Senior Backend Engineer

Overview

Senior Backend Engineer to design, build and scale the services that power the product, owning critical parts of the backend architecture and helping raise the engineering bar across the team.

What you'll do

• Design, build and maintain scalable, secure and well-tested backend services and APIs
• Lead technical design for new features and drive architectural decisions
• Optimize system performance, reliability and observability in production
• Collaborate closely with product, frontend and DevOps teams to ship high-quality features
• Review code, mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices
• Participate in on-call rotation and help resolve production issues

What you'll need

• 5+ years of professional experience building backend systems
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go, Java, Python or Node.js
• Solid experience designing RESTful and/or gRPC APIs and distributed systems
• Deep knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure), containers and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with message queues and event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS)
• Strong grasp of testing, CI/CD, monitoring and security best practices
• Excellent communication skills and experience mentoring other engineers
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Experience with NoSQL stores and caching (e.g. Redis)

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Flexible hybrid work and working hours