SDE III - Backend

Tamasha; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Tamasha in Bengaluru is seeking a senior backend engineer to own backend systems end-to-end, building scalable, low-latency services for real-time use cases. You will design resilient data models, manage async workflows, and drive reliability across production systems.

You will lead design decisions, collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams, mentor engineers, and push for robust backend solutions while helping shape scalable infrastructure and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Proven ownership of production systems at scale.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and async architectures.
• Experience handling production incidents and system reliability.
• Ability to independently design and evolve backend systems.
• Comfortable influencing technical decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own backend systems end-to-end, from design and implementation to production reliability and long-term evolution.
• Design scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency backend architectures for real-time and event-driven use cases.
• Lead system design decisions including data models, service boundaries, async workflows, and scalability strategies.
• Build and operate high-throughput services handling millions of events, requests, or messages per day.
• Own reliability metrics such as p95/p99 latency, uptime, and error budgets; participate in incident resolution and post-mortems.
• Drive architectural migrations including monolith to microservices and synchronous to asynchronous flows.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to translate complex requirements into robust backend solutions.
• Improve developer productivity by contributing to internal platforms, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and coding standards.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance without direct people management.
• Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and scalability risks and resolve them at the system level.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Async architectures

Incident response

Technical leadership

Tools

Node.js

NestJS

Express

Golang

Java

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

Kafka

SQS

RabbitMQ

Pub/Sub

WebSockets

SSE

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Own backend systems end-to-end, from design and implementation to production reliability and long-term evolution.
• Design scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency backend architectures for real-time and event-driven use cases.
• Lead system design decisions including data models, service boundaries, async workflows, and scalability strategies.
• Build and operate high-throughput services handling millions of events, requests, or messages per day.
• Own reliability metrics such as p95/p99 latency, uptime, and error budgets; participate in incident resolution and post-mortems.
• Drive architectural migrations including monolith to microservices and synchronous to asynchronous flows.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to translate complex requirements into robust backend solutions.
• Improve developer productivity by contributing to internal platforms, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and coding standards.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance without direct people management.
• Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and scalability risks and resolve them at the system level.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Proven ownership of production systems at scale.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and async architectures.
• Experience handling production incidents and system reliability.
• Ability to independently design and evolve backend systems.
• Comfortable influencing technical decisions across teams.

Tech Stack:

• BACKEND: Node.js, NestJS, Express, Golang, Java
• DATABASES: PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis
• MESSAGING and ASYNC: Kafka SQS RabbitMQ Pub/Sub
• REAL-TIME: WebSockets, SSE
• CLOUD and INFRA: AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
• OBSERVABILITY: Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry