Lead Backend Engineer, VP

Job Title: Lead Backend Engineer

Location: Pune, India

Corporate Title: VP

Role Description

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will be a key driver in the design and development of robust software components within our digital sales department, ensuring alignment with critical business requirements. You will navigate all phases of the software development lifecycle, taking ownership of the end-to-end delivery of complex features with a strong commitment to quality. As an active contributor to our agile team, you will significantly influence overall design and architecture decisions, balancing both functional and non-functional requirements. This role demands a passion for software engineering best practices, testing methodologies, and a continuous pursuit of quality. You will thrive in a globally distributed team, contributing your expertise to achieve collective success.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Software Design & Development: Lead the design and development of high-quality backend software components for the digital sales department, adhering to business requirements and architectural standards.
• End-to-End Feature Delivery: Take responsibility for delivering complex features from inception to deployment, ensuring a high degree of quality, performance, and scalability within an agile team setup.
• Architectural Contribution: Actively contribute to overall software design and architecture decisions, with a strong focus on balancing functional requirements with crucial non-functional aspects such as scalability, security, and reliability.
• Engineering Best Practices: Champion software engineering best practices, modern testing methodologies (unit, integration, end-to-end), and other quality assurance initiatives within the team.
• Team Leadership & Collaboration: Provide technical leadership and guidance within a distributed agile team, fostering a collaborative environment and mentoring junior engineers.
• Stakeholder Management: Engage effectively with various stakeholders to understand their needs, manage expectations, and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure developed solutions are robust, maintainable, and observable, contributing to the overall operational excellence of our systems.
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify areas for improvement in processes, tools, and technologies, and drive their implementation.

Your skills and experience

• At least 5 years of industry experience in software design and development within a large-scale distributed system environment, preferably in the financial services industry.
• A degree in computer science or a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• Fluent in developing RESTful APIs using either Java (with Spring Boot and Spring Security) or Node.js (with Express and TypeScript).
• Fluent in working with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra) and proficient in implementing OAuth2 flows for secure API access.
• Solid experience building containerized services with orchestrators like Kubernetes or leveraging cloud-native services (e.g., GKE, Google Cloud Run, AWS ECS).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and Google Cloud platform skills are a significant plus.
• Solid experience with build tools such as Maven or Webpack, and testing frameworks for unit and integration testing (e.g., JUnit, Mockito, Jest, Mocha).
• Strong passion for leading a distributed agile team, excellent stakeholder management abilities, and a proven track record of designing customer-focused solutions.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.