As a Software Development Engineer III (Backend), you will operate as a senior individual contributor owning mission-critical backend systems. You will design scalable architectures, solve complex distributed systems problems, and influence engineering standards across teams.
Responsibilities
- Own backend systems end-to-end, from design and implementation to production reliability and long-term evolution.
- Design scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency backend architectures for real-time and event-driven use cases.
- Lead system design decisions, including data models, service boundaries, async workflows, and scalability strategies.
- Build and operate high-throughput services handling millions of events, requests, or messages per day.
- Own reliability metrics such as p95/p99 latency, uptime, error budgets, and participate in incident resolution and post-mortems.
- Drive architectural migrations, including monolith to microservices and synchronous to asynchronous flows.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to translate complex requirements into robust backend solutions.
- Improve developer productivity by contributing to internal platforms, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and coding standards.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance without direct people management.
- Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and scalability risks and resolve them at the system level.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Proven ownership of production systems at scale.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and async architectures.
- Experience handling production incidents and system reliability.
- Ability to independently design and evolve backend systems.
Tech Stack
- Backend: Node.js (NestJS / Express), Golang, Java.
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis.
- Messaging and Async: Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub.
- Real-time: WebSockets, Server-Sent Events.
- Cloud and Infra: AWS / GCP, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
This job was posted by Aparna Majumder from Tamasha.
