Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Location: Bangalore, India
Experience: 57 years
Team: Backend Engineering
About The Role
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior / Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale core backend systems. You will contribute both as an individual contributor (IC) and as a technical lead, responsible for development, mentoring, and driving end-to-end delivery. This role involves working on cloud-native, distributed systems that power large-scale consumer-facing applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical strategy discussions.
- Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable backend systems.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend developers, and DevOps engineers to deliver business outcomes.
- Mentor and guide a team of backend engineers; review code and enforce code quality and best practices.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and deployment.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance system performance and reliability.
- Ensure robust observability via logging, tracing, and metrics.
- Continuously optimize data flow, caching, and database access patterns for scalability and performance.
Must-Have Skills
- 47 years of professional experience in backend development.
- Strong expertise in Python(preferred)/Java/Golang
- Hands-on experience in REST APIs. GRPC and GraphQL will be plus.
- Strong expertise in AWS or GCP or Azure cloud platform, including deployment and cloud-native services.
- Strong proficiency in writing queries on SQL and Nosql databases
- Strong proficiency in Redis, Memcached, or other caching layers.
- Hands-on experience in unit testing, integration testing, and using frameworks like PyTest, JUnit, or equivalent.
- Proficient in Git and experience with collaborative workflows (branching, merging, PR reviews).
- Experience in designing and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or similar).
- Experience with Docker; exposure to Kubernetes or container orchestration tools preferred.
- Experience on microservices, event driven systems and serverless frameworks
- Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
Add-ons
- Good understanding of frontend technologies to enable effective collaboration with frontend teams.
- Prior experience building or scaling eCommerce websites/consumer facing websites will be addon
- Hands on experience in building AI agents/Agentic workflow/AI based automation will be add on
- Holding degrees from premier educational institutes like IIT, NIT, etc.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to design and build scalable systems impacting millions of users.
- Work with modern technologies in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
- Collaborative culture with continuous learning and professional growth.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
Skills: binary tree,restapi,aws,gcp,leetcode,java,backend development,azure,sql,agentic,python,go (golang)
