Principal Engineer (Backend)

Experience: 14+ Years

Location: Bengaluru

Work Mode: Hybrid

Employment: Full-time

Role Overview

We are hiring a Principal Engineer to lead the technical design and development of highly scalable backend systems.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role involving architecture, system design, complex problem-solving and mentoring of senior engineers.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and build large-scale distributed backend systems.

- Improve system performance, reliability, scalability and availability.

- Solve complex problems related to concurrency, consistency and asynchronous processing.

- Own key architecture and technical design decisions.

- Work hands-on with critical components and production systems.

- Set engineering standards and provide technical guidance across teams.

- Mentor senior engineers and support technical decision-making.

- Explore and implement AI-assisted development and AI/ML solutions where relevant.

Must-Have Technical Skills





- 12+ years of backend engineering experience.

- Strong hands-on experience with Golang (Go).

- Strong experience with Java, Python or C++ can also be considered.

- Deep understanding of Distributed Systems, Concurrency, Consistency Models and Asynchronous Architecture.

- Strong System Design and Architecture experience.

- Production experience with AWS, GCP or Azure.

- Strong experience with Relational and NoSQL databases.

- Strong troubleshooting experience across performance, reliability and scalability.

- Previous experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer or equivalent.

- Solid technical communication and mentoring skills.

Preferred

- FinTech / Payments experience

- Cryptocurrency / Stablecoins / Blockchain

- Go performance tuning and production debugging

- AI/ML/Agentic AI

- AI-assisted software development

📌 Principal Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Leading
📍 Bengaluru