Sr.Backend Developer

Job Details

- Job Title: Staff Engineer

- Industry: Technology

- Domain - Information technology (IT)

- Experience Required: 9-12 years

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bengaluru

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at company, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities-

• Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with company’s technical strategy.
• Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
• Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen company’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong staff engineer profile
• Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
• Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
• Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
• Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
• Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
• Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
• Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
• Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

Role Responsibilities:

• Development and Maintenance of REST APIs: Lead the creation and management of our RESTful APIs, ensuring top-notch performance and alignment with evolving requirements.
• Proficiency in Coding: We're in search of expertise in Python or equivalent programming languages. Your coding skills will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality (efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable) solutions.
• Unit and Integration Testing: Apply your expertise to craft unit and integration tests, upholding code quality and reliability.
• Version Control Systems: Proficiency in Distributed Version Control Systems is vital for seamless collaboration during development.
• Elasticsearch Expertise: Having valuable experience with Elasticsearch is a plus, given its critical role in data retrieval and search functionalities.
• NOSQL Database Familiarity: Knowledge of NOSQL databases like Cassandra and MongoDB will be advantageous.
• Message Broker Knowledge: Understanding message brokers, especially RabbitMQ, is beneficial for effective communication within our systems.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience: 1-2 years of hands-on experience as a Python developer.
• AWS: Proficiency in AWS cloud management and architecting enterprise data solutions.
• Pragmatic Problem-Solving: Recognize when a solution should be streamlined and when creating the right abstraction will lead to long-term efficiency gains.
• Passion for Quality: Demonstrate dedication to producing work of the highest quality and following best practices.
• Agile/Lean Process: Familiarity with Agile/Lean methodologies is a plus, reflecting your adaptability and collaborative spirit.
• Startup Mindset: Embrace the challenges and opportunities of a startup environment, contributing your skills and insights to our growth.
• Debugging and Optimization: Showcase excellent debugging and optimization capabilities to enhance system performance.
• Tech Awareness: Stay updated on emerging technologies and possess a solid understanding of the full product development life cycle.
• UX and Information Architecture: Exhibit excellent knowledge of mobile user experience, information architecture, and industry trends.

• Must have experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with Python/Node.JS/Typescript
• At least 2+ years as back-end software developer
• A deep understanding of the benefits of the Microservice and serverless paradigms
• Prepared technical documentation, and understand why it’s important
• Understanding of database principals: SQL and NoSQL
• Collaboration and communication skills (you’ll be working with clients and internal teams)
• An understanding of programming fundamentals (OOP, data structures, algorithms)
• Familiarity and comfort with REST API, Postman
• The ability to work independently or within a team structure.
• A “lead by example” attitude, and motivation to deliver work you’re proud of

Responsibilities:

• Strong Technical Chops: You should know how to build highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique rate-of-growth requirements.
• You should be on top of the latest architectural trends.
• Fast Learners: We are looking for folks who thrive on new technologies and don't believe in one-size-fit all solutions.
• You should be able to adapt easily to meet the needs of our massive growth and rapidly evolving business environment.

• You understand requirements beyond the written word.
• Whether you're working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience.

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch.
• Experience in Java and web technologies.
• Experience in any one scripting language like Python.
• Hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency.
• Knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing and deployment.