Staff Backend Engineer, India

About the role

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams, solving the highest-scope and most complex problems in your area. You will lead large, cross-cutting backend initiatives, drive our modular architecture strategy, and define the standards that let teams move faster without compromising quality, security, reliability, or operability.

What you'll do

• Lead Cross-Cutting Initiatives: Lead the technical design and delivery of large backend initiatives that span teams
• Own Architecture Strategy: Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture
• Lead modernization of the monolith and legacy backends toward modular, reusable
• Establish Shared Patterns: Create the patterns for dependency management, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, service maturity, and operational documentation
• Establish Go service patterns and Kubernetes operating practices where they matter to our production estate, and guide Rust adoption where it solves a real systems

What you need

• Git
• Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL
• Ruby
• Go
• Incident response
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Rust