Lead Software Engineer (Backend)

Sprinklr is the definitive, AI-native platform for Unified Customer Experience Management (Unified-CXM), empowering brands to deliver extraordinary experiences at scale — across every customer touchpoint. 

By combining human instinct with the speed and efficiency of AI, Sprinklr helps brands earn trust and loyalty through personalized, seamless, and efficient customer interactions. Sprinklr’s unified platform provides powerful solutions for every customer-facing team — spanning social media management, marketing, advertising, customer feedback, and omnichannel contact center management — enabling enterprises to unify data, break down silos, and act on real-time insights. 

Today, 1,900+ enterprises and 60% of the Fortune 100 rely on Sprinklr to help them deliver consistent, trusted customer experiences worldwide. 

Job Description

About the Role:

We are looking for a highly motivated Lead Software Engineer (Backend) to design and build scalable and high-performance backend services that power mission-critical applications. You will play a key role in designing distributed systems, driving engineering excellence, mentoring team members, and delivering reliable software at scale.
The ideal candidate is passionate about backend architecture, enjoys solving complex distributed systems challenges, and has strong hands-on expertise in Java and modern backend technologies.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain highly available, scalable backend services and distributed systems.

• Architect and implement RESTful APIs and microservices that are secure, performant, and reliable.

• Drive technical design discussions and influence architectural decisions across teams.

• Build resilient systems capable of handling large-scale traffic and data volumes.

• Develop solutions leveraging MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, and related backend technologies.

• Debug and resolve complex production issues across distributed environments.

• Improve system reliability, observability, performance, and operational excellence.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, QA, SRE, and Security teams to deliver highquality solutions.

• Conduct code reviews and champion engineering best practices.

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to building a strong engineering culture.

• Participate in on-call rotations and drive root cause analysis for critical incidents.

• Contribute to technical roadmaps and long-term platform evolution.

What makes you qualified?

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• 5-7 years of hands-on software development experience.

• Strong programming skills in Java with deep understanding of core concepts, memory management, concurrency, and performance tuning.

• Extensive experience building distributed systems and backend applications.

Strong expertise in: 

• REST APIs

• Microservices Architecture

• Event-driven systems

• Distributed system design patterns

Hands-on experience with: 

• MongoDB

• Kafka

• Redis

Strong understanding of: 

• Scalability and high availability

• Fault tolerance and resiliency patterns

• Caching strategies

• Data modeling and database design

• Message-driven architectures

• Experience troubleshooting complex production issues in distributed environments.

• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

• Familiarity with CI/CD, GitOps, containerization, and cloud deployment (AWS preferred

We focus on our mission: Sprinklr was founded in 2009 to solve a big problem: growing enterprise complexity that separated brands from their customers. Our vision was clear: to unify fragmented teams, tools and data — helping large organizations build deeper, more meaningful connections with the people they serve. Today, Sprinklr has a unified, AI-native platform for four product suites: Sprinklr Service, Sprinklr Social, Sprinklr Marketing, and Sprinklr Insights. Sprinklr is here to do three things: 

• Lead a new category of enterprise software that we call Unified-CXM. 

• Empower companies to deliver next generation, unified engagement journeys that reimagine the customer experience. 

• Create a culture of customer obsession, with trust, teamwork, and accountability.

We believe in our product: Customers who value exceptional customer experiences have what they need on our single unified platform, built with an operating system approach on a single codebase. That means that everything — and everyone — can work together to service, respond, sell, and market to customers on the channels they prefer. While Unified Customer Experience Management (Unified-CXM) as a category is just getting started, we are well on our way to creating a no-compromise, unified approach to better customer experiences for the world’s leading enterprise brands. 

We invest in our people: We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits designed to help each member of our team thrive. Sprinklr believes that you should be able to get the type of care you need for your personal well-being when you need it. We offer you and your family voluntary healthcare coverage in countries where applicable. We believe it is important to take time off – it is essential for your mental and physical wellbeing. We provide Sprinklrites with paid time off to recharge and spend time with loved ones. We want to grow our talent with purpose. Our open Mentoring Program is designed to create meaningful connections that support growth and amplify our focus. 

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