- Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.

- Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locuss technical strategy.

- Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.

- Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.

- Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.

- Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.

- Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locuss technology foundation.

- Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

- Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and scalable systems with clear production scale or reliability impact (latency, throughput, uptime, etc.) mentioned in the resume

- Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years (should be there in the resume titles)

- Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving

- Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems with architecture ownership and experience in core backend/platform services rather than feature teams

- Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing

- Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring

- Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders

- Top product companies (logistics, supply chain, e-commerce, or B2B SAAS at large scale)

- Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies

- B.Tech in computer science or related field from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges