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NOW HIRING · WORLD-CLASS TALENT Backend Tech Lead (Senior Level Engineering Leadership)
Placed by Recruiting Bond on behalf of a Confidential Digital Platform Leader
📍Location: Bengaluru, India (Hybrid / On-Site)
🏢Sector: Technology, Information & Media
👥Company Size: 500 – 1,000 Employees
💼Employment: Full-Time, Permanent
🎯Experience: 6 – 9 Years (Backend Engineering)
🚀 Level: Tech Lead
ABOUT THIS MANDATE
Recruiting Bond has been exclusively retained by one of India's most well-established digital platform organisations — a company operating at the intersection of Technology, Information, and Media — to identify and place a world-class Backend Tech Lead who can drive a transformational engineering agenda at scale.
This is not an ordinary role. The organisation is executing a high-stakes, large-scale modernisation of its backend infrastructure — migrating from legacy monolithic systems to resilient, cloud-native, AI-augmented distributed architectures that serve millions of concurrent users. The person in this seat will be a core pillar of that transformation.
We are looking exclusively for the top 1% — engineers who think in systems, own outcomes, and lead by example.
THE OPPORTUNITY AT A GLANCE
🏗️ Architecture Ownership
Drive system design decisions across the entire backend platform. Shape the future of distributed, fault-tolerant architecture.
🤖 AI-Augmented Engineering
Embed GenAI and LLM tooling directly into the SDLC. Champion automation-first development practices across squads.
🎓 Engineering Leadership
Mentor and grow the next generation of backend engineers. Lead hiring, reviews, and cross-functional technical alignment.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Architecture & Platform Modernisation
- Lead the full migration of legacy monolithic systems to a scalable, cloud-native microservices architecture
- Design and own distributed, fault-tolerant backend systems with sub-millisecond SLO targets
- Architect API-first and event-driven platforms using async messaging patterns (Kafka, Pub/Sub, SQS)
- Resolve systemic performance bottlenecks, concurrency conflicts, and scalability ceilings
- Establish backend design standards, coding guidelines, and architectural review processes
2. Distributed Systems Engineering (Production-Grade)
- Design and implement Webhook reliability frameworks with intelligent retry and exponential backoff strategies
- Build idempotent, versioned APIs with enterprise-grade rate limiting and throttling controls
- Implement circuit breakers, bulkheads, and resilience patterns using Resilience4j / Hystrix or equivalents
- Engineer Dead-Letter Queue (DLQ) strategies and event reprocessing pipelines with guaranteed delivery semantics
- Apply Saga orchestration and choreography patterns for distributed transaction integrity
- Execute zero-downtime deployments and canary release strategies with rollback capability
- Design and enforce multi-region disaster recovery and business continuity protocols
3. AI-Driven Engineering Practices
- Champion LLM and GenAI adoption as first-class tooling across the software development lifecycle
- Apply prompt engineering techniques for automated code generation, review, and documentation workflows
- Utilise AI-assisted debugging, root cause analysis, and predictive performance optimisation
- Build automation-first pipelines that reduce toil and accelerate delivery velocity
- Evaluate and integrate emerging AI developer tools into the engineering ecosystem
4. Engineering Leadership & Culture
- Own backend platforms end-to-end with full accountability across development, stability, and performance
- Actively mentor, coach, and elevate engineers at all levels (L3–L6) through structured 1:1s and code reviews
- Drive and lead technical hiring — from designing assessments to final hire decisions
- Partner with Product, Data, DevOps, and Security stakeholders to align engineering with business objectives
- Represent the engineering org in cross-functional roadmap planning and architecture decision reviews
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, psychological safety, and high-velocity delivery
TECHNOLOGY STACK (HANDS-ON PROFICIENCY REQUIRED)
Languages: Java (primary) · Go · Python · Node.js · PHP · Rust
Cloud: AWS · GCP · Azure (Multi-cloud exposure preferred)
Containers: Docker · Kubernetes · Helm · Service Mesh (Istio / Linkerd)
Databases: PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Cassandra · Redis · Elasticsearch
Messaging: Apache Kafka · RabbitMQ · AWS SQS/SNS · Google Pub/Sub
Observability: Datadog · Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry · Jaeger · ELK Stack
CI/CD & IaC: GitHub Actions · Jenkins · ArgoCD · Terraform · Ansible
AI & GenAI: OpenAI / Claude APIs · LangChain · RAG Pipelines · GitHub Copilot · Cursor
QUALIFICATIONS & CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education
- B.E. / B.Tech or M.E. / M.Tech from a Tier-I or Tier-II Institution — CS, IS, ECE, AI/ML streams strongly preferred
- Exceptional real-world engineering track record may be considered in lieu of institution pedigree
Experience
- 6 to 9 years of progressive backend engineering experience with demonstrable ownership and impact
- Proven track record of shipping and scaling production SaaS / Product systems at significant user load
- Exposure to and success within start-up, mid-size, and large-scale product organisations — the full spectrum
- Strong computer science fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, distributed systems theory, OS internals
- Demonstrated career stability — minimum 2 years average tenure per organisation
- The Ideal Candidate Exemplifies
- System-level thinking with an ability to hold context across code, architecture, product, and business
- An ownership mindset — no task is 'not my job'; outcomes and quality are personal commitments
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for asynchronous, cross-functional collaboration
- Intellectual curiosity: actively follows engineering trends, contributes to the community (OSS, blogs, talks)
- Bias for automation, observability, and engineering efficiency at every level
- A mentor's instinct — genuine desire to grow others and raise the capability of the team around them
WHY THIS ROLE STANDS APART
✅ Transformational Scope
Lead platform modernisation at scale. Your architectural choices will define systems serving millions of users for years.
