
Job Title: Associate Backend Engineer
Job Summary:
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Associate Backend Engineer with 1 to 2 years of experience to join our growing engineering team. Whether you're a recent graduate or have some industry experience, this role offers a strong foundation to grow your skills in real-world backend development. You’ll work closely with experienced engineers and contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend systems that power our products.
This position is ideal for individuals who are eager to learn, write production-grade code, and grow into a high-performing backend engineer.
Website: https://www.thealteroffice.com/about
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist in building and maintaining backend services and APIs for web and mobile applications.
- Work with both relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis) databases for data modeling and storage.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code under guidance.
- Contribute to authentication, authorization, and other core backend features.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, frontend, and QA to deliver complete features.
- Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback to improve code quality.
- Debug issues, write unit/integration tests, and help maintain service reliability and performance.
- Learn to work with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and deployment workflows.
- Use tools like Docker, basic cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure), and optionally explore monitoring/logging tools.
- Explore new technologies such as GraphQL, WebSockets, or message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) when relevant.
Requirements:
- 1 to 2 years of backend development experience, including internships, academic projects, freelance, or open-source work.
- Familiarity with at least one backend programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, etc.).
- Basic understanding of RESTful APIs, HTTP, databases, and server-side logic.
- Exposure to SQL and NoSQL databases and understanding of CRUD operations.
- Familiarity with Git and fundamental development workflows.
- Willingness to learn and apply best practices in scalability, security, and asynchronous programming.
- Strong problem-solving mindset and eagerness to take feedback and grow.
- Good communication and collaboration skills in a team environment.

About The Alter Office
About
About Us:
The Alter Office is a dynamic product-building and service-providing company with a diverse portfolio that includes innovative social apps, immersive virtual worlds, unique gaming experiences, Ad-tech and SaaS-based applications. We blend product innovation with comprehensive service solutions, driven by creativity and a quest for excellence. We are seeking passionate individuals eager to contribute to our diverse team.
Our Culture:
At The Alter Office, we promote a fun, collaborative work environment where complex problems are tackled and innovative solutions are celebrated. We encourage everyone to collaborate freely with colleagues at all levels. We seek professionals who align with our values, are driven by our vision, and are passionate about making a significant impact through their work.
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The Alter Office is a dynamic product-building and service-providing company with a diverse portfolio that includes innovative social apps, immersive virtual worlds, unique gaming experiences, Ad-tech and SaaS-based applications. We blend product innovation with comprehensive service solutions, driven by creativity and a quest for excellence.
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Code, develop, design and architect features related to the existing application. We expect you to own modules end to end and take pride in the work products you ship.
Lead from the front, when it comes to delivering high quality work products. Serve as a mentor to the team members
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Make sense of the product specs, be nimble in getting the issues resolved. Be a thought leader.
Critical Functional Skills
Solid understanding and knowledge of Java/C/C++. You should understand the concepts of multithreading, I/O, messaging, instrumentation etc and their implementation in Java/Any other ObjectOriented Language.
Proficiency in the implementation of algorithms and the use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing. A solid foundation in the principles of computer science is desired.
Ability to write clean, modular, and loosely coupled code by the use of design patterns.
He/She should be able to break down and architect complex software systems. For example
BuildCars Availability Engine for Ola.
Strong decisionmaking ability
Deep expertise in at least one programming language & tech stack.
Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions.
Strong object oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class level interfaces
The ability to do deep problem solving and build elegant, maintainable solutions to complex problems.
Experience leading multi engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers
Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform
Comprehensive operational experience including, optimizations, deployments and tuning servers like apache/mysql/tomcat/solr
Prior experience in working with Agile software methodologies (XP, Scrum), TDD, and Continuous Integration(CI/CD) a plus.
Experience in building data driven web application design and development is a plus
Expert level experience in building a scalable, large and complex business application
.Experience Required
:Typically with an experience of 5+ years of development experience in a product firm.
Must have lead, designed, architected and delivered at least 1 project in his previous assignments independently.
Minimum Qualifications Required
Btech/MS from a reputed Institute
Deep expertise with any or combination programming languages: Java, C++, C#, Ruby, Scala,
Go any object oriented high level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs. We are not skill specific but go by strength in competencies Machine coding Single machine in memory program
Need a working code with functionality Readable and well designed code with right abstractions, separation of concerns,right design patterns
Performant code with concurrency and efficient data structures
Write test cases covering the happy path and edge cases
Problem Solving
Choose the right combination of data structures to solve the problem
Identify most edge cases for the problem
Identify opportunities of parallelism: utilizes multicore solutions where applicable
Design & Architecture
Distributed systems design and system interaction
Identify API signatures
LLD with class design
Solve for performance & availability
Candidate Profile:
- Strong understanding of PHP and Laravel Framework.
- Produce high quality code and experience with security implementations Identifying application security risks and Implementing security patches procedures.
- Strong hold on MySQL and experience on other SQL/No SQL databases.
