Lead Software Engineer

Sugary; Mumbai; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sugary in Mumbai seeks a Lead engineer to own end-to-end SDLC, from requirements to production support, delivering high-throughput microservices.

You will design distributed systems with 10,000 RPS and sub-100ms latency, mentor a hands-on team, and champion automated testing, CI/CD, and security practices.

Ideal candidates are startup-minded, self-driven, and able to take ownership of features with strong debugging skills.

Qualifications

• Should have worked as a Lead (mandatory).
• Designed systems with 10,000 RPS and sub 100ms latency (20-80ms).
• Startup focussed and passionate hands-on coder.
• Self learner, real-time executer and ownership of features.
• Non negotiable Logic and self debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the complete SDLC—from requirement gathering, architecture & solution design, hands-on development, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous optimization.
• Design distributed microservices, and APIs capable of handling high transaction throughput with high availability and resilience.
• Drive engineering excellence through automated testing, performance benchmarking, security best practices, CI/CD automation, and production incident management.

Skills

Lead Experience

Architecture Design

Microservices

Distributed Systems

High Throughput

Low Latency

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

CI/CD pipelines

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

Should have worked as a Lead ( mandatory )

Designed systems with 10,000 RPS and sub 100ms latency ( 20-80ms)

Startup focussed and passionate hands-on coder

Self learner , real-time executer and ownership of features

Non negotiable Logic and self debuuging skills

Roles and Responsibilities -

Own the complete SDLC—from requirement gathering, architecture & solution design, hands-on development, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous optimization.

Design distributed microservices, and APIs capable of handling high transaction throughput with high availability and resilience.

Drive engineering excellence through automated testing, performance benchmarking, security best practices, CI/CD automation, and production incident management.

Technologies -

MicroServices and Distributed Systems across Distributed Database

Databases - Both SQL and NO SQL- Postgres and MongoDB , Redis, database replication & sharding, indexing, caching, query optimization, distributed transactions, concurrency control, and high-throughput data processing.

Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, SNS/SQS, IAM, CloudWatch), Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD.

Testing & Performance: JUnit, Mockito, Jest, Postman, k6, JMeter/Gatling, API, integration, load, stress, endurance, and performance testing