Lead /Staff Backend Engineer

Location: Hyderabad | Open to exceptional remote candidates in India Type: Full-time Experience: 3–5 years Company Superclaims – The AI-native engine that will process > ₹10,000 Cr of health insurance claims in the next 3 years. Backed by top-tier healthcare & tech founders. Already live with 2 large clients, 500+ claims/month and growing 10× in the next 12 months. About the Role We are looking for a battle-tested Python/FastAPI engineer who has built and scaled backend systems that serve millions of requests and process billions of rupees in transactional value. You will be the backbone of our product – the person who turns our current (already solid) FastAPI + PostgreSQL + LangGraph stack into a bulletproof, hyper-scalable claims adjudication platform that can handle 100,000+ claims per day without blinking. This is a player-coach role: 70% hands-on coding & architecture, 30% tech leadership and mentoring. What You’ll Own End-to-end backend architecture evolution (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, LangGraph) Horizontal scaling strategy – async everything, connection pooling, read replicas, sharding prep, queue design Performance & reliability – p99 < 500ms even at 10× current load, zero-downtime deploys, graceful degradation Lead the backend team (currently 2 engineers → 6–8 in 12 months) – code reviews, architecture decisions, 1:1s API design that developers love and that can evolve for the next 5 years Observability & alerting – structured logging, OpenTelemetry, Grafana dashboards you actually look at Security & compliance – OWASP, rate limiting, JWT + session management, HIPAA-ready patterns Infrastructure-as-code & deployment excellence (Docker, Terraform/K8s exposure big plus) Tech debt payback & refactoring sprints – we ship fast, but we don’t want to drown Must-Have 3+ years building production Python backends, 1+ years exclusively on FastAPI Proven experience taking a system from < 1k req/day → 100k+ req/day (show us the war stories) Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL at scale (indexing, partitioning, connection pooling, pgBouncer) Async Python mastery (asyncio, anyio, starlette internals) Distributed systems thinking – eventual consistency, saga pattern, outbox, CQRS exposure Led or mentored at least 3–5 engineers in previous roles Startup DNA – you’ve shipped v1 products under tight deadlines and then hardened them for scale Big Bonus Points Previous healthtech / fintech / insurtech experience LangGraph / LangChain contribution or production use Kubernetes & Helm in production Event-driven architecture (Kafka, Nats, or even Redis Streams) Open-source contributions or tech blog Why Join Us You will literally own the core engine of a company that will become the “Razorpay of health insurance claims” Direct founder access – ship multiple times a day, no layers ESOPs that can 50–100× in 4–5 years Latest tools, unlimited cloud credits. Small, high-talent team – no bureaucracy, no politics, just building Compensation Best-in-industry salary + generous equity (0.5–2% range) + full family health coverage If you get excited reading FastAPI GitHub issues at 2 AM, have war stories about bringing p99 latency down from 8s to 300ms, and want to build the backend that will process 80% of India’s health claims — this is your once-in-a-career role. Apply by sending your résumé + a short note (or link) about the toughest scaling problem you’ve solved to with subject “Lead Backend Engineer – (Your Name)” (No recruiters please – we read every application ourselves) #Python #FastAPI #BackendEngineer #Hiring #Startups #HealthTech #BangaloreJobs #LeadEngineer #Scaling #Insurtech