Role: Backend Architect (Individual Contributor)
Function: Backend Engineering / Software Architecture
Location: Delhi
Type: Full-time
Industry: Media Production, Broadcast Media, Online Media
About Company
One of India's largest private FM radio networks, reaching 40 million+ listeners weekly. The company operates across 49 cities, 1,000+ towns, and 50,000 villages.
It is the only private FM station broadcasting from Jammu & Kashmir, with an international presence in Singapore and Bhutan. Its digital platform extends the brand into curated lifestyle, music, and news content.
Backed by 18+ years of broadcast heritage, the company is now building an ambitious media super-app for millions of users. A team of 740+ media professionals drives this blend of legacy broadcasting and digital innovation.
Position Overview
The company is building a media super-app that unifies video, audio, radio, micro-drama, news, and commerce on a single platform. The Backend Architect will own end-to-end technical architecture for a backend platform spanning 22+ services across six content and commerce verticals. This is a foundational individual-contributor leadership role — setting the architectural direction, standards, and scalability strategy that the entire Backend Engineering team builds against.
Role & Responsibilities
- Define and own backend technical architecture across core platform, content & discovery, commerce & growth, and platform services spanning 22+ microservices
- Make foundational technology decisions on service boundaries, data modeling, API design, caching, and scalability strategy as new verticals are added
- Own architecture for core services including authentication, user profile, feed, recommendations, search, and content APIs
- Define application-level security standards — authentication, authorization, and data protection — in partnership with the Platform Engineer
- Own deployment architecture and release strategy for backend services; partner with the Platform Engineer on orchestration and CI/CD
- Partner with the Frontend Architect and Platform Engineer to define clean API contracts and integration patterns across the stack
- Conduct architecture and code reviews for high-impact changes; set code quality bars and architectural guardrails for the Backend Engineering team
- Evaluate and introduce backend technologies and tools that meaningfully improve velocity, performance, or maintainability as the platform scales beyond Phase 1
Must Have Criteria
- 8–10 years of backend engineering experience, including 2–3+ years in a formal architecture, staff, or principal engineering capacity
- Hands-on expertise designing and scaling distributed backend systems with RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs at consumer scale (high read/write throughput)
- Proven track record architecting shared backend platforms serving multiple products or business verticals simultaneously
- Production experience with at least one major cloud provider — GCP, AWS, or Azure — for deploying and operating large-scale systems
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines for deployment and orchestration of backend services
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language — Go, Java, Node.js, or Python — used in production at scale
- Strong command of data modeling, caching strategies, service decomposition, and system scalability trade-offs in distributed environments
Nice to Have
- Experience in a media, content, or commerce super-app environment
- Prior experience at a high-growth startup building 0→1 platforms
- Familiarity with recommendation systems, search infrastructure, or content delivery at scale
- Experience with cloud-native architecture (GCP preferred) and microservices design patterns
What We Offer
- Foundational architectural ownership of a media super-app built to serve tens of millions of users across six content and commerce verticals
- Individual-contributor technical leadership with direct influence over the engineering direction of a 22+ service platform
- Collaboration with a cross-functional team of architects, tech leads, and platform engineers in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment
- Opportunity to define the backend foundation of the company's next chapter — bridging 18+ years of broadcast legacy with a modern digital platform
