Lead Software Engineer - Backend

Must-Have • Strong hands-on programming expertise in Java and Python, with the ability to design, build, test, and optimise production-grade backend services • Strong experience with React for building modern, responsive, and Client user interfaces for enterprise applications• Experience with Next.js or modern front-end architecture patterns alongside React• Deep experience building cloud-native applications using containers, Kubernetes, microservices, and managed cloud services in AWS and/or Azure• Strong expertise in designing and building APIs, including RESTful services, service contracts, versioning, security, and integration patterns• Proven experience with event-driven architecture, asynchronous messaging, streaming, and resilient distributed system design• Practical experience using AI tools to improve engineering productivity across coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and release workflows• Strong understanding of software engineering quality metrics such as code qua...