SDE III - Backend

Responsibilities:

• Own backend systems end-to-end, from design and implementation to production reliability and long-term evolution.
• Design scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency backend architectures for real-time and event-driven use cases.
• Lead system design decisions including data models, service boundaries, async workflows, and scalability strategies.
• Build and operate high-throughput services handling millions of events, requests, or messages per day.
• Own reliability metrics such as p95/p99 latency, uptime, and error budgets; participate in incident resolution and post-mortems.
• Drive architectural migrations including monolith to microservices and synchronous to asynchronous flows.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to translate complex requirements into robust backend solutions.
• Improve developer productivity by contributing to internal platforms, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and coding standards.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance without direct people management.
• Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and scalability risks and resolve them at the system level.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Proven ownership of production systems at scale.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and async architectures.
• Experience handling production incidents and system reliability.
• Ability to independently design and evolve backend systems.
• Comfortable influencing technical decisions across teams.

Tech Stack:

• BACKEND: Node.js, NestJS, Express, Golang, Java
• DATABASES: PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis
• MESSAGING and ASYNC: Kafka SQS RabbitMQ Pub/Sub
• REAL-TIME: WebSockets, SSE
• CLOUD and INFRA: AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
• OBSERVABILITY: Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry