Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior / Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale core backend systems. You will contribute both as an individual contributor (IC) and as a technical lead, responsible for development, mentoring, and driving end-to-end delivery.

This role involves working on cloud-native, distributed systems that power large-scale consumer-facing applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical strategy discussions.
• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable backend systems.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend developers, and DevOps engineers

to deliver business outcomes.

• Mentor and guide a team of backend engineers; review code and enforce code quality

and best practices.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and deployment.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance system performance and reliability.
• Ensure robust observability via logging, tracing, and metrics.
• Continuously optimize data flow, caching, and database access patterns for scalability

and performance.

Must-Have Skills

• 47 years of professional experience in backend development.
• Strong expertise in Python(preferred)/Java/Golang
• Hands-on experience in REST APIs. GRPC and GraphQL will be plus.
• Strong expertise in AWS or GCP or Azure cloud platform, including deployment and

cloud-native services.

• Strong proficiency in writing queries on SQL and Nosql databases
• Strong proficiency in Redis, Memcached, or other caching layers.
• Hands-on experience in unit testing, integration testing, and using frameworks like

PyTest, JUnit, or equivalent.

• Proficient in Git and experience with collaborative workflows (branching, merging, PR

reviews).

• Experience in designing and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Cloud

Build, or similar).

• Experience with Docker; exposure to Kubernetes or container orchestration tools

preferred.

• Experience on microservices, event driven systems and serverless frameworks
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as

Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.

Add-ons:

• Good understanding of frontend technologies to enable effective collaboration with

frontend teams.

• Prior experience building or scaling eCommerce websites/consumer facing websites

will be addon

• Hands on experience in building AI agents/Agentic workflow/AI based automation will be

add on

• Holding degrees from premier educational institutes like IIT, NIT, etc.