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Senior Backend Engineer, India

Job Overview

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, implement, and evolve product capabilities while solving high-scope backend problems and influencing the technical and product direction of our teams.

Key points

  1. Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance, making pragmatic choices between modular-monolith code, shared components, or independently operated services.

  2. Advocate for product quality, security, availability, and performance. You will define backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs, and operational readiness.

  3. Mentor associate and intermediate engineers, remove technical blockers, and improve team delivery practices through code and design reviews.

  4. Diagnose and prevent performance/reliability issues at scale. Participate in incident response and act as a technical owner where appropriate.

  5. A strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning in a complex product or service environment.

  6. Proficiency in modern backend languages and a deep understanding of systems programming. We value the ability to learn and adapt over mastery of a…

  7. Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures.

  8. Ability to lead through influence, technical judgment, and clear written communication, effectively bridging the gap between product needs and technical reality.

Skills

GitRecruitingCommunicationPrompt EngineeringSQLKubernetesCampaign Management

Experience: Senior-level

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