SDE 3 Backend

About Tamasha Tamasha is building next-generation live, social, and real-time consumer experiences across gaming, audio, video, and interactive platforms. Our backend systems power millions of real-time interactions, low-latency data flows, and highthroughput event-driven services. Role Overview As a Software Development Engineer III (Backend), you will operate as a senior individual contributor owning mission-critical backend systems. You will design scalable architectures, solve complex distributed systems problems, and influence engineering standards across teams. Roles & Responsibilities  Own backend systems end-to-end, from design and implementation to production reliability and long-term evolution.  Design scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency backend architectures for realtime and event-driven use cases.  Lead system design decisions including data models, service boundaries, async workflows, and scalability strategies.  Build and operate high-throughput services handling millions of events, requests, or messages per day.  Own reliability metrics such as p95/p99 latency, uptime, error budgets, and participate in incident resolution and post-mortems. Drive architectural migrations including monolith to microservices and synchronous to asynchronous flows.  Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to translate complex requirements into robust backend solutions.  Improve developer productivity by contributing to internal platforms, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and coding standards.  Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance without direct people management.  Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and scalability risks and resolve them at the system level. Tech Stack Backend: Node.js (NestJS / Express), Golang, Java Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis Messaging & Async: Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub Real-time: WebSockets, Server-Sent Events Cloud & Infra: AWS / GCP, Docker, Kubernetes Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry What We’re Looking For • 5+ years of backend engineering experience • Proven ownership of production systems at scale • Strong understanding of distributed systems and async architectures • Experience handling production incidents and system reliability • Ability to independently design and evolve backend systems