Backend Engineer

Overview

Backend Engineer role at Igloo to solve complex engineering challenges and drive the evolution of the platform's architecture, contributing to scalability, security and reliability.

What you'll do

• Work closely with Engineers, Product Managers, Data Scientists and Designers to define, refine and implement features on the product line.
• Work closely with DevOps to build frameworks and tools, define standards (e.g., API contract) and improve overall efficiency of the development (e.g., CI/CD) and hygiene of the codebase (i.e., Git).
• Work on complex engineering problems to improve the scalability, security, and reliability of the platform.
• Have hands-on programming and architecture design skills with demonstrated willingness and capability to learn new technologies quickly.

What you'll need

• Bachelors in Computer Science or other related Degrees.
• Min. 5 years of experience in similar roles.
• Experience with AWS, RESTful/RPC services, C++/Java/Golang and related system programming languages.
• Experience with NoSQL (e.g., Redis/MongoDB), message queue (e.g., Kafka/Kinesis), and relational databases (e.g., MySQL).
• Experience with Docker, basic CI/CD flow on AWS or GCP.
• Familiarity with using AI tools in the development process and building the backend systems needed to support AI functionality.
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling.
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and deliver complex, successful web services and/or customer experiences efficiently and with quality.

Nice to have

• Experience in tech start-up.
• Experience of Golang.

Details

• Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India.