Lead - Backend Engineering

Payswiff Solutions; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Payswiff Technologies is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer (Java / Spring Boot) to design and build scalable backend systems and reusable platform modules. You will own architectural decisions, drive framework development, and ensure production readiness for high‑volume services.

The role requires 10+ years of hands-on backend experience, strong coding skills, and a passion for performance and security in distributed systems. Senior IC with impact in a fast-paced engineering team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and distributed architectures.
• Experience with microservices and REST APIs.
• Proven ability to design scalable backend components and reusable frameworks.
• Security-conscious development with OWASP Top 10 awareness.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable backend systems and distributed architectures.
• Develop reusable frameworks, libraries, Spring Boot starters, and components.
• Implement logging, exception handling, security, configuration, monitoring, and tracing.
• Define architectural patterns, design principles, and best practices.
• Develop microservices and REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
• Optimize performance, latency, and resource utilization.
• Implement observability across logging, metrics, tracing and APM.
• Integrate with databases, Kafka/RabbitMQ, Redis, and external services.
• Ensure security, maintainability, and production readiness.
• Own technical design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of modules.
• Collaborate to drive framework adoption and productivity.

Skills

Core Java

Multithreading

Concurrency

JVM Internals

OOP

SOLID principles

Design Patterns

System Design

Microservices

Distributed Systems

REST APIs

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

Relational Databases

Authentication & Security

OWASP Top 10

Tools

Spring Boot

Spring MVC

Spring Security

Spring Data

Spring AOP

Job description

Lead Backend Engineering (Java / Spring Boot)

Company: Payswiff Technologies
Experience: 10–15 Years
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Engineering / Technology

Job Description

Payswiff Technologies is looking for an experienced Lead – Backend Engineering professional with strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, System Design, and Distributed Architectures.

The candidate will be responsible for designing and developing scalable backend systems, reusable frameworks, libraries, and common platform modules that eliminate boilerplate code and improve developer productivity.

This is a senior individual contributor role requiring strong hands‑on coding, architectural thinking, problem‑solving, and technical expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• Design scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend systems and distributed architectures.
• Develop reusable frameworks, libraries, Spring Boot starters, and common backend components.
• Build reusable solutions for logging, exception handling, security, configuration, monitoring, and distributed tracing.
• Define architectural patterns, design principles, and engineering best practices.
• Develop microservices and REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, latency, and resource utilization.
• Implement observability solutions covering logging, metrics, tracing, and APM.
• Develop integrations with databases, Kafka/RabbitMQ, Redis, and external services.
• Ensure application security, maintainability, scalability, and production readiness.
• Independently own technical design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of reusable modules.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to drive framework adoption and improve developer productivity.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in Core Java, Collections, Multithreading, Concurrency, and JVM Internals.
• Hands‑on experience with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data, and Spring AOP.
• Strong understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, and Design Patterns.
• Proven experience developing reusable frameworks, libraries, and platform‑level components.
• Strong knowledge of System Design, Microservices, and Distributed Systems.
• Experience with REST APIs, Kafka/RabbitMQ, Redis, and relational databases.
• Understanding of application performance tuning, distributed tracing, logging, and monitoring.
• Knowledge of authentication, authorization, secure API development, and OWASP Top 10.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 10+ years of hands‑on backend engineering experience.
• Strong individual contributor with excellent coding and architectural capabilities.
• Proven experience building reusable Java frameworks, libraries, or platform modules.
• Ability to independently design and develop complex backend components.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and focus on performance, scalability, code quality, and developer productivity.