Technical Lead - Backend Technologies

Description :

We are looking for a seasoned backend tech lead to contribute to the architecture, quality, and delivery of our server-side systems.

You will mentor engineers, drive technical architecture and standards across the Ambit ecosystem, and ensure our backend services are scalable, resilient, and performant.

Responsibilities :

- Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of backend services using Java + Spring Boot.

- Enforce backend architecture standards, coding best practices, and API design guidelines.

- Collaborate with product managers, frontend leads, and DevOps to deliver robust, high-quality features.

- Conduct code reviews and foster a culture of engineering excellence across the team.

- Drive performance optimisation, scalability improvements, and technical debt reduction.

- Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and backlog grooming as a technical authority.

- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through regular 1:1s, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

- Evaluate and integrate third-party services, libraries, and cloud-native tools.

- Own incident response processes and drive root-cause analysis and post-mortems.

- Work closely with security and compliance teams to ensure backend systems meet regulatory requirements.

Requirements :

- 8+ years of backend engineering experience with at least 3 years in a tech lead or principal engineer role.

- Deep expertise in Java (Spring Boot / Spring Cloud).

- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST and gRPC API design.

- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL / MySQL) and NoSQL stores (MongoDB / Redis).

- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, SQS/SNS.

- Proficiency in JUnit 5 Mockito, and TestContainers for Java; experience writing and enforcing unit, integration, and contract tests.

- Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Jenkins / GitLab CI) and containerisation (Docker / Kubernetes).

- Strong command of distributed systems concepts: CAP theorem, eventual consistency, event-driven architecture, modular and loosely coupled systems.

- Excellent communication skills; ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience with message brokers such as Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ.

- Familiarity with observability tooling, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and Datadog.

- Knowledge of OAuth 2.0 JWT, and API security best practices.

- Open-source contributions or technical publications are a plus.