{"id":2902422,"url":"https://alion.io/job/zenskar-tech-lead-backend-2","title":"Tech Lead (Backend)","company":{"id":2844,"name":"Zenskar","domain":"zenskar.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/zenskar","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Keka","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":7500000,"max":8400000,"currency":"INR","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":88754},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":true},{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Claude","optional":true},{"name":"Copilot","optional":true},{"name":"Cursor","optional":true},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":true},{"name":"Go","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"NATS","optional":true},{"name":"RabbitMQ","optional":true},{"name":"SOC 2","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-01T10:10:45Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-21T23:13:16Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":20,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":20},"description":"About Zenskar\nZenskar is an AI-native revenue automation platform built to handle real-world complexity.\nIt sits between your CRM and ERP automating everything in between: billing, revenue recognition, collections, usage metering, and analytics. Across any pricing model, any entity structure, any currency.\nOur vision: Zero-Touch Finance. Agents execute. Humans supervise. Finance teams set the rules. Zenskar runs them.\nFounded by Apurv Bansal and Saurabh Agarwal, second-time founders whose previous startups were acquired by Snapdeal and Gaana. The team brings experience from Google, Deutsche Bank, Elevation Capital, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, and Harvard Business School.\nWe have 5x'd revenue in the past year. We are default alive.\nFunding\nWe raised $15M in Series A funding in April 2026, led by Susquehanna Venture Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Shine Capital, and Rho, with participation from Rocketship, J-Ventures, Future Back Ventures by Bain & Company, and Converge.\nThe funding is being used to expand our Agents Marketplace and scale operations, not headcount.\nRead the announcement →\nhttps://youtu.be/jRb2ybvrSwU?si=vuLLgUY_MFdRzDMl\nSee how Zenskar automates the full order-to-cash cycle, from contract to cash, without spreadsheets, workarounds, or engineering tickets.*\nThe Problem We're Solving\nFinance teams aren't struggling because they lack AI tools. They're struggling because the systems underneath those tools were built for a simpler world. These systems label real-world complexity as edge cases and force teams into costly, error-prone workarounds: revenue leakage, delayed collections, audit risk, and finance teams buried in grunt work.\nBolting AI onto these broken foundations is as good as a Ferrari engine on a horse-drawn carriage. Zenskar is purpose-built from the ground up: the architecture handles complexity natively, so AI actually works.\nIt combines foundational flexibility + deterministic calculation + purpose-built AI agents to deliver end-to-end automation across the order-to-cash cycle - without workarounds, without engineering tickets.\nThe B2B billing and revenue automation market is $2B today, projected to reach $10B by 2030.\nWhat Customers Say\n\"We're saving 200+ hours/quarter on invoicing and receivables by completely automating our recurring billing.\"Noy Kalansky, Finance Controller, Pontera\n\"Zenskar automates revenue recognition accurately for our value-based billing: agents reducing manual hours by 70%.\"Matt Barnard, VP Finance, Vertice\n\"Zenskar’s agents automated 90% of our billing, integrated with our CRM, and accelerated revenue collection by a month.\"Ming Lui, VP Finance, Yembo\n\"Sardine had spent 4 years running billing in-house for high-volume, usage-based pricing. Zenskar took care of it all.\"Sardine team\n\"We launched our product 4 months faster instead of building an in-house system for our usage-based pricing.\" Kshitij Gupta, CEO, 100ms\nAbout the role\nZenskar is building the operational backbone for how B2B enterprises run their business. As a Tech Lead on the backend team, you own the work itself, in a domain where correctness is non-negotiable, scale is unforgiving, and the edge cases never stop coming.\nYou're accountable for whether the solution is right, whether it's correct, and whether it's still right in 18 to 24 months. This role fails when a design leaks money quietly, not loudly.\nThis is hands-on. You write and review code daily, alongside pairing on hard problems and mentoring the Senior Engineers around you. You have no direct reports, your leverage comes from making the engineers around you better and from decisions that hold up without you in the room, not from headcount. This is not a feature-factory role: you're here to raise the level of abstraction the team works at, not to ship tickets faster.\nWhat you'll walk into\nWe're Python and Postgres on AWS, running a multi-tenant platform. Problems you'll likely be working on in your first few months:\nRe-architecting inter-service communication into an event-driven system, from scratch.\nScaling our task management system to handle 10x traffic growth by year-end.\nScaling our usage ingestion event pipeline from 10k events/sec to 1M events/sec within the year.