About Company:

One of India's largest private FM radio networks, reaching 40 million+ listeners weekly. The company operates across 49 cities, 1,000+ towns, and 50,000 villages.

It is the only private FM station broadcasting from Jammu & Kashmir, with an international presence in Singapore and Bhutan. Its digital platform extends the brand into curated lifestyle, music, and news content.

Backed by 18+ years of broadcast heritage, the company is now building an ambitious media super-app for millions of users. A team of 740+ media professionals drives this blend of legacy broadcasting and digital innovation.

Position Overview:

The company is building a media super-app that unifies video, audio, radio, micro-drama, news, and commerce on a single platform. The Backend Architect will own end-to-end technical architecture for a backend platform spanning 22+ services across six content and commerce verticals. This is a foundational individual-contributor leadership role - setting the architectural direction, standards, and scalability strategy that the entire Backend Engineering team builds against.

Role & Responsibilities:

- Define and own backend technical architecture across core platform, content & discovery, commerce & growth, and platform services spanning 22+ microservices.

- Make foundational technology decisions on service boundaries, data modeling, API design, caching, and scalability strategy as new verticals are added.

- Own architecture for core services including authentication, user profile, feed, recommendations, search, and content APIs.

- Define application-level security standards - authentication, authorization, and data protection - in partnership with the Platform Engineer.

- Own deployment architecture and release strategy for backend services; partner with the Platform Engineer on orchestration and CI/CD.

- Partner with the Frontend Architect and Platform Engineer to define clean API contracts and integration patterns across the stack.

- Conduct architecture and code reviews for high-impact changes; set code quality bars and architectural guardrails for the Backend Engineering team.

- Evaluate and introduce backend technologies and tools that meaningfully improve velocity, performance, or maintainability as the platform scales beyond Phase 1.

Must Have Criteria:

- 8-10 years of backend engineering experience, including 2-3+ years in a formal architecture, staff, or principal engineering capacity.

- Hands-on expertise designing and scaling distributed backend systems with RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs at consumer scale (high read/write throughput).

- Proven track record architecting shared backend platforms serving multiple products or business verticals simultaneously.

- Production experience with at least one major cloud provider - GCP, AWS, or Azure - for deploying and operating large-scale systems.

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines for deployment and orchestration of backend services.

- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language - Go, Java, Node.js, or Python - used in production at scale.

- Strong command of data modeling, caching strategies, service decomposition, and system scalability trade-offs in distributed environments.

Nice to Have:

- Experience in a media, content, or commerce super-app environment.

- Prior experience at a high-growth startup building 0-1 platforms.

- Familiarity with recommendation systems, search infrastructure, or content delivery at scale.

- Experience with cloud-native architecture (GCP preferred) and microservices design patterns.

What We Offer:

- Foundational architectural ownership of a media super-app built to serve tens of millions of users across six content and commerce verticals.

- Individual-contributor technical leadership with direct influence over the engineering direction of a 22+ service platform.

- Collaboration with a cross-functional team of architects, tech leads, and platform engineers in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment.

- Opportunity to define the backend foundation of the company's next chapter - bridging 18+ years of broadcast legacy with a modern digital platform.