Staff Backend Engineer - Trust & Control Safety Systems
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HighLevelSaaS Platform
IndiaFull-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- Node.jsElasticSearchKafkaMongoDBClickhouseGoRedisDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building high-scale, mission-critical backend systems
- Deep expertise in concurrency, event-driven architectures, and consistency primitives
- Experience with systems where code correctness has direct financial impact like metering or billing
- Strong experience with relational and NoSQL data models
- Experience designing policy- or rules-driven systems
- Proven track record of technical leadership through influence across multi-team platforms
- Familiarity with monitoring, SLOs, and root-cause analysis in production environments
- Hands-on experience with Node.js and Go in production services
- Experience with streaming and analytical stores for time-windowed aggregation
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills with stakeholders like Finance and Risk
Responsibilities
- Redesign and optimize data models, queries, and indexing strategies across MongoDB, Firestore, and ElasticSearch
- Own ElasticSearch reliability including ingestion, indexing, shard strategy, and query performance
- Eliminate bottlenecks and improve system reliability, replication health, and predictable query latency
- Define data flow and integration boundaries between storage, cache, and APIs
- Build comprehensive observability for data paths including metrics, traces, and cluster health dashboards
- Enforce unit, integration, and load testing standards across all backend modules
- Drive technical engineering culture through RFCs, ADRs, and design reviews
- Lead by technical example through hands-on coding, system design, and production debugging
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, feedback, and technical guidance
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