Lead Backend Engineer

Job Description

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Backend Engineer to drive the development of cutting-edge AI solutions for courts and justice systems. This role involves building scalable and efficient backend systems that support AI-driven products assisting judges, stenographers, and legal professionals in Indian courts.

Requirements

Position Overview:

• Collaborate closely with the founding team to productionize AI models powering ASR solutions, legal copilots, and other innovative products.
• Develop and implement scalable backend architectures that address critical needs for users in the legal sector.
• Work alongside design, ML, and frontend teams to deliver comprehensive AI-driven solutions.
• Solve complex engineering challenges related to high-availability, privacy, and compliance.
• Build cost-effective and distributed systems that ensure seamless integration and performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs for various applications.
• Build scalable and efficient web servers for seamless client-server communication.
• Optimize existing systems for performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with backend logic.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues to ensure system stability and efficiency.
• Stay updated with the latest backend technologies and best practices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 4 to 8 years of industry experience in backend development.
• Strong understanding and experience in building distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
• Proficiency in GoLang for backend development.
• Strong knowledge of databases, including SQL, NoSQL, and Elasticsearch.
• Hands-on experience with version control systems like Git.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Experience with full-text search engines like Elasticsearch (preferred).
• Experience working with streaming systems or message queues like Kafka, RabbitMQ (preferred).
• Familiarity with Helm charts or similar deployment tools (preferred).
• Experience with multiple transport layer protocols (preferred).

What You Will Achieve in a Year:

• Develop the backend infrastructure for court systems in India, supporting 5000+ courtrooms operating 8-10 hours daily.
• Tackle some of the most challenging tech problems, including privacy, security, and compliance.
• Build large-scale distributed systems for managing and securing highly classified legal documents.
• Contribute to ML infrastructure, enabling voice-first text editing, semantic search, and automated ML retraining loops.