Backend Technical Lead | Cloud-Native | Golang

Our client is a large, established Singapore-headquartered group with a strong consumer and enterprise footprint. They are investing heavily in building a next-generation, large-scale connected platform that powers thousands of real-time, device-integrated transactions daily.They are looking for a hands-on Backend Technical Lead to own the backend vision and engineering excellence for this fast-scaling platform. This is a high-impact, player-coach role at the intersection of software, IoT, and real-time systems.The RoleYou will be the technical anchor for the backend - driving architecture, end-to-end delivery, and operational maturity of a mission-critical, cloud-native platform. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to build resilient, high-performance systems at scale.What You Will Own & Drive Define and evolve backend architecture, system design, and technical roadmap for a distributed, high-traffic platform Own end-to-end delivery of backend services - from design to deployment to production ownership Build for high availability, performance, and security Champion engineering best practices through design reviews, code quality, and pragmatic build-vs-scale decisions Architect and scale event-driven and asynchronous workflows for real-time operations Drive database performance, indexing strategy, and cost optimization Lead production troubleshooting, incident management and root cause analysis Partner with DevOps to strengthen CI/CD, observability, monitoring and reliability Mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives across teams What You Will Bring Strong hands-on experience in Golang building production-grade systems; Java exposure is a plus Deep understanding of concurrency, performance profiling and optimization Proven experience designing scalable REST APIs and complex system-to-system integrations Strong SQL expertise with PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS Experience with event streaming systems like Kafka and real-time protocols like WebSockets / MQTT Experience debugging and operating production systems at scale Hands-on with cloud-native stacks - AWS or Azure, Docker, Kubernetes Solid grasp of distributed systems, scalability patterns and failure handling Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) and observability tools (Datadog, Sentry etc.) Experience in high-throughput, real-time, or transaction-heavy platforms Good to Have Exposure to IoT, connected devices, or mobility platforms Familiarity with industry-standard device communication protocols Experience with payment / billing workflows or distributed device-integrated systems Originally posted on Himalayas