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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 Rust Developer to join our cutting-edge development team as it grows. The candidate must be comfortable working in an agile environment and can take the lead when necessary.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing the product as per the product specification defined by the product managers
• Responsible for performing research on the best methods of implementing the requirements
• Author and curate technical documentation to support delivery, maintenance, and adoption
• Work with programmers, engineers, and management heads to identify process improvement opportunities, propose system modifications, and devise governance strategies to optimise the overall performance
• Design and develop automated deployment and maintenance mechanisms
• Solving development challenges and making architectural decisions by understanding the larger picture of the project goals
• Expanding your existing skill set, and picking up on various rust-dependent frameworks
• Confidently communicating and collaborating with your fellow developers in an office set-up.

Requirements:

• Must have experience in Rust programming language
• Have excellent knowledge of different data structures and algorithms
• Working knowledge of any other programming language Python, Java, or JavaScript is good to have
• Experience with, or understanding of, Kafka or Redis, Cloud infrastructure services, and Docker is an added advantage
• Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Experience in Backend and APIs development
• Experience in analysing and optimising the platform's performance

• Observe, strategize, develop and design required software solutions.
• Designing Client-Side and Server-Side Architecture and Rendering and Static Site Generation.
• To confer with users - by studying systems flow, data usage & work related bottlenecks.
• Design and implement Back End and Front End code
• Interact with the production team, understand their workflow and find new ways to automate their workflow.
• Write effective APIs as well as Integrate third-party APIs.
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
• Manage huge data sets including structured and unstructured data sources.
• Machine learning tools for workflow automation.
• Knowledge of Spark and Map Reduce.

• Strong Knowledge of and C#, .NET
• Strong knowledge of client-side dynamic and rich UI applications development.
• Hands-on experience on HTML, CSS, bootstrap, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery and Prototyping.
• Strong hands-on experience in popular frameworks and JavaScript ecosystem – JS, Node, Angular, Jquery.
• Experience in Spark, Hadoop, Scala, and Elastic Search is a plus point.
• Experienced in building applications that meet enterprise needs – secure, scalable, loosely coupled design
• Exceptional design, coding, and problem-solving skills, with a bias for architecting at scale.
• Experience using NPM, Web-Pack, Gulp.
• Familiarity with performance testing and optimization’s.
• Strong knowledge of computer science, algorithms, and design patterns
• Write robust modular code for the full stack using the latest technologies, test and optimize it to work for high performance and scale and deploy it to the UiPath cloud platform.
• Work with various horizontal teams such as Structure, Electrical, Mechanical, Accessibility, Legal, and Finance and also interact with other core teams across locations at UiPath
• Own the smooth running of your cloud service or docker service, and respond to live site issues.
• Strong oral and written communication, and other soft skills critical to collaborating and engage with teams

Java Elastic Search

• Java Microservices ELK stack(Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, X-Pack, APM),
• Build Custom Reports

Java + NodeJS

• Java with Node.js- Microservices Development,
• Using graphql with node.js,
• Backend development with Node.JS

Java Microservices

• Working experience in Java and spring boot (microservices)
• Strong understanding of OOPs concepts
• Proficient in API design and development using RESTful services
• Knowledge and understanding of design principles behind building a scalable application
• Source code management using git

Primary responsibilities:

• Architect, Design and Build high performance Search systems for personalization, optimization, and targeting
• Designing systems with Solr, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka
• Algorithmic development with primary focus Machine Learning
• Working with rapid and innovative development methodologies like: Kanban, Continuous Integration and Daily deployments
• Participation in design and code reviews and recommend improvements
• Unit testing with JUnit, Performance testing and tuning
• Coordination with internal and external teams
• Mentoring junior engineers
• Participate in Product roadmap and Prioritization discussions and decisions
• Evangelize the solution with Professional services and Customer Success teams

Minimum requirements:

• Tech/M.Tech in computer Engineering or related fields or MCA
• At least 10-14 years of software development experience
• Expert in Java, Scala or any other object oriented language
• Proficient in SQL concepts (HiveQL or Postgres a plus)
• Additional language skills for scripting and rapid application development

Desired skills and experience:

• Working with large data sets in the PBs
• Familiarity with UNIX (systems skills a plus)
• Working experience in Solr, Cassandra, and Kafka
• Working in a distributed environment and has dealt with challenges around scaling and performance
• Working with distributed teams across multiple locations

Opportunity in our Product Team?
Our system has over 4 products & 12 modules designed by product managers working with banking & finance experts. The company’s growth from here is based on a multi-product strategy. The way we’re scaling our product team is in-line with the company’s strategy.

