Staff Backend Engineer

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 7000000 - Rs 15000000 (ie INR 70 - 150 LPA)

Min Experience: 5+ years
Location: Bengaluru
JobType: full-time

We are looking for a highly experienced and technically strong Staff Backend Engineer with 5–12 years of software engineering experience to design, build, and evolve scalable backend systems and core platform capabilities. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, API design, and building reliable platforms that support high-volume applications and business-critical workloads.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will operate at a high level of technical ownership, solving complex engineering problems and driving architecture and implementation across multiple services and teams. You will work closely with product managers, architects, infrastructure engineers, and other technical stakeholders to build robust systems that are scalable, secure, observable, and maintainable.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend services, APIs, microservices, and platform components.
• Own the architecture and technical direction of critical backend systems, from design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing optimization.
• Build backend