Lead Backend Engineer

Michael Page; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive holiday leave

Professional growth opportunities

Supportive work culture

Job summary

Michael Page is looking for a Lead Engineer based in India to lead the design and development of high-performance software solutions. The successful applicant will mentor a team, work with cutting-edge technologies, and ensure best practices in code quality.

This permanent position offers competitive salaries with comprehensive benefits and a supportive work culture that promotes professional growth.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript and the AWS ecosystem.
• Experience leading a small team of software engineers.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks such as Jest and Pact.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of software solutions.
• Guide the team in technical decision-making and best practices.
• Mentor and support engineers while fostering a culture of learning.

Skills

TypeScript (Node.js & React)

AWS

Kubernetes

GraphQL

Jest

Git

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Tools

Terraform

DataDog

Confluence

Jira

Job description

• Global Impact Role
• High flexibility and work on leading edge tech

About Our Client

The employer is a large organization in the business services industry, specializing in providing tailored solutions to clients. The company is known for its focus on technology-driven innovations and its commitment to delivering high-quality services.

Job Description

• Lead the Design & Development - Architect, build, and deploy scalable, high-performance software solutions, covering both client-side and server-side applications.
• Technical Leadership - Guide the squad in technical decision-making, ensuring the team follows best practices in code quality, design patterns, architecture, security, and performance.
• Hands-On Engineering - Spend most of your time writing and reviewing code, designing APIs, and ensuring high-quality, maintainable software.
• Full Stack Development - Build any necessary user-interfaces in collaboration with our UX team, and develop well-functioning APIs, and services.
• Mentorship & Coaching - Support and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Cloud & Infrastructure - Deploy and manage applications on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads.
• Quality & Testing - Champion Test-Driven Development (TDD), automated testing, and CI/CD, ensuring deployments are secure and reliable.

The Successful Applicant

• Tech stack - We use TypeScript (Node.js & React), AWS (EKS, Lambda, Aurora RDS), Kubernetes, GraphQL, Kafka, Mongo. You're comfortable with all of these, and have extensive knowledge of JavaScript more generally, the AWS ecosystem, and running containerised applications.
• Past Experience - You are currently a Lead Engineer or Tech Lead, leading a small team of software engineers.
• API & Database Development - You have experience building and running robust, always-on APIs (both RESTful and GraphQL-based) and underlying services/apps including the databases that underpin them.
• Test-Driven Development - You're very familiar with testing frameworks such as Jest and Pact.
• Cloud & DevOps - You can build, deploy and run your systems end-to-end, with no manual configuration or intervention. We use Terraform and Helm.
• CI/CD - You have plenty experience managing and configuring CI/CD pipelines (we use GitHub Actions) for deployments.
• Observability Mindset - You believe in measuring everything. You've worked with DataDog (or similar) to ensure your team has the necessary visibility into system health.
• Tooling & Collaboration - Comfortable working with Git, Confluence, Jira, and modern engineering workflows.
• Mentorship & Leadership - You've mentored engineers at all levels, providing guidance, reviewing designs, and ensuring your team stays on the right track.
• Self-Starter & Problem-Solver - Ability to take a product challenge and develop a working technical solution, balancing pragmatism with engineering excellence.

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary based on skills and experience.
• Comprehensive holiday leave and benefits package.
• Opportunities to work on cutting-edge technologies in the business services industry.
• Supportive work culture that encourages professional growth.
• Permanent position offering job security and stability.

If you are passionate about technology and are looking for a challenging role in the business services industry, we encourage you to apply for the Lead Engineer position.