SUMMARY
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.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
- 5+ years of backend development experience - 2+ years leading engineering teams or owning large backend systems
- Expert-level Node.js and TypeScript knowledge - Strong experience building production-scale microservices -
Experience designing high-throughput distributed systems - Robust AWS experience - Excellent understanding of
REST APIs - Strong SQL and PostgreSQL expertise - Experience with Redis - Experience building secure production
systems - Excellent debugging and performance optimization skills
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 (good 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 exp
📌 Backend lead (India)
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