Job description

About Impact Analytics

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.

What you'll do:

Provide technical leadership for backend engineering initiatives and projects.
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.

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