14 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own architecture for complex, large-scale backend systems with long-term scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Make high-impact technical decisions and guide trade-offs across multiple domains and platforms.
- Establish engineering standards, best practices, and governance models across teams.
- Lead technical design reviews, critical incident postmortems, and complex problem investigations.
- Mentor senior engineers and foster technical excellence and continuous learning.
- Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and business teams on strategic priorities.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and drive platform modernization, observability, DevSecOps, and developer productivity initiatives.
- Advise leadership and influence product and business direction.
- Implement benchmarking services for throughput and quality automation for backend systems.
Requirements
- 10–18 years of backend engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a principal-level or staff-level role.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, microservices, and data platforms across GCP, AWS, or Azure.
- Experience designing resilient, scalable, and secure enterprise-scale platforms.
- Strong system design, architecture review, cross-team governance, debugging, and technical leadership experience.
- Hands-on expertise in full-stack development, API design, data modeling, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Deep expertise in Java with Spring Boot or similar backend languages such as Go, Python, or Node.js.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases including MySQL and PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases including Redis and MongoDB.
- Working knowledge of Native, React, React Native, and Flutter for backend–UI integration.
- Expertise with OAuth2, OIDC, Kafka, and GCP PubSub.
- Understanding of security principles, regulatory compliance, cost optimization, OpenTelemetry, and observability best practices.
- Thought leadership demonstrated through papers, talks, patents, or open-source contributions.
- Excellent communication, influencing, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Startup experience is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Opportunity to build products used by millions across ASEAN.
- Collaboration with experienced engineers and cross-functional experts.
- Flat structure with fast decision-making and minimal bureaucracy.
- High-trust, high-responsibility culture with room to lead and innovate.
- Employee travel perks and regional exposure.
- Location: Bangalore, India.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureFlutterGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaMongoDBMySQLNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactReact NativeRedisSpring Boot
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