Engineering Lead(Backend heavy)

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Role : Engineering Lead(Backend Heavy)

Job Type: Full Time (Work From Office)

Location: New Delhi (Sultanpur)

Experience: 5 - 9 years

Department : Technology

About the Role:

Tech Lead (Backend Heavy) with strong experience in designing and building scalable, high-performance backend systems. The ideal candidate must have expert-level proficiency in Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, microservices, system design, and mandatory hands-on experience with message queues, GraphQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, and monorepo/modular architecture patterns.

You will lead engineering efforts, guide developers, and collaborate closely with frontend, product, and DevOps teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture & Technical Leadership:

• Architect scalable, distributed backend systems using microservices or modular monolithic architecture.
• Lead system design, database modelling, API structure, and performance optimization.
• Drive engineering best practices, code quality, and technical decision-making.

Backend Development:

• Develop backend services using Node.js and Python.
• Design efficient data models and optimized queries in PostgreSQL.
• Build robust APIs (REST & GraphQL), authentication flows, caching layers, and background jobs.
• Integrate message-based communication using queues such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS.

Frontend & Product Collaboration:

• Work closely with frontend teams using Next.js, React.js, Tailwind CSS.
• Ensure smooth integration between backend APIs and UI components.
• Participate in sprint planning, architecture reviews, and documentation.

DevOps, Deployment & Observability:

• Work with Docker/Kubernetes for containerized deployments.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and version management.
• Implement monitoring & alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar.

Team Leadership:

• Mentor developers, provide code reviews, and enforce engineering standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, QA, design).
• Support team hiring, onboarding, and skill development.

Mandatory Skills

• Strong experience with Node.js and Python.
• Expertise in PostgreSQL, schema design & optimization.
• Deep understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and modular monolithic architectures.
• Strong system design knowledge (scalability, caching, load balancing, failover).
• Message queues: Kafka / RabbitMQ / AWS SQS (mandatory).
• Redis for caching, rate limiting, session storage (mandatory).
• ElasticSearch for search, indexing, and analytics (mandatory).
• Monorepo management and modular architecture patterns (mandatory).
• Experience using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure).
• Strong understanding of API security, JWT/OAuth, rate limiting, and performance tuning.

Additional Preferred / Good-to-Have Tech

• AWS services: Lambda, S3, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch.
• Experience with CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins.
• Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Sentry.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture (EDA).
• Experience with server-side performance profiling tools.
• Experience with Graph databases (optional).

Frontend Knowledge (Optional but Helpful)

• Next.js
• React.js
• Tailwind CSS
• Basic understanding of SSR/SSG
• API integration patterns & performance best practices