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Designation: Technical Lead Backend Location: Bangalore Our Team PharmEasy was founded in 2015 with the sole purpose to make healthcare easily available, accessible and affordable to all through the extensive use of new-age cutting-edge technology. Today, we are one of India's largest healthcare aggregators connecting lakhs of patients to licensed pharmacies diagnostic centres online for all their medical needs. We are particularly catering to the chronic-care segment, and offer a range of services including medicine delivery, tele-consultation, sample collection for diagnostic tests as well as subscription-based services for all these categories. Our highly efficient and technology led Consumer and Supply-chain platforms ensure that medicines are delivered from a licensed pharmacy within six hours of the validation of prescriptions submitted by our customers. And such customer promises are improving with the increasing scale of our business, and continuous product innovation. By extensively leveraging the latest in hardware and software technology, we are also committed to eradicate fake medicines from the Pharma ecosystem that contribute to roughly 30% of drug volumes in India. Our product innovations have allowed for complete data transparency in the entire Pharma supply- chain to empower even the end-users to validate the authenticity and genuineness of the medicines for every medicine sold, using constructs such as unique barcoding of information like expiry dates, origination of drugs etc. With our scalable technology and processes, we are now reliably delivering healthcare services and medicines to every single pin code in the country. Engineering @ Pharmeasy: PharmEasy is looking for results-oriented Engineers. An ideal candidate for us would be a passionate builder of great products/frameworks and someone who would thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy the challenge of complex business contexts that are typically being defined in real-time. In this role, you will be responsible for building world-class technology products and platforms that are at the forefront of the technology revolution in the Indian healthcare ecosystem. You are someone who insists on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance. You will be working in a fast paced and agile work environment delivering quality solutions that have immediate business impact. What are we looking for? Responsibilities Research, design, architect, and build highly reliable, available, and scalable solutions capable of handling millions of API calls across distributed systems. Lead the technical design and implementation of complex systems, applying advanced design patterns and architectural best practices. Adopt AI to deliver customer-facing, cost-effective solutions, improving NPS. Own large technical deliverables and maintain end-to-end accountability for the functional services your team delivers. Drive the technical roadmap in collaboration with product and business teams, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Break down ambiguous projects into actionable tasks and multiple sprints, providing accurate delivery estimates and clear technical direction. Lead by example; mentor, coach, and guide team members on structured problem-solving, development best practices, and career growth. Platformize components as libraries, utilities, and services to promote reuse and standardization across teams. Monitor operational metrics, establish SLAs for system performance, and proactively address reliability and scalability concerns. Coordinate incident response and lead root cause analysis for production issues, driving continuous improvement. Implement and enforce code quality standards, review processes, and technical documentation practices. Conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly to validate technical approaches and de-risk solutions. Collaborate across functions and teams to design and implement end-to-end solutions. Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, limitations, and bottlenecks. Requirements BTech or MTech in computer science or a related technical discipline. Expertise in at least one technology stack (Java, Python, Node.js, Golang), with proficiency in multiple languages/frameworks. Experience architecting and building complex, scalable solutions and managing multi-system interactions. Strong object-oriented design skills with a deep understanding of design patterns, REST, distributed systems, and asynchronous communication. Can play the role of AI Engineer, evaluate multiple possibilities, and identify the best models for the job at hand. Experience in adopting AI in the SDLC process. Proven ability to build reusable code libraries, frameworks, and platform components. Track record of building and delivering mission-critical, 24x7 production systems. Strong knowledge of non-functional requirements (scalability, security, performance, reliability). Experience monitoring and optimizing system performance metrics. Ability to break down complex requirements into actionable tasks with accurate estimates. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to write comprehensive technical documentation and present to stakeholders. Experience leading multi-engineer projects, mentoring junior team members, and influencing cross-team technical decisions. Proficiency with Agile methodologies (Scrum), TDD, and CI/CD pipelines. Demonstrated ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities. Strong problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to decision-making. Show more Show less
