Lead Backend Engineer (BLR)
Team: Product Development
Location: Bangalore
Commitment: Engineering
Workplace Type: hybrid
🛠What You’ll Do
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable backend services for our SaaS platform
- Own technical decisions across distributed systems, cloud-native workflows, and backend infrastructure
- Drive performance, reliability, and observability initiatives across core platform components
- Guide and mentor a growing team of backend engineers through technical reviews, goal setting, and career growth
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to deliver high-impact features
- Make foundational decisions around backend technologies, frameworks, and system design
- Establish and enforce best practices in software engineering, testing, and deployment
- Participate in hiring, onboarding, and fostering a strong engineering culture of collaboration and excellence
- Stay on top of industry trends, evaluate new technologies, and help set the technical roadmap
✅ What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of backend development experience (Java, Golang, C++, or similar languages)
- Proven expertise in designing and scaling distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
- Track record of technical leadership, mentorship, and team-building
- Deep understanding of backend fundamentals — data structures, networking, system design, and cloud scalability
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and performance optimization skills
- Experience working in fast-paced product-first startup environments
- High ownership mindset with strong communication and collaboration skills
- Passion for building clean, scalable, and reliable systems that last
đź’ˇ Bonus Skills
- Experience with cloud data warehouses: Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift
- Hands-on with AWS, GCP, or Azure in production environments
- Familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Experience working with both SQL and NoSQL systems
- Exposure to building SaaS platforms or developer infrastructure
- Open-source contributions or active engagement in developer communities
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