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Engineering Manager / Staff Backend (Golang, Distributed Systems)

About

Engineering leader with a strong background in building scalable, low-latency platforms and leading teams across fast-growing fintech environments. I have hands-on experience across the full lifecycle of backend systems—from system architecture and performance optimization to cloud migrations and production reliability. Over the years, I’ve worked extensively with Golang-based microservices, real-time data processing, and cloud infrastructure on AWS. Beyond technology, I focus on people and execution—mentoring engineers, scaling teams, and partnering with product and founders to ship systems that balance speed, stability, and compliance. Tech stack: Golang, C++, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Redis, PostgreSQL Focus areas: Distributed systems, system design, concurrency, engineering leadership

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Vice President at JPMorganChase, Feb 2026 - Present · 7 mo, Hybrid, Contribute to cloud-native platform initiatives powering enterprise-scale financial systems. Own, manage and maintain Multi Platform multi region infrastructure and articulate multi tenancy capabilities Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews and production release ownership. Build services using Kubernetes, Terraform and cloud-native engineering practices. Drive operational excellence through automation, reliability improvements and engineering best practices.

Head of Engineering at Liquide, Feb 2025 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Leading engineering across platform and data systems for a fast-growing wealth-tech platform. Responsible for scaling teams, architecture, and execution across critical, regulated fintech workflows. - Building scaled high-performance backend systems in Golang & Node.js powering real-time trading, portfolios, and analytics - Own end-to-end engineering execution, system design, and delivery across consumer platforms - Managing and mentoring a 15+ engineer team, with focus on ownership, quality, and long-term technical sustainability - Partner closely with founders, product, and compliance to design brokerage-grade, low-latency systems Building teams and systems that balance speed, safety, and scale.

Assistant Vice President at ICICIdirect, Aug 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Brewed something new! Built product ground-up --> Mintr Worked on Mintr as part of backend engineer team. the project was a new age trading app which aligns itself with the likes of modern tech and feature to compete with the competition. The product line was stopped due to conflict of interest. Pursuing enhancements in existing iDirect architecture Using: AWS, Golang, PSQL, Redis, Python, Microservices

Senior Software Engineer at Angel Broking, Nov 2020 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Developed Angel's new - IPO application service. The service connects B2B and B2C users to apply and track their IPO application status for a new IPO - Desktop Trading Application - TradeNXT. It is a tool to perform High Frequency trading in Indian markets NSE, BSE, NSEFO, MCX, NSECDS, NCDEX

Engineer at Airbus, Mar 2018 - Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Worked as part of the Test Automation team to develop an active and robust test automation framework. Additionally, the job also demanded solving problem statements irrespective of technology through multiple POCs

Systems Engineer at Siemens Technology Services Pvt. Ltd., Jul 2015 - Mar 2018 · 2 y 8 mo, Bangalore, Worked on TIA (Total Integrated Automation) software that is an end to end solution for industrial automation for industries. It is a software suite for crating and managing complex embedded systems for an industry layout. Build, managed and shipped firmware for Siemens HMIs

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Instrumentation and Control, Manipal institute of technology

Higher Secondary, Computer Science, Carmel junior college

Public links

github: https://github.com/sauravkuila

medium: https://medium.com/@saurav.kuila