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Required Skills: CI/CD Pipeline, Data Structures, Microservices, Determining overall architectural principles, frameworks and standards, Cloud expertise (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Distributed Systems
Criteria:
- Candidate must have 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with 1–2 years leading engineers or owning major systems.
- Candidate must be from a product-based organization with a startup mindset
- Must be strong in one core backend language: Node.js, Go, Java, or Python.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, caching, high availability, and microservices architecture.
- Hands-on experience with AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong command over system design, data structures, performance tuning, and scalable architecture
- Ability to partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and lead end-to-end backend roadmap execution.
Description
What This Role Is All About
We’re looking for a Backend Tech Lead who’s equally obsessed with architecture decisions and clean code, someone who can zoom out to design systems and zoom in to fix that one weird memory leak. You’ll lead a small but sharp team, drive the backend roadmap, and make sure our systems stay fast, lean, and battle-tested.
What You’ll Own
● Architect backend systems that handle India-scale traffic without breaking a sweat.
● Build and evolve microservices, APIs, and internal platforms that our entire app depends on.
● Guide, mentor, and uplevel a team of backend engineers—be the go-to technical brain.
● Partner with Product, Data, and Infra to ship features that are reliable and delightful.
● Set high engineering standards—clean architecture, performance, automation, and testing.
● Lead discussions on system design, performance tuning, and infra choices.
● Keep an eye on production like a hawk: metrics, monitoring, logs, uptime.
● Identify gaps proactively and push for improvements instead of waiting for fires.
What Makes You a Great Fit
● 6+ years of backend experience; 1–2 years leading engineers or owning major systems.
● Strong in one core language (Node.js / Go / Java / Python) — pick your sword.
● Deep understanding of distributed systems, caching, high-availability, and microservices.
● Hands-on with AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.
● You think data structures and system design are not interviews — they’re daily tools.
● You write code that future-you won’t hate.
● Strong communication and a let’s figure this out attitude.
Bonus Points If You Have
● Built or scaled consumer apps with millions of DAUs.
● Experimented with event-driven architecture, streaming systems, or real-time pipelines.
● Love startups and don’t mind wearing multiple hats.
● Experience on logging/monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, OpenTelemetry.
Why company Might Be Your Best Move
● Work on products used by real people every single day.
● Ownership from day one—your decisions will shape our core architecture.
● No unnecessary hierarchy; direct access to founders and senior leadership.
● A team that cares about quality, speed, and impact in equal measure.
● Build for Bharat — complex constraints, huge scale, real impact.
Location: Hyderabad
Work Mode: Hybrid (2 days WFO)
Experience Required: 4.5+ years
Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Preferred
Employment Type: Full-Time
Mandatory Requirements:
- 4.5+ years of experience in Java Development
- Hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment
- Must be available to join immediately
- Must be willing to work in Hybrid mode from Hyderabad
Technical Skill Requirements:
- Strong hands-on experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices
- Solid understanding of OOP concepts, Multithreading, and REST APIs
- Practical knowledge and experience working with AWS services like EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, SNS, etc.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools and version control systems (Git)
- Good knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
- Ability to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based backend applications
- Implement and integrate AWS services to ensure scalability and reliability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including QA, DevOps, and Front-end developers
- Optimize application performance and troubleshoot issues in a timely manner
- Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and team discussions
- Ensure best practices in code quality, security, and documentation
- Handle deployments and production support if needed
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Excellent problem-solving & analytical skills & OO principles
- Solid understanding of the data structure & algorithms.
- Expert knowledge with any one of the Javascript Framework such as Node Js.
- Any additional experience with Java or python, GoLang would be nice to have.
- Experience working with SQL database like MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Experience working with NoSQL databases like mongoDB, couchbase would be nice to have
- Working experience with cache like redis, mem cached or elasticache would be nice to have
- Working experience with Message Queues would be a great advantage.
- Experience with deployment & AWS would be nice to have
- Ability to do in depth analysis or problem statement or use case & Build robust & scalable architecture
- Logging & monitoring of the production system in real time
- Lead a team of 2-4 team members & make sure team practices defined coding practices across the project.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:
- Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
- Collaborate with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Develop ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
- Record data and report it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership.
- Participate in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
- Take the lead on projects, as needed.
- Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle.
- Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future.
- Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean codes.
- Conduct UI tests and optimize performance.
- Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve applications.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming or relevant field. Master’s Degree in a related field is preferred.
- 5-7 years of relevant experience
- Must be an expert programmer, skilled at computer languages such as HTML, C+++, C#, PHP, Python and Java.
