Staff Engineer - Backend

Flipkart Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 8,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Flipkart Group is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to design and scale backend systems for high-volume, data-intensive platforms. You will contribute to distributed microservices, optimize databases, and implement robust async processing, caching, and observability.

The role emphasizes leadership in complex initiatives across multiple teams and deep expertise in Node.js/TypeScript or Go, with cloud and Kubernetes experience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building backend systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language, such as Node.js/TypeScript, Go, Java, or similar.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• Deep understanding of API design and service-to-service communication.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL database systems.
• Experience designing systems involving large datasets and high request volumes.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, asynchronous processing, queues, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with caching and distributed caching strategies.
• Strong understanding of database indexing, query optimization, transactions, and data consistency.
• Experience designing reliable systems with retries, idempotency, timeouts, rate limiting, and failure recovery.
• Strong understanding of scalability, availability, consistency, and performance trade-offs.
• Experience diagnosing complex production issues using metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.
• Strong system design and architectural decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technically complex initiatives involving multiple engineers or teams.

Skills

Backend systems design

Distributed systems

API design

Concurrency & asynchronous processing

Performance optimization

Tools

Node.js/TypeScript

Go

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Firestore

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Redis

Kafka

Pub/Sub

RabbitMQ

SQS

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

OpenTelemetry

Grafana/Prometheus

Job description

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building backend systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language, such as Node.js/TypeScript, Go, Java, or similar.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• Deep understanding of API design and service-to-service communication.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL database systems.
• Experience designing systems involving large datasets and high request volumes.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, asynchronous processing, queues, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with caching and distributed caching strategies.
• Strong understanding of database indexing, query optimization, transactions, and data consistency.
• Experience designing reliable systems with retries, idempotency, timeouts, rate limiting, and failure recovery.
• Strong understanding of scalability, availability, consistency, and performance trade-offs.
• Experience diagnosing complex production issues using metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.
• Strong system design and architectural decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technically complex initiatives involving multiple engineers or teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience with Node.js / TypeScript and Go.
• Experience operating distributed systems at a significant scale.
• Experience with Elasticsearch / OpenSearch.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firestore, or similar databases.
• Experience with Kafka, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar messaging systems.
• Experience with Redis and distributed caching.
• Experience designing search, indexing, aggregation, and reporting systems.
• Experience with high-volume event processing and data pipelines.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar tooling.
• Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Experience with CRM, workflow automation, task management, messaging, or similar products.
• Experience performing large-scale data migrations without significant customer.

Tech Stack:

• Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, Go.
• Databases and Search: MySQL, MongoDB, Firestore, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Caching: Redis Messaging and Events: Kafka, Pub/Sub.
• Architecture: Microservices, REST APIs, Event-Driven Systems.
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, GCP.
• Observability: Metrics, Logs, Distributed Tracing, and Alerting.