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
Skills Required
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience
- Proven experience owning architecture and making architectural decisions
- Strong Python and FastAPI development experience
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and async services
- Designing scalable, resilient distributed systems (microservices, event-driven)
- RDBMS schema design and optimization (PostgreSQL/MySQL)
- NoSQL data model design experience (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis)
- Experience with concurrency, background processing, and IO-heavy workloads
- Ability to produce architecture diagrams, ADRs, and technical design documents
- Lead code reviews and enforce clean code, SOLID principles, and testability
- Design for partial failures, retries, timeouts, idempotency, and horizontal scaling
- Experience handling migrations, versioning, and backward compatibility
What We Do
SRM Technologies is a global IT services company specialising in automotive technologies, digital transformation and product engineering services. We provide technology consulting, platform development, data analytics, artificial intelligence, cloud enablement, digital infrastructure, quality assurance, embedded software and design to manufacturing product solutions to various industries and enterprises across the North America, Japan, Europe and India. At the heart of our organization are passionate employees who embody our core belief - 'ideas@work.' We firmly believe that ideas and innovation truly matter only when they create a meaningful impact on our customers' businesses and the lives of their end customers. Therefore, we prioritize the practical application of these ideas and their transformative impact through our talented and ever-growing workforce. 𝘚𝘙𝘔 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘙𝘔 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱, 𝘢 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘙𝘔 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢
