Lead Backend Engineer
Weekday (YC W21)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: India
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Salary
💰 ₹2,000,000 - ₹4,000,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
- Salary range: Rs 2000000 - Rs 4000000 (ie INR 20-40 LPA)
- Min Experience: 6 years
- Location: Remote (India)
- JobType: full-time
Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in backend engineering, including designing and operating fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous job processing.
- Extensive experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including handling complex and time-series/temporal data models.
- Proven ability to architect and deliver high-performance, production-grade web applications at scale.
- Solid understanding of software design principles, API design, and microservices architecture in multi-tenant environments.
- Experience leading technical architecture discussions, making critical engineering decisions, and mentoring backend engineers.
- Strong exposure to code quality best practices, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling optimization.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities with clear, collaborative communication across cross-functional teams.
- Working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks such as React, Vue.js, or Angular to support full-stack collaboration when required.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
backend engineeringdistributed systemsevent-driven architecturesasynchronous job processingrelational databasesNoSQL databasesAPI designmicroservices architectureCI/CD pipelinesautomated testing
Soft Skills
analytical abilitiesproblem-solvingcollaborative communicationmentoringleadershipcritical decision making