Product Manager

Impact Analytics; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 10,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flat work environment

Rapid growth platform

Job summary

Impact Analytics in Bengaluru seeks a senior backend architect who will lead hands-on architectural initiatives for enterprise SaaS platforms. You will drive scalable backend design, evaluate new technologies, and champion multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud patterns to ensure secure, resilient services.

You bring 14+ years of software development, deep expertise in Python and Rust, distributed systems, and high-concurrency design. Mentoring engineers and aligning stakeholders across teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 14+ years of software development experience with 4+ years as Architect or Staff Engineer in backend systems.
• Expert in enterprise SaaS with distributed architecture, REST and event-driven patterns, low latency and high throughput.
• Designing stateful backends handling large data, including messaging brokers, distributed queues, caching; HA/DR.
• Strong understanding of Async, multi-threading and multi-processing for high concurrency.
• Proficiency in Python and Rust; Rust a strong plus for high-performance memory-safe code.
• Deep knowledge of system design, SQL/NoSQL DBs, microservices, observability, resilience, secure coding.
• Experience with big data, streaming, ML infra, and multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Excellent communicator and collaborator enabling cross-functional alignment.
• Mentoring engineers and guiding architectural decisions at scale.

Responsibilities

• Drive complex backend architecture initiatives across engineering domains.
• Lead R&D to evaluate backend technologies and champion adoption company-wide.
• Spearhead Multi-Cloud & Hybrid-Cloud backend strategies for scalable, secure architectures.

Skills

Python

Rust

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

Async programming

Multi-threading

Tools

REST

NoSQL

Job description

About Impact Analytics

Impact Analytics is an agentic-first AI software company transforming retail merchandising through cutting-edge AI, LLMs, and Generative AI technologies. As a fast-growing Series D company with deployments across five continents, it is building both industry-leading merchandising solutions and foundational AI agents that are redefining how retail decisions are made.

What makes Impact Analytics unique is its combination of deep retail domain expertise, strong innovation culture, and global presence. It is one of the few India-born AI companies recognized globally by organizations like Fortune, Gartner, and the Inc. 5000.

For candidates looking to work on next-generation AI products with global scale and real-world impact, Impact Analytics is an exciting place to build your career. Here’s a link to our website: www.impactanalytics.co.

Meet the Team:

Rooted in AI and Engineering first principles, our cross-functional teams of ML and AI Engineers and Data Scientist thrive in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment. We emphasize collaboration, continuous learning, and high-impact delivery. Our backend teams specialize in modern frameworks, data platforms, infrastructure engineering, DevOps practices, and scalable service architectures. Top performers are recognized, valued, and supported with ample growth opportunities.

Role Overview:

This is a senior-level, individual contributor role focused on hands‑on technical leadership in backend architecture. The role is centered around three core areas:

• Drive complex backend architecture initiatives that span across multiple engineering and technology domains.
• Lead strategic R&D efforts to evaluate new backend technologies, frameworks, and methodologies, and champion their adoption company-wide.
• Spearhead our Multi-Cloud & Hybrid-Cloud backend strategies, ensuring scalable, secure, and resilient architecture patterns.

What Our Ideal Candidate May Look Like

• 14+ years of software development experience, with at least 4 years as an Architect or Staff Engineer role, particularly in backend systems.
• A backend technology expert with in-depth, hands-on experience in building and scaling enterprise SaaS with distributed architecture, In depth knowledge of Rest and Event driven architecture with low latency and high-throughput in memory systems.
• Designing stateful backend to handle large data including message broker, distributed queue, caching. Good understanding of High Availability and Disaster recovery for the critical production system.
• In depth understanding of Async, Multi Threading and Multi Processing Architecture to ensure our system efficiently use the programming principle for higher concurrency support
• Proficiency in following programming languages (Python, Rust), with a strong foundation in software engineering principles. Knowledge of Rust is a strong plus, especially in the context of high-performance, memory safety and ownership.
• Deep understanding of system design, database architecture (SQL & NoSQL), microservices, observability, resilience engineering, and secure coding practices.
• Exposure to big data platforms, stream processing, machine learning infrastructure, and multi-cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) is preferred.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator, with the ability to influence and align cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Proven experience mentoring engineers and guiding architectural decisions at scale.

What We Offer

• An opportunity to be part of some of the best enterprise SaaS products to be built out of India.
• Opportunities to quench your thirst for problem‑solving, experimenting, learning, and implementing innovative solutions.
• A flat, collegial work environment, with a work hard, play hard attitude.
• A platform for rapid growth if you are willing to try new things without fear of failure.
• Remuneration with best-in-class industry standards with generous health insurance cover

Some Of Our Accolades Include

• Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Companies by Financial Times for five consecutive years: 2020-2024.
• Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000 for seven consecutive years: 2018-2024.
• Voted #1 by more than 300 retailers worldwide in the RIS Software LeaderBoard 2024 report.
• Ranked #72 in America’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2023—by Fortune—alongside companies like Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, IBM, etc.
• Forged a strategic partnership with Google to equip retailers with cutting‑edge generative AI tools.
• Recognized in multiple Gartner reports, including Market Guides and Hype Cycle, spanning assortments, merchandising, forecasting, algorithmic retailing, and Unified Price, Promotion, and Markdown Optimization Applications.