\nWhat you'll do\nTurn an ambiguous ask like \"the customer wants milestone-based pricing\" into interfaces, edge cases, failure modes, and a real migration path\nDesign for money correctness by default: idempotency, reconciliation, rounding, proration, audit trail, replay. Assume the system will be wrong somewhere and build in how you'd detect it\nName and quantify technical debt, and negotiate real bandwidth to address it, rather than silently absorbing it or refactoring unilaterally\nMake the engineers around you measurably better: pair on hard problems, review their work, and be able to point to someone who grew because of you\nPush back on a bad technical decision made by someone more senior than you, when you're right, and make it stick\nStay hands-on: write and review code at a high bar, day to day, not just in review comments\nWork design and product into your technical plans as you build them, not around them after the fact\nOwn production debugging end to end: diagnose across services using logs, traces, and metrics, and make incidents boring instead of fires\nSet architectural direction for your domain: the frameworks, patterns, and abstractions the team builds on for years\nHold a technical bar in interview loops, and shape who joins the team, without owning the headcount decision\nStay current on the industry through real people and sources, and be able to name a decision of yours that changed because of something you learned recently\nWho you are\n6 to 8 years of professional software development experience building production systems at real companies\nCS degree or equivalent, with strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, OS, and networking\n(Our interview process is built to test everything above through real evidence - debugging, design under ambiguity, project depth, uplifting others, and reversing bad calls - rather than asking you to restate it here.)\nGood to have\nHands-on observability: comfortable diagnosing complex issues across distributed services using logs, traces, and performance metrics, not just setting up dashboards\nSecurity and compliance awareness (SOC 2, DPDPA, or similar) with a grasp of the engineering implications\nExperience with event-driven architectures: Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ in production\nCloud platform experience (AWS preferred), deploying and operating services at scale\nEarly-stage startup experience: comfortable with ambiguity, evolving requirements, wearing multiple hats\nBackground in multi-tenant enterprise software: external integrations, enterprise workflows\nStrong testing culture: unit, integration, and e2e as a default, not an afterthought\nContainerisation and CI/CD: Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions\nUses AI coding tools like Cursor or GitHub Copilot to move faster without compromising quality\nExperience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications\nWhat drives you\nYou can go deep on the hard problems you've solved: the why, the tradeoffs, the outcome\nYou ask \"what happens when this fails?\" before shipping anything\nYou own problems, not tasks: you follow through until the system is healthy, not just until the PR is merged\nYou set direction without taking over: you make the engineers around you better instead of becoming the single point of knowledge\nYou hold strong opinions on system design loosely, and change your mind when the evidence does\nYou thrive where requirements evolve and the answers aren't always obvious\nNot taking yourself too seriously :)\nLocation\nHybrid - 3 days per week\nOffice Location: Indiranagar, Bengaluru.\nAddress: 3rd Floor, A wing No 1, Carlton Towers, HAL Old Airport Rd, HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560008.\nInterview process\nOur process is structured and evidence-based. No single round exceeds 60 minutes, and every round is scored against a defined set of capabilities rather than general impressions.\n R0, Recruiter screen (15 to 30 min): Fit, motivation, and a quick check for real, specific experience on cross-functional work, uplifting others, technical debt ownership, staying current, and hiring influence.\n R1, Technical: debugging & correctness (60 min): A small billing-shaped code sample with seeded defects. You walk through it, find what's wrong, including the one nobody would notice for a quarter, and fix the one that matters most, live.\nFAQs for Round 1What should I expect in this round?\nAt the beginning of the interview, you will receive a small, working project containing a few issues. The project will include an existing test suite. Your task is to understand the codebase, investigate the failures, and fix as many issues as you reasonably can during the interview.\nWill I receive the project before the interview?\nNo. The project will be shared once the interview begins. You are not expected to prepare for or review the specific project beforehand.\nWill I need to write tests or build a project from scratch?\nNo. The project and tests will already be provided. You are not expected to write new tests or build an application from scratch. We might ask you to code a small extension though.\nWhat are you evaluating?\nWe primarily evaluate how you approach an unfamiliar codebase and debug problems systematically. This includes how you:Understand the existing code and requirements\nInterpret test failures and other signals\nForm and validate hypotheses\nIdentify root causes\nExplain your reasoning and trade-offs\nMake safe, focused changes\n\nYou are not necessarily expected to find or fix every issue. Your debugging process and reasoning are more important than simply reaching the final answer.\nWhich programming languages are supported?\nWe currently support Java, Python, Go, and JavaScript. Please tell the recruiter which language you would like to use before the interview.\nIf you prefer another language, let the recruiter know well in advance. We will confirm whether the exercise can be made available in that language.\nWhat setup do I need?\nPlease have a working local development environment ready before the interview. This should include:An IDE or code editor you are comfortable using\nThe required language runtime and standard build tools\nThe ability to install dependencies, run a project, and execute its tests\nScreen-sharing access, if the interview is conducted remotely\n\nWe recommend verifying your setup beforehand so the interview time can be spent on the exercise.\nCan I use the internet or documentation?\nYes. 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