Technical leader designing, delivering, and operating high-scale backend services and integrations for multi-channel ecommerce. Own architecture, mentor engineers, drive end-to-end delivery of ambiguous, high-impact problems, and champion reliability, observability, automation while writing maintainable, well-tested code.
Spreetail propels brands to increase their ecommerce market share across the globe while improving their operational costs. Learn how we are building one of the fastest-growing ecommerce companies in history: www.spreetail.com.
How you will achieve success:
- Lead the design and architecture of complex, high-scale services and integrations, from concept to production.
- Drive technical direction and make the key architectural decisions that shape the team's roadmap.
- Mentor and guide engineers, and raise the bar through thoughtful design and code reviews.
- Own ambiguous, high-impact problems end-to-end — breaking them down and driving them to delivery.
- Champion reliability, observability, automation, and operational excellence.
- Partner closely with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and other engineering teams.
- Stay hands-on: write high-quality, maintainable, well-tested code.
What experiences will help you in this role:
- 7+ years of backend software engineering experience.
- Deep system design and distributed systems expertise — you've designed and owned systems at scale.
- A track record of technical leadership: mentoring engineers, influencing architecture, and setting engineering standards.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, a strong sense of ownership, and comfort with ambiguity.
- Strong with cloud infrastructure (AWS or Azure), microservices, and event-driven architecture.
- Strong debugging, testing, and documentation skills.
- Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration.
- Nice-to-have: experience with high-throughput or marketplace/ecommerce systems.
We invest heavily in our engineers. Here's what you can expect:
- Fully remote work — work from anywhere in India, with the creative freedom and work-life balance to do your best work.
- Very competitive salary — we benchmark aggressively to attract top engineering talent.
- Industry-leading health coverage — health insurance up to ₹30 Lakh, covering you, your family, and your parents.
- Generous paid leave — a time-off policy that lets you truly recharge and prioritize your wellbeing.
- Employer of Record (EOR) engagement — we handle payroll and tax compliance so you don't have to.
This is a remote position and requires candidates to have an available work-from-home setup
Desktop/Laptop system requirements:
- 4th generation or higher, at least Intel i3 or equivalent processor;
- at least 4GB RAM;
- Windows 10 and above or MAC OSX operating system
- You are required to provide your own dual monitors
A strong and stable internet connection (A DSL, cable or fiber wired internet service with 10 Mbps plan or higher for primary connection)
PC Headset
A high-definition (HD) external or integrated webcam with at least 720p resolution.
Please be aware of scammers. Spreetail will only contact you through Lever or the spreetail.com domain. Spreetail will never ask candidates for money during the recruitment process. Please reach out to [email protected] directly if you have any concerns. Emails from @spreetailjobs.com are fraudulent.
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