This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Min Experience: 8 years
Location: Chennai
JobType: full-time
We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to design and develop scalable, AI-native backend services that support customer intelligence, campaign orchestration, and attribution on the scale of automotive retail. In this role, you will act as a crucial technical leader—defining hexagonal architecture patterns, overseeing service boundaries, spearheading AI integration strategies, and elevating engineering standards throughout the entire team.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
• Design and develop Java microservices (Spring Boot 3.x) following hexagonal architecture principles — creating well-defined domain cores, port interfaces for persistence (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB), and adapter implementations for Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis/Aerospike, and external APIs.
• Take full ownership of core domain models and service boundaries from conception through production deployment, including hexagonal design, Kafka event contracts, and ongoing improvements.
• Develop scalable and secure REST APIs alongside resilient Kafka-based event-driven pipelines that handle event consumption and production across various source systems.
• Craft MongoDB document schemas and PostgreSQL relational schemas optimized for high-throughput, multi-tenant environments, with a focus on indexing strategies, TTL configurations, and tenant isolation techniques.
• Design Cosmos DB data models to support high-throughput event and state storage, considering partition key strategies, consistency settings, and TTL management.
• Architect and implement reliable campaign execution workflows using Temporal.
• Define and maintain AI-native integration patterns, including MCP tool registration, scoring model serving contracts, LLM gateway integration, and agentic workflow design.
• Diagnose and address performance bottlenecks across services, Kafka pipelines, data layers, and Elasticsearch query performance.
• Ensure all systems adhere to standards for reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Mentor engineers at various levels—senior, mid-level, and junior—helping to elevate engineering excellence consistently.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience
- Java
- Spring Boot 3.x
- Design and implement hexagonal architecture and microservices
- Kafka (event-driven pipelines and event contracts)
- MongoDB (document schema design, TTL, indexing)
- PostgreSQL (relational schema design, indexing)
- Cosmos DB (partitioning, consistency, TTL strategies)
- Elasticsearch (query performance tuning)
- Redis or Aerospike
- Design and develop secure, scalable REST APIs
- Temporal (campaign/workflow orchestration)
- Experience integrating AI/LLM systems, model serving and LLM gateway patterns
- Performance diagnosis across services, data layers, and pipelines
- Mentoring and leadership of engineering teams
What We Do
Weekday is an AI-powered recruitment platform that helps startups hire top-tier engineering and product talent. By leveraging a massive database of white-collar professionals and advanced outreach tools, the company streamlines the hiring process through automated sourcing, AI-driven resume screening, and white-glove contingency services. Their mission is to modernize recruitment by enabling companies to discover and engage passive candidates efficiently, ensuring high-quality hires for critical roles.
