Responsibilities :

- Own and evolve multiple critical applications/services, ensuring long-term scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Lead the design and architecture of complex, large-scale distributed systems, frameworks, and platforms across teams.
- Define and drive the roadmap for engineering and operational excellence at an organizational level.
- Conduct deep performance analysis and lead system-wide optimizations to ensure high scalability and efficiency.
- Drive technical planning, system design reviews, and estimation for large, cross-team initiatives.
- Collaborate with product, data, and infrastructure stakeholders to define ambiguous requirements and translate them into scalable system designs.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers across teams.
- Establish and enforce best practices for coding standards, system design, observability, and reliability.
- Review and guide critical architectural and code decisions across multiple teams.
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies and introduce current architectural patterns to improve system capabilities.
- Raise the engineering bar by actively contributing to hiring, team building, and technical culture.

Qualifications :

- Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and advanced system design.
- 8+ years of experience working on backend and distributed systems.




- Deep expertise in Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Proven experience designing and scaling highly reliable, large-scale distributed systems across multiple services/teams.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and high-performance system design.
- Deep knowledge of system architecture, design principles, and trade-off analysis at scale.
- Experience driving organization-wide technical initiatives and architectural decisions.
- Strong focus on code quality, latency optimization, observability, and system reliability.
- Ability to operate effectively in highly ambiguous, fast-paced environments with significant ownership.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business teams.
- Proven track record of mentoring senior engineers and influencing engineering culture.

Preferred :

- Experience with cloud-native architectures (AWS preferred).
- Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed system patterns.
- Experience leading large-scale system migrations or platform transformations.
- Familiarity with observability tools, monitoring systems, and SRE practices.
- Experience in high-growth startups or scaling consumer internet platforms.
- Passion for building platforms that enable teams to move faster with high reliability.

📌 Staff Engineer - Backend Architecture (India)
🏢 HuntingCube Recruitment Solution
📍 India