Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Location: Gurugram, Haryana
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 10+ years

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer, Backend to design and develop high-scale, performance-critical systems.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer who enjoys distributed systems, architecture, production engineering, and mentoring other engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead backend architecture and development.
• Design scalable and high-performance distributed systems.
• Write production-quality, maintainable code.
• Drive architectural and technology decisions.
• Own critical systems from design through production support.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers.
• Improve system reliability, performance, and engineering processes.
• Work with Product, Platform, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams.
• Participate in Agile planning and technical discussions.
• Use engineering metrics to improve software quality and productivity.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Expert-level Scala, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or C#.
• Strong distributed systems experience.
• High-performance application development.
• System design and architecture.
• REST APIs and backend engineering.
• Strong production systems experience.
• Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Preferred

• Kafka, RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ
• Cassandra
• Hadoop
• Apache Spark
• Akka
• Play Framework
• CI/CD
• TeamCity or Puppet
• High-availability systems

To Apply

Please share your updated resume along with Current CTC, Expected CTC, Notice Period, and Current Location.

Email: [email protected]
Subject: Application – Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Pay: ₹7,500,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person