Lead Backend Engineer

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We are looking for Lead Backend Engineers for our Bangalore office.

Tech Stack: Java or Python

About the Role:

- Hiring Lead Backend Engineers experienced in Java or Python.

- Strong in distributed systems, microservices, HLD/LLD, and production ownership.

- Must have product-company experience building scalable and reliable services.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end architecture and author HLD/LLD docs.

- Build scalable microservices using Java (Spring Boot) or Python.

- Design systems for high throughput, low latency, and fault tolerance.

- Optimize performance using caching, sharding, load balancing, concurrency.

- Define SLOs/SLIs and drive observability using metrics, logs, tracing.

- Lead incident resolution, RCA, and preventive engineering.

- Mentor other engineers and lead engineering best practices

Required Skills

- Expertise in Java or Python.

- Strong DS/Algo and system design fundamentals.

- Experience with microservices, distributed systems, REST/gRPC

- Datastores: Postgres/MySQL, Redis, and one NoSQL store

- Messaging: Kafka/Pulsar/RabbitMQ.

- Cloud: AWS/Azure/GCP; Docker & Kubernetes.

- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry

Nice-to-Have

- Event-driven architecture, DDD, or CQRS.

- Terraform, service mesh (Istio), API Gateway patterns.

- Elasticsearch/OpenSearch experience

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