About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who can combine strong hands-on engineering skills with proven backend technical leadership.

You will lead backend engineering initiatives focused on high-performance, scalable and reliable systems, while continuing to contribute actively to architecture, coding, code reviews and technical decision-making.

The ideal candidate has previously worked as a Backend Lead, Tech Lead, Lead Engineer or equivalent, has led backend engineers, and has personally owned production systems operating at meaningful scale.

What You'll Do

- Lead backend engineers in designing, developing and scaling high-performance production systems.
- Drive architecture and technical decisions for APIs, distributed services, asynchronous workflows and data-intensive applications.
- Remain hands-on with coding and production engineering, rather than operating purely in a managerial capacity.
- Conduct design reviews and code reviews, establish engineering best practices and improve code quality.
- Mentor and coach backend engineers and help the team improve engineering depth.
- Delegate effectively while maintaining ownership of technical quality and delivery.
- Identify and resolve latency, reliability, scalability and performance bottlenecks.
- Design systems capable of handling high traffic, concurrency and complex database workloads.
- Own production incidents, root-cause analysis and reliability improvements.
- Drive secure migrations, architectural evolution and performance/cost optimization.
- Work closely with product and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.

Must-Have Skills & Experience

Backend Engineering

- 4–7 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong production experience in at least one of:
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- Strong understanding of backend architecture,



distributed systems and scalable service design.
- Experience building and operating production APIs/services at scale.
- Strong understanding of databases, caching, asynchronous processing and failure handling.
- Experience troubleshooting and improving system latency, throughput, reliability and scalability.

Technical Leadership

Prior experience as a:

- Backend Lead
- Tech Lead
- Lead Engineer
- Senior Engineer with significant technical leadership responsibility

You should have demonstrated experience with:

- Technical/design ownership
- Code reviews
- Architecture decisions
- Delegation
- Mentoring and coaching engineers
- Delivery accountability
- Leading backend engineering initiatives

Formal people management is not mandatory, but genuine technical leadership of backend engineers is required.

Cloud & Production

- Hands-on experience deploying and operating backend systems in the cloud.
- GCP experience is preferred.
- AWS experience is also relevant.
- Strong understanding of production environments, observability, reliability and incident management.

High-Performance Systems Experience

We are particularly interested in engineers who have personally worked on systems involving:

- High-throughput APIs
- High concurrency
- Transaction processing
- Distributed systems
- Asynchronous/event-driven architectures
- Complex database workloads
- Performance and latency optimization
- Reliability and failure recovery
- Large-scale data processing
- Cost optimization
- Production migrations

Education

A strong academic background is required.

Candidates should ideally hold an engineering/computing degree from institutions such as:

- IITs
- BITS Pilani
- IIIT Hyderabad
- Leading NITs such as NIT Trichy or NIT Surathkal
- Other comparable highly selective engineering/computing institutions

Degree: B.Tech / B.E. / equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline.

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