✅ AI-Forward Engineering Culture
Be at the forefront of AI-augmented development. This org invests in tools and practices that make great engineers exceptional.
✅ Established, Stable Platform
Join a company with 500–1,000 employees, proven product-market fit, and the resources to execute on a serious technical vision.
✅ Career-Defining Leadership
Operate with strategic influence, direct access to senior leadership, and a clear path toward Principal / Staff / VP Engineering.
HOW TO APPLY
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Submit your application with an updated resume
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. All applications are treated with the strictest confidentiality.
⚡ We move fast — qualified candidates can expect a response within 48–72 business hours.
Recruiting Bond | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | 2026
We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer with 10+ years of experience in systems-level engineering (Rust/C/C++), including 5+ years of production Rust, to design and build high-performance, low-latency, fault-tolerant trading infrastructure. Prior hands-on experience with financial trading systems is mandatory.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Rust - Build scalable and reliable distributed systems capable of handling high request volumes - Optimize application performance, memory usage, and resource utilization - Design clean, maintainable, and well-tested software architecture
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver production-ready solutions
- Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical planning - Troubleshoot production issues and improve system reliability and observability - Write clean, well-documented, production-quality code following engineering best practices
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional systems programming experience in Rust, C, or C++ (5+ years production Rust)
- Mandatory: hands-on experience with financial trading systems — exchanges, order books, matching engines, OMS/RMS, or market data systems (equities, F&O, FX, commodities, or crypto)
- Strong understanding of exchange mechanics — order types, price-time priority matching, spot trading, derivatives (futures/perpetuals), options, margining and liquidation concepts
- Strong experience building production-grade, low-latency, high-throughput backend applications
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and concurrent programming — Raft/consensus, replication, snapshots, deterministic state machines, exactly-once semantics
- Advanced concurrency: lock-free/wait-free structures, ring buffers, thread-per-core design, core pinning
- Strong understanding of networking concepts — TCP/IP, UDP, multicast, real-time communication, asynchronous networking
- Experience designing and implementing binary communication protocols for inter-service communication (SBE, Protocol Buffers, FlatBuffers, Cap'n Proto)
- Experience with microservices architecture and event-driven systems - Experience with messaging systems such as Aeron, Kafka, NATS, or similar high-performance platforms
- Strong understanding of in-memory data structures and efficient memory management — cache lines, memory ordering, NUMA, allocation-free design
- Experience working with relational databases and caching systems
- Experience working in Linux-based production environments
- Familiarity with containerization and modern deployment practices
- Strong debugging, profiling, and benchmarking skills (perf, flamegraphs, Criterion) - Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities; ability to work independently and take ownership of technical deliverables
Preferred Technical Experience
- Tokio, Tonic (gRPC), Serde, Tracing, Criterion, Cargo/Clippy/Rustfmt - Aeron, LMAX Disruptor, Chronicle, or FIX engines
- Kernel-bypass networking concepts (io_uring, DPDK, AF_XDP); hardware timestamping
- Lock-free or wait-free programming techniques
- Options pricing / Greeks / volatility surface exposure
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing highly available and fault-tolerant systems (active-active, consensus-based failover)
- Deterministic simulation / property-based testing of stateful systems
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure and production monitoring tools
- Open-source contributions (openraft, TigerBeetle, tokio, etc.) or personal Rust systems projects
Selection Process
- 3 Rounds of Technical Interview
- 1 Round of Management Interview
- Shortlisting based on work evidence (repo/PR/design doc/write-up of a hard problem solved)
- Systems design deep-dive (order book / matching engine design), hands-on coding round, distributed systems round
JOB DETAILS:
* Job Title: Engineering Manager (Client facing)
* Industry: Technology
* Salary: Best in Industry
* Experience: 8-12 years
* Location: Bengaluru
Role & Responsibilities
We are seeking a visionary and decisive Engineering Manager to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will lead and inspire a talented team of software engineers, driving innovation and excellence in product development efforts. This is an exciting opportunity to influence and shape the future of our engineering organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a high-performing team of software engineers.
