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Lead Backend Systems Engineer

📍 Ranchi 🏷️ Software Development 💰 ₹83,000 / month

About the Role

Lalpur in Ranchi has a Lead Backend Systems Engineer opening, part time, on site, with a software team building and maintaining server-side systems for a small but growing product. Twelve years of experience is the expectation, and the part-time structure here means genuinely flexible in-office scheduling, not a lighter version of the actual responsibility.

A Day in This Job

The work covers designing and building backend software components, working closely with product and QA teams, reviewing code from other developers, and troubleshooting issues reported by users. A lead engineer working part time still owns the architecture decisions for the systems under their remit, which means the reduced hours get spent efficiently rather than the scope of the role shrinking to match.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Design and build backend systems using server-side languages appropriate to the stack
  • Own database schema decisions and query performance across the systems this role covers
  • Design internal and external APIs that other teams build against
  • Review code from other developers to maintain architectural consistency
  • Troubleshoot production issues reported by users or monitoring alerts

Qualifications

A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field is expected, along with practical, hands-on project experience and demonstrated proficiency in the relevant languages, tools, and frameworks. Twelve years is a genuinely senior bar, and the team is specifically looking for someone who's made real architecture calls before, not just implemented someone else's design.

Skills That Matter

  • Server-side languages, with real depth in at least one
  • Database design and query optimization
  • System design at an architectural level
  • API design that other teams can build against without constant clarification

Good to Have

None of the following are dealbreakers, but they help: experience with a message queue for asynchronous processing, familiarity with caching strategies for high-read systems, and any background specifically working part time or in a fractional capacity for a growing company, since that arrangement takes real discipline to make work well for both sides.

Why This Role

Lalpur has a modest but steady IT presence within Ranchi, and this particular team is small enough that a lead engineer's architectural decisions genuinely shape the product's direction rather than getting diluted across a larger organization. Naukri Mitra has listed a handful of roles from this employer before, and past hires describe the part-time structure as a real, functioning arrangement here, not a workaround for a role the company actually wanted full time.

The Interview Process

Interviews include a system design round and a discussion of a past architecture decision you'd make differently in hindsight. Candidates who can honestly critique their own past work, not just describe their successes, tend to interview well.

Benefits

  • Pro-rated paid leave
  • Flexible in-office scheduling
  • Performance-based incentives
  • Relocation assistance and accommodation support for candidates moving to Ranchi

Location & Pay

This role is based at Lalpur, Ranchi, pin code 834001, on site during scheduled part-time hours. Pay runs up to ₹83,000 a month. The team hopes to fill this seat within six weeks.

Frequently Asked Questions

Part time, with flexible in-office scheduling, though the architecture ownership and decision-making expected of a lead engineer doesn't shrink just because the hours do.
Twelve years, reflecting a genuinely senior bar since the team wants someone who's made real architecture calls before, not just implemented someone else's design.
Yes. The team is small enough that a lead engineer's architectural decisions genuinely shape where the product goes, rather than getting diluted across a larger organization.
A system design round and a discussion of a past architecture decision you'd make differently in hindsight. Honestly critiquing your own past work matters here.
Pay runs up to ₹83,000 a month, and the team hopes to fill the seat within six weeks.
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