Lead Backend Engineer

Weekday AI

India Remote permanent

Posted: January 21, 2026

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Quick Summary

Design and develop scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems with expertise in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous job processing.

Required Skills

Backend Engineering Distributed Systems Node.js Microservices Event-Driven Architecture Relational & NoSQL Databases API Design CI/CD React Vue.js

Job Description

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 2000000 - Rs 4000000 (ie INR 20-40 LPA)

Min Experience: 6 years

Location: Remote (India)

JobType: full-time

Requirements:
Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in backend engineering, including designing and operating fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous job processing.
• Extensive experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including handling complex and time-series/temporal data models.
• Proven ability to architect and deliver high-performance, production-grade web applications at scale.
• Solid understanding of software design principles, API design, and microservices architecture in multi-tenant environments.
• Experience leading technical architecture discussions, making critical engineering decisions, and mentoring backend engineers.
• Strong exposure to code quality best practices, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling optimization.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities with clear, collaborative communication across cross-functional teams.
• Working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks such as React, Vue.js, or Angular to support full-stack collaboration when required.

Skills

Backend Engineering, Distributed Systems, Node.js, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Relational & NoSQL Databases, API Design, CI/CD, React, Vue.js

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