Backend Architect at Amagi Media Labs · Remote, Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 10 - 15 years · ₹45L - ₹65L / yr (ESOP available) · Profitable · Remote friendly · Posted 12 Jan 2023

JOB DESCRIPTION
Role: Backend Architect
Amagi Background
Amagi is a SaaS platform that lets every content owner deliver their content to consumers anytime, anywhere, to any device. Amagi helps bring entertainment to hundreds of millions of consumers leading the transformation in media consumption. We believe in a connected ecosystem bringing content owners, distribution platforms, consumers and advertisers together to create great experiences.
Amagi grew by 136% last year and is on its way to double itself again this year. The market leader in FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming TV), it delivers more than 500 media brands to 1500+ end points and is growing exponentially.
Amagi is looking for Software Architects with 8-12 yrs experience in high level & low level design and development of highly scalable software products.
Role reporting into: Director, Streaming TV - Distribution, Analytics & Monetization
Location: Bangalore, India
Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- You will lead a team of talented engineers to build the B2B products and services, as well as necessary frameworks, libraries and primitives to scale & connect our offerings together.
- Architect, design, implement and maintain highly scalable backend systems that can scale to millions of concurrent users in production.
- Derive next generation tools and technologies to support hundreds of high impactful customers on monetization products in production
- Collaborate with the product, business, design and engineering functions to be on top of your team’s deliverables & milestones.
- Timely delivery of highly reliable and scalable engineering architecture, and high quality, maintainable and operationally excellent code for your team.
- Track & monitor team & individual performance, building continuous improvement into the process
- Drive design discussions and code reviews
- Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues
- Hire the top talent for your team and mentor the team members.
Person Specifications
- 8-12 years of software development experience with demonstrated ability to design, build, and deliver complex, successful engineering systems or products efficiently and with high quality.
- Good understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set up.
- Good understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems
- Strong object-oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
- Working knowledge of one or more backend technologies from among Java, Ruby-on-Rails, Python, Golang.
- Well versed with development workflows for distributed systems deployed on the cloud (preferably AWS)
- Establishing and maintaining unit, integration and system test mechanisms in staging, pre-production and production environments

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| **Work Location** | Mumbai Suburbs-Andheri |
| **Start Date** | Immediate |
| **CTC** | Open to Discussion |
## Job Description
The selected candidate will be responsible for leading backend development, managing cloud infrastructure and deployments, designing scalable system architectures, and mentoring the engineering team. The role requires strong technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and the ability to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
### 1. DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure
- Create and configure cloud instances on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Deploy applications and programs to cloud servers and DevOps environments.
- Ensure deployment stability, system uptime, and performance monitoring.
- Automate deployment pipelines and continuously improve CI/CD practices.
- Implement and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure deployment processes.
### 2. Architecture and Backend Development
- Design system architectures with a focus on performance, security, scalability, and reliability.
- Design, develop, and maintain clean, scalable, and optimized backend applications, preferably using Node.js.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across development, testing, and production environments.
- Translate business requirements into effective technical solutions and ensure timely delivery.
- Develop and maintain APIs, microservices, databases, and system integrations.
### 3. Team Leadership and Management
- Lead, mentor, and guide a team of backend developers and engineers.
- Drive Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and engineering best practices.
- Promote collaboration, accountability, and a high-performance engineering culture.
- Support team members in resolving technical challenges and improving their skills.
## 4.Skills and Qualifications Required
- B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Strong proficiency in backend development using Node.js, JavaScript, Python, or Java.
- Hands-on experience with DevOps practices and cloud deployment environments.
- Solid understanding of APIs, microservices, databases, and system integration.
- Experience in leading development teams within an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Working knowledge of Linux, Kafka, and Docker.
- Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines, cloud technologies, and deployment automation.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and leadership skills.
##5. Behavioural Competencies
- **Team Leadership:** Ability to manage, train, mentor, and guide team members.
- **Relationship Management:** Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective working relationships.
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- **Business Acumen:** Ability to understand business use cases and translate them into practical technical solutions.
- **Customer Empathy:** Ability to understand customer needs and deliver solutions that enhance customer experience.
