Senior Backend Platform Engineer

Industry: Software Development

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Min Experience: 5 years

Location: Gurugram

JobType: full-time

We are hiring a Senior Backend Platform Engineer to own and evolve the backend foundation of business-critical products used at scale. This role is built for engineers who think in systems, enjoy deep technical ownership, and want to influence how backend platforms are designed, operated, and scaled over time.

You will work at the intersection of architecture, execution, and mentorship—building resilient backend services while shaping engineering practices that enable teams to move faster and safer.

What You’ll Own

Platform & System Design

Architect backend platforms that handle high throughput, complex workflows, and real-time workloads.

Make long-term design decisions around scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

Define service boundaries, data ownership, and communication patterns across systems.

Backend Engineering & Operations

Build and operate production-grade services with full lifecycle ownership.

Design APIs, background workers, and event-driven components that scale reliably.

Own deployments, observability, incident response, and post-incident improvements.

Technical Leadership

Act as a technical anchor for backend teams, influencing design and implementation quality.

Lead code and design reviews with a focus on maintainability and correctness.

Mentor engineers on system design, debugging, and backend engineering fundamentals.

Engineering Excellence & Reliability

Champion best practices around testing, security, performance, and documentation.

Improve CI/CD pipelines, release safety, and rollback strategies.

Define and track reliability metrics (SLIs/SLOs) to drive continuous improvement.

Collaboration & Product Alignment

Partner closely with product and business teams to shape feasible and scalable solutions early.

Support integrations with internal and external systems.

Translate evolving product needs into stable backend abstractions.

What You Bring

Experience

5–8+ years of backend engineering experience in production environments.

Prior ownership of distributed systems or core backend services.

Experience operating systems that require high availability and reliability.

Technical Strengths

Advanced proficiency with Node.js and modern backend frameworks.

Strong system design fundamentals: concurrency, fault tolerance, data consistency, and scalability.

Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, schema design, and performance optimization.

Experience deploying and running services on AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms.

Strong understanding of REST APIs and asynchronous/event-driven architectures.

Ways of Working

High ownership mindset with comfort handling ambiguity and production responsibility.

Clear communicator who can explain technical trade-offs to diverse stakeholders.

Strong bias toward automation, metrics, and operational discipline.

Bonus Points

Experience with identity, trust, or credential-based systems.

Familiarity with compliance, security, or privacy-heavy environments.

Exposure to Kubernetes, message brokers, and caching layers.

Experience supporting AI/ML workflows within backend systems.

Core Skills

Backend Platform Engineering · Distributed Systems · Node.js · Cloud Infrastructure · API Design · Databases & Data Modeling · Observability & Reliability · CI/CD · DevOps Practices