Lead-Backend Platform Engineer

Position: Lead-Backend Platform Engineer
Location: Coimbatore
Type: Full-Time

Overview

We are seeking a hands-on, collaborative Backend Platform Engineer (Lead) to drive the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of robust, scalable, and high-performance backend platform infrastructure and services. As Backend Platform Engineer (Lead), you will provide technical leadership and guidance to the platform engineering team, ensuring the delivery of secure, reliable, and extensible backend capabilities that power our platform’s agentic, API, and user-facing solutions. This role partners closely with the Lead API Engineer, product, and UI teams to deliver integrated, low-latency, and resilient platform services.

Our core backend platform tech stack includes:

• .NET Core (C#) (for high-performance, business-critical gRPC microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven services)
• TypeScript (NestJs) (for microservices, backend-for-frontend (BFF) layers, and services requiring rapid iteration or close integration with the frontend)
• Docker and Kubernetes (for containerization and orchestration)
• AMPQ and event-driven architectures (for pub/sub and task queues)
• Terraform (for infrastructure as code)
• Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK) & OpenTelemetry (for observability and monitoring)
• GitHub Actions (for CI/CD)

Key Responsibilitie :

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the backend platform engineering team
• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, reliable, and low latency backend platform infrastructure and services
• Champion best practices in platform design, observability, monitoring, and alerting
• Architect and implement secure, performant, and resilient platform services for agentic, API, and user-facing workloads
• Drive adoption of modern platform tools, frameworks, and best practices
• Optimize platform performance for sub-100ms response times and high-frequency interactions
• Oversee deployment, proximity optimization, and network efficiency for platform services and runtimes
• Enable API, AI, and UI teams through extensible platform capabilities, service discovery, and integration
• Collaborate closely with the Lead API Engineer and other leads to deliver integrated solutions, ensuring seamless handoff and interoperability between platform and API layers
• Ensure engineering rigor, code quality, and documentation standards are met
• Facilitate clear communication, knowledge sharing, and effective documentation within the team
• Support team growth through coaching, feedback, and skills development
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement through research, evaluation, and adoption of emerging technologies, patterns, products, and tools

Core Qualities & Skills

• Proven experience leading backend platform or infrastructure engineering teams and delivering complex platform projects
• Deep expertise in platform architecture, distributed systems, service orchestration, and event-driven or microservices design
• Experience automating backend workflows and integrating with AI/LLM systems, frameworks, or services
• Strong programming skills in .Net C#.
• Proficiency with API protocols and communication patterns (REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
• Experience with gateway proxy patterns, load balancing, and service mesh architectures
• Experience with low-latency, high-throughput, and high-availability system design
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting for platform infrastructure
• Strong understanding of security, authentication, and authorization for distributed systems
• Experience with containerization, orchestration, and cloud-native infrastructure (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience enabling other engineering teams through platform extensibility, service discovery, and developer experience improvements
• Strong collaboration and alignment skills across disciplines
• Willingness to learn, share knowledge, and adapt to evolving technologies
• System design skills and awareness of technical debt and tradeoffs
• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management abilities
• Comfort with ambiguity, discovery, and rapid change
• Commitment to engineering excellence, security, and responsible practices
• Demonstrated ability to innovate, conduct research, and evaluate/select appropriate technologies, patterns, products, and tools for platform needs

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role
• Track record of architecting and delivering scalable, reliable backend platform systems
• Experience with modern development practices (CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews)
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers
• Experience working in cross-functional, agile teams Highly Desirable
• Experience with platform engineering, developer platforms, or platform-as-a-service concepts
• Experience with service mesh patterns (e.g., Istio), API gateways (e.g., Envoy, Kong), and proximity optimization
• Experience with event-driven architectures (pub/sub, callbacks, AMQP, etc.)
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and automated provisioning (e.g., Terraform)
• Experience with advanced observability, monitoring, and analytics tools
• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) architectures
• Experience with modern LLM/AI orchestration and observability frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangFuse, LangGraph, etc.)
• Experience leading or working with distributed, multidisciplinary teams

Success Metrics

• Platform response time (median and p95)
• Uptime and reliability of critical platform services
• Test coverage for platform and integration logic
• Developer velocity and time from platform design to production
• Turns (iteration cycles, delivery cadence)
• Bugs (defect rate, bug count, resolution time)
• Platform adoption and developer satisfaction
• Integration lead time for platform consumers (API, AI, UI teams)
• Technical debt reduction and architectural alignment
• Team growth, engagement, and retention
• Stakeholder satisfaction and cross-team collaboration