Staff Software Engineer — Tech Lead, Backend

Location: Bangalore

Work Mode: Hybrid

Experience: 5+ years

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer / Backend Tech Lead to drive the architecture and development of high-scale, real-time data platforms. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on distributed systems, streaming, data platforms, and AI-native engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Own backend architecture for high-scale, real-time data platforms.

• Lead technical design reviews and architectural decisions.

• Work with Kafka, ClickHouse, Druid, Spark and distributed systems.

• Design and build scalable streaming and OLAP solutions.

• Integrate LLM pipelines, AI agents, agent observability, and intelligent data modeling.

• Drive end-to-end delivery from design and development to production monitoring.

• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.

• Champion engineering best practices, testing, CI/CD, and code quality.

• Collaborate with Product and distributed engineering teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in backend/data platforms.

• Strong experience with distributed systems and high-scale backend architecture.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka, Spark, ClickHouse, Druid or similar technologies.

• Strong proficiency in one or more: Python, Go, Java, Scala, or Rust.

• Practical understanding of AI/ML, LLM pipelines, or AI agent systems.

• Experience with RAG, LLM applications, or agentic systems is a plus.

• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

• Comfortable working in an AI-assisted engineering environment using tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot.

Good to Have

• Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, or CrewAI.

• Exposure to LLMOps and production AI deployment.

• Experience building observability solutions for AI/agent systems.