Description

About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who can combine strong hands-on engineering skills with proven backend technical leadership. You will lead backend engineering initiatives focused on high-performance, scalable and reliable systems, while continuing to contribute actively to architecture, coding, code reviews and technical decision-making.
The ideal candidate has previously worked as a Backend Lead, Tech Lead, Lead Engineer or equivalent, has led backend engineers, and has personally owned production systems operating at meaningful scale.

What You'll Do
Lead backend engineers in designing, developing and scaling high-performance production systems.
Drive architecture and technical decisions for APIs, distributed services, asynchronous workflows and data-intensive applications.
Remain hands-on with coding and production engineering, rather than operating purely in a managerial capacity.
Conduct design reviews and code reviews, establish engineering best practices and improve code quality.
Mentor and coach backend engineers and help the team improve engineering depth.
Delegate effectively while maintaining ownership of technical quality and delivery.
Identify and resolve latency, reliability, scalability and performance bottlenecks.
Design systems capable of handling high traffic, concurrency and complex database workloads.
Own production incidents, root-cause analysis and reliability improvements.
Drive safe migrations, architectural evolution and performance/cost optimization.
Work closely with product and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.

Must-Have Skills & Experience: Backend Engineering
4–7 years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong production experience in at least one of:
Python
Go
Rust
Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems and scalable service design.
Experience building and operating production APIs/services at scale.
Strong understanding of databases, caching, asynchronous processing and failure handling.
Experience troubleshooting and improving system latency, throughput, reliability and scalability.

Technical LeadershipPrior experience as a:
Backend Lead
Tech Lead
Lead Engineer
Senior Engineer with significant technical leadership responsibility

You should have demonstrated experience with:
Technical/design ownership
Code reviews
Architecture decisions
Delegation
Mentoring and coaching engineers
Delivery accountability
Leading backend engineering initiatives

Formal people management is not mandatory, but genuine technical leadership of backend engineers is required.
Cloud & Production
Hands-on experience deploying and operating backend systems in the cloud.
GCP experience is preferred.
AWS experience is also relevant.
Strong understanding of production environments, observability, reliability and incident management.

High-Performance Systems ExperienceWe are particularly interested in engineers who have personally worked on systems involving:
High-throughput APIs
High concurrency
Transaction processing
Distributed systems
Asynchronous/event-driven architectures
Complex database workloads
Performance and latency optimization
Reliability and failure recovery
Large-scale data processing
Cost optimization
Production migrations

EducationA strong academic background is required.Candidates should ideally hold an engineering/computing degree from institutions such as:
IITs
BITS Pilani
IIIT Hyderabad
Leading NITs such as NIT Trichy or NIT Surathkal
Other comparable highly selective engineering/computing institutions
Degree: B.Tech / B.E. / equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline.

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate