
Technical Lead - Back end Engineering
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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
🔧 Key Skills
- Strong expertise in Python (3.x)
- Experience with Django / Flask / FastAPI
- Good understanding of Microservices & RESTful API development
- Proficiency in MySQL/PostgreSQL – queries, stored procedures, optimization
- Solid grip on Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA)
- Comfortable working with Linux & Windows environments
- Hands-on experience with Git, CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions)
- Familiarity with Docker / Kubernetes is a plus
You will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins.
WordPress Developer duties and responsibilities :-
- Designing and implementing new features and functionality
- Establishing and guiding the website's architecture
- Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
- Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.
- Generating WordPress themes and plugins.
- Conducting website performance tests.
- Troubleshooting content issues.
- Conducting WordPress training with the client.
- Monitoring the performance of the live website
- WordPress Developer requirements and qualifications :-
- Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
- Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
- Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
- Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
- Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
- Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages
- Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial
- Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
- 5-8 years of experience with software development, preferably in Agile environment.
- Advanced knowledge of in software development tools, programming languages, databases, and environments, including but not limited to:
- Python 3.x, Django, functional Python, procedural Python, object oriented Python, Asynchronous Design, Micro Services, memcache, REDIS, Celery, ElastiSearch, RESTful web services, Relational (Oracle & MySQL) and Non-Relational (NOSQL & DynamoDB) databases, AWS.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for hands-on coders who love what they do, have high attention to detail and are looking for challenging opportunities which involve building products from scratch. Someone who is proactive, and always keen to learn.
What will you be doing?
On a daily basis, some of your work will involve but is not limited to:
- Write clean, secure, and well-tested code
- Build tools and integrate systems to scale the effectiveness of the product
Work Culture at Merge:
Commitment to excellence - In every output, we produce as individuals and as a company, we have to strive for world-class quality. We’re making a change in the world. It will push us out of our comfort zones. We operate in a rapidly changing market and strive to deliver high-quality products faster than anyone else.
We get it done - We take ownership of what we do. Working here is about really, truly owning everything you do. There’s no such thing as “Not my job.” If you see a problem that needs solving, you can – and should – be the one to solve it
Requirements
Skills That Will Help You Excel At Merge
- You have 2 to 5 years of experience building highly reliable and scalable backend systems
- Experience in two or more languages. Go, Node.js, Python, or Java would be ideal.
- You have experience in high-throughput distributed systems and microservices
- Experience with AWS and CI/CD workflow
- Driven, and passionate about building products
- You take ownership of your code
- You have good communication skills in English
- You are familiar with security best practices
We are looking for 4-5years relevant Experience-ROR.
Job accountability:
• Write effective and scalable code in Ruby Build back-end components for web applications
• Test applications for performance, responsiveness and security
• Review and debug junior developers’ code
• Integrate data storage and data processing solutions
• Build, install and share gems and plugins
• Create automated test scripts
• Improve and maintain applications after deployment
• Coordinate with team members who work on different layersof infrastructure
Role requirements:
• Experience with support of high-availability, high-performance,customer-facing web applications
• Expert in configuring and deploying multiple rails applications quickly
• Experience with collaborative code development in small agile teams and managing releases (Git, Continuous Integration, Capistrano)
• Experience building internal and external APIs and RESTful web services
• Strong foundation in Database ( MySQL / Postgres )
• Outstanding understanding of software design and architecture
• Should have knowledge on Micro Services.
It will be good if you also have :
Worked in a web startup before and been part of the core
development during high growth phase. Practical experience with building scalable, high availability and
high performance systems.
Hands-on background with agile development practices includingtest driven development and scrums Contributed to open source projects on Github Familiarity with a variety of programming languages and development tools Worked on Any Tech Upgradations
- 9+ years development experience in JAVA (using OO Design and Analysis, Design Patterns, etc.)
- High experience in Java 8 Required.
- 4+ years’ experience building highly scalable, distributed and reliable Restful Web Services using Spring, Jersey, etc.
- Should have knowledge on Cloud applications preferably on AWS.
- Knowledge on building Front end applications using JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3.
- Experience with relational DBs like MySQL and NoSQL Database like MongoDB, Solr/Lucene will be a plus.
- Experience with Tomcat, Jax-RS, REST, JPA, IntelliJ, Groovy, Hibernateis must.
- Experience with build technologies like Gradle, Jenkins will be a plus.
- Experience with Test Driven Development using TestNG/Junit testing frameworks.
- Experience working with version control like GIT.










