The Backend Lead (6–10 years experience) will own Invisia's core server-side systems — the booking engine, availability and inventory logic, payments flow, and the APIs that power everything from the mobile app to third-party integrations.
- You will be the technical anchor for backend engineering: setting the standard, mentoring the team, and making the key system design decisions.
This is a high-ownership role.
- You will not just be contributing features — you will be the person who decides how the backend scales, what the data model looks like, and how the team approaches reliability.
- You will work closely with the Frontend, Mobile, and DevOps functions to ensure the platform performs under real-world load.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
System Design & Ownership
- Design and evolve APIs, data models, caching strategies, and message queue architectures across Invisia's core backend services
- Own the performance and reliability of backend systems — set SLOs, monitor dashboards, and proactively address degradation before it impacts users
- Make the key decisions on database choice, query optimisation, indexing strategy, and data partitioning as the platform scales
- Lead the design of Invisia's payments integration — ensuring security, reliability, and reconciliation accuracy
Engineering Quality & Standards
- Set and enforce backend coding standards, testing requirements (unit, integration, contract), and observability practices
- Lead backend code reviews; give feedback that improves code quality and helps engineers grow
- Own backend-specific postmortems; ensure root causes are identified and systemic fixes are implemented, not just patched
Team Leadership & Mentoring
- Mentor and technically guide backend engineers at junior and mid levels
- Participate in backend hiring — define the bar, conduct technical interviews, and provide calibrated feedback
- Collaborate with DevOps to right-size infrastructure, optimise cloud spend, and maintain deployment reliability
MUST-HAVE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- 6–10 years of backend engineering experience with clear examples of owning and scaling complex systems
- Deep proficiency in at least one strongly-typed backend language (Java, Go, Node.js/TypeScript, Python) and comfort reading others
- Strong command of relational and non-relational databases; you know when to use each and how to optimise both
- Hands-on experience with caching layers (Redis or similar) and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent)
- Payment gateway integration experience — you understand the reliability, idempotency, and reconciliation requirements that come with money movement
- Experience building and maintaining RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs at production scale
NICE-TO-HAVE
- Experience building booking, availability, or inventory management systems
- Familiarity with event-driven and CQRS patterns
- AWS-specific experience (Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS/SNS, API Gateway)
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
- ✓ Core API response times are consistently within defined SLOs across peak load
- ✓ The backend codebase has meaningfully improved test coverage and observability within 6 months
- ✓ Payment integration runs with zero reconciliation errors over a rolling quarter
- ✓ Junior and mid-level engineers are visibly growing in system design confidence under your mentorship
- ✓ Postmortems produce real systemic improvements, not just incident rep
Pay: ₹2,500,000.00 - ₹3,500,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Paid sick time
- Provident Fund
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Kalyan Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Application Question(s):
- What is your current notice period?
- What is your current CTC (annual)?
- Are you ready to join immediately or within 15 days?
- Are you available to work 5 days a week from office (Mon–Fri)?
- What is your earliest available date for interview?
Experience:
- Back-end development: 6 years (Required)
Location:
- Kalyan Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka (Required)
Work Location: In person
