Backend Engineer

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at Locus, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities-

• Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locus’s technical strategy.
• Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
• Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locus’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong staff engineer profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
• Mandatory (Tech skills 1): Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
• Mandatory (Tech skills 2): Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
• Mandatory (Tech skills 3): Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
• Mandatory (Tech skills 4): Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
• Mandatory (Communication): Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
• Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

Responsibilities of a Senior Software Engineer (Backend):

• You will be a guide in the entire application lifecycle including research, design, development, testing (dev owns quality), along with continuous deployment and delivery
• Lead design with a major focus on best user experience, performance, scalability and future expansion
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills to bring in continuous improvements and implement best practices.
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from our tech radar, adopt best design practices to solve complex problems and ensure our product is the best in usability.
• You will work directly with the CEO and the cross functional product teams, align on the needs of the products and operations.
• You will analyze business, technology challenges and suggest solutions
• Build an “Awesome” team

This opportunity is for you if,

• You have 4-6 Years of work experience in building highly-interactive applications using Java, Spring MVC, Spring JMS, Spring JDBC, Spring IOC, Spring Boot, MySQL, MiBatis, ReactJS, Java Script, jQuery, AWS, JMS and have knowledge on wide range of web technologies, tools and Frameworks.
• You have experience in working with Restful webservices
• You have strong knowledge and understanding of design patterns and domain driven design
• You understand fundamental design principles behind building scalable, resilient, and maintainable applications 
• You have functional knowledge of inclusive design: accessibility, and related tooling
• You have consumer web development experience for high-traffic, public facing web applications
• You have knack for writing clean, readable, re-usable code
• You have good knowledge on TDD and CI/CD practices.
• You have experience in managing and publishing releases using Git branching and tools like NPM and YARN.
• You have penchant for learning
• You are a great analytical & logical thinker and someone who loves solving problems
• You are passionate, energetic, enthusiastic and a go-getter
• You are “ FUN @ Work “

Job Description - 221135

Cloudera is looking for a highly experienced software engineer with strong expertise in Java development and a specialty in platform architecture to join the Cloudera Lens team.

Cloudera Lens is a high-fidelity, context-rich, and fully correlated self-service observability & optimization tool that analyzes the state and wellness of a customer’s environments and empowers them to proactively discover and address unknown unknowns in their data, scale operations without compromising on performance or costs, and expedite remediation of issues.

As a Java engineer, you will be working in a team of engineers led by an Engineering Manager, collaborating with other engineers and stakeholders in India, United States, and other countries around the globe.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, architecture, design, and implementation of key aspects of the Cloudera Lens data collection, data analytics, data correlations, and recommendations.

• Work with product management, engineering, UX, and documentation teams to deliver high-quality products.
• Interact with partners and customers to help define roadmap and shape the technology.
• Empower team members to deliver high-quality software at a fast pace.

Requirements:

• Proven track record of performance.
• Passionate about software engineering. Clean coding habits, attention to detail, and focus on quality and testability.

• Strong software engineering skills: object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms.
• Experience with containerization orchestration technologies: Kubernetes, Docker.
• Deep knowledge of system architecture, including process, memory, storage, and network management is highly desired.
• Experience with the following: Java, concurrent programming, and related areas.
• Experience with Java memory management, performance tuning and scaling
• Experience in building horizontally scalable products handling multi-terabyte datasets is desirable.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases: PostgreSQL, Amazon S3.
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English.

Advantageous To Have:

• Experience in building enterprise-grade cloud products.
• Experience with building/using cross-functional observability products.
• BS or MS in computer science.
• Cloud experience: AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Python, Linux, Micro Services experience.

• Design the architecture of new services to deliver timely communication from server to
• client and server to server, while still functioning alongside existing server components
• Describe and implement the communications across multiple network layers, considering
• performance, reliability, and flexibility with respect to the underlying infrastructure
• Enhance and expand the ORM layer of the studio’s in-house web framework
• Craft software solutions for supporting flexibility in resource allocation, from compute to storage
• Consult with technical operations on appropriate Kubernetes-based infrastructure design
• Design for performance, and measure the effects
• Review your colleagues’ code, and learn from their reviews as well
• Identify, document, and communicate best practices for the engineers who use the fruits of your labour
• Requirements:
• 7+ years professional work experience
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Must be proactive, self-directed, detailed and organized
• Proficient in PHP, C++, or Go
• Knowledge of relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
• Experience with in-memory NoSQL databases, such as Redis
• Ability to debug issues within custom code quickly
• Passion for developing scalable and maintainable software systems

Responsibilities

• Build and mentor the platform team at Checko.
• Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and craftsmanship of the team’s infrastructure and systems capable of handling massive amounts of requests with high reliability and scalability
• Leverage the deep and broad technical expertise to mentor engineers and provide leadership on resolving complex technology issues
• Entrepreneurial and out-of-box thinking essential for a technology startup
• Guide the team for unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

Requirements

• Must have design, development, testing, deployment of systems capable of handling massive amounts of requests with high reliability and scalability
• Must have strong command in writing production-level code in Java or Python including skills in debugging, performance analysis/optimization and memory usage optimization
• Must have worked with real-time web/mobile applications and event-driven architectures
• Must have experience working with relational and non-relational databases and understanding their data models and performance tradeoffs.
• Must have solid engineering principles and a clear understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Should have knowledge of service-oriented architecture, caching techniques, micro-services, and distributed systems
• Should have basic understanding of C++/reactJS/Angular/Node

Desired Skills and Experience

Algorithms, debugging, performance optimization on low-end processors, data structures, REST, service-oriented architecture.