Prachi Joshi
Staff / Lead Backend Engineer
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About
Engineering leader with 11+ years of experience delivering scalable backend platforms across Retail, Banking and Government domains. Proven experience leading technical delivery, mentoring engineers, driving architecture, and partnering with Product and business teams to build resilient distributed systems.
Experience
Senior Backend Engineer at TARGET (2022-01 – Present)
- Led backend delivery for Guest Order Allocation platform processing 300K+ transactions/hour.
- Owned architecture, delivery and cross-team execution for order allocation services.
- Reduced API latency and upstream load by 25% through caching redesign.
- Improved Kafka throughput by 20% via unified ingestion pipeline.
- Built LLM-powered audit assistant and mentored engineers through design/code reviews.
Backend Engineer at JP MORGAN CHASE (2018-01 – 2022-12)
- Led backend development for Capital Desktop, a financial risk reporting platform used by commercial and investment banking teams.
- Modernized legacy services into microservices architecture improving scalability and integrations.
- Mentored engineers and partnered with business.
Backend Engineer at CAPITA (2017-01 – 2018-12)
Delivered enterprise middleware integration for UK Government Pension systems using Oracle Service Bus, improving reliability and cross-system orchestration.
Backend Engineer at IBM (2014-01 – 2017-12)
Developed enterprise contract lifecycle platform, optimized SQL performance and collaborated across QA and business teams.
Education
B.E. in Computer Science – Rajiv Gandhi Technical University
