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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’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with strong tech leadership and hands-on expertise in Java + Spring Boot.

What you’ll do:

• Lead high-performing engineering teams

• Drive architecture, system design & scalable backend solutions

• Balance 60% people management + 40% hands-on coding

• Own CI/CD, integrations & high-quality releases

What we need:

• 10+ yrs experience (3+ yrs in EM role)

• Strong in Java, Spring Boot, microservices & cloud

• Startup mindset, ownership & solid communication skills

📍 Location: Bengaluru (On-site)

• Experience in API development using Java will be a plus.

• Excellent knowledge and experience in writing testable, scalable, flexible, robust and efficient web applications using JavaEE 6/7 technologies, specifically, Spring core, Spring Boot Spring Data, spring batch and JPA
• Experience in successfully deploying Java-based applications in production and understanding load-balancing, authentication, and fault tolerance through Tom Cat.
• Experience in database modeling (MySQL/NoSQL databases such as Mongo DB)

• Knowledge of integrating with Ant, Maven, GIT and Shell scripting.
• Strong backend experience to develop Data Layer using at least one of the ORM frameworks like Hibernate, JPA etc.
• Strong RDBMS Skills and SQL skills. Experience in MySQL, Teradata and warehousing databases.

• Experience in Analytics frameworks and visualization products.

• Excellent knowledge and experience of Maven, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery with Jenkins.
  • Experience with JavaScript frameworks, especially Angular is a definite plus.

Java 8, J2EE , Spring Boot, Microservices, Apache Spark, DevOps, Advanced SQL, preferably with

expertise in Data engineering/Data analytics,

ELK(Elastic Search, Logstash , Kibana) stack, Teradata, any No SQL database, Hands on experience in

maintaining products on Cloud Technologies like PCF, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, etc, NodeJS,

Angular 2x, GitLab with CI/CD, Hands on experience in Unix server, Shell scripting, Large data

processing, Performance tuning, Experience in working in various Test Automation frameworks like

Selenium, Test NG, Python, Cucumber, Karma, Karate/ Jasmine, etc

Experience in using Eclipse, Spring tool suite, Project building tools - Maven, Gradle, etc, JIRA for ALM.

Are you a high-performing, collaborative, results-oriented and technologically savvy person who is keen on sales in the digital industry? Then this highly visible role is for you!

Our client is the Health-tech initiative of India's largest business house. Started in 2015, it empowers healthcare providers and consumers in India. All healthcare monitoring services are made available through an app that will help connect doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories, and consumers, enabling preventive and predictive healthcare. It helps the care-givers to track the entire patient journey from the initial appointment and maintaining their records, generating lab test reports to providing virtual consultation and home-care solutions. It is expected that this futuristic guide will strengthen the doctor-patient relationship and enhance the in-clinic experience.

As the Sr. Java Developer, you will be responsible for developing cutting edge health-tech applications that include high scale transaction processing, intelligent bot-based programs, and data analytics

What you will do:

• Building components for the companys advanced health-tech platform using Java, Solr, SpringBoot, DialogFlow
• Communicating effectively in a cross-functional product development team and presenting ideas and solutions effectively

What you need to have:

Dot is a technology start-up, operating in Fintech and e-commerce space. With the aim to
revolutionize offline-to-online(O2O) space, Dot strives to enable digital transformation of Offline businesses using smart innovations. This is a huge market, serving the 1.3 billion strong Indian population.

The start-up is led by a strong and experienced team. It has already raised seed funding of ~US$ 35.5 Million from renowned investors.

To know more, head over to: www.dotpe.in

About the Founders
The company is led by an experienced team, three ex-PayU employees - Shailaz Nag, Gyanesh Sharma & Anurag Gupta, with proven expertise & knowledge of the fintech space as well as experience in building & managing companies.

Shailaz Nag is a well known visionary entrepreneur. He was ex-Managing Director and co-founder of PayU, (India’s largest and profitable Payment Company) which is currently valued at US$ 3 Billion. He was also one of the founding members of Ibibo Group. Shailaz Nag is a Chartered Accountant and also holds an MBA degree.

Gyanesh Sharma is an IIT Delhi alumnus, holding a B.Tech. degree in Computer Science. He has strong experience in leading tech teams, holding position of
● CTO at Shopclues
● Head of engg. at PayU
● Engg. Head at MakeMyTrip

Anurag Gupta has a decade long experience in building financial services business. He was Vice-President & Business head at PayU for Omnichannel business. He also headed Bank & Product Partnership for PayU.

Investors
Dot has raised seed funding of US$ ~35.5 million from
● Naspers Fintech (PayU) -
○ $120bn group with global presence. Listed in London, Johannesburg, Amsterdam
○ Presence in India : MMT-Goibibo, PayU, Flipkart, Swiggy, Byju’s, OLX
○ Global Presence : Tencent - WeChat, OLX
● Fosun RZ Capital
○ Affiliate of Fosun Group - A $100Bn Chinese conglomerate
○ Presence across global growth markets
● Info Edge
○ Parent company of naukri.com, jeevansaathi.com, 99acres.com, shiksha.com
○ Listed on NSE & BSE with a market cap of INR 27,000 crore
○ Major investor in zomato.com & policybazaar.com

Products
At Dot, we are solving the key problems that lie at the heart of Offline businesses by equipping them with commerce and fin-tech products. We are building a horizontal Omni-channel platform encompassing several Products all aimed at empowering all types of merchants, big or small, with Digital Technology. Whilst strengthening the merchants, our products also aim to direct this digital transformation towards improving the customer journey.
Our initial Product line-up has already garnered attraction from several renowned enterprises as well as significant interest from every medium and small-scale merchant we touch. And this just marks the start of our journey!

About Profile
Responsibilities
• Understanding the business requirement and provide good scalable solution
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
• Completely owning the backend services of a module
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Our stack is ReactJS, React Native, Golang, MySQL, NoSQL and hosting environment is AWS

Skills and Qualifications
• Extensive and expert programming experience in anyone programming language (Golang/ C/ Java).
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, software design and distributed system applications
• Experience with building and scaling apps with RDBMS as well as NoSQLs.
• Experience creating scalable Web APIs for mobile and browser consumption
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting problems
• Worked in start-up culture with high levels of ownership and commitment
• Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert design into code fluently
• Engineers from Tier 1 colleges

• Work with the architect in identifying modules, interfaces, functionality to be developed
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web application, addressing technical and design requirements
• Understand and implement heuristic algorithms as necessary
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Create and maintain upto date documentation 
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, architects,  designers and system administrators to identify and incorporate new features

• Proven work experience in Java as a Back-end developer
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Hands on experience with programming languages like https://resources.workable.com/back-end-developer-job-description" target="_blank">Java and Python
• Hands on experience in relational and non relational databases
• Working knowledge of CMS framework
• Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS)
• Excellent analytical and time management skills
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
• BE/ MS degree in Computer Science or relevant field