Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Salary (CTC)
₹25.8L - ₹30.9L
Job Location
Bengaluru, India
Vacancy
1
Designation
Technical Lead
Job Type
ONSITE
Job Description
VSA X Staff software engineer (backend) Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead the architecture of a high-load distributed backend system, with strong emphasis on performance engineering, caching strategies, and efficient communication patterns (gRPC, messaging). The system is heavily Redis-driven with minimal reliance on database operations.
- Lead architecture design for high-load distributed systems
- Define and drive cache-first architecture (Redis as core layer)
- Design efficient service communication using gRPC, REST, and messaging systems
- Define best practices for RabbitMQ/Kafka usage (throughput, reliability, ordering)
- Drive deep performance optimization across CPU, memory, network, and I/O
- Optimize inter-service communication and data flow
- Design efficient data access patterns with NHibernate
- Own performance of critical paths under high concurrency
- Establish engineering standards for high-performance C# code
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering (coding agents, test generation)
- Define governance for AI-generated code quality and safety
- Mentor engineers in performance engineering and distributed systems
- Lead incident analysis focusing on performance bottlenecks and scaling limits
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience
- Deep expertise in C# / .NET
- Proven experience building high-load distributed systems
- Strong experience with Redis: Cache design (TTL, invalidation, consistency trade-offs)
- Memory and latency optimization
- Strong experience with gRPC, REST APIs, and messaging systems
- Hands-on experience with RabbitMQ and/or Kafka at scale
- Deep expertise in performance engineering: Profiling (CPU, memory, GC) Latency and throughput optimization
- Eliminating bottlenecks
- Advanced experience with NHibernate: Efficient query design ORM performance pitfalls Migrations
- Strong understanding of distributed system behavior: Concurrency, consistency, failure scenarios
- Deep understanding of application security, including: TLS/SSL and secure communication
- Secure coding practices OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities Threat modeling and mitigation
- Strong experience with AI development tools and agents: Generating optimized production code and tests
- Reviewing and governing AI output
- Driving adoption at scale
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills
- Nice to Have
- Observability (logging, tracing, metrics)
- Experience with Azure
- Leadership Expectations Set technical direction with strong emphasis on performance and efficiency
- Drive cache-first and event-driven architecture decisions
- Establish culture of code optimization and performance ownership
- Scale AI-assisted development practices
- Ensure long-term scalability, reliability, and security
- Experience - 10+Yrs
- Mandatory Skills: C# / .NET REST API Design Development / gRPC NHibernate Queries Deep understanding of Security - OpenSSL / TLS/SSL, Certificates,Vulnerabilities AI Tool Experience for Coding, Debugging and Test Generation 8+ Years of experience in backend engineering