Lead Software Engineer - Systems
Lead Software Engineer - Systems
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Overview
At Freshworks were building the foundational systems that power internet-scale SaaS products. As a Lead Systems Engineer youll architect services that are fast secure and built to last. Youll work across products and platformsowning design deployment and evolution of critical systems that impact everything from login to logs.
If you thrive on building for scale thinking in multi-tenant architectures and sweating the details of performance extensibility and fault toleranceyoull love this role.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop systems and APIs with reliability and modularity in mind.
- Architect services to support multi-tenant cloud-native applications.
- Lead efforts on code optimisation refactoring and scaling existing systems.
- Own full lifecyclefrom requirement gathering to design implementation and support.
- Drive best practices for OOPS design patterns and system scalability.
- Ensure high availability (99.99%) security and monitoring of production systems.
- Partner with SREs PMs and other tech leads to deliver platform-wide capabilities.
- Mentor 24 systems engineers and lead technical conversations across multiple teams.
Requirements
- Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA): Expertise in selecting optimal data structures and developing efficient optimized code including time/space complexity trade-offs. Deep knowledge of REST APIs.
- Problem Solving & Logical Analysis: Ability to clearly articulate thought processes decompose complex problems and engineer effective solutions.
- Object-Oriented Design (OOD): Strong command of OOP principles designing extensible code and applying SOLID principles.
- System Design (High-Level Design - HLD & LLD): Proven ability to design scalable highly available and fault-tolerant end-to-end systems including APIs schema and data models.
- Exposure to RDBMS caching strategies distributed queues and microservices.
- Exposure and experience with AI tools and technologies to improve efficiency
- Leadership & Collaboration: Demonstrates strong ownership collaborates effectively and shows potential for mentoring.
- System Design (HLD): Ability to gather requirements (functional/non-functional) and design scalable highly available fault-tolerant end-to-end systems.
- API & Database Design: Skilled in designing APIs database schemas and data models.
- Technical Communication: Excellent at conveying technical concepts and solutions clearly.
- Problem-Solving & Analysis: Strong analytical and logical reasoning for complex problem-solving.
- Code & Design Optimization: Capable of optimizing code and system designs for performance and efficiency.
- Code Review: Experienced in performing effective code reviews.
- Tech Stack: Knowledgeable about relevant technologies and adept at articulating suitable tech stacks for designs.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD DevOps tooling and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
Qualifications :
- Degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
- 6 to 9 years of experience in building backend systems and infrastructure.
- Youve built systems from scratch and taken them through multiple iterations.
- Experience with RDBMS NoSQL and queuing systems.
- Familiarity with observability rate limiting multi-region deployments.
- You thrive in ambiguity and move fast without sacrificing technical depth.
Additional Information :
At Freshworks we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential purpose and passion irrespective of their background gender race sexual orientation religion and ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees communities and the business.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
