision making.
As we continue to grow, we are looking for our Primary Backend Lead—someone who will own the backend engineering function, establish technical standards, mentor the engineering team, and architect systems capable of supporting millions of transactions.
This is not just another backend development role. You will be one of the technical pillars of the company and will directly influence our engineering culture and product architecture.
KEY RESPONSIBILITY
Technical Leadership: - Define and own the backend architecture for all products. - Make long-term technical decisions balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability. - Lead architecture reviews and technical design discussions. - Establish engineering standards, coding guidelines, and development processes.
- Drive technical excellence across the engineering organization.
Backend Development: Design, develop and maintain highly scalable backend services using Node.js, TypeScript,NestJS / Express, REST APIs, GraphQL (positive to have). Build reusable backend components capable of supporting rapid feature development.
Distributed Systems: Design and maintain event-driven architecture, message queues, background workers, distributed processing, service-to-service communication. Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS is highly preferred.
Database Architecture: Design scalable data models using PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB (preferred). Responsibilities include schema design, indexing, query optimization, partitioning, caching strategies, database migrations, backup and disaster recovery.
Cloud Architecture: Own backend infrastructure on AWS. Hands-on experience with ECS, EKS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, CloudWa
📌 Backend lead (India)
🏢 Wizcart
📍 India