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Caching and invalidation
Cache-aside and write-through layers with TTLs, jitter and explicit invalidation, so stale data has a known maximum age.
Senior / Staff
Hire senior Redis and caching engineers
Caching specialists who take load off your primary database with Redis — cache-aside layers, rate limiters and real-time data structures, with invalidation designed in from the start.
Role profile
What we look for in a Senior Redis & Caching Architect
Seniority and experience are agreed in the proposal, and you interview every engineer before they start. These are the skills that interview should test.
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Rate limiting
Sliding-window and token-bucket limiters written as atomic Lua scripts, protecting APIs from scrapers and runaway clients.
03
Cluster operations
Sharding, replicas and failover on Redis Cluster or a managed service, with eviction policies that fail predictably.
Typical work
What a Senior Redis & Caching Architect typically works on
Examples of the scope this role is hired for. Your statement of work sets the actual deliverables and how they are accepted.
- 01A caching layer that takes read load off the primary database, measured before and after
- 02Distributed rate limiters at the edge or API gateway
- 03Leaderboards and live state built on sorted sets
- 04Cart and inventory reservations with expiring holds
Stack and tools
What this role works with day to day. Tell us your stack and we’ll say plainly which parts we can staff.
- Redis
- Redis Cluster
- Upstash
- Lua scripting
- Node.js
- Go
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Custom software developmentA system built around your workflow, shipped in weekly increments — not a rewrite that lands a year late.
How hiring works
Four steps, agreed in writing before anyone starts
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Tell us the role
The stack, the seniority you need, the hours you want covered, and any certifications the work requires. We reply within one business day.
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We propose engineers
A written proposal sets out who we'd put forward, their seniority and experience, the scope, and the terms. If we can't staff the role well, we say so.
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You interview every engineer
Nobody starts on your codebase until you've interviewed them and agreed. Use the skills on the role page as your interview checklist.
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Working arrangements go in the SOW
Working-hours overlap is agreed for each engagement and written into the statement of work — the shared window, who shifts hours, and how handoffs work outside it.
QuantmHill provides development teams from India for Indian startups and SMEs. Role profiles describe project capabilities; availability is confirmed for your engagement. Our team works on India Standard Time. Project working hours, availability and handoff responsibilities are agreed before kickoff.
Need specific certifications? Tell us at the start and we'll confirm whether we can staff to that requirement before you sign. There are no recruiting fees.
FAQ
Questions about hiring a Senior Redis & Caching Architect
Answered the way we would on a call. If yours isn’t here, send it — we reply within one business day.
Probabilistic early expiration, so popular keys refresh before they expire, plus a lock so only one worker rebuilds an entry while the others serve the stale value.
Pub/Sub suits fire-and-forget notifications; Redis Streams adds persistence, consumer groups and acknowledgements. When you need long retention and replay across many consumers, Kafka is usually the better tool.
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Tell us the stack, the seniority you need and the hours you want covered. We reply within one business day, and you interview every engineer before they start.