Who we are

We at CivicDataLab, work with the goal to use data, tech, design and social science to strengthen the course of civic engagements in India. We work to harness the potential of the open-source movement to enable citizens to engage better with public reforms. Our work is centred around building data strategy, data platforms and data science applications to push data-driven decision-making at scale. Moreover, we work closely with governments, non-profits, think tanks, media houses, academia and more to build overall data and tech capacity.

What we are looking for

An Associate Lead Backend Developer with a minimum of five years of experience to help support our various interventions through data platforms and tools, focusing on development to infrastructure management. This position requires a developer who can help us scope, build and scale our backend stack that powers our data platforms.

This position will be based out of Current Delhi [Need basis travel to other states within India will be required based on project commitments]

Requirements
About the role





We need a team player who can coordinate in person and virtually with internal and external stakeholders with diverse backgrounds to refine their requirements into user stories and pull them into the current project roadmap and deliver on them.

Key Responsibilities;
Lead the design and architecture of scalable, resilient backend systems that process large-scale, multi-sector, multi-geography data.
Drive best practices in backend engineering, ensuring high-quality code, performance optimisation, and system reliability across teams.
Oversee monitoring, evaluation, and observability systems for backend infrastructure, ensuring proactive issue detection and continuous improvement.
Guide the development of robust data pipelines, capable of handling diverse datasets with automated scheduling, monitoring, and fault tolerance.
Architect and implement APIs that power large-scale platforms and integra

📌 Associate Lead Backend Developer Delhi
🏢 CivicDataLab
📍 Delhi