Senior Backend Engineer

Overview

Senior Backend Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving backend product capabilities while solving high-scope backend problems and influencing technical and product direction.

What you'll do

• Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance.
• Improve system quality, reliability, and performance beyond assigned work.
• Define backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs, and operational readiness.
• Advocate for product quality, security, availability, and performance.
• Mentor associate and intermediate engineers and remove technical blockers.
• Diagnose and prevent performance and reliability issues at scale and participate in incident response.
• Use AI in production engineering work and coach others on responsible, high-judgment use.

What you'll need

• Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in modern backend languages and deep understanding of systems programming.
• Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries and migration-safe architectures.
• Ability to lead through influence, technical judgment, and clear written communication.
• Proven experience building or operating agentic systems in production, including reliability-focused tool-use and error handling.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Organization described as remote-first and asynchronous.