Senior Staff Developer - Backend

Overview

As a Sr Staff Developer, take a leadership role in designing and building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services that power cybersecurity solutions. Mentor junior developers, drive architectural decisions, and work with front-end engineers, security teams, and DevOps to create robust and efficient systems.

What you'll do

• Architect, develop and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs, GraphQL endpoints, and micro-services to support frontend applications.
• Optimise system performance, security, and reliability for large-scale cloud applications.
• Collaborate with front-end developers, security teams, and DevOps engineers to drive backend innovation.
• Work with databases to ensure efficient data storage and retrieval.
• Implement authentication, authorisation, and security best practices.
• Guide and mentor junior developers, fostering a culture of growth and collaboration.
• Continuously improve development processes and promote backend best practices.
• Work with React/Typescript to ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend components.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of experience in backend development, with exposure to full-stack development.
• Expertise in any of the programming languages such as Go, Python, Java and experience in DataBricks.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, and micro-services architecture.
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Proficiency in asynchronous programming, multithreading, and performance optimisation.
• Familiarity with message queues such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS.
• Strong understanding of security best practices, authentication, and authorisation mechanisms.
• Proficiency in AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, and ECS.
• Familiarity with AI native tools such as lang chain and lang fuse, and experience in development lifecycle with AI-DLC.

Nice to have

• Experience with containerisation such as Docker, Kubernetes/ECS and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with AWS services or AZURE services.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity products like XDR, MDR, SOC.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks like NIST and MITRE.
• Strong experience with Git for version control.
• Interest in cybersecurity and security operations.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Background checks are required for this position.
• This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
• If applicable, an offer for employment will be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these laws and regulations.
• Remote candidates are expected to be on camera during all video interviews; candidates must notify the company in advance if technical, bandwidth, or location-related challenges prevent video use.
• Duties and responsibilities must be conducted in accordance with AWN’s Information Security policies, standards, processes, and controls.