Lead Backend Engineer

Role: Lead Backend Engineer

Function: Backend Engineering / Software Engineering

Location: Bangalore

Type: Full-time

Industry: Marketing Research / Data & Analytics / Consumer Insights

About Company

A global leader in data-driven marketing research, serving over 2,500 domestic and 1,500 overseas companies. The company provides consumer research panels of 1.3 million people in Japan and 36 million globally, with access to 130+ million consumer panelists worldwide.

It combines survey, behavioral, and purchase data to deliver actionable insights. Backed by approximately $848M in funding, the company is in a merger stage with over 25 years of experience.

It empowers large brands across Asia-Pacific to understand their customers and make smarter marketing decisions.

Position Overview

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will own the design, delivery, and operation of the company's core data and marketing platforms. You'll work end-to-end — from shaping requirements with product and business teams to running reliable production systems at scale. This role sits at the intersection of engineering excellence and real business impact.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design and evolve backend services on GCP, making deliberate trade-offs around scalability, reliability, maintainability, and cost

• Own backend systems end-to-end, including production stability, performance tuning, and incident resolution

• Build and deliver secure, scalable REST and gRPC APIs using Go, from development through production

• Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to translate requirements into sound technical solutions

• Modernize legacy systems through thoughtful refactoring, platform improvements, and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform

• Maintain high engineering standards through clean code, automated testing (Testcontainers, Pact), and rigorous code reviews

• Mentor junior engineers and actively contribute to building a strong, high-ownership engineering culture

Must Have Criteria

• 7+ years of experience building and owning backend systems for large-scale, production applications

• Proficiency in Go for backend service development (primary language for this role)

• Hands-on experience designing and operating REST and/or gRPC APIs at production scale

• 3+ years working with Google Cloud Platform — specifically GCP Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage

• Solid experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL/Cloud SQL) and managing production data at scale

• Experience with containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes in a CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions or equivalent)

• Demonstrated experience owning production systems — including on-call, incident response, and reliability improvements

Nice to Have

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform in a GCP environment

• Familiarity with observability tooling — specifically Datadog and OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and monitoring

• Domain experience in market research, ad-tech, data platforms, or consumer analytics

• Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in technical communities

• Experience working with microservices architectures and contract testing tools like Pact

What We Offer

• Opportunity to build and own systems that power insights for 4,000+ global brands

• Work with a modern, well-defined tech stack — Go, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog

• Collaborative, high-ownership engineering culture with a strong focus on craft and impact

• Exposure to large-scale consumer data platforms across the Asia-Pacific region

• Competitive compensation and a team that invests in your growth