Staff Backend Engineer — AWS Architect — FinTech Infrastructure
Chennai, India
Founding Staff Backend Engineer with 7+ years of experience building and scaling distributed fintech and blockchain data platforms from inception. Architected high-throughput, event-driven systems and multi-terabyte PostgreSQL infrastructures powering real-time financial analytics. Led backend technical direction, reliability standards, and infrastructure strategy on AWS.
Salary
USD 80,000 – 180,000
PANDA Terminal
Jan 2021 — Jan 2026
Led backend platform architecture from inception for a 5K+ user crypto analytics product, scaling real-time and historical data systems across 30TB+ datasets. Designed high-performance data infrastructure achieving sub-100ms p90 latency, reducing database cost by 90% and API latency by 80%. Established event-driven architecture, reliability standards (99.9% SLO), and production-grade AWS infrastructure. Drove cross-functional technical alignment across frontend, data, and DevOps teams. Defined engineering standards and mentored a growing team of 20+ engineers.
Infosys
Jan 2019 — Jan 2021
Contributed to large-scale cloud migration project, moving 80+ heterogeneous data sources (SQL, mainframe, and unstructured data) to AWS-based infrastructure.
BE · Electronics & Communications Engineering
? – 2018