Top Backend Jobs in Chennai

Designs, develops, and operates scalable backend services, APIs, data integrations, and microservices. Owns domain architecture, database performance, reliability, observability, incident response, security, testing, and roadmap delivery. Leads design reviews, improves engineering standards, mentors backend engineers, and collaborates with product and global teams. The role requires technical leadership, strong system design, cloud infrastructure experience, and production operation of large-scale consumer applications.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Python and FastAPI. Build secure REST APIs, WebSockets, and microservices; optimize databases and system performance; implement authentication and authorization; write tested, documented code; and support deployment, monitoring, and production troubleshooting. Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, QA, and product teams in Agile environments.

Leads backend architecture and system design while remaining hands-on. Designs, builds, and evolves distributed systems; establishes architectural standards; guides technical decisions; works with Python, FastAPI, relational and NoSQL databases; supports cloud deployments and monolith-to-microservices migrations.

Design and develop scalable, secure backend systems for high-volume payment workflows. Build distributed services, integrations, and transactional systems; optimize performance and reliability; implement automated testing; resolve production issues; and contribute to architecture, code reviews, documentation, mentoring, and hiring.

Develop and optimize secure, scalable backend applications using Golang or another strong backend language. Responsibilities include designing distributed systems and microservices, implementing automated tests, improving application performance and reliability, troubleshooting complex issues, participating in architecture and code reviews, documenting technical solutions, and mentoring or evaluating engineers.

Lead the Platform Services engineering team responsible for shared infrastructure, internal tooling, and core services. Own distributed systems architecture, cloud reliability, observability, cost optimization, roadmap delivery, and incident management while remaining hands-on with code and production systems. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; establish technical standards; and collaborate with product engineering, SRE, security, and leadership. Drive AI-assisted engineering practices and platform automation.

Lead enterprise backend architecture for scalable, distributed, cloud-native applications using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices. Define architecture standards, service boundaries, integration patterns, HLD/LLD designs, and cloud deployment strategies. Drive modernization, observability, CI/CD, security, performance, and resiliency initiatives across engineering teams. Provide technical leadership, conduct architecture and code reviews, mentor developers, and collaborate with stakeholders on technology roadmaps and enterprise solutions.

Develop and own highly scalable backend services for IoT, order, and payment systems. Responsibilities include Java and Python development, distributed systems design, database and cache optimization, event-driven architectures, production troubleshooting, observability, incident response, reliability improvements, and collaboration with Infrastructure, QA, and Product teams.

Lead backend and data-platform architecture while remaining hands-on with Java production code. Design and operate distributed systems for event ingestion, analytical querying, data processing, and low-latency serving. Work with ClickHouse, BigQuery, Bigtable, Kafka, Redis, GCP, and Dataflow to solve scalability, reliability, performance, and data-correctness challenges. Set technical direction, review designs, mentor engineers, and guide platform convergence across Wingify and AB Tasty.

Design, build, optimize, and operate scalable, low-latency backend services for an AI risk decisioning SaaS platform. Collaborate with product, frontend, and QA teams; implement testing and CI/CD practices; monitor service health; resolve performance bottlenecks; and mentor junior engineers.

Design and build scalable Java backend services for subscriptions, payments, entitlements, and Fire TV in-app purchases. Develop REST APIs, microservices, event-driven workflows, and reliable transaction-processing systems. Integrate payment providers and external platforms while ensuring idempotency, fault tolerance, consistency, and high performance. Improve observability, troubleshoot distributed production systems, and participate in architecture and code reviews.

Design and build scalable Java and Spring Boot backend services for subscriptions, payments, entitlements, and Fire TV in-app purchases. Develop REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven workflows integrating payment providers and external platforms. Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, idempotent transaction processing, and performance during traffic spikes. Troubleshoot distributed production systems, improve observability, and participate in architecture and code reviews while mentoring engineers.

Lead backend engineering for NIRA’s consumer credit platform, scaling infrastructure, expanding support for financial products, and improving credit decision systems. Collaborate with engineering teams across APAC and with product, finance, compliance, support, and analytics stakeholders. Own technical solutions end to end in an AWS-native environment while contributing to platform and product strategy.

Lead technical direction and delivery for a core NIRA backend domain: design and ship high-volume web APIs, own architecture for distributed and queue-based systems, drive complex initiatives, mentor engineers, lead incident response, champion AI dev tools, and align cross-functionally to simplify systems and influence roadmap.

Designs and evolves highly scalable backend systems, APIs, distributed workflows, databases, messaging infrastructure, and observability solutions. Leads cross-team architecture initiatives, resolves complex production issues, optimizes performance and data access, establishes reliability and engineering standards, modernizes technical debt, mentors engineers, and remains hands-on with critical systems.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable backend APIs using Node.js and Express. Implement error handling, logging, performance optimizations, collaborate with frontend and product teams, participate in code reviews, and work with databases, cloud, containers, CI/CD, testing, GraphQL, and message queues.

Own technical direction and hands-on execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives. Design scalable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; write and review code; lead architecture decisions; solve production issues; convert ambiguous problems into technical plans; improve engineering quality; and mentor engineers across teams.

Develop backend blockchain functionality for Cardax DEX on the Cardano blockchain. Write and maintain smart contracts in Plutarch and Haskell that define the constraints and conditions for decentralized token exchange without a central entity.

Lead and align Engineering, ML, and Analytics to deliver scalable, reliable production AI and data systems. Own technical direction, architecture, MLOps, and platform reliability while partnering with Product, Sales, and Customers to ensure engineering work maps to measurable business outcomes.

Lead end-to-end backend project execution, architecture, and technical decisions for highly concurrent, low-latency systems. Build scalable services using Ruby on Rails and Go, optimize PostgreSQL and Redis performance, maintain data consistency across microservices, and improve observability, testing, and CI/CD. Collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, and guide long-term architectural and organizational improvements.

Build and support scalable backend features, services, reusable libraries, and technology platforms. Own service delivery, reliability, security, scalability, observability, testing, incident resolution, and operational readiness. Develop RESTful microservices, manage cloud-based applications, drive engineering best practices, and provide L3 support. Collaborate with product and business stakeholders while mentoring engineers, removing technical blockers, and ensuring milestones, service-level objectives, and software quality standards are achieved.

Owns backend applications and technical deliverables using Python. Develops scalable web applications, RESTful APIs, and microservices; designs architectures, writes tests, resolves production issues, and improves performance, security, and reliability. Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders, conducts code reviews, mentors developers, provides technical direction, documents systems, and supports application health. The role may also involve Azure cloud development, Docker, CI/CD, and production support.

Build and optimize high-performance Go backend services, APIs, microservices, and scalable distributed systems. Implement gRPC and REST communication, event-driven architectures with Kafka or RabbitMQ, and containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes. Improve concurrency, resilience, observability, tracing, traffic management, authentication, and production performance. Collaborate on architecture, deployment, troubleshooting, and cloud-native system reliability.

Develop and maintain backend applications for field team operations. Responsibilities include designing systems and data models, resolving bugs and bottlenecks, writing unit-tested reusable code, integrating internal and external tools, and collaborating with product managers on system design. The role requires Core Java, object-oriented programming, SQL databases, web-service integration, and RESTful APIs, with Git and Spring or Hibernate experience preferred.

Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering across AI, data, backend, and frontend systems. Drive architecture, remove technical risks, set engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, and influence cross-team technical direction.