Tech Lead - Backend

instahyre

Mumbai 8 Years Exp Posted 48d ago

Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of backend services using Java + Spring Boot.
Enforce backend architecture standards, coding best practices, and API design guidelines.
Collaborate with product managers, frontend leads, and DevOps to deliver robust, high-quality features.
Conduct code reviews and foster a culture of engineering excellence across the team.
Drive performance optimisation, scalability improvements, and technical debt reduction.
Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and backlog grooming as a technical authority.
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through regular 1:1s, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
Evaluate and integrate third-party services, libraries, and cloud-native tools.
Own incident response processes and drive root-cause analysis and post-mortems.
Work closely with security and compliance teams to ensure backend systems meet regulatory requirements.

Requirements:

8+ years of backend engineering experience with at least 3 years in a tech lead or principal engineer role.
Deep expertise in Java (Spring Boot / Spring Cloud).
Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST and gRPC API design.
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL / MySQL) and NoSQL stores (MongoDB / Redis).
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, SQS/SNS.
Proficiency in JUnit 5 Mockito, and TestContainers for Java; experience writing and enforcing unit, integration, and contract tests.
Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Jenkins / GitLab CI) and containerisation (Docker / Kubernetes).
Strong command of distributed systems concepts: CAP theorem, eventual consistency, event-driven architecture, modular and loosely coupled systems.
Excellent communication skills; ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with message brokers such as Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ.
Familiarity with observability tooling, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and Datadog.
Knowledge of OAuth 2.0 JWT, and API security best practices.
Open-source contributions or technical publications are a plus.