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Required Skills: CI/CD Pipeline, Data Structures, Microservices, Determining overall architectural principles, frameworks and standards, Cloud expertise (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Distributed Systems
Criteria:
- Candidate must have 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with 1ā2 years leading engineers or owning major systems.
- Must be strong in one core backend language: Node.js, Go, Java, or Python.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, caching, high availability, and microservices architecture.
- Hands-on experience with AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong command over system design, data structures, performance tuning, and scalable architecture
- Ability to partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and lead end-to-end backend roadmap execution.
Description
What This Role Is All About
Weāre looking for a Backend Tech Lead whoās equally obsessed with architecture decisions and clean code, someone who can zoom out to design systems and zoom in to fix that one weird memory leak. Youāll lead a small but sharp team, drive the backend roadmap, and make sure our systems stay fast, lean, and battle-tested.
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What Youāll Own
ā Architect backend systems that handle India-scale traffic without breaking a sweat.
ā Build and evolve microservices, APIs, and internal platforms that our entire app depends on.
ā Guide, mentor, and uplevel a team of backend engineersābe the go-to technical brain.
ā Partner with Product, Data, and Infra to ship features that are reliable and delightful.
ā Set high engineering standardsāclean architecture, performance, automation, and testing.
ā Lead discussions on system design, performance tuning, and infra choices.
ā Keep an eye on production like a hawk: metrics, monitoring, logs, uptime.
ā Identify gaps proactively and push for improvements instead of waiting for fires.
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What Makes You a Great Fit
ā 6+ years of backend experience; 1ā2 years leading engineers or owning major systems.
ā Strong in one core language (Node.js / Go / Java / Python) ā pick your sword.
ā Deep understanding of distributed systems, caching, high-availability, and microservices.
ā Hands-on with AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.
ā You think data structures and system design are not interviews ā theyāre daily tools.
ā You write code that future-you wonāt hate.
ā Strong communication and a letās figure this out attitude.
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Bonus Points If You Have
ā Built or scaled consumer apps with millions of DAUs.
ā Experimented with event-driven architecture, streaming systems, or real-time pipelines.
ā Love startups and donāt mind wearing multiple hats.
ā Experience on logging/monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, OpenTelemetry.
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Why company Might Be Your Best Move
ā Work on products used by real people every single day.
ā Ownership from day oneāyour decisions will shape our core architecture.
ā No unnecessary hierarchy; direct access to founders and senior leadership.
ā A team that cares about quality, speed, and impact in equal measure.
ā Build for Bharat ā complex constraints, huge scale, real impact.
Role:Ā DevOps Engineer
Exp: 4 - 7 Years
CTC: up to 28 LPA
Key Responsibilities
ā¢Ā Ā Ā Design, build, and manage scalable infrastructure on cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure, or OCI)
ā¢Ā Ā Ā Administer and optimize Kubernetes clusters and container runtimes (Docker, containerd)
ā¢Ā Ā Ā Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multiple services and environments
ā¢Ā Ā Ā Manage infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform and/or Pulumi
ā¢Ā Ā Ā Automate operations with Python and shell scripting for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance
ā¢Ā Ā Ā Ensure high availability and performance of production systems and troubleshoot incidents effectively
ā¢Ā Ā Ā Monitor system metrics and implement observability best practices using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.
ā¢Ā Ā Ā Collaborate with development, security, and product teams to align infrastructure with business needs
ā¢Ā Ā Ā Apply best practices in cloud networking, Linux administration, and configuration management
ā¢Ā Ā Ā Support compliance and security audits; assist with implementation of cloud security measures (e.g., firewalls, IDS/IPS, IAM hardening)
ā¢Ā Ā Ā Participate in on-call rotations and incident response activities
Introduction
Ever wondered what it would be like to be a part of the core team of Airbnb or Netflix when they were just starting out? Hereās your chance to try that path with Ohana!
We are looking for a founding engineer to join our team.
Who we are
Ohana is an E-learning platform for holistic learning. We are an angel-funded early stage startup backed by some of the marquee angel investors from India and Singapore. Our investors include Vivek HR (co-founder and CEO, Bounce), Tanushree Gupta (co-founder and CEO, Doubtnut), Jagmal Singh (CTO, Janio Asia) to name a few!
Check us out atĀ https://ohana.academy!
Our Product
āCreativity is as important as literacyā - Sir Ken Robinson
With this belief, Ohana is building the world's largest holistic learning academy. Our product offering:
The Classroom:Ā Offering live online classes on arts, crafts, linguistics, yoga, dance and many more subjects
The Playground:Ā Enabling social learning - a community for kids to find peers with similar interests
Our mission
India has 250Mn kids in the K12 segment. However, except the top 0.1%, most parents canāt find high-quality and affordable holistic learning for their kids. Fortunately, 140Mn kids are now connected to the digital world with 4G access. We want to leverage this new connectivity and bridge the gap in children's overall development with Ohana.