- Develop and implement engineering strategies that align with organizational goals.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality outcomes.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize product features.
- Implement and uphold Agile methodologies to optimize team performance and efficiency.
- Conduct regular performance evaluations, fostering continuous professional growth within the team.
- Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from initial conception through to deployment.
- Manage budgets, resources, and capacity planning for engineering projects.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, ensuring the team is equipped with the latest industry trends.
- Ensure adherence to best engineering practices, maintaining high coding standards.
- Hands-on coding experience required – actively contribute to coding and technical design decisions.
- Tech stack: Java, Spring, microservices, cloud technologies, and building large-scale systems.
- Experience in collaborating directly with clients – ensuring client requirements are met and managing relationships effectively.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong Client-Facing Engineering Manager Profile
- Must have 8+ years of engineering experience, with substantial exposure to back-end development, scalable distributed systems, and modern web services
- Must have 2+ years of experience in people and delivery leadership, owning engineering execution and leading teams to deliver complex products
- Must have proven experience working directly with external stakeholders / clients, translating client requirements into engineering plans and delivering solutions with high customer impact
- Strong technical foundation with experience in backend engineering, REST APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and building reliable, high-performance systems
- Strong problem-solving and design capabilities; experience with system design, architecture reviews, and engineering best practices
- Must have expertise in agile methodologies and project management tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of presenting technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- (Cross-Functional Collaboration): Must be skilled in working with product, design, sales, and client teams to drive requirements, delivery, and client success
- (Execution & Delivery): Demonstrated ability to manage end-to-end delivery, coordinate releases, prioritise effectively, and deliver results in time
- (Company): Product companies
- (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
- (Education): B.Tech in computer science, engineering or a related field from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges (Master's preferred)
• 3 - 6 Years of Experience in Golang Development
• Understands requirements well and comes up with efficient design
• Develops complex, well backed and bug-free products.
• Estimates accurately.
• Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
• Becomes a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
• Communicates clearly, gets clarifications and establishes expectations for all parties
• Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
• Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design and code
Ideal Candidate Profile:
• Solid experience in Golang is must.
• Solid understanding of Apache Products.
• Should have experience in cloud computing (AWS is desired).
• Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase
• Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
• Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
• Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
• Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/ tools for a given job
• Excellent understanding of software engineering practices,
• Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
• Experience in product driven organisation.
Synapsica is a growth stage HealthTech startup founded by alumni from IIT Kharagpur, AIIMS New Delhi, and IIM Ahmedabad. We believe healthcare needs to be transparent and objective, while being affordable. Every patient has the right to know exactly what is happening in their bodies and they don’t have to rely on cryptic 2 liners given to them as diagnosis.
Towards this aim, we are building an artificial intelligence enabled cloud based platform to analyze medical images and create 2.0 of advanced radiologist reporting.
We are backed by YCombinator and other marquee investors from India, US and Japan. We are proud to have GE, AIIMS, the Spinal Kinetics as our partners.
Join us, if you find this as exciting as we do!
Description:
Synapsica is looking for a Node.js/Python developer who is passionate about designing and implementing scalable solutions with highest quality. You will be responsible for creating high performance, responsive, and secure server-side programs to manage Synapsica platform. You will be responsible for designing, managing and supporting cloud platform and scaling our database. This role is ideal for you if you have a background in bakcned development and are looking for the next level of career growth in a fast paced, learning based and merit driven work environment.
Responsibilities:
- Design and development of our new platform modules from scratch.
- Hands on implementation of our APIs and integrations.
- Design, scaling and integration of new/existing databases.
- Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability
- Design and construction of our REST APIs with best secutiry mechanisms.
- Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment pipelines in tandem with the respective team members.
- Performance tuning and improvements in large scale systems.
- Ensuring responsiveness and cross-platform compatibility of applications.
- Owning and delivering end-to-end products, features, enhancements.
Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- At least 4+ years of experience with writing Python/NodeJS/PHP/Ruby on Rails.
