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Lead Backend Engineer

1 hour, 46 minutes ago
India
Full-time
Lead
Backend Engineer
Software Development
AWS Docker GraphQL Helm Jaeger Kubernetes OpenTelemetry PostgreSQL Prometheus Ruby Ruby on Rails Salesforce System Design
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Arcadia Towers

Arcadia Towers

Arcadia Towers LLC is a cell tower company that develops, owns, and operates wireless communications towers across the U.S. They provide innovative solutions for wireless infrastructure development, connecting communities today and for the future. Arca...

Real Estate
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Founded 2005
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Description

  • Define, evolve, and document backend architecture and data models with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability.
  • Own the design and quality of GraphQL and backend APIs, including schema design, versioning strategy, and backward compatibility.
  • Lead technical design discussions, write technical proposals, evaluate trade-offs, and make decisions that balance speed with long-term system health.
  • Own backend services in production, including monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, and follow-through improvements.
  • Establish and uphold backend engineering standards for testing, observability, security, documentation, and code quality.
  • Own backend deliverables end-to-end from requirements and estimation through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
  • Act as the primary backend point of contact for Product, Frontend, and other stakeholders on complex initiatives.
  • Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and help unblock others to raise team effectiveness.
  • Proactively identify technical debt, scalability risks, and opportunities to simplify and harden the platform.
  • Design and build scalable, resilient backend systems using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, including complex features and external integrations such as Salesforce.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating high-availability backend systems.
  • Demonstrated experience leading backend initiatives and owning systems beyond individual features.
  • Strong fundamentals in system design, API design, and data modelling.
  • Strong experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
  • Experience designing and owning GraphQL APIs, including Apollo or similar.
  • Advanced SQL skills and experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services such as S3, SQS, SES, EventBridge, or similar cloud-native services.
  • Containerization experience with Docker.
  • Exposure to distributed systems or platform engineering.
  • Familiarity with background jobs, async processing, and event-driven workflows.
  • Ability to communicate technical decisions and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of a team.
  • Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces and iterating toward robust solutions.
  • Ability to actively represent backend engineering in key discussion calls during the IST collaboration window.
  • Experience integrating with Salesforce or other enterprise platforms (bonus).
  • Strong opinions, loosely held, on backend architecture, scalability, and system design (bonus).
  • Exposure to AI-assisted engineering, such as using modern AI tools for coding, debugging, testing, documentation, or LLM-based backend workflows (bonus).
  • Familiarity with observability and distributed tracing tools such as OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Prometheus, or similar (bonus).
  • Experience with container orchestration and deployment using Kubernetes and Helm charts (bonus).
  • Passion for sustainability, clean energy, and building mission-driven products (bonus).
  • Eligible to work in India; visa sponsorship is not available.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation based on market standards.
  • Flexible leave policy.
  • Medical insurance for the employee plus five family members.
  • Comprehensive accident policy and life insurance.
  • Annual performance cycle.
  • Quarterly team engagement activities, rewards, and recognitions.
  • Learning and development programs to support professional growth.
  • Fully remote role based in India.

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