- Hands on experience in Architecture and Design with experience in UML and Work-flow diagrams.
- Good knowledge on coding standards, unit testing.
- Strong hold on Data Structures and Algorithms.
- Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems.
- Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
- Able to architect large software from scratch.
- Team building and resource allocation.
- Should be able to work with the management to identify and address any issues that may impact the project.
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Job Description:
Responsibilities:
· Transforming ideas into functional games.
· Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
· Create/update web modules (games/engines/templates)
· Responsible to handle game singlehandedly.
Skills:
· Strong understanding of object-oriented programming.
· Strong knowledge of how the web works and different kind of optimization techniques. · Deep dive onto different HTML5 Game Frameworks used in the industry like CreateJS, Phaser.io, PixiJS, Cocos2d-X.
· Knowledge of how the game physics works.
· Strong & excellent knowledge of Html5 development with Html5 APIs, Canvas, Object Oriented JavaScript, jQuery, bootstrap, desktop and portable device based web application & modules development.
· Good Problem solving and analytical skills.
· Strong Debugging skills.
· Proficient knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git and SVN.
· Knowledge of E-Learning Interactive Content Development Skill Requirements.
· Good Communication skills and ability to work with a team of peers.
· Prior experience with educational content development is a plus.
Qualifications and Experience:
Education – B. Tech, MCA
At least 1-4 years’ experience of developing HTML5 games.
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- At least 3 to 5 years of experience in .Net.
- The candidate should be a system thinker.
- Strong knowledge of at least one of the .NET languages (e.g. C#, Visual Basic .NET) and HTML5/CSS3.
- Enjoy Event-Driven Design Patterns and Event Sourcing.
- Familiar with Document Store Databases (like Cosmos DB / Mongo DB).
- Knowledge in Modular Architecture and Microservices.
- Comfortable leading large technical projects.
- Knowledge of any cloud services AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
- Good understanding of ASP.NET framework, SQL Server and design/architectural patterns (e.g. Model-View-Controller (MVC)).
- Experience with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC).
- Understanding of Agile methodologies.
- Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline).
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology
- Excellent writing skills
- Proficient in Web use, Outlook and Microsoft Office
- Travel as needed
- Create a platform to change the way kids learn: Because company is solving a unique problem, we have the chance to reimagine education. Be it collaboration or puzzles or interactive videos or even 3D experiences, there is a huge scope for innovation. You can help us get there.
- Tackle challenging and impactful problems: You'd jump between product, marketing, internal tools, process — participating in every phase from inception to implementation. Absolutely no boredom.
- Join us at a magical time: We went through Y Combinator, have raised funding and are seeing strong traction with a very lean team. You get to be among the first employees in one of the strongest and most passionate teams in the EdTech space.
So, what will you do as a Full Stack Lead at company?
- As one of the early employees, there will be a lot on your plate. All the time!
- You'll take ownership and build new product features from start to finish. We love to hire ‘Product Engineers’ who care about “why” behind a feature and suggest changes to hit the objectives even better
- You'll build improvements to performance, reliability, and product polish — for example, improving the efficiency and performance of our replicated state systems.
- You will mentor new joiners, review the pull requests and help with expanding the team as we grow
This might be for you if...
- You have strong knowledge of both front and back end technologies
- You have been professionally coding for at least 4 years
- You have worked in a startup and relish the chaos and pressure
- You've built and maintained quality user interfaces that have reached a large audience, ideally while the product is experiencing rapid growth.
- You can readily learn most technologies as you go. To you, technologies are about tools and tradeoffs, not an ideology.
- You care about the business implications of anything you build. You're not just going after cool stuff — you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.
- Bonus: You're fluent with Typescript, Python, Go, NodeJS, Postgres, Docker.
- Bonus: You're familiar with multiple frameworks such as React, Django
- Bonus: You understand AWS infrastructure and can put out a fire if one happens
We are looking for a Full stack developer responsible for managing and enhancing web
applicationsthat interchange of data between the server, the users and SAP. Your primary focus will
be full stack development ensuring high performance and responsiveness .You will also be
responsible for automated testing and continuous integration.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Web application using React,
Node.js or Ruby on Rails and GraphQL
Full stack development (UI, API, Service, Data storage)
Integration of data storage solutions (nosql), SAP and third party applications.
Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
Maintain the application quality, organization, and automation.
Skills
Experience of designing and building web applications in cloud, preferably Azure.
Experience with React, Node.js or Ruby on Rails, GraphQL along with other common
libraries such as RSpec and Resque.
Full stack development (UI, API, Service, Storage)
Strong knowledge of SDLC, Git based versioning systems and CI/CD, automated
functional and integration tests.
Good understanding of no sql database, preferably Postgres.
Good understanding of Agile methodology - Scrum.
Experience
4-6 years
Work Location- Remote (Any City or semi urban)
Budget- 10-25lpa
Notice Period- Maximum 1 month








