Key Responsibilities :

- Technical Leadership & Mentorship : Lead, mentor, and provide technical guidance to a team of backend engineers.

- Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and adherence to best practices.

- Hands-on Development : Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable, high-performance, and highly available backend services and APIs. Contribute significantly to the codebase.

- System Design & Architecture : Drive architectural discussions and decisions for complex backend systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, maintainable, and align with overall enterprise architecture.

- Code Quality & Standards : Champion code quality by conducting rigorous code reviews, enforcing coding standards, and implementing effective testing strategies (unit, integration, end-to-end).

- Performance & Scalability : Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize database interactions, and ensure backend systems can handle high transaction volumes and data loads.

- API Design & Implementation : Lead the design and implementation of well-structured, efficient, and documented APIs (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC) for internal and external consumers.

- Database Management : Work with various database technologies (e., SQL/NoSQL databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra) for schema design, optimization, and query tuning.

- Distributed Systems : Gain experience or contribute to designing and managing distributed systems, microservices architectures, and event-driven patterns (e., Kafka, RabbitMQ).

- Cloud & DevOps : Collaborate with DevOps teams on deployment strategies, cloud infrastructure management (e., AWS, Azure, GCP), and CI/CD pipelines.

- Collaboration : Work closely with Product Managers, Frontend Engineers, QA Engineers, and other stakeholders in an Agile environment to deliver seamless end-to-end solutions.

- Project Ownership : Take ownership of project deliverables, ensuring timely completion, technical excellence, and alignment with business objectives.

Required Skills & Qualifications :

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

- 6+ years of hands-on professional experience in backend software development, with a significant portion in a lead or senior capacity.

- Proficiency in at least one major backend programming language (e., Java, Python, Go, Node.js, C#) and associated frameworks (e., Spring Boot, Django, Flask, Express.js).

- Strong experience with designing and implementing microservices architectures.

- Expertise in designing and interacting with relational and/or NoSQL databases.

- Proven experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs.

- Familiarity with distributed systems and message queuing technologies (e., Kafka, RabbitMQ).

- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design principles.

- Experience with version control systems (e., Git).

- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills.

- Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead, motivate, and influence a team