Backend Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a seasoned Backend Tech Lead with deep expertise in Golang and Python to lead our backend team. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience in backend technologies and 2–3 years of proven engineering mentoring experience, having successfully scaled systems and shipped B2C applications in collaboration with product teams.

Responsibilities

Technical & Product Delivery

● Oversee design and development of backend systems operating at 10K+ RPM scale.

● Guide the team in building transactional systems (payments, orders, etc.) and behavioral systems (analytics, personalization, engagement tracking).

● Partner with product managers to scope, prioritize, and release B2C product features and applications.

● Ensure architectural best practices, high-quality code standards, and robust testing practices.

● Own delivery of projects end-to-end with a focus on scalability, reliability, and business impact.

Operational Excellence

● Champion observability, monitoring, and reliability across backend services.

● Continuously improve system performance, scalability, and resilience.

● Streamline development workflows and engineering processes for speed and quality.

Requirements

● Experience:

7+ years of professional experience in backend technologies.

2-3 years as Tech lead and driving delivery.

● Technical Skills:

Strong hands-on expertise in Golang and Python.

Proven track record with high-scale systems (≥10K RPM).

Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms.

● Leadership Skills:

Demonstrated success in managing teams through 2–3 appraisal cycles.

Strong experience working with product managers to deliver consumer-facing applications.

● Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Nice-to-Have

● Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

● Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

● Previous leadership experience in B2C product companies operating at scale.

What We Offer

● Opportunity to lead and shape a backend engineering team building at scale.

● A culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.

● Competitive compensation, benefits, and career growth opportunities.

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

F5 is looking for Software Engineer II with in-depth experience in high scale distributed systems. You will participate in the design and implementation of of our Edge Computing platform that is used to deploy global, scalable and secure applications. Your work includes, but not limited to, Research, design and build highly reliable, available and scalable platforms, API definition, implementation, deployment, operational management, and debugging.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver solutions that will help create, deploy and manage the service components of the platform
• Investigate various open source and close source technologies, components, libraries, tools etc. and help build a highly available, highly scalable and easily manageable system
• Take ownership of software components and   deliver   a   complete   product   satisfying   functional, scale, performance   and manageability requirements.
• Hands-on   coding   in   multiple   languages   while   considering   performance,  scalability, maintainability, and flexibility
• Understanding and exposure to design patterns and coding practices especially as applied to microservices architectures and API design, implementation and management
• Experience in Cloud native providers like MS Azure or AWS or Google Cloud or any major Cloud vendors in the market and their services
• Independently investigate, present options, review and implement completely new functionality
• You will work closely with other development teams, product management, UX, and QA to define and implement a new product offering while ensuring continued functionality.
• Perform code reviews, set coding practices and guidelines within the team
• Ability to implement all phases of a development cycle for a software product from understanding requirements, going through design, development and deploy phases
• Work with geographically distributed teams

Minimum Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience in highly distributed software systems, ability to understand the nuances and solve problems related to scale, performance and resiliency of such a system
• Experience in programming languages: Golang, Java, Python any objected oriented high level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs.
• Good understanding of programming fundamentals & their application to highly scalable web-based systems
• Experience in developing polyglot software using service definition language and framework like gRPC, Thrift, Google Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI etc.
• Must have hands on SQL or No SQL technologies.
• Experience working on CICD methodology and Git based workflow
• Experience in Docker technologies including experience in optimizing Docker image and managing Docker image lifecycle. Experience in orchestration systems like Kubernetes and container technologies like Docker, rkt is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal, team building, and mentoring skills
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 3+ years of software development experience

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Java 1.8 or later/Golang/Ruby on Rails,
Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, SQL / NoSLQ , REST APIs , Redis , Kafka, Rabbit MQ, Docker, AWS

B2B / B2C / Cloud (AWS/ GCP) / SAAS Products ,  Software Best Practices , REST / GRPC , Domain Driven Design, Event and Message Driven Systems , Data Structures , Algorithms, OOPS, System Design, JUnit, Mockito, Fitnesse, Cucumber, HTML/ CSS / Javascript, Git , Bitbucket, Maven, Asynchronous / Functional / Reactive Programming in Java

• An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS/PhD in any stream – Computer Science preferred.
• 7-12 years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable systems
• Understand the product management space with Agile methodologies.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one cloud-based product - Experience in building microservices / platforms is desirable.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.
• Ability to balance the long-term “big picture” and short-term implications of design decisions.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Mentoring / coaching Junior and Senior Engineers.
• Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns and configuration tools for faster development.
• Excellent in Engineering excellence – code quality, performance tuning / chaos engineering, operational excellence etc.
• DevOps and TechFinOps mindset to problem solving and product development.

Requirements:

• 3+ years’ experience under your belt developing performance-critical applications that run in a production environment using Node.Js
• Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries.
• Expertise in common Cloud technologies, AWS/GCP Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows.
• Knowledge in one or more of the following: NoSQL (especially, but not only Redis), Queueing system experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ)
• Good stakeholder management skills, with an ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders
• It is good to have knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker and related deployment technologies.
  
  

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Write well-designed, testable, efficient, and high-quality code.
• Design (LLD & HLD) and architect technical solutions for the business problems of a large-scale system.
• Prepare and produce releases of software components.
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• We believe leadership comes through ownership and so we love people who take ownership of their work and lead by example

Desired Candidate Profile

Skyber is a fintech based in Mumbai, India, and is building a connected commerce platform and disruptive Enterprise SaaS with the fundamental of digitalizing, unifying, and streamlining business processes and transactions.

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At Skyber, we are obsessed with our vision to create an ecosystem for Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Business Owners & freelancers of Bharat where we provide them with procurements to payments & enquiry to invoicing platform. Skyber was born out of the need to bring back the focus on these business owners, to empower them so that they can ride along with the technology wave and adopt the phigital way.

To build such a community we require people with the same vision who are working towards making this dream possible for us and for all these business owners.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development
• Following an agile framework of development

Who can apply :

Only those candidates can apply who:

1. Are available for full time. Right now the team is working from home but when the situation improves we expect them to come to Office. ( Office is situated in Goregaon, Mumbai )
2. At least 2 years of professional work experience in the field of design along with a strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience.
3. Can join the team on an immediate basis.
4. Have relevant skills and interests.

Perks :

• Flexible work hours
• Informal dress code
• A ticket on our rocket ship to the Moon 🚀

Here’s what you will get if you work with us :

1. Working with a young & dynamic team that constantly tests your thinking and beliefs.
2. No specific work timings. We believe that your work should speak for you and not the time.
3. Constant amusement by Dot (Warning: Apply only if you love dogs) 🐶
4. Occasional doses of Yummy Home Cooked food 😋
5. Homelike Work Environment (We also have a bed if you need to sleep - even though we think you won't get any for a while)