Lead Backend Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a Lead Backend Engineer - Authentication to own the design, delivery, and operation of our core data and marketing platforms. Based in Bangalore Urban (Bangalore), this full-time role sits at the intersection of engineering excellence and real business impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and evolve backend services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with deliberate trade-offs around scalability, reliability, maintainability, and cost.
• Build secure, scalable REST and gRPC APIs using Go from development through production.
• Maintain high engineering standards via clean code, automated testing (Testcontainers, Pact), and rigorous reviews.
• Modernize legacy systems with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.

Mandatory Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building large-scale backend applications.
• Proficiency in Go as the primary development language.
• Solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/Cloud SQL) at production scale.
• Demonstrated expertise in containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes within CI/CD pipelines.