Tech Lead - Backend

Tech Lead – Backend

Roles & Responsibilities

The company is building the operational backbone for how B2B enterprises run their business.

As a Tech Lead on the backend team, you will own the technical direction for a core domain of the platform—systems where correctness is non-negotiable, scale is unforgiving, and edge cases never stop coming. You will also mentor Senior Engineers in your pod.

This is a hands-on role: you will write code and design systems yourself day to day, pair on complex problems, review the work of engineers around you, and be the person who figures out what's actually broken before it becomes a fire.

You will report into the Engineering Manager / Head of Engineering. This is not a feature-factory role. You are here to raise the level of abstraction the team works at, not simply to ship tickets faster.

What You'll Own

• Design and build core platform services that handle complex business logic reliably at scale.
• Architect and own integrations with external enterprise systems, including their quirks, rate limits, and failure modes.
• Build APIs that enterprise engineering teams actually want to integrate with, not just ones that technically work.
• Own production debugging end to end: diagnose issues across services using logs, traces, and metrics, and make incidents boring rather than fires.
• Embed security and compliance thinking into your systems by default, not as a retrofit.
• Mentor Senior Backend Engineers in your pod: pair on hard problems, review their work, and help them grow as engineers.
• Set the architectural direction for your domain: choose frameworks, patterns, and abstractions that shape the platform for years.
• Lead design reviews and code reviews, and set the technical standard the rest of the team calibrates against.
• Hold a clear bar for quality, follow-through, and ownership across the engineers you work with, ensuring systems are healthy in production, not just merged.
• Partner with Product, Implementation, and Customer Success as the engineer who understands the system deeply enough to challenge requirements when necessary.
• Raise the technical bar for the engineers around you without slowing the team down.
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Ideal Candidate

1. Strong Tech Lead / Staff Engineer / Lead Engineer Profile

• Proven experience operating at Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, or Lead Engineer level.

1. Mandatory – Overall Experience

• Minimum 6+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience building production backend systems.

1. Mandatory – Tech Lead Ownership

• Proven Tech Lead ownership with experience setting technical direction, architecture, frameworks, or engineering standards used by other engineers.

1. Mandatory – Backend Development

• Strong hands-on backend development experience with deep proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Python, Java, or Golang.

1. Mandatory – System Design & Distributed Systems

• Strong experience in system design and distributed systems, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, failure modes, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

1. Mandatory – APIs & Integrations

• Experience designing and building APIs, backend services, and external/enterprise integrations.
• Strong experience owning complex business logic and production systems.

1. Mandatory – Technical Leadership

• Formal technical leadership experience, including mentoring Senior Engineers, conducting design and code reviews, driving engineering quality, and leading technical decisions across a team.

1. Mandatory – Hands-on IC + Tech Lead

• Must be a hands-on Individual Contributor + Tech Lead, with approximately 70–80% hands-on coding/engineering involvement.
• Pure people-management profiles are not suitable.

1. Mandatory – Company Background

• Experience working in Product Companies, Startups, or B2B SaaS organizations.

1. Mandatory – Education

• CS degree or equivalent, such as B.Tech / B.E. / B.S.

1. Preferred – Technical Skills

• Experience with Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ
• AWS
• Docker / Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• Observability and monitoring
• Security and compliance
• Multi-tenant systems
• Financial, billing, or enterprise platforms

Role: Java Backend Lead

Experience: 9.5+ Years

Location: Hyderabad / Bangalore

Notice Period: Immediate to 15 Days

Interview Process: All Rounds Virtual

Mandatory Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in Java
• Spring Boot
• Microservices
• Kafka
• Strong technical/lead experience

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Java Backend Lead with 9.5+ years of experience in backend application development and technical leadership.

The candidate should have strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and Kafka, along with experience leading technical teams and delivering scalable backend solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend applications using Java and Spring Boot.
• Develop and maintain Microservices-based applications.
• Work extensively with Kafka for event-driven applications.
• Provide technical leadership and guide development teams.
• Participate in architecture, design, coding, code reviews, and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver projects successfully. 

About Orenda

Orenda is a fintech-enabled financial services company founded in 2017 and based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. We work as a corporate DSA and channel partner for leading banks and NBFCs, helping individuals, professionals, and MSMEs access suitable financial solutions across business loans, personal loans, home loans, loan against property, and professional loans.

