Lead Backend Engineer

Full Time
  • Full Time
  • India

Join a fast‑moving team that builds the core data and marketing platforms serving over 4,000 brands. You’ll lead the design, delivery, and operation of backend services, driving real business impact from requirement shaping to production reliability.

What You’ll Do

  • Design scalable backend services on GCP, balancing reliability, cost, and maintainability.
  • Own end‑to‑end system health, including performance tuning and incident resolution.
  • Develop secure REST and gRPC APIs in Go, from code to production.
  • Translate product and business requirements into robust technical solutions.
  • Modernise legacy codebases using Terraform‑driven infrastructure‑as‑code.
  • Enforce clean code, automated testing, and thorough code reviews.

What You Need

  • 7+ years building and owning large‑scale backend systems.
  • Expertise in Go for backend service development.
  • Hands‑on experience with REST/gRPC APIs at production scale.
  • Strong background with PostgreSQL or Cloud SQL in high‑volume environments.
  • Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar).
  • Demonstrated ownership of production services, including on‑call and reliability work.

Good to Have

  • 3+ years with GCP services: GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage.
  • Infrastructure‑as‑Code experience using Terraform on GCP.
  • Familiarity with Datadog and OpenTelemetry for observability.

The Opportunity

Build and own systems that power insights for 4,000+ global brands, using a modern stack (Go, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog) in a high‑ownership engineering culture.

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