Technical Lead

Roles and Responsibilities :

• 8–12 years backend engineering experience with systems in production at scale, and a clear track record of remaining hands-on in code.
• Deep Java + Spring Boot/Cloud/Security expertise — including JVM tuning and production troubleshooting.
• Golang proficiency for building high-performance backend services and tooling; ability to diagnose goroutine leaks, memory bloat, and scheduler latency using pprof.
• Experience leading technical design — producing design docs and ADRs, and collaborating with architecture/SA functions to align designs to a broader direction.
• Strong RESTful API design — versioning, idempotency, error handling, OpenAPI documentation.
• MySQL/MariaDB — schema design, query optimisation, index strategy.
• Redis — caching, session management, distributed locking, rate limiting.
• Apache Kafka — event-driven design, topic partitioning, consumer group management, exactly-once semantics; including real-world authentication (SASL/Kerberos) and STG/PROD config-parity discipline.
• Distributed systems fundamentals — CAP theorem, idempotency, saga pattern, eventual consistency.
• Docker + Kubernetes — production deployment, resource management, pod lifecycle.
• CI/CD — GitLab CI or Jenkins, blue/green and canary deployments.
• Observability — Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry/Jaeger).
• Security — OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, OWASP Top 10, secrets management.
• Cloud — hands-on with GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and leading technical design discussions.