At Orenda, we combine financial expertise, technology, and streamlined processes to simplify the lending journey. We are building our own lending-tech platform to improve operational efficiency, strengthen lender and partner integrations, and develop technology-driven solutions that support our evolving business needs.

About the role

We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer who enjoys building as much as designing. You'll shape how our systems are architected, write a good share of the code yourself, and lead a team of 3 to 5 engineers, including AI/ML engineers.

This is a hands-on leadership role, not a pure management or architecture position. Your time will be roughly split like this:

Share of time

Leading the team ~30%

Solution design ~30%

Hands-on coding ~30%

Deployment and infrastructure~10%

What you'll work on

Solution design and architecture

• Turning business needs into technical designs that are practical to build and easy to maintain

• Making architecture decisions across services, integrations and data flows

• Estimating, scoping and planning new features with business and product stakeholders

• Shaping the solution design for AI/ML use cases alongside the AI/ML engineers

Engineering and delivery

• Writing production code in Python and Node.js

• Rolling out new features across our internal and partner-facing platforms, including our CRM and partner portal

• Continuously improving existing systems for performance, reliability and code quality

• Reviewing code and setting engineering standards for the team

Infrastructure and cloud

• Maintaining and upgrading our infrastructure, including a planned move to a major cloud platform

• Owning deployments and production stability together with the team

• Working with event-driven and messaging systems (NATS today, Kafka planned)

Team leadership

• Leading and mentoring a team of 3 to 5 engineers

• Planning and prioritising work, unblocking the team, and making sure things ship

• Building a culture of ownership, clear documentation and quality

What we're looking for

• 5 to 8 years of software engineering experience, with hands-on coding in your recent roles

• Strong command of Python and Node.js

• Proven experience designing and building backend systems and microservices that run in production

• Hands-on experience deploying and running workloads on at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP)

• Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL

• Experience with messaging or event streaming systems such as NATS, Kafka or RabbitMQ

• Experience leading or mentoring a small engineering team

• Comfort estimating effort, breaking down features and planning delivery

• Enough understanding of AI/ML systems to guide their solution design and integration

• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Good to have

• Experience working at a fintech, lending or financial services company

• Hands-on experience with Kafka

• Experience leading an infrastructure upgrade or cloud migration

• Experience building or scaling CRM or partner-facing portal products

Why Join Us?

• Build a growing lending-tech platform: Play a key role in shaping the technology behind a growing financial services business.
• Own technical decisions: Contribute directly to architecture, engineering standards, and technology direction.
• Stay hands-on: Combine solution design and technical leadership with meaningful coding responsibilities.
• Work with emerging technologies: Collaborate with AI/ML engineers and contribute to evolving platform capabilities.
• Lead and grow a team: Mentor engineers and help build a strong engineering culture as the technology function scales.
• Make a measurable impact: Build systems that improve operational efficiency and support business growth.

Looking for strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Microservices, System Design, Kafka, Redis, Cloud, Docker & Kubernetes.

FinTech / Banking experience will be an added advantage.

Join our product development team at Planview as a Senior Software Engineer I and become a pivotal force on the Viz Core Team. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape and lead the development of data-processing pipelines and APIs that are at the heart of our software solutions. These solutions are designed to streamline and enhance the efficiency of software delivery, resonating deeply with software engineers who strive to build better and faster.

At Planview Viz, which is powered by the innovative “Flow Framework,” you will tackle complex data challenges and develop scalable solutions within an AWS cloud environment. Your efforts will be crucial in revolutionizing how businesses harness and interpret vast amounts of workflow data, transforming it into actionable insights that propel organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

Responsibilities (What you'll do)

• Create and refine powerful data-processing architectures that integrate seamlessly with a diverse array of external tools, enhancing the way software is delivered across industries.
• Drive operational excellence by critically analyzing problems, defining requirements, and devising robust solutions that push the boundaries of technology.
• Lead and inspire a team of talented engineers, promoting a culture of ownership, meticulous attention to quality, and proactive problem-solving.
• Stay at the cutting edge of technology by updating and expanding your team’s knowledge of cloud architectures, data processing, and advanced analytics, ensuring that you and your team remain leaders in technological innovation.
• Make a direct impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of software delivery worldwide through innovation and leadership.

Qualifications (What you'll bring)

Who We’re Looking For

The ideal candidate is a seasoned professional in cloud software development with a strong foundation in data processing and scalable software systems. You thrive in collaborative environments and are passionate about advancing cloud technology and data architecture to new heights. You are a leader who enjoys mentoring, guiding, and inspiring others.

