Back End Developer - Technical Lead

SRM Technologies -
Chennai, Tamil Nadu

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Job details

Full-time

Qualifications

RDBMS
System design
NoSQL
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
Distributed systems
Redis
Back-end development
REST
APIs
DynamoDB
Python
MySQL

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Job Information

Date Opened

05/05/2026

Job Type

Full time

City

Chennai

State/Province

Tamil Nadu

Country

India

Zip/Postal Code

600096

Industry

Technology

Job Description

Job Title - Back End Developer - Technical Lead

Location – Chennai (Onsite)

Role Summary

We are hiring a Lead Backend Engineer with 10+ years of experience who will own backend architecture and system design while remaining deeply hands-on. This role is for someone already making architectural decisions.

You will design, build, and evolve distributed backend systems, define architectural standards, and guide teams through complex technical decisions.

Core Responsibilities

System Design & Architecture

Design end-to-end backend systems with a focus on scalability, resilience, and maintainability

Define service boundaries, data ownership, and communication patterns

Select and apply appropriate architecture patterns: Modular monoliths

Microservices

Event-driven systems

Layered and hexagonal architectures

Drive trade-off decisions (performance vs cost vs complexity)

Produce architecture diagrams, ADRs, Data Flow Diagrams and technical design documents

Backend Engineering

Design and develop high-performance backend services using Python and FastAPI

Build and maintain RESTful APIs and async services

Handle concurrency, background processing, and IO-heavy workloads

Enforce clean code, SOLID principles, and testability

Lead code reviews with a focus on correctness, performance, and long-term design

Data Engineering & Storage

Design and optimize schemas in RDBMS (PostgreSQL/MySQL) Indexing, query optimization, transactions, isolation levels

Design data models for NoSQL systems (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.)

Choose the right data store based on access patterns and consistency needs

Handle migrations, versioning, and backward compatibility

Distributed Systems

Design systems that handle: Partial failures

Retries, timeouts, and idempotency

Horizontal scaling

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