Java Tech Lead-AVP

Senior Backend Engineer

Node.js, System Design & Production Platforms

📍 Mumbai (On-site) | Full-time | 5+ years

About the Role:

Unico Connect is an AI-first technology partner that builds custom mobile, web, and AI products for clients across multiple geographies.

We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to own the backend architecture of a complex production AI platform on a dedicated client engagement: API design and data modelling, multi-tenancy, orchestration of long-running agent workloads, and the services that manage user projects and generated output.

We are open to full stack engineers whose primary strength and interest is backend. If you have shipped full stack work but the backend is where you do your deepest engineering, you are a fit for this role.

The mandatory requirement for this role is hands-on production experience as a senior backend engineer building complex, scalable systems in Node.js, with end-to-end ownership of architecture, data, and operations on at least one live platform.

The role is hands-on and architectural.

Expect to design system architecture, lead a small group of backend engineers, build the hardest parts yourself, set engineering standards, and partner closely with frontend, AI, and DevOps engineers.

A typical week includes an architecture decision on a new service, hands-on implementation of a critical path, a code review with mid-level engineers, and a working session with the AI engineer on an integration contract.

Responsibilities:

System Architecture

Own the backend architecture across engagements.

Make and document decisions on service boundaries, data models, API contracts, deployment topology, and trade-offs.

Hands-on Backend Delivery

Lead by example on complex modules, performance-critical paths, and high-risk areas using Node.js (Express, NestJS, Fastify) with TypeScript.

Pick up Python (FastAPI) where engagements require it.

Database Design and Performance

Drive PostgreSQL schema design, indexing, query optimisation, migrations, and capacity planning.

Set the data-modelling standard across the pod.

Caching, Queues, and Workflows

Design caching (Redis), event-driven patterns (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, NATS), and long-running workflow orchestration (Temporal, BullMQ, Celery, or equivalent).

Handle retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.

Multi-Tenancy and Platform Patterns

Design and implement multi-tenant data isolation, RBAC, audit logging, and resource quotas appropriate to enterprise-grade products.

API and Integration Design

Set the standard for REST, GraphQL, and gRPC contracts.

Drive versioning, authentication (OAuth, JWT, SSO), security by default, and developer ergonomics.

Observability and Operations

Instrument services with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Define SLOs, lead incident response, and write postmortems.

Code Quality and Mentorship

Run code reviews, define conventions, mentor mid-level engineers, and raise the engineering bar.

AI-Assisted Engineering Discipline

Use Claude, Cursor, and similar tools day to day.

Set the team standard for prompts, patterns, AI-assisted review, and validation of AI-generated backend code.

Client Engagement

Represent Unico Connect in technical conversations with customers.

Defend architectural decisions, communicate trade-offs, and manage scope.

Requirements:

Hands-on Production Experience as a Senior or Lead Backend Engineer in Node.js (Mandatory)

Must have personally built and shipped complex production systems in Node.js, owning architecture, data, and operations on at least one live engagement.

Full stack engineers whose deepest work is on the backend qualify.

POCs and internal tools alone do not qualify.

5+ Years of Professional Backend Engineering Experience

With at least 1 to 2 years in a senior or lead role with direct responsibility for technical decisions and team output.

Deep Node.js and TypeScript Proficiency

Strong with Express, NestJS, or Fastify.

Comfort with async patterns, streams, worker threads, and performance profiling.

Python as a Strong Plus

Hands-on production experience with FastAPI, Django, or Flask is a meaningful advantage.

Willingness and demonstrated ability to pick up Python as engagements demand is required.

PostgreSQL Depth

Schema design, normalisation, indexing, query performance, migrations, and at least one production system where you owned the data model end to end.

Caching and Event-Driven Architecture

Hands-on with Redis (or equivalent) and message queues or event-driven patterns (RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka, NATS).

AWS Depth

Hands-on production experience with EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, ECR, and at least one of EKS, ECS, or Lambda.

Comfort owning deployment, monitoring, and cost.

System Design and End-to-End Ownership

Able to take an ambiguous problem, break it into components, evaluate alternatives, produce an architecture that holds up under review and load, plan execution, and ship with limited supervision.

AI-Assisted Engineering Experience

Daily use of Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent.

Strong discipline for reviewing and validating AI-generated backend code.

Excellent Written and Spoken English

Experience working directly with international clients.

Confident defending architectural choices in writing and in review.

