Lead Engineer - Custom Objects
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IndiaFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSNode.jsPostgreSQLGCPKubernetesMongoDBRedisMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience focused on large-scale systems
- Strong experience with Node.js internals (event loop, memory model, async behavior)
- Proficiency in diagnosing performance issues using profilers, tracing, and metrics
- Solid understanding of Microservices and Distributed systems
- Experience with high-throughput APIs, Caching, Queuing, and Backpressure patterns
- Experience with Load balancing and Rate limiting
- Hands-on experience with databases such as MongoDB, Postgres/MySQL, Firestore, Redis, or ClickHouse
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud environments (GCP/AWS), and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
- Strong communication skills
Responsibilities
- Architect new features around custom objects
- Diagnose and remove bottlenecks in backend services, APIs, and message flows
- Profile Node.js services and rewrite hot paths for efficiency
- Improve resilience via batching, caching, pooling, and backpressure
- Establish rate-limiting, queueing, and circuit-breaker patterns
- Optimize database queries, indexing, and read/write paths
- Work with SRE on autoscaling, capacity planning, and workload efficiency
- Define performance best practices and observability standards
- Mentor engineers on scalable code and system design
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