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Lead Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems

svan global consultancy
Anywhere in India/Multiple Locations
6 - 10 Years

Posted on: 08/10/2025

Job Description

Description :

As a Lead Engineer, youll help architect and evolve this highly extensible platform. Youll drive cross-cutting initiatives, mentor engineers, and build backend components that other teams, partners, and customers rely on to build sophisticated scheduling systems on top of our infrastructure.

Requirements :

- 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2 years in technical leadership roles

- Deep experience designing platforms, frameworks, or extensible APIs used by other developers

- Hands-on expertise in distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and scalable microservices

- Experience balancing developer flexibility with system guardrails strong grasp of "configuration over code" and platform product thinking

- Strong system design, data modeling, and observability practices especially in performance-sensitive, high-throughput environments

- Comfortable making architectural trade-offs and driving technical direction in ambiguous spaces

Responsibilities :

- Lead the design and development of core platform primitives availability resolution, appointment lifecycles, time zone handling, and state-driven workflows

- Architect a system that prioritizes configuration-driven behavior over hardcoded logic, enabling dynamic rule-based booking flows

- Build scalable, composable services using NestJS, Redis, Firestore, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and GCP services like Cloud Tasks, Scheduler, and Pub/Sub

- Partner with product managers to translate industry-agnostic scheduling needs into developer-facing building blocks

- Drive platform-wide consistency in API design, configuration modeling, error handling, and extensibility

- Collaborate across engineering teams to ensure platform reliability, observability (Grafana/Prometheus), and maintainability

- Mentor engineers and foster a strong culture of platform thinking, technical excellence, and high ownership


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