Senior Technical Architect

Who are we and What do we do?

ShareChat ( ) is India's largest homegrown social media company, with 200+ million monthly active users across all its platforms including Moj, a leading short video app which was launched in a record 30 hours.

Founded in October 2015, with a vision of building an inclusive community that encourages & empowers each individual to share their unique journey and valuable experiences with confidence.

We are spearheading India's internet revolution by building products through world-class AI & tech to evangelize the content ecosystem for India in regional languages.

We believe in complete ownership of problem-solving while committing to speed and integrity in everything we do. We place the utmost importance on user empathy & strive to work towards creating a world-class experience for them every day. Join us to drive how the next billion users will interact on the internet!

What Youll Do

• End-to-End Consumer Experience Architecture. Own the architecture vision for consumer journeys such as:
• Feed & content discovery, Video & media delivery and creation flows, User identity, profile, and social graph. Engagement loops (likes, comments, follows, shares). Create Low-latency, high-throughput user interactions and ensure consistency across Android, iOS, Web, and backend systems.
• Scale, Performance & Reliability. Design systems to handle, High QPS, bursty traffic, and viral spikes, Sub-second latency SLAs for critical user paths. Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for CX-critical systems.
• Mobile-First. Partner with mobile teams to Optimize API contracts, payload sizes, and versioningEnable offline / poor-network user experiences.
• Platformization & Reusability. Identify common CX capabilities and drive platform abstractions, such as: Experimentation & feature flag platforms, user and post workflows. Reduce duplication across teams by defining golden paths and reusable components.
• Experimentation & Product Velocity. Architect systems that support High-velocity A/B experimentation, real-time config and feature rollouts, Safe experimentation at scale, Ensure experiments are Isolated, observable, and reversible, Cost-aware and performance-safe. Partner with data teams to enable fast feedback loops.
• Data, Observability & Feedback Loops. Define observability standards for CX systems. Distributed tracing across mobile backend. User-centric metrics (p50/p95/p99 latency, engagement drop-offs)
• Cost & Efficiency Ownership. Drive cost-aware architecture decisions.Right-sizing infra for consumer traffic.
• Technical Leadership & Governance. Act as a technical authority for CX-related designs, Review and guide high-impact design docs. Resolve cross-team architectural conflicts. Set engineering standards, API design guidelines.Backward compatibility and deprecation policies. Mentor senior engineers and upcoming architects.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration. Partner closely with Product managers on feasibility & trade-offs, Design teams on UX-driven technical decisions, SRE and Infra teams on reliability & scalability, Data & ML teams for personalization and ranking. Translate product vision into scalable technical execution.

Who are you?

• 8-12 years of experience in backend engineering.
• Proven experience in designing and developing large-scale, high-performance systems.
• Strong collaboration skills with a track record of working effectively with cross-functional stakeholders, including product, operations, and business teams.
• Deep understanding of modern technologies, architectures, and industry best practices, with a keen interest in staying up to date with advancements in the field.
• Bachelor's degree (B. Tech. or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a results-oriented mindset, with a focus on delivering scalable and efficient solutions.
• Experience in leading or mentoring teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment is a plus.

Where will you be?

Bangalore

What's in it for you?

At ShareChat, our values - Ownership, Speed, User Empathy, Integrity, and First Principles - are at the core of our ways of working. We believe in hiring top talent and grooming future leaders by providing a flexible environment to aid growth and development. We also offer several benefits to our employees - like ESOPs, monthly childcare allowance for women employees,Zomato Coupons,Wellness Allowance, insurance coverage, and more.