6 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve multiple critical applications and services for long-term scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Lead the design and architecture of complex, large-scale distributed systems, frameworks, and platforms across teams.
- Define and drive organization-level roadmaps for engineering and operational excellence.
- Conduct performance analysis and lead system-wide optimizations for scalability and efficiency.
- Drive technical planning, system design reviews, and estimation for large cross-team initiatives.
- Translate ambiguous requirements from product, data, and infrastructure stakeholders into scalable system designs.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers.
- Establish and enforce best practices for coding standards, system design, observability, and reliability.
- Review and guide critical architectural and code decisions across multiple teams.
- Introduce emerging technologies and architectural patterns to improve system capabilities.
- Contribute to hiring, team building, and technical culture.
Requirements
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and advanced system design.
- At least 8 years of experience working on backend and distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Proven experience designing and scaling highly reliable, large-scale distributed systems across multiple services and teams.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and high-performance system design.
- Deep knowledge of system architecture, design principles, and trade-off analysis at scale.
- Experience driving organization-wide technical initiatives and architectural decisions.
- Strong focus on code quality, latency optimization, observability, and system reliability.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with significant ownership.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business teams.
- Proven track record of mentoring senior engineers and influencing engineering culture.
- Preferred experience with cloud-native architectures, AWS, large-scale migrations or platform transformations, observability and monitoring tools, SRE practices, and high-growth consumer internet platforms.
Benefits
- Mission-driven work focused on sustainable, accessible retail.
- Opportunity to work on large-scale systems with cross-team organizational impact.
- Employment is contingent on a background check.
About Quince
Quince is a direct-to-consumer ecommerce retailer that sells apparel, accessories, and home goods by connecting shoppers directly with manufacturing partners. Its manufacturer-to-consumer model uses demand-driven production and price transparency (including cost breakdowns) to reduce middlemen and inventory waste. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company offers curated essentials across categories such as cashmere, linen, jewelry, and furniture through its online storefront.