Where are we in our journey
Team: We are a team of two co-founders (Saurabh and Suyash), both IIT Delhi alums with over a decade of experience each in leading consumer businesses. We have a total of 15 people team including 4 engineers (currently outsourced)
Customers: Over the last couple of months, we have grown to 5,000+ registered users and aim to reach 10K+ paid users and 1 Mn+ community strength in the next 12 months.
Young, inspired, and focused - We are ready for take-off!
Our Culture
- āMission-drivenā is not a buzzword for us. We care deeply about the impact we want to create on kidās lives and we want to exemplify the value of āno child left behindā
- Be inclusive - We are creating a product that is accessible and affordable. We want to solve this not just for Bangalore and Mumbai, but for Indore, Jabalpur, Raipur as well
- Not just customer obsessed - we also care about their well-being. We are willing to compromise profits - but will not resort to unethical sales tactics or compromise on product quality
- Our team cares about a strong culture and respects our code of conduct
Why work for us
- We have global ambitions - Holistic education is a $75Bn global market, with India alone contributing more than $10Bn. Apart from salary compensation, you get a piece of the pie (equity) of a potentially billion-dollar organization
- You will have exposure to building large, scalable systems and will be mentored by people who have done the same for millions of users
- You will have exposure to starting up / entrepreneurship (ever feel like you want to build a startup?) owning end to end consumer tech product which impacts the life of thousands of students/parents on daily level
Job Location
We are based out of Bengaluru and work from an office. We encourage working from office, but are completely ok if you would like to work remotely until things return to normal.
Expectations from the role
- You will work closely with the founding team and a small team of engineers, currently outsourced, in a fast-paced environment.
- You will work as a tech lead and will be responsible for architecting the new features as well as improving the existing codebase. You will be expected to have a high degree of ownership and responsibility for deliverables.
- You will wear a product hat as and when required and help in shaping the product.
- You will provide technical mentorship to other engineers in the team and will lead a team of junior engineers.
- You should be able to deal with ambiguity, have strong bias towards action, ability to deep dive whenever required and quickly deliver to unblock the team
Preferred experience and competencies
- You are a software engineer with 4+ years of industry experience.
- Professional experience with at least one web dev framework (ReactJS or Django/Python)
- Professional experience with one or more (SQL or NoSQL) databases.
- A stint in a product company or a startup or any similar faced paced environment is preferable.
- Experience working with cloud infra providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) is preferable.
- Strong proficiency in REST API
Experience: 5+ Years
AnĀ ArchitectĀ Ā is a hands-on, talented, innovative, and practical individual with functional experience to design, implement and support the delivery of core products and product components.Ā Ā
- Capable of working under minimal direction and exercising considerable latitude, they will provide technical expertise in developing solutions to complex software engineering problems, which require frequent use of ingenuity and creativity.
- Experienced in designing application framework solutions, performing architectural analysis, and identifying issues and provide solutions for the business problems.
- Sound functional knowledge of application architecture service architecture, code modularity, data synchronisation, customisable workflow management, partner application integration and API developer frameworks.
- Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the most advanced capabilitiesĀ
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.
- Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.
- Requirements:
Ideal candidate should have
- 7+ years of system implementation experienceĀ
- Experience with any of the following languages like Java / Nodejs / ROR / Python
- Expertise in micro service / Data modelling / AWS / Messaging
- Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems
- Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS, Redis,
- Experience in messaging systems like SQS/RabbitMQ
- Good knowledge of caching, Databases, distributed systems.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Good experience with Devops
Your Day-to-Day Tasks Include:Ā
Works in requirements like Engineering, Design, Development, and Deployment. All the tasks involves working with Java, SQL Server and Couchbase.Ā
Build and monitor data pipelines that serve 100+ websites, 150M+ unique impressions daily. Write code that can handle 4x more scale than the given requirement.Ā
Maintain uptime of multiple distributed web applications.Ā
Build data pipelines to pull data from upstream partners like Google.Ā
You Should Have:Ā
Minimum 3 years of experience with Java.Ā
Minimum 2 year of experience with any SQL database (MySql, MSSql, Oracle, DB2, Sybase). Minimum 3 years of experience with web development.Ā
Experience with any NoSql database (MongoDb, Couchbase, CouchDb, DynamoDb). Experience of designing/implementing/maintaining scalable systems.Ā
Experience with any cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP).Ā
Good To Have:Ā
Experience with BI and data reporting.Ā
Experience with Elastic search.Ā
Understanding of data warehousing.Ā
Experience in Node.js.Ā
Node JS Developer
JD:
⢠In depth knowledge of Node.js (with framework, probably Sails.js or at least Express.js)
⢠Thorough understanding of relational databases such as MySQL or similar technologies.
⢠Complete knowledge on MongoDB database.
⢠Excellent coding skill in Node.js, JavaScript
⢠AWS Hosting.
⢠Knowledge working closely with git.
⢠Experience with the Express.js framework.
⢠Proficiency in Linux environment.
⢠Agile/Scrum development cycle understanding.
⢠Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team.