Preferred Qualifications

Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience with a modern programming language, with a focus on back-end systems and cloud-based technologies.
• Strong capability in architecting and designing robust, scalable software systems.
• Proficiency in AWS or another popular cloud platform.

Additional Qualifications

• Experience with big-data technologies such as Spark and Apache Kafka.
• Experience with Java (version 17), Scala, or other JVM programming languages.
• Experience with tools such as Amazon Redshift and MongoDB.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Travis CI, or similar platforms.
• Proficiency in test-driven development.
• Experience with containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Experience working on remote or distributed teams and projects.

We’re seeking a highly skilled, execution-focused Senior Backend Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience to join our team. This role demands hands-on expertise in building and scaling distributed systems, strong proficiency in Java, and deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure. You will be expected to design robust backend services, optimize performance across storage and caching layers, and enable seamless integrations using modern messaging and CI/CD pipelines.

You’ll be working in a high-scale, high-impact environment where reliability, speed, and efficiency are paramount. If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and have a passion for distributed systems, this is the right role for you.

Responsibilities—

• Design, develop, and maintain distributed backend systems at scale.
• Write high-performance, production-grade code in Java.
• Architect and optimize storage systems, ensuring efficient query performance and scalable data models.
• Implement caching strategies to reduce latency and improve system throughput.
• Build and manage services leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop resilient messaging pipelines using Kafka (or equivalent) for real-time data processing.
• Define and streamline CI/CD pipelines, ensuring rapid and reliable deployment cycles.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply proactive fixes.
• Drive best practices in software engineering, testing, and code reviews. 

Requirements—

• 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, with deep hands-on coding experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and familiarity with modern frameworks.
• Proven track record in building scalable distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS).
• Solid understanding of messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Strong grasp of query performance optimization and storage system design.
• Experience with caching solutions (Redis, Memcached, etc.).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive mindset.

Benefits—

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

About us—

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.

This is a remote position.

About Leegality:

Leegality works with large Indian businesses to digitally transform critical compliance processes in a fast, easy and secure way.

We have multiple products across 2 categories:

Document Infrastructure:

Products that help businesses build paperless processes at scale:

1. Document Execution Workflow: A unified platform for businesses to digitally execute (eSign, eStamp, Template Pre-fill, Document Fraud Prevention etc.) agreements, forms and other documents in a compliant way. Currently in use by 2000+ Indian businesses from giants like HDFC and SBI Cards to high-growth disruptors like goDigit and Cars24.
2. Contract Management: An AI-powered platform for businesses to quickly review, negotiate and take action on contracts
3. Signstation: A simple platform for businesses to digitally sign simple documents like invoices, policies and letters in a cost effective manner

Consent Infrastructure:

1. Consentin: An end-to-end DPDP and Privacy compliance platform for Indian businesses
2. Consentin Lens: A data discovery platform for businesses to identify the personal data they collect and store.

If you’re interested in building mission critical software that operates at population scale (75 million + Indians have signed at least one document through Leegality) then join Leegality.

Curious about our impact? Explore our customer success stories: leegality.com/case-studies

Our Culture

At Leegality, trust, ownership, transparency, and having fun while doing meaningful work are core to how we operate — not just values on paper. Our team rated us an incredible 97 eNPS for FY 2023–24 — the highest among 175+ startups surveyed.

We focus deeply on helping our people grow and stay motivated. Some of the perks you’ll enjoy:

• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid work setup
• Bi-annual performance appraisals
• A culture that rewards initiative, curiosity, and impact

If you're looking for a place where you can make a real difference while working with smart, driven, and genuinely nice people, welcome to Leegality.

Location: Hybrid

Role Overview

We are looking for a Technical Lead – Python to lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable backend systems that power Leegality's products. This role combines hands-on backend development with technical leadership, enabling you to influence architecture, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence across the team.

You will work closely with Product, Design, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams to build reliable, secure, and high-performance applications while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend applications using Python.
• Own the technical architecture of backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, maintainability, and security.
• Design, develop, and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices for high-performance applications.
• Drive architectural decisions, establish engineering best practices, and promote clean, maintainable code.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers through technical guidance, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
• Lead technical estimation, sprint planning, solution design, and execution for engineering initiatives.
• Optimize application performance through database tuning, caching, asynchronous processing, and efficient system design.
• Ensure high code quality through unit testing, integration testing, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues while driving root cause analysis and long-term improvements.
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies, frameworks, and engineering practices to continuously improve the platform.
• Build and foster a high-performing engineering culture focused on collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.

