27 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end architecture for complex, large-scale systems with long-term scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Make high-impact technical decisions and guide trade-offs across multiple domains and platforms.
- Set engineering standards, best practices, and governance models adopted across teams.
- Lead technical design reviews, critical incident postmortems, and complex investigations.
- Mentor senior engineers and promote technical excellence and continuous learning.
- Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and business teams on strategic priorities.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and drive innovation aligned with organizational goals.
- Influence platform modernization, observability, DevSecOps, and developer productivity initiatives.
- Advise leadership and influence product and business direction.
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.
- Experience designing resilient, scalable, and secure enterprise-scale platforms.
- Strong leadership in system design, architecture reviews, and cross-team technical governance.
- 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.
- Expertise with OAuth2, OIDC, Kafka, and GCP PubSub.
- Working knowledge of Native, React, React Native, and Flutter ecosystems.
- Understanding of security principles, regulatory compliance, and cost optimization.
- Thought leadership demonstrated through papers, talks, patents, or open-source contributions.
- Experience implementing benchmarking services and quality automation for backend systems.
- Deep understanding of OpenTelemetry and observability best practices.
- Excellent debugging, system design, communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
- Startup experience is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Build products used by millions of customers across ASEAN.
- Work with experienced engineers and cross-functional experts in a flat, high-trust environment.
- Employee travel perks and regional exposure.
- Location: Kuala Lumpur or Bangalore.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureFlutterGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaMongoDBMySQLNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactReact NativeRedisSpring Boot