Your customers are the CFOs & Finance Teams in mid to large scale enterprise businesses and you will build these products to solve the problems faced by them.

You’ll become familiar with all parts of our stack from end to end. You’ll design and implement features to be scalable and resilient by working with both our infrastructure engineers and our product engineers. You’ll be a driver for positive change to Finly’s engineering culture, processes and technology.

Here are some examples of the projects in the different products:
Payment automation by building a deep integration with multiple banking systems:

• Governance frameworks with policy controlled workflows.
• Core finance document management system.
• Automating reconciliation of transactions across business
• Collaboration tools among finance, vendors & employees.
• Continuous ETL for integrating with CRMs like Salesforce & Accounting Systems like SAP.

WITHIN 1 MONTH, YOU'LL

• Complete Finly’s new-hire training week, and learn Accounts Payable
• Processes & the various partners we work with to make Finly happen.
• Investigate, solve and release a bug fix to production. In order to do this you will ramp up on Finly’s engineering stack by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering training sessions designed and presented by the team.
• Meet with cross-functional peers around the company to learn how the product functions.
• Complete your engineering starter project and deploy your first changes to production.

WITHIN 3 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Individually contribute reliably ship full features to customers.
• Own major product areas and take features from mock to deploy.
• Estimate technical scope and time to complete major features and initiatives.

WITHIN 6 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Move to new product vertical & initiative and start designing and architecting scalable systems as per the requirements discussed with Product Manager.
• Have made a visible impact on the product for all the users of Finly.
• Work closely with your team to remove roadblocks, educate on best practices and improve how we work.
• Be comfortable navigating most of our stack and infrastructure
• Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new features
• Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth and how our values inform our culture

WITHIN 12 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Individually contribute and lead teams to reliably ship full features to customers.
• Estimate technical scope and time to complete major products and initiatives.
• Define tools and standards for product engineering to measure performance impact of releases
• Help grow other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing and developing other learning opportunities
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals.

So in this role, you will work with the respective team’s product manager and other engineers in that team. You may work on the front-end or backend or both based on the requirement of the project.

Join us & have the authority and responsibility to make things happen!

Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

Role and Responsibilities

1. Helping lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
2. Working with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
3. Proactively identifying engineering bottlenecks and initiating proposals to improve them.
4. Writing high-quality, well-tested code in alignment with industry-wide best practices.
5. Applying a product mindset to back-end systems.
6. 1.  

1. About five years of experience delivering product-quality code in an agile set-up
2. Experience with Node.js (Hapi, Restify, Express, Mongoose, Socket.IO, Mocha)
3. Experience with Elasticsearch
4. Experience building and deploying Docker containers
5. Strong general Linux experience
6. Extensive experience with REST APIs
7. Experience with microservice architecture
8. Experience with MongoDB
9. Expert knowledge of Redis and caching strategies
10. Strong knowledge of unit/integration testing, including the art of mocking and writing testable code

1. Passionate about technology and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative and works well in a team.

Blok is a technology-first online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business, and we are on our way to revolutionize how millions of people across countries consume groceries. We believe in a world where getting everything you need, when you need it, sustainably, is the new normal. And it takes less than 10 minutes.

We believe we are positioned to lead this revolution. Why? Our founding and early team have held senior positions at Deliveroo, Uber, Glovo, Mercadona, or Unilever. We have done this before, and we believe we can do it again. But this time, even better.

Embark on the journey and help us launch the revolution in one of the highest growth industries of the year. Help us shape the new normal.