This is a senior IC role with significant architectural ownership and technical leadership expectations. A Seasoned SDE3 / Tech Lead at SpotDraft is expected to own and evolve critical systems end-to-end, influence technical direction across teams, and drive high-quality engineering decisions at a platform level. Beyond building systems, you will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and partner with leadership to guide long-term technical strategy. The role works closely with Engineering Leaders on system evolution and key technical decisions.

Requirements:
- 7-10 years of backend development experience in product environments.
- Solid Backend fundamentals (Python, Django/Flask experience is a plus).
- Proven experience designing and evolving multiple distributed or high-scale systems in production.
- Strong system design fundamentals with the ability to drive HLD + LLD independently.
- Demonstrated experience owning systems across multiple iterations (build, scale optimize evolve).
- Ability to reason deeply about performance, reliability, cost, and maintainability trade-offs.




- Experience in influencing cross-team technical decisions and architecture.
- Comfort working directly with stakeholders and driving alignment across functions.

Responsibilities:
- Designing and evolving scalable backend systems (HLD + LLD) with clear trade-off articulation.
- Driving architecture decisions across services and influencing platform direction.
- Building and evolving APIs that power core product and platform workflows.
- Identifying opportunities for platform abstraction and reusable frameworks.
- Owning services/modules end-to-end across their lifecycle, including long-term scalability and stability.
- Proactively identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and system limitations.
- Leading and contributing to design reviews with a strong focus on long-term architecture.
- Mentoring engineers and raising the quality bar for system design and code.
- Driving technica

📌 Software Development Engineer III | Backend (Bengaluru)
🏢 Spotdraft
📍 Bengaluru