Wakefit - Technical Lead/Senior Software Engineer - Backend Development

Description :

You will contribute both as an individual contributor (IC) and as a technical lead, responsible for development, mentoring, and driving end-to-end delivery.

This role involves working on cloud-native, distributed systems that power large-scale consumer-facing applications.

Key Responsibilities :

- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical strategy discussions.

- Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable backend systems.

- Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend developers, and DevOps engineers to deliver business outcomes.

- Mentor and guide a team of backend engineers; review code and enforce code quality and best practices.

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and deployment.

- Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance system performance and reliability.

- Ensure robust observability via logging, tracing, and metrics.

- Continuously optimize data flow, caching, and database access patterns for scalability and performance.

Must-Have Skills :

- 4 to 7 years of professional experience in backend development.

- Strong expertise in Python(preferred)/Java/Golang

- Hands-on experience in REST APIs.

- GRPC and GraphQL will be plus.

- Strong expertise in AWS or GCP or Azure cloud platform, including deployment and cloud-native services.

- Strong proficiency in writing queries on SQL and Nosql databases

- Strong proficiency in Redis, Memcached, or other caching layers.

- Hands-on experience in unit testing, integration testing, and using frameworks like PyTest, JUnit, or equivalent.

- Proficient in Git and experience with collaborative workflows (branching, merging, PR reviews).

- Experience in designing and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or similar).

- Experience with Docker; exposure to Kubernetes or container orchestration tools preferred.

- Experience on microservices, event driven systems and serverless frameworks

- Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.

Add-ons :

- Good understanding of frontend technologies to enable effective collaboration with frontend teams.

- Prior experience building or scaling eCommerce websites/consumer facing websites will be addon

- Hands on experience in building AI agents/Agentic workflow/AI based automation will be add on

- Holding degrees from premier educational institutes like IIT, NIT, etc.

What We Offer :

- Opportunity to design and build scalable systems impacting millions of users.

- Work with modern technologies in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

- Collaborative culture with continuous learning and professional growth.

- Competitive compensation and benefits package