Nice to Have:

• Workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow)
• GraphQL (Apollo, gRPC)
• Sandboxed execution environments
• Multi-tenant SaaS experience
• OpenTelemetry instrumentation
• Prior agency or consulting experience

Django Developer (Backend Developer)_Hyderabad Location

Prelude

We are BeyondScale, on a mission to build a mobile learning app to help organizations create internal courses for their workforce easily. eLearning is booming and we aim to tap into the under-served non-IT L&D market and make a difference in the livelihoods of millions of people.

Job Description:

• 2+ years of experience coding with Python.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
• Eager and proactive to learn new technical skills.
• Hands-on experience of developing web APIs and writing database queries in PostgreSQL (MongoDB, MySQL and DynamoDB is a plus).
• Good understanding of OOPs, Multiprocessing and threading.
• Proficient in testing and debugging programs.
• Well-versed with Git and modern development workflow practices

Founded in 2012,leader in high-assurance digital identity verification technology.  Named to Forbes’ 2019 AI 50 list as one of America’s most promising AI companies, and a recent winner of API World’s Best Data API, technology applies artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques with trusted online/offline data intelligence from email, address, phone, IP, social media and the broader Internet to verify identities in real-time. Customers include three of the top five U.S. banks, seven of the top 10 U.S. card issuers, as well as the majority of leading digital banks, lenders and insurers across the U.S. We are funded by some of the world's best investors and entrepreneurs including Scale Venture Partners, Commerce Ventures, Work-Bench, Santander InnoVentures and Two Sigma Ventures.

The only way we can further our mission of becoming the single, trusted source of identity verification and eliminating identity fraud is by building the best team on the planet. This is where you come in!

We are hiring Software Engineers across all levels in Chennai!

What You'll Be Doing:

• You will partner with our globally distributed cross-functional teams (Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, Data Science) to conceptualize and develop new features and products in an Agile environment. 
• You will own end-to-end delivery of software components all the way to production, owning team features or systems. 
• You will be building web services and REST APIs at scale, and producing high-quality results with direct business impact. 
• You will be monitoring and improving existing deployments, ensuring that we are continuously improving our product. 
• You will be assisting our QA and support team in triaging and resolving production issues and addressing bugs.

What You'll Bring:

• You are interested in our tech stack (Java or Scala, SQL Databases, NoSQL, Microservices, and AWS)
• You will have strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, various programming languages, distributed systems, etc. 
• You understand engineering best practices and seek to improve engineering standards, tooling and processes. 
• You write “good code” - easily understandable, secure and testable! 
• You are comfortable helping drive technical decisions within our Engineering team. 
• You have experience building applications at scale.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive base salary
• Equity - every employee is a stakeholder in our enormous upside
• A tech-first company culture driven by entrepreneurial thinking and talent
• A great team working in unison towards the same mission
• Transparency is what our product is built on—and so is our culture
• Daily catered lunch and snacks
• Generous health insurance for employees and dependents
• Flexible work schedule and work-from-home options
• Flexible PTO

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 

Role/ Responsibilities

• Lead a team of hard working backend developers. 
• Design APIs, DB, Queues, monitoring for micro services. 
• Writing, deploying and managing micro services. 
• Migrate existing components into distributed micro service architecture. 
• AWS Cloud / Google Cloud Platform (Manage Infrastructure). 
• API integration with 3rd parties. 
• Unit test cases, automation. 
• Database optimisation. 
• Design of highly concurrent backend architecture. 
• Handling high traffic data. 

Experience required: 

• Sound fundamentails in software design. 
• Must have worked on distributed and micro service architecture. 
• Sound fundamentals on scale/ performance/ memory optimisation. 
• Sound fundamentals of authentication, authorization, payment processes, data security. 
• Must have experience in Spring / Spring boot. 
• Good to have experience in Kafka / JMS / RabbitMQ / AWS Elastic queue. 
• Good to have experience in Junit / mockito unit test cases. 
• Good to have knowledge in Mysql (or any RDBMS). 

• 3-5 Years of experience in Backend Development.
• Must have experience in Python (FLASK framework).
• Have Deep understanding of how RESTful APIs work.
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns that can work at scale.
• Sound knowledge of NoSQL/SQL Databases (Mongo DB preferred).
• Strong experience with at-Cloud technology, preferably AWS or GCP or Azure.
• Core experience in developing complex backend systems.
• Communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Passionate about application scalability, availability, reliability, and security.