This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer based in India.

This is a high-impact technical leadership role focused on solving complex backend and platform challenges at significant scale. You’ll shape architecture across teams, lead large cross-functional initiatives, and establish engineering standards that improve speed, reliability, security, and maintainability. You’ll help modernize large-scale backend systems into modular, reusable architectures while avoiding unnecessary complexity and fragmentation. The role combines deep systems expertise with robust product judgment and the ability to influence without formal authority. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Infrastructure, Security, Data, and Engineering leadership. You’ll also help drive the responsible adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows across engineering teams. This is an excellent opportunity to make decisions and build platforms whose impact extends well beyond a single team.





Accountabilities
- Lead the technical design and delivery of large, cross-cutting backend initiatives spanning multiple teams and product areas.
- Identify and remove systemic engineering bottlenecks across product and infrastructure groups.
- Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture, including the modernization of monolithic and legacy systems into reusable, appropriately independent components.
- Establish engineering standards covering APIs, contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, operability, maintainability, and production readiness.
- Define shared patterns for dependency management, data ownership, event-driven systems, failure isolation, service maturity, and operational documentation.
- Guide the adoption of Go services, Kubernetes operating practices, and Rust where they provide meaningful benefits for systems,

📌 Staff Backend Engineer (India)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 India