Principal Technical Lead -Golang

Role: Principal Backend Engineer

Primary Tech: Golang, Microservices, Distributed Systems

Work Mode: Hybrid (flexibility + collaboration)

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has deep experience in Golang and backend architecture
• Understands system design, scalability, and distributed systems
• Enjoys solving complex technical challenges in a high-impact environment

We're seeking passionate, next-gen minded engineers who are excited about solving complex technical challenges and building innovative, first-of-its-kind products which make a tangible difference for our customers. As a Backend SDE-1, you will play a key role in driving strategic initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams across business, product, and operations to solve exciting problems. This role demands strong technical acumen, leadership capabilities, and a mindset focused on innovation and operational excellence.

We value individuals who think independently, challenge the status quo, and bring creativity and curiosity to the table—not those who simply follow instructions. If you're passionate about solving problems and making an impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and constantly prioritise your own work.
• Technical Excellence: Understand the onground problems, explore and design various possible solutions to conclude and implement scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Implement and learn best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Managers, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Hands on with multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

Skills:

• Proficient in Go programming language with experience in building high-performance, scalable applications
• Experience with Java development a plus
• Familiarity with Git version control systems (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, SVN)
• Solid understanding of RESTful web services APIs
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Experience working with PostgreSQL databases

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and efficient Go code
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and deploy new features
• Participate in code reviews and ensure high code quality
• Troubleshoot and debug complex technical problems
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in Go and related technologies

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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.

Designation: Technical Lead (ABL_SS_272)

Position description:

• Work with Product and Engineering leaders to drive and implement platform and product vision.
• Leverage deep and wide knowledge of technology stack to recommend appropriate architecture and design solutions, and provide technical leadership to a team of rock star Software Engineers.
• Translate the impact of design choices on non-functional attributes like scalability, performance, availability, and security.
• Create large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed web applications with databases, and designing web services, APIs, data models, and schemas, using SQL or NoSQL.
• Experience with Cloud environments, such as AWS.
• Comfortable working with Windows and Linux environments.
• Work with different data storage solutions such as Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, ElasticSearch, SQL, Hadoop, or MongoDB.
• Experience delivering high-quality software following continuous delivery and using code quality tools (JIRA, GitHub, Jenkin, Hudson, Sonar, and Fortify, etc.).
• Drive adoption of best practices across the Software Engineering Lifecycle, including reviews, source control, build processes, continuous integration, and deployment.
• Develop and maintain cross-functional relationships and alignment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Application Development using Golang / C++.

Reporting Department: Application Development and Maintenance (1991)

Educational qualifications preferred Degree: Bachelors degree

Required Skills:

• Experience of building scalable architectures
• Hands-on experience with GoLang, Node Js, C++ or Java or any other Open Source technologies/ Cloud Servers
• Experience in developing software using a formal & structured development methodology
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• Experience with test-driven development & proper unit testing of code
• An iterative approach to development, using short development cycles & frequent builds
• Object-oriented programming/ Object Oriented Design (OOP/OOD)
• Ability to develop secure solutions & knowledge of industry best practices regarding information security & defensive development

• B.Tech/B.E (preferably in Computer Science Engineering) 
• 7+ years of hands-on programming experience in building data-driven REST APIs, services & platforms using advanced Java frameworks like Spring, Redis, Node.js etc. with deep focus on integration & scale.
• We also look for hands-on experience with Mysql, Elasticsearch (or Solr) and Nosql stores.
• Our evaluation starts with focus on computer science fundamentals, data structures & algorithms.
• You will have been learning new technologies every week and prefer folks who can use golang/rust for backend development and are familiar with equivalent data stores, index stores and pub-sub technologies.