- Must understand Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, JMS, Mysql, Redis, CouchDb, Micro Services, Docker, Kubernetes
- Must be able to interpret and follow instructions related to the ultimate functionality of our IT-based product
- Familiarity with front-end languages such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS
- Must be comfortable with technology architecture and how a computer and its software functions.
- Deadline driven, organized and understand how people view and understand content on the front-end
- Proven experience in highly complex environments
- Strong technical documentation skills
- An ability to solve multifaceted technical issues in a fast-paced environment
- Self-motivated and accountable for your work
- Passionate about learning and continuous improvement
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work overtime
• 3+ years of software development experience on web applications
• Experience in working in an onsite and offshore development model
• Must have hands-on design and development experience in Cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, Microservices,
Java, J2EE, Spring/Boot, Hibernate, JUnit and Integration with front end via rest interfaces.
• Must have Hands-on experience in Multi-threading, Non-blocking IO, Kafka, JMS
• Strong integration background required. Experience with Microservices, REST, JSON and APIs is required
• Experience with as many of the following is highly desirable: Tomcat, Node.js, XML, XSLT, XPath, Web Services,
MongoDB, MYSQL, and query performance tuning
• Experience with code management and continuous integration techniques and tools such as Maven, Gradle, Github,
JMeter, Jenkins, NPM etc. is highly desirable
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and working knowledge in data structures, algorithms, problem-solving and
complexity analysis
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life
cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and
operations
• Proven ability to troubleshoot issues in production including root cause analysis
• Self-directed and capable of working effectively in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
• Experience with Agile software development in a UNIX/Linux environment
• Experience with system architecture/design
Responsibilities:
Leading and managing team of developers.
Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developer with server-side logic.
Building reusable code and libraries for future use
Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
Implementation of security and data protection
Design and implementation of data storage solutions
Skills and Qualifications:
Overall 6-8 years of experience in multi-tiered application development and leadership
Strong Programming fundamentals. (Must have - Java)
Good Knowledge in cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, etc.
Hands on experience on Spring technology including Springboot, SpringMVC, Spring Security and others.
Good understanding on experience on microservice development using Springboot REST web services using
Spring Rest or Jersey SQL NoSQL DB
Hands on with Unit testing Dynamic and proactive with ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Good communications skills fluent in English
Ability to communicate effectively across different disciplines
Primary Skills (Good toHave)
Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Restful Web Services, Micro Services
Education: B.Tech/B.E, BCA, MCA, MCS, etc. in Computers
**Sr. Backend Developer Responsibilities:**
* Commitment towards delivering features on the estimated time
* Follow standard code guidelines for writing code and code review of your fellow team member's code
* Strong understanding of REST Framework
* Designing and developing REST APIs
* Ensuring scalability of code written
**Sr. Backend Developer Requirements:**
* Strong understanding of Node or any other equivalent language
* Strong understanding of database technology such as MySQL and MongoDB
* Good understanding of AWS, Redis, ElasticSeacrh, Newrelic, sentry, etc
* Have experience in monitoring and managing production level systems
* Degree in Computer Science
* Excellent verbal communication skills
* Good problem-solving skills
* Attention to detail
**About Easy Eat**
Easy Eat is reimagining the experience of dining in at a restaurant. We're starting with Malaysia and South East Asia but we believe, 5 years from now, you'll experience it in the same way across the world.
We've achieved Product Market Fit and are growing rapidly across geographies. We crossed the $10M annual run rate in just 12 months and we're really excited for the journey ahead.
**About the team**
We're a group of experienced founders who have *been there, done that* in the past. Raised funds from global VCs in industry. Have operated at scale, know how to leverage data and grow culture and teams.
Your Day-to-Day Tasks Include:
Works in requirements like Engineering, Design, Development, and Deployment. All the tasks involves working with Java, SQL Server and Couchbase.
Build and monitor data pipelines that serve 100+ websites, 150M+ unique impressions daily. Write code that can handle 4x more scale than the given requirement.
Maintain uptime of multiple distributed web applications.
Build data pipelines to pull data from upstream partners like Google.
You Should Have:
Minimum 3 years of experience with Java.
Minimum 2 year of experience with any SQL database (MySql, MSSql, Oracle, DB2, Sybase). Minimum 3 years of experience with web development.
Experience with any NoSql database (MongoDb, Couchbase, CouchDb, DynamoDb). Experience of designing/implementing/maintaining scalable systems.
Experience with any cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP).
Good To Have:
Experience with BI and data reporting.
Experience with Elastic search.
Understanding of data warehousing.
Experience in Node.js.
Benifits
Support for Continuous learning
Competetive Salary
Quarterly webinars and Annual conferences








