About this role
What qualities are we looking for?
B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college with a minimum
of 3-5 years of experience in a product development company.
• Proven experience designing and building distributed, high-concurrency, low-latency
backend systems at scale.
• Has built multiple services from scratch and owned them end to end - architecture,
development, deployment, monitoring, and on-call operations.
• Strong grasp of scalability fundamentals: caching, queuing/async processing, sharding and
partitioning, replication, load balancing, rate limiting, and fault tolerance.
• Strong design skills involving data modeling, low-level class design, API design, and
system design.
• Good knowledge of object-oriented programming, concurrency primitives, and design
patterns.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language - Python, Java, Golang.
• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases, messaging systems (e.g.,
Kafka, SQS), and Linux/Unix platforms.
• Follows industry coding standards and is responsible for writing maintainable, scalable,
and efficient code to solve business problems.
• A strong team player who has mentored junior developers and helped raise the technical
bar of the team.
• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic
(Claude), Bedrock, and Azure OpenAI into production systems.
• Practical experience with LangChain or LangGraph for building AI-driven workflows and
orchestration; exposure to agentic/multi-agent architectures preferred.
• Strong technical aptitude and good knowledge of CS fundamentals.What will you get to do here?
Architect and build new backend services from the ground up, and evolve existing systems
for higher scale, concurrency, and reliability.
• Own end-to-end architecture for your team's systems and implement the long-term
technology vision for your team.
• Come up with best practices to help the team achieve their technical tasks and continually
improve the technology of the product/team.
• Drive the adoption of best practices through regular participation in code reviews, design
reviews, and architecture discussions.
• Mentor and guide developers on the team through design feedback, pairing, and code
reviews.
• Design and ship AI-driven and agentic workflows within your services, and experiment with
new and relevant technologies and tools, driving adoption while measuring yourself on the
impact you create.
• Decide technology and tool choices for your team and be responsible for them.
B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college with minimum 3 – 5 years of experience in product development company.
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We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other
characteristic protected by the law.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.