Staff Backend Engineer

Responsibilities:
Lead the design and architecture of large-scale distributed systems.
Drive cross-team technical initiatives.
Own critical backend services powering millions of users.
Influence engineering standards and technical direction.
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers.
Design highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Optimise systems for latency, throughput, and reliability.
Review and approve architectural proposals across teams.
Set backend best practices and engineering standards.
Lead major cross-functional projects.
Drive the technical roadmap and long-term architecture vision.
Own mission-critical backend services (real-time dispatch, payments, pricing, etc. )
Improve system observability and operational excellence.
Lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
Mentor senior engineers.
Raise code quality and system thinking across the org.
Participate in hiring and technical interviews.
Requirements:
8-12+ years of backend engineering experience.
Deep expertise in distributed systems.
Proven experience designing systems at scale (millions+ QPS).
Strong knowledge of: Concurrency, Networking, Data modelling, System performance tuning.
Experience leading large technical initiatives.
Technical Stack:
Languages: Go, Java, Python.
Infrastructure: KUbernetes, Docker.
Databases: MySQL, Cassandra, Redis.
Messaging: Kafka.
Cloud and Infra: Large-scale distributed systems, microservices.

Experience
9-13 yrs