Lead Backend Engineer

About Tarento

Tarento is a fast-growing technology consulting company headquartered in Stockholm, with a strong presence in India and clients across the globe. We specialize in digital transformation, product engineering, and enterprise solutions, working across diverse industries including retail, manufacturing, and healthcare. Our teams combine Nordic values with Indian expertise to deliver innovative, scalable, and high-impact solutions.

We're proud to be recognized as a Great Place to Work, a testament to our inclusive culture, strong leadership, and commitment to employee well-being and growth. At Tarento, you'll be part of a collaborative environment where ideas are valued, learning is continuous, and careers are built on passion and purpose.

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