- **Communication:** Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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Job Title: Tech Architect - Java Spring Boot
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Central Banks:
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We are at the forefront of providing customized solutions for exchanges, CCPs, depositories, and other financial market infrastructure. Our high-speed, low-latency, high-volume, massively scalable systems are spread across the core areas of trading, surveillance, risk management, clearing, settlement, and compliance.
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Job Description:
- Tech Architect with expertise in Java Spring Boot to design and implement robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems. As a Tech Architect, you will be responsible for shaping the technical direction of complex software projects and providing architectural guidance to engineering teams.
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- Ensure the architecture is aligned with business goals and technical constraints. Conduct code reviews and enforce best practices to maintain high-quality standards.
- Collaboration:
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- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system requirements, integrate with third-party services, and ensure the overall system design is cohesive.
- Problem Solving:
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ATGS official Email
anita at atgs.co.in
Location: Bangalore
Department: Engineering
Reports to: SVP
Experience required: 6+ years
About Tracxn:
Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem.
We are a team of 600+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.
Founders
- Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
- Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)
About Technology Team:
Tracxn's Technology team is 60+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each owning one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team compared to an individual.
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Our Tech Stacks:
We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to backend and frontend systems such as Java, Python, Spring Boot, Node.js, ReactJS, Next.js, Webpack, and Storybook; cloud and serverless platforms like AWS, etc; data and infrastructure technologies such as Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch), MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Ansible; large-scale web crawling solutions; modern data pipelines and ETL workflows; and AI/ML-driven projects.
Job Overview:
We are looking for experienced software engineers with 6+ years of overall software development experience, including backend development and proven people-management skills. The ideal candidate will lead the engineering team(s), drive technical excellence, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers
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- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders
- Drive best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
- Conduct code reviews and ensure high engineering standards
- Manage delivery timelines, resource planning, and technical risks
- Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management of engineers
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Professional Experience
- Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams
- Track record of delivering complex, scalable software systems
- Experience driving technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions
- Strong collaboration experience with product, design, and cross-functional teams.
Technical Leadership & Management
- Ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers across different experience levels
- Experience conducting performance reviews and providing technical feedback
- Strong ownership of team delivery, timelines, and quality
- Experience balancing hands-on technical work with people management
Backend & System Architecture Expertise
- Strong proficiency in modern backend architectures, design patterns, and microservices architecture.
- Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Java, Python, etc.)
- Solid understanding of API design principles and implementation
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- Understanding of data modeling and query optimization
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Culture:
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- Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
- No strict deadlines, focus on delivering quality work.
- Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
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What you'll do
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- Work closely with the React Native and Next.js teams on API contracts, data flows and ML/DS integrations.
- Mentor the backend and data team, review code, and set engineering standards along with the TPM.
- Ensure system reliability, security, scalability and observability.
- Take part in the senior on-call rotation, including international paging.
What we're looking for
- 6+ years of backend development, with significant experience in data engineering.
- Strong expertise in Django, relational databases, and API design (REST/GraphQL).
- Hands-on experience building data pipelines.
- Some practical experience deploying ML models to production, including serving, versioning, monitoring and retraining (MLOps).
- Some understanding of common data science algorithms and ML techniques.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP or Azure), containers and CI/CD.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers.
- Excellent communication skills. You should be able to explain backend and data decisions clearly to mobile and web teams.
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- Experience with LLMs, recommendation systems or real-time data processing.
- Experience with unstructured data
- Familiarity with Next.js or React Native.
- Familiarity with US data protection requirements and compliance laws, such as FERPA or COPPA
Senior Software Engineer – Backend
Company: House of EdTech (Goenka Kachave LLP)
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Job Type: Full-Time
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About the Role
House of EdTech is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to design, develop, and scale high-performance backend services and APIs supporting products used by millions of learners.
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What We're Looking For
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- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and databases.
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- Experience with system design, architecture, and technical decision-making.
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Duties and Responsibilities:
● Architect & Build: Design and implement complex, scalable microservices and monolithic architectures using Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB (MERN backend stack).
● Heavyweight Coding: Spend the majority of your time writing high-quality, production-ready backend code. You should be comfortable solving complex systems problems using efficient Data Structures, Algorithms, and clean architecture principles.
