About Tarento :

Tarento is a fast-growing technology consulting company headquartered in Stockholm, with a strong presence in India and clients across the globe. We specialize in digital transformation, product engineering, and enterprise solutions, working across diverse industries including retail, manufacturing, and healthcare. Our teams combine Nordic values with Indian expertise to deliver innovative, scalable, and high-impact solutions.

We're proud to be recognized as a Great Place to Work, a testament to our inclusive culture, strong leadership, and commitment to employee well-being and growth. At Tarento, you'll be part of a collaborative environment where ideas are valued, learning is continuous, and careers are built on passion and purpose.

We are looking for a passionate Associate Architect Backend for developing a new platform for our customer.

Tech Stack : Java or Python.

About the Role :

- Hiring a Principle Engineer Backend engineer experienced in Java or Python.

- Strong in distributed systems, microservices, HLD/LLD, and production ownership.

- Must have product-company experience building scalable and reliable services.

- Must be able to evaluate multiple technology options and productionize a chosen option.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead end-to-end architecture and author HLD/LLD docs.

- Build scalable microservices using Java (Spring Boot) or Python.

- Design systems for high throughput, low latency, and fault tolerance.

- Optimize performance using caching, sharding, load balancing, and concurrency.

- Define SLOs/SLIs and drive observability using metrics, logs, and tracing.

- Lead incident resolution, RCA, and preventive engineering.

- Mentor SDE-1/2/3 engineers and lead engineering best practices.

- Owning the end to end technology delivery to meet outcomes.

Required Skills :

- Expertise in Java or Python.

- Strong DS/Algo and system design fundamentals.

- Experience with microservices, distributed systems, REST/gRPC.

- Datastores : Postgres/MySQL, Redis, Elastic Search and one NoSQL database.

- Messaging : Kafka/Pulsar/RabbitMQ.

- Cloud : AWS/Azure/GCP; Docker & Kubernetes.

- Observability : Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.

- Event-driven architecture.

- Handling systems of scale.

Nice-to-Have :

- DDD, or CQRS.

- Terraform, service mesh (Istio), API Gateway patterns.

- Elasticsearch/OpenSearch experience.