Lead Software Engineer - Golang

About Impact Analytics Impact Analytics is an agentic-first AI software company transforming retail merchandising through cutting-edge AI, LLMs, and Generative AI technologies. As a fast-growing Series D company with deployments across five continents, it is building both industry-leading merchandising solutions and foundational AI agents that are redefining how retail decisions are made. What makes Impact Analytics unique is its combination of deep retail domain expertise, strong innovation culture, and global presence. It is one of the few India-born AI companies recognized globally by organizations like Fortune, Gartner, and the Inc. 5000. For candidates looking to work on next-generation AI products with global scale and real-world impact, Impact Analytics is an exciting place to build your career. Here’s a link to our website: www.impactanalytics.co.

Some Of Our Accolades Include

• Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Companies by Financial Times for five consecutive years: 2020-2024.
• Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000 for seven consecutive years: 2018-2024.
• Voted #1 by more than 300 retailers worldwide in the RIS Software LeaderBoard 2024 report.
• Ranked #72 in America’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2023—by Fortune—alongside companies like Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, IBM, etc.
• Forged a strategic partnership with Google to equip retailers with cutting-edge generative AI tools.
• Recognized in multiple Gartner reports, including Market Guides and Hype Cycle, spanning assortments, merchandising, forecasting, algorithmic retailing, Unified Price, Promotion, and Markdown Optimization Applications. Economic Times News about our funding can be accessed here.

Recognised By Please email your resume to : recruitments@impactanalytics.co or anu.prakash@impactanalytics.co Thank-you for your interest in Impact Analytics. While we are not able to reach out to everyone who applies, we will contact you if your skills and experience are a match for the role. Otherwise, we will keep your resume in case there is a match with future opportunities. Impact Analytics is committed to supporting a culture of inclusion, diversity, and accessibility to employment for all. We are proud to operate as an equal opportunity employer.

The impact that you will be making The role would require you to develop sophisticated products that add value to the client and result in new projects and revenue streams.

What You'll Do

• Provide technical leadership for backend engineering initiatives and projects.
• Own the architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems.
• Create and review High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documents.
• Drive architecture decisions balancing scalability, reliability, security, and cost.
• Lead design reviews, architecture reviews, and technical governance processes.
• Mentor and coach engineers across multiple experience levels.
• Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, and development guidelines.
• Perform thorough code reviews and ensure code quality across teams.
• Partner with Product Managers, Architects, QA, DevOps, and stakeholders to deliver
• business outcomes.
• Drive technical roadmap planning and technology adoption decisions.
• Lead performance optimization, reliability improvements, and production readiness
• reviews.
• Own incident management, root cause analysis, and preventive action planning.
• Champion observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, and operational excellence.
• Guide capacity planning, resiliency strategies, and disaster recovery planning.
• Support hiring, technical interviews, onboarding, and team development initiatives.

What Lands You In This Role

• Expert-level proficiency in Go (Golang).
• Strong expertise in Data Structures, Algorithms, and System Design.
• Hands-on experience creating High-Level Designs (HLD) and Low-Level Designs (LLD).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven
• architectures.
• Advanced knowledge of concurrency, scalability, and fault-tolerant system design.
• Strong expertise in API design (REST, gRPC) and integration patterns.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD
• pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Excellent mentoring, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
• Ability to influence architectural decisions and drive engineering excellence across
• teams.

What We Offer

• An opportunity to be part of some of the best enterprise SaaS products to be built out of India.
• Opportunities to quench your thirst for problem-solving, experimenting, learning, and implementing innovative solutions.
• A flat, collegial work environment, with a work hard, play hard attitude.
• A platform for rapid growth if you are willing to try new things without fear of failure.
• Remuneration with best-in-class industry standards with generous health insurance cover