● Performance & Data Engineering: Own database optimization, query performance, indexing strategies, caching layers (Redis), and system throughput to ensure low-latency API response times.
● Technical Leadership: Establish and enforce industry best practices for REST/GraphQL API design, security standards, code reviews, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
● End-to-End Ownership: Participate in the full SDLC—from initial ideation and system design to deployment, infrastructure setup, and production monitoring on AWS
Qualifications:
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● Experience: You have at least 8 years of professional software development experience, with a significant focus on high-traffic, distributed backend systems.
● Tech Stack Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB (Mongoose/Aggregation framework), and TypeScript. Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, S3, ECS/Lambda, CloudWatch) and containerization (Docker).
● Architectural Fluency: A solid understanding of modern backend patterns (Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Pub/Sub, Caching strategies, Message Queues like RabbitMQ/Kafka, State Management, and Authentication/Authorization protocols).
● Optimization Expert: Proven experience in tuning database performance, scaling server instances, managing connection pools, and debugging memory leaks or high CPU usage under heavy load.
● Grit & Speed: You thrive in high-pressure environments and enjoy the challenge of meeting tight deadlines without compromising on quality or system reliability.
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• Own the engineering roadmap and help decide what should be built first.
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• Choose practical architecture, tools, and vendors that fit the company's needs.
• Set working standards for testing, deployment, monitoring, backups, and access control.
• Protect customer and company data through practical security controls.
• Investigate production issues and make sure the same problems do not repeat.
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• Enough frontend knowledge to work across a product when needed.
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• Comfort working independently and taking full ownership of delivery.
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Please share your CV or LinkedIn profile and two short examples of production systems you have owned. This is a confidential search. More information about the company will be shared with shortlisted candidates during the interview process.
Why This Role Matters
Our backend is what keeps checkout, RTO, and payments fast and reliable at ~$2B GMV across 15,000+ merchants. As an SDE 2 you own services end to end, make the architecture calls that keep them performant, and set the technical bar for the engineers around you. The trade-offs you pick show up directly in merchant conversions and platform reliability - this is a builder's seat with real ownership.
What You'll Own
- Design and build backend services primarily in Node.js/NestJS, with Go for select services, backed by Postgres, Mongo, and Redis.
- Own event-driven flows on Kafka - throughput, ordering, and failure handling.
- Make and document the architecture and trade-off decisions for systems you lead.
- Ship features end to end, dropping into the frontend (React/Svelte) when it's the fastest path.
- Strengthen CI/CD, observability, and deployments on AWS.
- Review code, mentor SDE 1s and AEs, and raise the quality bar on the team.
- Take ambiguous problems and drive them to delivery with minimal hand-holding.
Who You Are
- Strong backend engineer in JavaScript/TypeScript on Node.js/NestJS (our primary stack); working knowledge of Go, or ready to pick it up.
- Solid at data modelling across Postgres and Mongo, and knows when Redis earns its place.
- Has built and scaled event-driven systems (Kafka or equivalent).
- At home on the backend but happy to work across the stack in React/Svelte.
- Thinks in systems - scalability, reliability, maintainability - not just features.
- Has mentored engineers and owns code quality and delivery, not just their own tickets.
- Communicates clearly and does well with ambiguity in a fast-moving team.
Senior / Staff Software Engineer – Backend Engineering
Experience: 7+ years
Location: India
Role Type: Individual Contributor | Hands-on Engineering
About the Role
Oddr is looking for a deeply hands-on Senior / Staff Software Engineer who combines strong backend engineering fundamentals with an AI-first way of building software.
This is not a traditional development role where AI is used only for code completion. We are looking for engineers who can understand a problem, design the right solution, define architectural and security guardrails, and then use AI aggressively to accelerate implementation without compromising quality.
You will be expected to code regularly, own solutions end-to-end, build POCs, drive technical design, review critical code, and help raise the engineering bar across the team.
This is not a people-management role.
What You’ll Do
- Design and build scalable, secure backend systems using C# / .NET.
- Own features from problem definition and architecture through coding and production delivery.
- Use AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or GitHub Copilot to accelerate development.
- Define the right context, constraints, tests and guardrails around AI-generated code.
- Build POCs and evaluate technical approaches before scaling them into production.
- Drive system design, API design, data modelling and integration decisions.
