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Senior Backend Engineer (Platform) Full Time Bangalore (Potentially Remote)
What you’ll be doing:
- Design and develop core systems that will be power teams to build services and apps
- Ensure and constantly improve reliability, scalability, security and performance of core apis and infrastructure
- Be proactive in technical decision making and a sound influence in technical discussions
- Work with the product teams to help shape product direction by communicating limitations and possibilities
- Adopt and advocate best practices and guidelines in architecture, code conventions, development practice
Who we are looking for:
- 5+ years of experience building web services in Python/Go/Java, preferably in Python with excellent debugging and analytical skills
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles, computer science fundamentals - data structures, algorithms and operating systems
- Proven experience in building, deploying and maintaining highly scalable RESTful web services
- Excellent written and oral communication ability in both technical and non tech. aspects
- Good understanding of benchmarking and performance monitoring - concurrency, multi-threading, logging, database optimisations
- Decent knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with shipping code quickly and reliably.
What we offer:
- Ownership of the platform core with a clear roadmap.
- A small cool meritocratic team that's driven by passion.
- An inspiring culture that balances creative exploration & heads down execution.
- Cash compensation upto 20L and negotiable stock in a gold mine.

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Exp: 7- 10 Years
CTC: up to 35 LPA
Skills:
- 6–10 years DevOps / SRE / Cloud Infrastructure experience
- Expert-level Kubernetes (networking, security, scaling, controllers)
- Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code mastery
- Hands-on Kafka production experience
- AWS cloud architecture and networking expertise
- Strong scripting in Python, Go, or Bash
- GitOps and CI/CD tooling experience
Key Responsibilities:
- Design highly available, secure cloud infrastructure supporting distributed microservices at scale
- Lead multi-cluster Kubernetes strategy optimized for GPU and multi-tenant workloads
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform across full infrastructure lifecycle
- Optimize Kafka-based data pipelines for throughput, fault tolerance, and low latency
- Deliver zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines using GitOps-driven deployment models
- Establish SRE practices with SLOs, p95 and p99 monitoring, and FinOps discipline
- Ensure production-ready disaster recovery and business continuity testing
If interested Kindly share your updated resume at 82008 31681
As a Backend Engineer you will be responsible for creating REST APIs which are used to drive the User Interface. Given the nature of the application, these APIs need to be very efficient and high performing. This requires optimizing queries for faster execution and introducing database changes that may be required. We are looking for individuals with great attention to detail, who are genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but excited to work in a fun and friendly start-up environment. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and GETTING IT DONE.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, test, implement and maintain application software
- Take part in software and architectural development activities
- Debug application issues and helping support respond to client queries
- Participate in application development meetings
- Provide accurate estimates, clearly communicate status of tasks and identification of risks
- Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem
- Performance tuning of application code at different service levels
- Interact with customers of the application and help address issues reported
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 3+ years of experience with Java and Spring frameworks.
- Having good knowledge in a scripting language like python is a plus
- Experience with Spring and Hibernate/ ORM
- Understanding of relational database and normal forms
- Understanding of NoSQL / RDBMS (Mongo or Postgres) and ability to write optimized and high performing queries
- Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code
- Experience building RESTful web services
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Experience with GIT as a VCS, Unix based systems
- Experience with NoSQL Database is a plus
- Following are a set of 'good to have' skills React AWS Bitbucket, JIRA
1. As a founding backend engineer, design, build and evolve the backend architecture
of our product to support customer-facing and internal features to serve 1000s of
customers and millions of data requests per hour
2. You will engage in technical decisions from choosing the optimal database design to
best-practice infrastructure decisions
3. You will proactively incorporate best practices for security, analytics, and monitoring
4. You will contribute to DevOps by building procedures for deployment,
troubleshooting, and maintenance
5. You will work directly with the CTO to set the tone for the engineering culture
This role is tailor-made for you if
1. You have 4+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying production-level
large-scale web applications
2. You have hands-on experience with Node JS and other programming languages
(Ruby, Go, Python)
3. You have worked previously on PostgreSQL, SQL, and Message Queue 4. Practical
knowledge and experience in deploying and managing big data applications on a cloud
platform like AWS or Google Cloud.
