Job Description
Job Title: Principal Engineer – Backend
Location: Bangalore, India

About AirAsia MOVE

About the Role

As a Principal Engineer – Backend, you will drive the architectural strategy, scalability, and resilience of MOVE’s backend services. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design distributed systems, evolve our microservices infrastructure, and mentor senior engineers across backend squads. Your work will directly impact millions of users as we scale regionally.

Core Competence
- Deep coding, system design, and architecture expertise
- Cross-functional system knowledge for resilience, availability, and scale
- Confident in architectural and design trade-offs
- Robust debugging and problem-solving skills
- Ability to own and evolve the team’s technical roadmap
- Proficiency in AI-driven tools and processes to boost developer productivity and automation

Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end architecture for complex, large-scale systems with long-term scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.




- Make high-impact technical decisions and guide trade-offs across multiple domains and platforms.
- Set engineering standards, best practices, and governance models adopted across teams.
- Lead deep technical design reviews, critical incident postmortems, and complex problem investigations.
- Mentor senior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, security, infra, and business teams to align on strategic priorities.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and drive innovation aligned with organizational goals.
- Influence platform-wide modernization, observability, DevSecOps, and developer productivity initiatives.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to leadership, influencing product and business direction.

Required Qualifications
- 10-18 years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a principal-level or staff-level role.
- Deep expertis

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