Backend Team Lead

Review Criteria

• Strong Senior Backend Engineer profiles
• Must have 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems
• Must have strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks (FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), Express (Node.js).
• Must have deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework
• Must have strong experience with databases, including SQL and NoSQL, along with efficient data modeling and performance optimization
• Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems, including system design and clean code practices
• Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)
• (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D
• (Education) – Candidates from top engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, or equivalent Tier-1 colleges) are preferred

Role & Responsibilities

As a Founding Engineer at company, you'll join our engineering team during an exciting growth phase, contributing to a platform that handles complex financial operations for B2B companies. You'll work on building scalable systems that automate billing, usage metering, revenue recognition, and financial reporting—directly impacting how businesses manage their revenue operations.

This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a dynamic startup environment where requirements evolve quickly and problems need creative solutions. You'll work on diverse technical challenges, from API development to external integrations, while collaborating with senior engineers, product managers, and customer success teams.

Key Responsibilities-

• Build core platform features: Develop robust APIs, services, and integrations that power company’s billing automation and revenue recognition capabilities
• Work across the full stack: Contribute to both backend services and frontend interfaces, ensuring seamless user experiences
• Implement critical integrations: Connect company with external systems including CRMs, data warehouses, ERPs, and payment processors
• Optimize for scale: Build systems that handle complex pricing models, high-volume usage data, and real-time financial calculations
• Drive quality and best practices: Write clean, maintainable code while participating in code reviews and architectural discussions
• Solve complex problems: Debug issues across the stack and work closely with teams to address evolving client needs

The Impact You'll Make-

• Power business growth: Your code will directly enable billing and revenue operations for fast-growing B2B companies, helping them scale without operational bottlenecks
• Build critical financial infrastructure: Contribute to systems handling millions in transactions while ensuring accurate, compliant revenue recognition
• Shape product direction: Join during our scaling phase where your contributions immediately impact product evolution and customer success
• Accelerate your expertise: Gain deep knowledge in financial systems, B2B SaaS operations, and enterprise software while working with industry veterans
• Drive the future of B2B commerce: Help create infrastructure powering next-generation pricing models from usage-based to value-based billing.

Job Role Java lead

Experience 8+ years

Notice period Immediate

Location Bangalore

Note: OMS & Retail domain Experience is mandatory

Introduction

We are seeking a Development Lead (Dev Lead / Technical Lead) with strong hands-on experience in Java and

Microservices to lead a team of developers in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality, scalable

applications. The role requires a balance of coding, technical decision-making, and team mentorship.

Job Description

• Create, design, and implement layouts for new and existing software solutions.

• Must be able to lead a team of engineers and ensure high quality software delivery from the team. Be

approachable to the team members.

• Take complete ownership of the Design that they are responsible for.

• Ability to understand business requirements of clients and translate them into technical requirements.

• Identify impacts of planned work on existing functionality.

• Plan and estimate work to be completed.

• Conduct code reviews to ensure that the software deliverables are of the highest quality.

• Keep an eye on the Tech Debt and plan for managing at an acceptable level.

• Lead interactions with clients from a Tech team perspective.

Certifications :

• Oracle Certified Java Professional

• Spring Certified Professional

• Any NoSql / Cassandra / MongoDB certified developer

• GCP, AWS, & Azure Certified (Mandatory)

• Any retail OMS / Supply Chain product certifications

Primary Skills :

• 8+ years of proven experience in the industry, with at least 2 years as an Lead or similar role designing

and developing enterprise-scale applications.

• Bachelors in engineering / technology (4 year) or master's in computer applications (2 year)

• Must possess at least 6+ years of Software development experience.

• Expert knowledge in at least one object-oriented programming language like Java, one backend

framework like Spring Boot / Node JS, one UI framework like React JS / Angular JS and RDBMS or NoSQL

database.

• Excellent knowledge of front-end programming languages, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AngularJS,

with the ability to render server-side and client-side content.

• Helps identify newer practices and adoption of existing ones. Ensure that the code quality is maintained

via own and/or peer code reviews.

• Can lead the team in delivery of backend and user interface code. Ensure that the DevOps tasks are

executed well.

• Ensure that the software has the correct level of logging & monitoring in Production and LLEs.

• Exceptional problem-solving skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication. Must understand the client’s business requirements and

translate them into software requirements. Has a view of the deliverable timeline and escalates when

needed.

• Ability to articulate technical designs & develop documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts etc.

