BackEnd Engineer

Role

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer who can own the entire technical stack, design systems that scale, and ship products fast. You will work across frontend, backend, and AI systems, making key architectural decisions while building a product used by real users.

This role offers high ownership, where engineers move ideas to production quickly and take responsibility for both technical decisions and product impact.

What would you do?

• Build and own the end-to-end platform using React, Node.js microservices, Python AI agents, and AWS.
• Design and implement scalable system architecture, including caching, databases, and state management between AI and UI.
• Develop AI-powered backend services and orchestrate LLM workflows using modern frameworks.
• Build highly interactive front-end experiences using modern React and real-time communication tools.
• Define and maintain engineering best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, monorepo structures, and development workflows.
• Collaborate closely with users and product teams to identify problems and ship impactful solutions.
• Continuously simplify systems by removing unnecessary complexity and keeping architecture clean.

Who should apply?

• Engineers with 4+ years of experience building and shipping production-grade products.
• Strong understanding of system design, architecture, and scalable backend systems.
• Hands-on experience with Python (FastAPI, async systems) and LLM-based applications.
• Proficiency in JavaScript / TypeScript with Node.js and modern backend frameworks.
• Experience building modern frontend applications using React (React 18+).
• Familiarity with databases such as Redis, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB, and designing scalable APIs.
• Engineers comfortable working in fast-paced environments with high ownership and minimal process overhead.

Technical Skills

• Backend: Node.js, Express, Python, FastAPI
• Frontend: React (React 18+), interactive UI development
• AI/LLM Systems: LLM orchestration, multi-model integrations
• Databases: Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Infrastructure: AWS, CI/CD pipelines, microservices architecture
• Real-time Systems: Socket.IO, Server-Sent Events (SSE)

ey Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain microservices using Java (Spring Boot).
• Implement RESTful APIs and ensure integration with front-end and third-party services.
• Work with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, etc.
• Utilize CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / AWS CodePipeline) for deployment automation.
• Implement security, scalability, and high availability best practices in microservice architecture.
• Collaborate with DevOps, QA, and Product teams to deliver robust solutions.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production issues using AWS CloudWatch / ELK / Prometheus & Grafana.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and agile ceremonies.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong proficiency in Java 8+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and RESTful APIs.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and service discovery / communication patterns (Eureka, Feign, Ribbon, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud (ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFormation).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
• Proficient in RDBMS / NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and DevOps best practices.
• Knowledge of message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS) is a plus.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master’s in Computer Science or related field
• 5–8 years of backend development experience
• Strong in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
• Hands-on experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams

Preferred Traits

• Proactive mindset with a knack for identifying and fixing bottlenecks
• Detail-oriented with a passion for clean, maintainable code

Team-oriented with a drive for continuous learning and improvement

Looking for candidates only with tier 1 colleges OR have experience in a product-based company.

Desired Skills :

● Experience with data modeling and SQL/NoSQL databases

● Experience with distributed systems and microservices

● Good experience in working with any of Java/SpringBoot, GoLang or NodeJS

● Excellent problem solving and debugging skills

● Passionate about the experience of software engineering as much as the output

● A strong sense of ownership

● Ability to communicate your ideas and approach to solving problems with clarity

Primary Skills: Database Systems (SQL), Python Flask/Fast API/Django frameworks specifically
Requirements:

• Highly proficient in fundamentals of Python web development frameworks like Flask, Django and Fast API
• Demonstrated experience in developing APIs using Python frameworks
• Should have deep knowledge in PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server and other SQL based Databases

Roles and Responsibilities

• Ability to create solution prototype and conduct proof of concept of new tools.

• Work in research and understanding of new tools and areas.

• Clearly articulate pros and cons of various technologies/platforms and perform

detailed analysis of business problems and technical environments to derive a

solution.

• Optimisation of the application for maximum speed and scalability.

• Work on feature development and bug fixing.

Technical skills

• Must have knowledge of the networking in Linux, and basics of computer networks in

general.

• Must have intermediate/advanced knowledge of one programming language,

preferably Python.

• Must have experience of writing shell scripts and configuration files.

• Should be proficient in bash.

• Should have excellent Linux administration capabilities.

• Working experience of SCM. Git is preferred.

• Knowledge of build and CI-CD tools, like Jenkins, Bamboo etc is a plus.

• Understanding of Architecture of OpenStack/Kubernetes is a plus.

• Code contributed to OpenStack/Kubernetes community will be a plus.

• Data Center network troubleshooting will be a plus.

• Understanding of NFV and SDN domain will be a plus.

Soft skills

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

• Highly driven, positive attitude, team player, self-learning, self motivating and flexibility

• Strong customer focus - Decent Networking and relationship management

• Flair for creativity and innovation

• Strategic thinking This is an individual contributor role and will need client interaction on technical side.

Must have Skill - Linux, Networking, Python, Cloud

Additional Skills-OpenStack, Kubernetes, Shell, Java, Development

As a software engineer, you will be the part of a team that focuses on building software applications that scale well. You will play a significant role in shaping our software architecture that provides measurable customer value. You understand both technology and business to know the right trade-offs to make. You will be a technical mentor for your team members. You will work closely with your peers, managers, product, design, and operations teams to create solutions that meet business requirements. You will drive engineering and operational excellence across Scatter. You will collaborate with other engineers to surface common pain points, develop solutions and evangelize best practices.

Qualifications:

2-3 years of professional software engineering experience building customer-facing web and/or mobile applications Strong coding skills using Python, Django, is mandatory. Knowledge on Html, Css, React Js, Jquery, Bootstrap or equivalent programming language is added advantage Graduated from Tier 1 or Tier 2 engineering colleges Excellent knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science or a related discipline Experience working in an agile environment Self-quick learner and passionate problem solver Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, with an enthusiastic attitude to support and resolve customer problems Good oral and written communication skills Above all, an insatiable desire and ability to learn

Nice to have skills:

Experience with large-scale SaaS applications Experience building web and mobile applications Experience designing services on top of cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, etc Prior experience in building product from 0-1

Benefits

Ownership and autonomy to drive customer and culture initiatives Opportunity to get mentored and mentor junior engineers Remote work

About the Company:

Progcap is a Fintech and AI company that pioneers alternative credit scoring for small businesses using proprietary data from non-traditional sources. We aim to fuel credit to 100 million under-banked SMEs in the emerging markets worldwide with an initial focus on India.

Progcap is Sequoia-backed Series A startup, comprising of top tier talent from finance, technology, data science and operations. The Company is the recipient of the World Bank's "SME Product Innovation of the year", 2018 award, Madrid.

What you will be doing:

• Lead and provide first level supervision to project teams and ensures successful delivery of tasks assigned to the team along with sharing of project updates & related communication with stakeholders.
• Writing and ensuring reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Managing data across multiple databases and providing analysis to stakeholders.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Implementation of security and data protection (permission classes and middleware.)
• Implementation of user authentication and authorization across multiple systems, servers, and environments.

What you bring:

• Should have minimum 4 years of experience in development using Python and 1 year in leading Python based projects.
• Strong experience in Application lifecycle management – development, testing and deployment.
• Strong understanding and experience with code version control tools (git, svn, etc.)
• Expert in Python with working experience on Django, AWS, Lambda, RDS, NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Integration of data storage solutions redis, postgresql, mysql (big query, big table, pubsub, appengine).
• Strong in data structures and algorithms
• Preferably candidates with Financial/lending Applications development experience with any Fintech Co.