- Review code for correctness, security, performance and maintainability.
- Build automated tests, observability and validation into the development lifecycle.
- Mentor engineers through technical reviews, pairing and architecture discussions.
- Identify opportunities to create reusable engineering patterns, automation, agents or developer tooling.
What We’re Looking For
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building production systems.
- Strong hands-on expertise in C# and .NET / .NET Core.
- Strong system design and architecture skills.
- Experience with distributed systems, APIs, databases, asynchronous processing and cloud-native applications.
- Good understanding of Azure, CI/CD, containers and modern software delivery practices.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Experience using AI coding tools as a meaningful part of day-to-day software engineering.
- Ability to critically review AI-generated code and identify architectural, security or quality issues.
- Strong understanding of software design, testing and engineering best practices.
Nice to Have
- Experience with React / TypeScript.
- Experience in legal-tech, fintech, billing, payments or enterprise SaaS.
- Exposure to AI agents, RAG, MCP or LLM-powered applications.
- Experience building reusable engineering platforms, tooling or automation.
- Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001 or other security/compliance environments.
What Great Looks Like
You can take a complex problem from:
Problem → Design → POC → Architecture → Code → Validation → Production
You know when to rely on engineering judgment, when to challenge the AI, and when to use AI to dramatically accelerate execution.
At Oddr, we are looking for engineers who can think deeply, build quickly and ship safely.
Why this role exists
Most systems work at a low scale.
Very few survive real production load, complex workflows, and enterprise edge cases.
We are building a platform that must:
- Scale from 500K → 20M+ interactions/month
- Handle complex insurance workflows reliably
- Become easier to deploy as it grows, not harder
- This role exists to build the backend foundation that makes this possible.
What you’ll do
You will not just write services.
You will design and own core platform systems.
1. Scale the platform without breaking architecture
- Scale from 50K → 4M+ interactions/month
- Ensure:
- High availability
- Low latency
- Fault tolerance
- Avoid large rewrites — build systems that evolve cleanly
2. Build the workflow automation (WA) engine
- Design a flexible system with:
- States
- Stages
- Cohorts
- Dynamic workflows
- Ensure workflows:
- Handle edge cases reliably
- Can be configured easily
- Move from:
- Hardcoded flows → configurable execution engine
3. Build the insurance-specific data layer
- Design data models for:
- Policy states
- Claim workflows
- Consent tracking
- Ensure the system works across:
- Multiple insurers
- Multiple use cases
- Build a platform-first data layer, not use-case-specific hacks
4. Make deployment and setup simple
- Ensure workflows and data models are:
- Easy to configure
- Easy to launch
- Reduce friction for:
- Product teams
- Deployment teams
5. Create a compounding data advantage
- Build a data layer that:
- Improves with every deployment
- Captures structured signals
- Ensure data becomes a long-term edge, not just storage
6. Own production reliability
- Participate in on-call rotation across 3 engineers
- Ensure:
- Incidents are handled quickly
- Root causes are fixed permanently
- Build systems where reliability is shared, not individual
What success looks like
- Platform scales to 2M+ interactions/month smoothly
- Workflow engine supports complex, dynamic use cases
- Data layer enables fast deployment across accounts
- Edge cases are handled without constant firefighting
- System becomes easier to use as it grows
- Production issues are rare and predictable
Who you are
- You have built:
- Scalable systems
- Distributed services
- You think in:
- Systems
- Data models
- Trade-offs
- You are comfortable owning:
- Architecture
- Production systems
What will make you stand out
- Experience building:
- Workflow engines
- State machines
- Data-heavy platforms
- Strong understanding of:
- System design
- Distributed systems
- Failure handling
- Experience working in:
- High-scale production environments
Why join
- You will build the core backend of an AI platform
- Your work directly impacts:
- Scale
- Reliability
- Product capability
- You will design systems that move from:
- Use-case specific → platform-level infrastructure
What this role is not
- Not just API development
- Not limited to feature-level work
- Not disconnected from production realities
What this role is
- A system architect
- A builder of scalable platforms
- A driver of long-term technical advantage
One question to self-evaluate
Can you design backend systems that scale, handle edge cases, and become easier to use as they grow?













