About the role
The Impact You Will MakeIn this role, you will design, build, and scale high-performance backend systems and cloud-native platforms using Golang and modern distributed systems technologies.You will work on engineering complex, data-intensive products that directly create measurable value for enterprise customers.Your work will involve building scalable APIs, distributed services, event-driven systems, reliable data pipelines, and high-throughput backend components that support AI-native SaaS products.You will also contribute to architectural decisions, system design, performance optimization, and engineering best practices across the platform.
What you'll do:
- Provide technical leadership for backend engineering initiatives and projects.
- Own the architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems.
- Create and review High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documents.
- Drive architecture decisions balancing scalability, reliability, security, and cost.
- Lead design reviews, architecture reviews, and technical governance processes.
- Mentor and coach engineers across multiple experience levels.
- Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, and development guidelines.
- Perform thorough code reviews and ensure code quality across teams.
- Partner with Product Managers, Architects, QA, DevOps, and stakeholders to deliver business outcomes.
- Drive technical roadmap planning and technology adoption decisions.
- Lead performance optimization, reliability improvements, and production readiness reviews.
- Own incident management, root cause analysis, and preventive action planning.
- Champion observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, and operational excellence.
- Guide capacity planning, resiliency strategies, and disaster recovery planning.
- Support hiring, technical interviews, onboarding, and team development initiatives.
What lands you in this role
- Expert-level proficiency in Go (Golang).
- Strong expertise in Data Structures, Algorithms, and System Design.
- Hands-on experience creating High-Level Designs (HLD) and Low-Level Designs (LLD).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Advanced knowledge of concurrency, scalability, and fault-tolerant system design.
- Strong expertise in API design (REST, gRPC) and integration patterns.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing.
- Excellent mentoring, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
- Ability to influence architectural decisions and drive engineering excellence across teams.
What we offer
- An opportunity to be part of some of the best enterprise SaaS products to be built out of India.
- Opportunities to quench your thirst for problem-solving, experimenting, learning, and implementing innovative solutions.
- A flat, collegial work environment, with a work hard, play hard attitude.
- A platform for rapid growth if you are willing to try new things without fear of failure.
- Remuneration with best-in-class industry standards with generous health insurance cover
Some of our accolades include:
- Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Companies by Financial Times for five consecutive years: 2020-2024.
- Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000 for seven consecutive years: 2018-2024.
- Voted #1 by more than 300 retailers worldwide in the RIS Software LeaderBoard 2024 report.
- Ranked #72 in America’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2023—by Fortune—alongside companies like Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, IBM, etc.
- Forged a strategic partnership with Google to equip retailers with cutting-edge generative AI tools.
- Recognized in multiple Gartner reports, including Market Guides and Hype Cycle, spanning assortments, merchandising, forecasting, algorithmic retailing, and Unified Price, Promotion, and Markdown Optimization Applications.