Desired Skills

• 7–11 years of experience in backend software development, with at least 2–4 years in a technical leadership role.
• Strong proficiency in Python and object-oriented programming concepts.
• Hands-on experience with Python frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and development, authentication mechanisms (JWT/OAuth), and API security best practices.
• Experience designing scalable backend architectures, distributed systems, and microservices.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, with experience in query optimization, indexing, and schema design.
• Exposure to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and caching technologies like Redis.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, containerization using Docker, orchestration using Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including design patterns, SOLID principles, code reviews, testing, and documentation.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git and modern development workflows.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance hands-on development with technical leadership and delivery ownership in a fast-paced product environment.
• Experience working in SaaS or product-based organizations is preferred.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or ChatGPT is an added advantage.

Location: Bangalore

Department: Engineering

Reports to: SVP

Experience required: 6+ years

About Tracxn:

Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem.

We are a team of 600+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.

Founders

• Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
• Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)

About Technology Team: 

Tracxn's Technology team is 60+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each owning one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team compared to an individual.

We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.

Our Tech Stacks:

We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to backend and frontend systems such as Java, Python, Spring Boot, Node.js, ReactJS, Next.js, Webpack, and Storybook; cloud and serverless platforms like AWS, etc; data and infrastructure technologies such as Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch), MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Ansible; large-scale web crawling solutions; modern data pipelines and ETL workflows; and AI/ML-driven projects.

Job Overview:

We are looking for experienced software engineers with 6+ years of overall software development experience, including backend development and proven people-management skills. The ideal candidate will lead the engineering team(s), drive technical excellence, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers
• Own technical planning, architecture discussions, and execution
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders
• Drive best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
• Conduct code reviews and ensure high engineering standards
• Manage delivery timelines, resource planning, and technical risks
• Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management of engineers

Job Requirements :

Professional Experience

•  Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams
• Track record of delivering complex, scalable software systems
• Experience driving technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions
• Strong collaboration experience with product, design, and cross-functional teams.

Technical Leadership & Management

•  Ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers across different experience levels
• Experience conducting performance reviews and providing technical feedback
• Strong ownership of team delivery, timelines, and quality
• Experience balancing hands-on technical work with people management

Backend & System Architecture Expertise

• Strong proficiency in modern backend architectures, design patterns, and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Java, Python, etc.)
• Solid understanding of API design principles and implementation
• Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases and knowledge of data pipelines and data warehousing concepts.

Technical Competencies

• Strong system design and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of caching strategies, performance optimization, and scalability
• Understanding of data modeling and query optimization
• Familiarity with search and indexing technologies
• Understanding of security best practices in backend systems

Culture:

• Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
• Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
• No strict deadlines, focus on delivering quality work.
• Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
• Very high visibility regarding which startups and markets are exciting globally.

Required Experience: 10–15 years (with at least 3–5 years in leadership roles)

● 10–15 years of overall experience in backend engineering, with strong exposure to

Python and/or Golang.

● 3–5 years of experience managing engineering teams.

● Proven experience delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production

environments.

● Strong understanding of microservices, cloud-native architecture, and DevOps

practices.

● Hands-on background in backend engineering (able to guide teams technically, even

if not coding daily).

● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and performance optimization.

● Experience in financial services or high-transaction domains is a plus.

● Experience leading teams that have utilized AI-driven development practices (e.g.,

agentic coding, LLM integration) to improve productivity and innovation is a

significant advantage.

Skills

● Excellent leadership and people management abilities.

● Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

● Ability to balance technical depth with business priorities.

● Problem-solving mindset with a focus on delivery and impact.

● Passion for building engineering culture and improving developer experience.

We’re Hiring | Technology Lead – Java & AWS

Locations: Kochi | Trivandrum | Bangalore

Experience: 15–18 Years

Key Skills: Java, AWS, AI/ML

What We’re Looking For

Strong hands-on expertise in Java and enterprise application development.

Solid experience with AWS and cloud-based architectures.

Practical experience implementing AI/ML solutions.

Expertise in solution architecture, system integration, and scalable application design.

Proven ability to lead technical initiatives while remaining actively involved in coding, design, and troubleshooting.

Experience delivering end-to-end enterprise solutions.