Backend Engineer - C/C++

Job Title: Engineering Lead

Role Overview:

We are looking for an Engineering Lead to take end-to-end ownership of technical delivery, design, architecture, and quality for our multi-customer SaaS product. You will lead and mentor the engineering team, drive scalable design and high-quality delivery, manage releases across customer environments, and ensure the stability and performance of the product in production.

Key Responsibilities:

·        Delivery & Release Management: Plan and deliver product features and customer-specific releases on time with high quality, ensuring operational readiness and stability across environments.

·        Technical Design & Architecture: Lead technical design and high-scale architecture for new and existing modules, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.

·        Team Management: Mentor and guide engineers, ensure clarity in priorities, unblock challenges, and foster a culture of ownership and quality within the team.

·        Requirement to Delivery: Work with product and customer teams to understand requirements, translate them into designs and implementation plans, and track them through to delivery.

·        Product Quality: Establish and maintain engineering best practices, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure high product quality and reliability.

·        Troubleshooting & Support: Lead the team in debugging complex issues in development and production, ensuring minimal downtime and strong customer satisfaction.

·        Hands-on Contribution: Actively contribute technically where needed, providing architectural guidance and coding support aligned with the team’s stack.

Requirements:

·        Experience: 8–12 years in software engineering with at least 3+ years in a lead role.

·        Proven experience in designing scalable, high-performance architectures and technical solutions.

·        Experience delivering multi-customer SaaS product releases, including phased and customer-specific configurations.

·        Strong track record of ensuring product quality and stability through structured processes, testing, and monitoring.

·        Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and guide teams towards resolution.

·        Experience in mentoring and managing engineering teams to drive aligned delivery and high performance.

·        Hands-on experience with your relevant tech stack (e.g., Python, Django, Angular, AWS, Docker, Redis, RabbitMQ).

·        Excellent communication and collaboration skills with Product, QA, and Customer Support teams.

·        Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or related field.

Company Profile:

Livello India Private Limited is a start up company with its parent company based in Germany in the city of Dusseldorf. We started in the year 2016 with a vision to create revolution in the domain of retail technology to automate and simplify the shopping experience of our customers. We have started our R&D division in India with a vision to strengthen and expand our R&D team to come up with the products that will make the shopping experience of our customers fast and hassle free. Our expertise consists of fullstack, IoT,cloud, data science, computer vision, embedded systems, test automation, electronics and mechanical engineering.

For more information, please visit our website https://www.livello.com/technologies?lang=en

Tasks:

· You will take part in the design of the architecture and the development of modern software-based applications in the back-end (Node.JS &TypeScript)

· You support the technological conception, programming and implementation of new features

· You help manage IoT-to-Cloud services, Microservices and GCP

· Experience of working with MongoDB

Mandatory Requirements:

· Bachelor or Master student in an IT-related field of study

· 3-4 Years of Experience in Backend along with Software Deployment

· Ability to holistically conceive applications in multiple technologies in the backend

· Experience with Node.JS, TypeScript and Mongo DB.

· Hands on exposure to cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Nice to Have:

· Experience with GraphQL, Nest.JS, Docker and Kubernetes

· Understanding of IoT device management and message brokers like AMQP or MQTT

· Good to have DevOps experience

· Exposure to Agile Scrum Framework

Benefits:

· A responsible position in a fast-growing and highly innovative start-up

· An agile and diverse team with colleagues from all over the world

· English speaking open work environment, with flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths

· Advanced technology stack leveraging cutting-edge IoT hardware and software

· Creative freedom for own ideas, projects and personal development

· Team building, learning and start-up events

· Opportunity for diversifying your technical learning.

Solid knowledge and experience of working in C/C++ programming language

Solid knowledge and experience of working with PCL (Printer Command Language) or IPDS (Intelligent Printer Data Stream)

Solid working knowledge of object oriented principles: Encapsulation, Classes, Inheritance, Code Reuse, Polymorphism, Decoupling

Responsible for technical design of a subsystem

Knows how to apply architecture and design patterns

Skills Required:

- Good experience with programming language Python
- Strong experience in Docker.
- Good knowledge with any of the Cloud Platform like Azure.
- Must be comfortable working in a Linux environment.
- Must have exposure into IOT domain and its protocols ((Zigbee & BLE ,LoRa,Modbus)
- Must be a good team player.
- Strong Communication Skills

• Develop new functionalities on the Company platform, in close collaboration with the Product team
• Analyse and correct anomalies across the various environments
• Propose and participate in the platform evolution
• Contribute to the platform architecture, ensure strong code quality (tests & code reviews) and adherence to best practices
• Mentor and support junior developers

• Experience in PHP & MySQLi, various open source frameworks,
• Strong knowledge in JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, SQL,
• Strong Knowledge in Frameworks like Laravel
• Strong skills of APIs Creation & integration
• Knowledge of Cloud Servers like AWS, Digital ocean
• Know how to Secure the PHP Scripts from attacks or injections,