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Senior Staff Backend Engineer

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about 4 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior / Staff+
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Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable, reliable Tier-1 services for order planning and fulfillment optimization.
  • Own architecture across distributed systems involving gRPC service meshes and Kafka event pipelines.
  • Write production code in Kotlin and Java, ensuring correctness and performance.
  • Lead design and code reviews to identify issues in latency-sensitive order flows.
  • Drive reliability for mission-critical services through observability and incident prevention.
  • Partner with Product, Data Science, and Operations to execute fulfillment optimization goals.
  • Mentor engineers and create scalable technical mechanisms.

Requirements

  • Proven experience designing and operating high-scale distributed systems.
  • Excellent hands-on coding ability in Kotlin or Java.
  • Deep understanding of system design, including API design and concurrency.
  • Strong code review skills to identify issues in complex codebases.
  • Experience with production-grade systems handling high QPS and large data volumes.
  • Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka at scale.
  • Experience with multi-region systems and resilience engineering.
  • Track record of technical leadership and mentoring senior engineers.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache KafkaElasticsearchgRPCJavaKotlinPythonRedisSpring Boot

Categories

AI & MLBackendData Engineering