Backend Architect

We are seeking an Architect whose role is focused on designing scalable, resilient, and high-performance systems that power complex business workflows and enable intelligent product capabilities. You will architect end-to-end backend services across Java-based microservices, event-driven data pipelines, caching and serving layers such as Redis/Aerospike, and integration patterns that connect AI/ML capabilities to domain services. The role also requires defining clean architectural boundaries and hexagonal adapter patterns so that AI integrations, model-serving components, and external intelligence layers can be incorporated without tightly coupling backend business logic to infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable backend systems using Java-based technologies and distributed architectures.
• Own the architecture and technical design of backend components and services across the full software development lifecycle.
• Drive backend architecture decisions focused on scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, and performance
• Build and review high-quality production-grade code and establish engineering best practices across teams.
• Design and implement robust APIs, service contracts, and microservices frameworks for enterprise-grade applications.
• Solve system bottlenecks and optimize backend performance, including latency, throughput, resilience, and availability
• Partner closely with product, engineering, QA, and other cross-functional teams to deliver business-critical backend capabilities.
• Provide technical mentorship and architectural guidance to engineers across teams.
• Support deployment, observability, and operational excellence through strong practices in CI/CD, monitoring, debugging, and production support
• Ensure backend platforms are designed to support future extensibility, including integrations with AI/ML or intelligent services where relevant.
• Deliver high-quality solutions in a fast-paced, execution-focused environment.

Requirements:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with a deep focus on backend development and architecture.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java and backend frameworks such as Spring / Spring Boot.
• Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems and microservices-based architectures.
• Strong understanding of backend system design, API design, multithreading and concurrency, data structures and algorithms, database design, caching strategies, event-driven systems, and performance tuning.
• Experience building high-throughput, low-latency, resilient backend services in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architecture, containerization, and modern deployment practices.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, observability, logging, monitoring, and production operations
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Proven ability to drive architecture reviews, code quality, and engineering best practices.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work across product and engineering teams.
• Currently hands-on with production code.

Good to Have:

• Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Aerospike, or similar backend/platform technologies.
• Familiarity with integrating backend systems with AI/GenAI capabilities, such as LLM-based services, recommendation systems, or intelligent scoring engines.
• Understanding of architectural patterns that keep backend domain services decoupled from external intelligence layers.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.