- Prior experience of database design and management in MongoDB, including being up on the latest practices and associated versions.
- Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with huge amount of data.
- Familiarity with AWS (or equivalent) ecosystem with end-to-end cloud deployment.
- Experience implementing code level unit tests.
- Proficiency with Git / Version control.
- Appreciation for clean and well documented code
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Good problem solving skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Very high sense of ownership.
- Deep interest and passion for technology
• Maintain, update, and enhance ITSM environment including Incident, Request,
Problem, Change and Knowledge Management, Service Catalog, Service Portals,
SLAs, Discovery, and Integrations
• Participate in the implementation and configuration of other ServiceNow products
outside of ITSM to increase the adoption of the ServiceNow platform.
• Responsible for performing daily administration, issue resolution, and
troubleshooting of the ServiceNow platform.
Monitor health, usage, and overall compliance of ServiceNow and its applications.
To be the right fit, you will need:
• Minimum of 2 years of demonstrated experience in ServiceNow development and
configuration.
• Proficient in developing, integrating and maintaining applications using ServiceNow
Platform technology and tools.
• Understanding of and experience working with IT Service Management processes
(Incident, Problem, Change, Release, SLM, Service Catalog), PPM/ITBM
• Understanding of IT and business requirements with ability to develop, test, deploy
improvements, and update Manage and administer lists, filters, forms, platform
interfaces (to other data sources) and the data within tables, import sets and the
CMDB.
• Preferably certified in ServiceNow
Opportunity to work with a Silicon Valley based security and governance start-up.
About Privacera
Privacera, Inc is a California based start-up company that is looking for Senior Software Engineers to work out of our Mumbai/Pune based office. Privacera is a cloud-based product which uses Cloud native services in AWS, Azure and GCP. Privacera is a fast-growing start-up and provides ample opportunity work on all Cloud services like AWS S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, RedShift, EMR, Azure ADLS, HDInsight, GCP GCS, GCP PubSub and other services.
We are looking for motivated individuals who are keen to work on Cloud or Big Data services or have worked on Cloud and Big Data. If you want to work in a start-up culture and are ready for the challenge, then join us on our exciting journey.
Responsibilities:
- Design, code and debug cloud-native applications.
- Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation
- Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code
- Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
- Serve as a subject matter expert
Requirements:
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5+ years of relevant experience in software development
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Deep understanding of public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or Google)
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Experience with large scale distributed systems
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Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems
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Prior experience with data encryption, TLS/SSL is a strong plus
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Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
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Deep experience with Java
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Excellent communication (writing, conversation, presentation) skills, consensus building, Quick learner
Good to have experience in Production support - Tier 4
Experience with these technologies are a plus: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudera, Snowflake, Mongo DB, Oracle, Databricks, Datastax, Confluent
- Build robust & scalable web applications
- Participate in product design, development, verification, troubleshooting & delivery of web applications.
- Design and create relational database schema & application framework as needed
- Work with a worldwide team to integrate the product to meet the requirement
Required Qualifications:
- Degree in Computer Science from a top-tier institution
- Relevant full-time work experience of 4-8 years
- Strong foundation in computer science, with solid competencies in object-oriented software design patterns, software QA methodologies, processes, and test automation.
- Ability to self-teach.
Mandatory Technical Skills:
- PHP, Javascript/AJAX, SOAP/REST, GIT
- MySQL/NoSQL
- Linux
- Software development life cycle (SDLC)
Desirable Technical Skills:
- Linux scripting
Our client develops, publishes and distributes highly engaging games to a wide audience covering mobile, social and online platforms. Their group of architects are always attempting new and radical stuff that enhances the creative programming and gaming stages, keeping the players constantly glued and wanting for more.
Funded by SnapDeal founders, it is a cross platform gaming organisation focused on real money gaming and strategy games. The founder is an INSEAD and IIT-B alumni with more than 10 years of work experience across various countries.
- Handling the server side programming of the multiplayer gaming application
- Writing scalable, robust,, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
- Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software
- Translating design mockups and prototypes into working applications.
- Building customer facing technology products, Developing Highly Scalable Code and Working Closely with Engineering and Product Team.
- Building social, web and mobile based games for users across India
What you need to have:
- Candidates with experience in Go / Python / Erlang will be preferred
- Working experience in a Product StartUp (Internet / E-commerce) building scalable applications.
- Hands on experience in system architecture and gaming apps
- Good spoken and written communication skills.
- Good team player.
- Sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills
- Able to think critically of the current system in terms of software development











