Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

About the job

We are looking for a hands-on Backend Technical Lead to drive the design, development, scalability, and operational excellence of our platform. This role will be responsible for leading backend architecture and solution design, ensuring production stability, and mentoring engineers across multiple backend services.

You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to build resilient, high-performance systems that operate at scale in a cloudnative environment.

What You'll Do

• Lead backend architecture and system & solution design.
• Own end-to-end delivery of backend services.
• Ensure highly availability, scalability, performance and security.
• Drive engineering best practices, code quality, and design reviews.
• Improve database performance, indexing strategies, query efficiency, and overall cost optimization.
• Lead production incident investigations and root cause analysis.
• Design and implement event-driven and asynchronous systems.
• Work closely with DevOps on deployment, monitoring, and reliability.
• Balance speed of delivery with long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers and drive technical initiatives across teams.

What You'll Need

• Experience in Golang and building production systems.
• Beginner to Intermediate knowledge in Java is a plus.
• Deep understanding of concurrency, memory profiling, and performance optimization.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and system to system integrations.
• SQL knowledge and experience with PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS.
• Experience with event streaming systems (e.g., Kafka) and realtime communication protocol (e.g. WebSockets).
• Hands-on experience debugging production issues.
• Familiarity with cloudnative deployments (Azure or AWS).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Grasp of system design, scalability, and failure handling.
• Experience working on high-traffic or real-time systems.
• Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives.
• Exposure to Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar).
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Sentry or similar).
• Prior experience in EV charging, mobility, or IoT platforms
• Familiarity with EV charging protocols such as OCPI & OCPP.
• Experience working with distributed or device-integrated systems.
• Exposure to payment systems, billing workflows, or transaction-heavy platforms.

Platform Characteristics

• Distributed and event-driven architecture.
• Real-time and asynchronous workflows.
• Production-critical systems with high availability requirements.
• Integrations with external platforms, protocols, and third-party systems.
• High observability and operational ownership expectations.
• Rapidly evolving platform with scaling and optimization challenges.