Delhivery - Senior Developer/Technical Lead - System Design

Description :

About the Role :

Were looking for an experienced Sr Developer/Technical Lead (3+ years experience) who can lead the design, development, and scaling of backend systems powering large-scale logistics. In this role, youll architect high-throughput systems, guide a team of engineers, and integrate AI tools and agentic frameworks (Model Context Protocol (MCP), Multi Agent Systems (MAS), etc.) into your development and decision-making workflows.

Youll drive engineering excellence, contribute to architectural decisions, and nurture a culture of ownership, innovation, and AI-native development. This is a hands-on leadership position where youll build systems, lead design reviews, and mentor a high-performing team while pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted engineering.

What Youll Do :

Technical Leadership & Ownership :

- Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable RESTful and gRPC APIs.

- Guide system design and backend workflows for microservices handling millions of transactions daily.

- Drive engineering best practices in code quality, testing, observability, and deployment.

Team Leadership :

- Mentor and coach a team of backend and frontend developers, helping them grow technically and professionally.

- Conduct regular design/code reviews and set high standards for system performance, reliability, and scalability.

- Drive sprint planning, task breakdowns, and technical execution with a bias for action and quality.

AI-Native Development :

- Leverage modern AI tools (e.g., Cursor AI, Copilot, Codex, Gemini, Windsurf) for :

- Prompt-based code generation, refactoring, and documentation.

- Intelligent debugging and observability enhancements.

- Test case generation and validation.

- Experiment with and implement agentic frameworks (MCP, MAS etc) in building tools, automating workflows, optimization tasks, or intelligent system behavior.

- Contribute and maintain to internal AI prompt libraries and lead adoption of AI-assisted development practices.

Systems & Infrastructure :

- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of backend services from design to rollout and production monitoring.

- Work with data models across PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, or MongoDB.

- Optimize services using metrics, logs, traces, and performance profiling tools.

Cross-functional Collaboration :

- Partner closely with Product, Design, QA, DevOps, and other Engineering teams to deliver cohesive product experiences.

- Influence product roadmaps and business decisions through a technical lens.

What Were Looking For :

- 3+ years of backend development experience with at least 1+ years as a team/tech lead.

- Deep expertise in Python, Go and comfort across multiple backend frameworks.

- Solid understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, and SQL.

- Proven experience in building, scaling, and maintaining microservices.

- Strong hands-on experience with REST/gRPC APIs, containerized deployments, and CI/CD pipelines.

- Strong database fundamentals indexing, query optimization, replication, consistency models, and schema design

- Exposure to system scalability concepts horizontal/vertical scaling, sharding, partitioning, rate-limiting, load balancing, and caching strategies..

- Effective use of AI developer tools (Cursor AI, Codex, Copilot, Gemini, Windsurf) in real-world engineering workflows.

- Exposure to agentic frameworks and AI concepts such as :

- MCP, Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI), or NLP pipelines.

- Cloud proficiency (any cloud, AWS preferred), including deployment, cost optimization, and infrastructure scaling.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

- A strong sense of ownership, problem-solving ability, and collaborative mindset.