Lead Software Engineer - Golang

Role overview

Lead Software Engineer - Golang at Impact Analytics

Provide technical leadership for backend engineering initiatives and projects.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems.
• Create and review High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documents.
• Drive architecture decisions balancing scalability, reliability, security, and cost.
• Lead design reviews, architecture reviews, and technical governance processes.
• Mentor and coach engineers across multiple experience levels.
• Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, and development guidelines.
• Perform thorough code reviews and ensure code quality across teams.
• Partner with Product Managers, Architects, QA, DevOps, and stakeholders to deliver business outcomes.
• Drive technical roadmap planning and technology adoption decisions.
• Lead performance optimization, reliability improvements, and production readiness reviews.
• Own incident management, root cause analysis, and preventive action planning.
• Champion observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, and operational excellence.
• Guide capacity planning, resiliency strategies, and disaster recovery planning.
• Support hiring, technical interviews, onboarding, and team development initiatives.
• What lands you in this role Expert-level proficiency in Go (Golang).
• Strong expertise in Data Structures, Algorithms, and System Design.
• Hands-on experience creating High-Level Designs (HLD) and Low-Level Designs (LLD).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Advanced knowledge of concurrency, scalability, and fault-tolerant system design.
• Strong expertise in API design (REST, gRPC) and integration patterns.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Excellent mentoring, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
• Ability to influence architectural decisions and drive engineering excellence across teams.
• What we offer An opportunity to be part of some of the best enterprise SaaS products to be built out of India.
• Opportunities to quench your thirst for problem-solving, experimenting, learning, and implementing innovative solutions.
• A flat, collegial work environment, with a work hard, play hard attitude.
• A platform for rapid growth if you are willing to try new things without fear of failure.
• Remuneration with best-in-class industry standards with generous health insurance cover Some of our accolades include: Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Companies by Financial Times for five consecutive years: 2020-2024.
• Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000 for seven consecutive years: 2018-2024.
• Voted #1 by more than 300 retailers worldwide in the RIS Software LeaderBoard 2024 report.
• Ranked #72 in America’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2023—by Fortune—alongside companies like Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, IBM, etc.
• Forged a strategic partnership with Google to equip retailers with cutting-edge generative AI tools.
• Recognized in multiple Gartner reports, including Market Guides and Hype Cycle, spanning assortments, merchandising, forecasting, algorithmic retailing, and Unified Price, Promotion, and Markdown Optimization Applications.

Employment details

• Location: Bangalore [India]

About the employer

• Impact Analytics is an agentic-first AI software company transforming retail merchandising through cutting-edge AI, LLMs, and Generative AI technologies.
• As a fast-growing Series D company with deployments across five continents, it is building both industry-leading merchandising solutions and foundational AI agents that are redefining how retail decisions are made.
• What makes Impact Analytics unique is its combination of deep retail domain expertise, strong innovation culture, and global presence.
• It is one of the few India-born AI companies recognized globally by organizations like Fortune, Gartner, and the Inc. 5000.
• For candidates looking to work on next-generation AI products with global scale and real-world impact, Impact Analytics is an exciting place to build your career.
• Here’s a link to our website: www.impactanalytics.co.
• The Impact You Will Make In this role, you will design, build, and scale high-performance backend systems and cloud-native platforms using Golang and modern distributed systems technologies.
• You will work on engineering complex, data-intensive products that directly create measurable value for enterprise customers.
• Your work will involve building scalable APIs, distributed services, event-driven systems, reliable data pipelines, and high-throughput backend components that support AI-native SaaS products.
• You will also contribute to architectural decisions, system design, performance optimization, and engineering best practices across the platform.