Lead Backend Engineer

Experience: 4.00 + years

Salary: INR 3000000-4000000 / year (based on experience)

Expected Notice Period: 7 Days

Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)

Opportunity Type: Hybrid ()

Placement Type: Full Time Permanent position(Payroll and Compliance to be managed by: An AI-powered omnichannel platform for managing business communications across multiple channels.)

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers client - An AI-powered omnichannel platform for managing business communications across multiple channels.)

What do you need for this opportunity?

Must have skills required:

AI/ML-based systems, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, SQS, Twilio, WhatsApp APIs, APIs (REST, ETL/data pipelines, GraphQL), MongoDB/Redis/Redshift, Node.js, testing & CI/CD, Cloud Server (Google / AWS), Python

An AI-powered omnichannel platform for managing business communications across multiple channels. is Looking for:

Lead Backend Engineer

Location: Hybrid (New Delhi)

Experience: 4–8 years

Role Summary

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you’ll take ownership of building robust backend infrastructure that powers our AI messaging engine. You’ll work on API design, architecture decisions, scalable ETL pipelines, and everything in between to support intelligent, event-driven communication at scale.

Responsibilities

• API Design: Develop clean, scalable APIs (REST, GraphQL) to power our platform and integrations.
• Architecture Design: Design and scale backend architecture to support real-time and batch communication workflows.
• ETL Pipelines: Build efficient ETL and data processing pipelines for user events, communication logs, and analytics.
• DevOps & Monitoring: Deploy, monitor, and scale services using modern DevOps tools and cloud platforms (AWS).
• Optimization: Continuously profile and optimize backend systems for performance, reliability, and cost.
• Collaboration: Work closely with teams to ship features quickly.
• Best Practices: Write clean, maintainable code with unit/integration tests, documentation, and CI/CD practices.
  
  
  

Requirements

• Experience: 4–8 years of backend engineering experience.
• Languages: Strong knowledge of at least one backend stack — Node.js, Python, or preferred.
• Databases: Experience with MongoDB, Redis, Redshift or similar data stores.
• Architecture: Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
• Cloud: Hands-on experience with AWS is a strong plus.
• Problem Solving: You love debugging, optimizing, and scaling systems under load.
• Mindset: Geeky, curious, and obsessed with building great systems.
  
  
  

Nice to Have

• Experience with messaging infrastructure (e.g., SQS, Twilio, WhatsApp APIs).
• Knowledge of observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Exposure to AI/ML-based systems and data pipelines.
  
  
  

What We Offer

• Friendly work culture environment to grow and sharpen your skills
• Chance to work on cutting-edge communication and AI problems
• Fast-paced, high-ownership environment with real impact
• Competitive salary & meaningful equity
  
  
  

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• Step 3: Increase your chances to get shortlisted & meet the client for the Interview!
  
  
  

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