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Job Description Fyle is now part of Sage, a global leader in accounting and business management software. Together, we are building a global expense management solution that simplifies how businesses track and reconcile spending.
Thousands of finance teams globally use our product to streamline expense management, integrate seamlessly with leading accounting platforms, and are recognised for its clean design, usability, and speed.
Our backend runs on EKS / Kubernetes in AWS. Our microservices are written in Python / Flask, and we use PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ.
We’re looking for someone with 10+ years of professional experience building and scaling backend systems, who combines deep technical judgment with the ability to influence engineering direction across teams.
Performance Engineering: Skilled at defining benchmarks, measuring outcomes, and implementing optimisations to achieve and sustain high standards.
Core Stack: Strong expertise in Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
Problem Solving: Ability to develop novel solutions to complex technical problems with sound trade-off decisions.
Quality Assurance: Writes and reviews high-quality design docs/RFCs; acts as a final PR reviewer across multiple product areas.
Continuous Learning: Proactively learns new technologies and applies them to drive product or platform leverage.
The Impact You’ll Make
Work on a SaaS product used by thousands of businesses across 39 countries.
Engineer backend services handling ~6 million external API requests daily.
Set and raise engineering standards (design quality, API/schema conventions, observability, rollout practices).
Shape long-term technical direction with a 6–18 month horizon (architecture evolution, migrations, deprecations).
Identify and remediate technical debt; ensure critical debt gets paid down.
Eliminate anti-patterns and introduce guardrails for system design and operations.
Publish learnings through technical blogs to amplify impact.
Leadership & Ownership
Deliver business-critical projects on tight schedules.
Break down initiatives into milestones and estimate effectively at scale.
Mentor and grow engineers (Engineers, Senior Engineers) with constructive feedback.
Plan platform improvements and features with a strategic long-term view.
Drive pragmatic remediation of technical debt during roadmap planning.
Mindset & Collaboration
Codify and uphold standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability.
Champion quality signals like test reliability, coverage, and rollout safety.
Collaborate deeply with Product, Design, and Support teams.
Growth mindset: Curious, always learning, and open to feedback.
We value humility and collaboration — we’re looking for people who can work as part of a team, not in silos.
We expect engineers to take ownership beyond just writing code — including tests, documentation, and long-term code quality.
#LI-RT Function: Product Delivery Country: India Office Location: Bangalore Work Place type: Hybrid
Advert Working at Sage means you’re supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions.
Our colleagues are the best of the best. It’s why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams.
Learn more about working at Sage: sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/working-at-sage/ Watch a video about our culture: youtube.com/watch?v=qIoiCpZH-QE
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