• Experience in implementing OMS products for retail customers will be an added advantage.

• Ability to do estimation for the given requirements.

• Ability to lead technical discussions with clients.

• Must be able to do quick proofs of concepts and demos based on client requirements.

• Provide timely feedback on the performance of team members.

• Conduct interviews & provide feedback to achieve hiring objectives.

• Contributes to organization building functions such as hiring, training, mentoring, team building.

Secondary Skills:

• Participate in daily scrum calls and provide status updates, address issues proactively, and timely

reporting of risks to project managers.

• Take complete ownership of the non-functional requirements around Performance, Security/Compliance,

i18n/l10n, etc.

• Capable of leading a high-performance team in a two-week iteration cadence with frequent product

deliveries.

• Ability to socialize designs/ideas and collaborate with stakeholders.

• Self-motivated and works with minimal direction.

Experience in Core Java and Spring Boot.

 • Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale applications and systems. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns. 

• Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency clientfacing applications. 

• Good development experience with RDBMS.

 • Good knowledge of multi-threading and high-performance server-side development. • Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux. 

• Excellent problem solving and coding skills. 

• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills. 

• Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts

• 4+ years distributed service engineering experience in a software development environment
• Experience driving feature design reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers through the entire launch process
• Strong development experience in Java, C++, C#, or similar OO languages
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals
• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures
• Good understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies
• Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus

• Experienced in automated deployment tools such Continuous Integration (Azure DevOps/Git).
• Excellent debugging skills; able to debug complex technical issues involving multiple system components. Good to have knowledge on online & offline sync capabilities in Progressive Web Application (PWA) implementation.
• Knowledge on Azure DevOps is optional.
• Knowledge on INFORM, WARN and ERROR logging in Azure Application Insights, error handling, access authorization, data connectivity in C# is mandatory.
• Knowledge on publisher/subscriber queueing such as RabbitMQ.
• All C# code must contain descriptive comments to functions, or complex/nested loops, if, or case statements.
• Knowledge on NetSuite is an advantage.
• Knowledge on Azure Active Directory is an advantage. Knowledge on OAuth 2.0 & JWT Tokens is mandatory. Writing high-level design and technical analysis documents.
• Should have worked on Agile framework

1. Strong Experience on. NET Core, . NET Microservices, C# 5.0 Xunit - Unit Test Framework - C#, Entity Framework/Entity Framework and RESTful Design, Redis
2. Experience with SQL Server 2012 & above
3. Should be well versed with RabbitMQ
4. Knowledge on Azure Active Directory, Application Insights, Azure Devops/Git/Bitbucket Pipeline, Serverless / Azure functions, Azure Service Fabric / Functions
5. Hands-on JWT Tokens, API Authorization, OAuth 2.0 JSON or XML
6. Exposure to NetSuite, Workato will be an added advantage

Responsibilities

§Implement assigned user stories within project schedule.

§Execute unit testing using automated unit test frameworks.

§Collaborate with team to identify and fix technical issue.

Job Description

§Experience in Java/J2EE, web framework (Spring, Hibernate) and web services.

§Hands-on with core Java and Spring MVC.

§Hands-on experience to implement and manage REST and Micro services.

§Familiar with DevOps pipelines.

§Experience in Agile development methodology like Scrum and test-driven Development.

§Good communication skill.

• Translation of complex functional requirements into technical requirements
• Design, develop and maintain complex systems using best of the breed development practices and technology.
• Responsible for the overall software development life cycle.
• Delivery of High Quality & Scalable systems and applications with a sharp focus on timelines.
• Being on the lookout for bettering the software engineering practices and tools within the organization
• Collaboration with other stakeholders to provide robust and well-rounded solutions
• Report on the status of product delivery and quality to management, customer support and product teams.

• Experience of 5+ years in designing & developing highly scalable, performant web applications
• Strong programming, debugging, and problem-solving skills
• Strong Computer Science Fundamentals (Data structures and Algorithms)
• Sound understanding of object-oriented programming and excellent software design skills.
• Good experience of Restful services using Java Springboot
• Strong understanding of database design and SQL (PostgreSQL / MySQL) development
• Good to have knowledge of NoSQL technologies like Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra or any other NoSQL database
• Knowledge of design patterns and good to have experience of large-scale applications
• Should have experience in Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS or other Queueing systems.
• Experience of working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Computing (GCP) would be considered as an advantage
• Experience of developing with Serverless Model will be an advantage.