About the role
Responsibilities:
- Designing and evolving scalable backend systems (HLD + LLD) with clear trade-off articulation.
- Driving architecture decisions across services and influencing platform direction.
- Building and evolving APIs that power core product and platform workflows.
- Identifying opportunities for platform abstraction and reusable frameworks.
- Owning services/modules end-to-end across their lifecycle, including long-term scalability and stability.
- Proactively identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and system limitations.
- Leading and contributing to design reviews with a strong focus on long-term architecture.
- Mentoring engineers and raising the quality bar for system design and code.
- Driving technical debt reduction and platform simplification initiatives.
- Partnering with staff/principal engineers on complex system design and architectural direction.
- Using AI tools pragmatically to improve engineering quality and velocity.
- Ensuring systems are scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable at scale.
Requirements:
- 7-10 years of backend development experience in product environments.
- Strong backend fundamentals (Python and Django/Flask experience are a plus).
- Proven experience designing and evolving multiple distributed or high-scale systems in production.
- Strong system design fundamentals with the ability to drive HLD + LLD independently.
- Demonstrated experience owning systems across multiple iterations (build, scale, optimize, and evolve).
- Ability to reason deeply about performance, reliability, cost, and maintainability trade-offs.
- Experience in influencing cross-team technical decisions and architecture.
- Comfort working directly with stakeholders and driving alignment across functions.