24 days ago
Gurgaon, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve application architecture in alignment with business and product strategy.
- Establish repeatable patterns and guardrails for microservices, APIs, identity and authorization, observability, and data flows.
- Embed scalability, reliability, resiliency, observability, security, and maintainability requirements into designs.
- Align frontend, backend, BFF, and platform-services squads on architectural decisions.
- Lead evaluations of tools and frameworks and guide their adoption.
- Create decision frameworks that improve architectural decision-making and reduce ad-hoc debates.
- Mentor engineering managers and lead engineers on design-level thinking and technical maturity.
- Influence engineering, product, and business stakeholders and drive decisions across multiple teams.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on expertise in modern application architecture, including .NET Core, C#, and REST APIs.
- Experience with event-driven architectures using Pub/Sub, Kafka, or similar technologies.
- Experience with Postgres, SQL Server, and caching strategies using Redis or Couchbase.
- Experience with identity and authorization frameworks such as Auth0, OPA, SpiceDB, and OpenFGA.
- Experience with observability platforms including New Relic, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Cloud-native experience, preferably with GCP; AWS and Azure experience are also acceptable.
- Understanding of AI-enabled application patterns and workflow orchestration frameworks.
- Awareness of emerging AI and agentic workflow technologies and their architectural implications across retail media, advertising, analytics, and SaaS platforms.
- A strong track record of embedding non-functional requirements into platform and product design.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to simplify technical trade-offs for engineering and business stakeholders.
- Experience influencing without authority and driving closure across multiple teams.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical insurance of INR 500,000 with dental and vision benefits for employees and eligible dependents.
- Group Term Life Insurance and Group Personal Accident cover.
- Retirement benefits including Provident Fund, Gratuity, and voluntary National Pension Scheme participation.
- Employee Assistance Programme, Indian Health Organisation membership, and wellbeing resources through the Wellness Hub.
- Internet allowance, office commute support, work-from-home kit, subsidised meals, and Early Friday each month.
- 25 days of annual leave, 10 public holidays, birthday leave, and maternity, paternity, and adoption leave provisions.
- Flexible working options may be discussed during the hiring process.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureC#CouchbaseGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaMicrosoft SQL ServerPostgreSQLPrometheusRedis
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About dunnhumby
Dunnhumby builds customer data science and retail media software and services for retailers and consumer brands, supporting loyalty, pricing, and category decisions. It sells SaaS analytics platforms and consulting, and operates retail media solutions with partners. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in London, it is owned by Tesco and works with companies such as Tesco, Coca‑Cola, and Procter & Gamble.