5. You are comfortable conducting code reviews and giving feedback to ensure high
standards of code maintainability and extensibility.
6. You are energized by ambiguity and can create structure in a dynamic, fast-paced
environment
7. You’ve high confidence, low ego, and are generally a good human being :)
You earn brownie points if
1. You love Slack (we are a Slack first company)
2. You have been part of an early/mid-stage start-up before
3. You love TechCrunch. We are obsessed with reading and talking about startups
4. You have created some amazing open-source projects
You will be building product features solving complex business problems using state of the art technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, Python, Angular, ML/AI) in an ownership and integrity driven culture.
What will you do:
- Architect full-stack solutions for complex business requirements in a fast-paced environment while optimising for scalability, performance, concurrency, availability, security and code quality.
- Own and execute engineering projects end to end including API design, DB design, project planning, coding, and fluent communication with the rest of the team.
What we’re looking for:
- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience 3-6 years
- Strong ownership, integrity and drive to succeed individually and as a startup
- Good grasp on algorithms and data structures
► Experience with C++ Windows and Linux operating system is mandatory.
► Sound knowledge of STLs, multithreading.
► Good understanding of OOP, design patterns and their application.
► Know-how on writing applications using the STL and/or BOOST.
► Knowledge of Agile development methodologies (e.g., XP, Scrum) and agile
engineering practices (e.g.TDD).
► Knowledge of Scripting languages such as shell / bash scripts are desired.
► Good knowledge of SVN or any Source control.
► Experienced with unit test frameworks.
► Computer Science (or related) degree.
Desired Skills
► Understanding of capturing functional requirements through use cases, user
stories and personas.
► Experience with test-driven development and test-driven design.
► Willingness to travel to Germany on a Short/Long term basis.
We are looking for a Sr. Backend Developer to produce scalable software solutions. You’ll be
part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle,
from conception to deployment.
As a Sr. Backend Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end
coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team
player with a knack for visual design and utility.
Responsibilities
Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
Design client-side and server-side architecture
Build the scalable applications using microservice architecture.
Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
Write effective APIs
Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
Create security and data protection settings
Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
Write technical documentation
Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
Requirements
Proven experience of 2+ years as Backend Developer or similar role
Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
Familiarity with common stacks, and excellent understanding of MVC architecture.
Good Knowledge of. Python and Django framework, having experience with Flask, FastAPI and
Falcon is a plus.
Experience with NoSQL, Elastic Search, Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ.
Experience with databases (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g.
Apache/Nginx) and UI/UX design
Knowledge of digital marketing tools
Familiarity with Google AdWords API, Google Analytics API, Facebook Ads API etc.
Familiarity of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML,
jQuery)
Excellent communication and teamwork skills
Great attention to detail
Organizational skills
An analytical mind
- Experience level of 6 to 9 years of experience in very large-scale applications.
- Strong problem-solving skills, computer science fundamentals, data structures and
- algorithms their space & time complexities
- Design (LLD & HLD) and architect technical solutions for the business problems of a very large-scale portal.
- Strong hands-on and practical working experience with Java as the programming language
- Strong debugging skills - Code, Logs, DB, JVM
- Excellent coding skills - should be able to convert design into code fluently.
- Hands-on experience working with Databases and Linux platform
Aimed at building a massive parallel economy, This For That, is looking for highly driven engineers to build out a world class product. The product is in its early stages so there’s a lot to learn and build from scratch. You will get to work alongside seasoned business and marketing professionals and become part of the core engineering team.
Ideal skills:
1) 2-5 years of professional JavaScript development experience
2) Understanding of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
3) Comfortable working through the entire stack from the user interface through systems levels
4) Understanding accessibility and security compliance
5) Strong Logical and Analytical Skills
6) Experience in consuming web services (REST) and processing data (JSON)
7) Experience with SQLite, NoSQL, Redis or other databases
8) Proven experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks
9) Good understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime
10) Good understanding of JS concepts on callbacks and closures
11) Experience in debugging issues related to memory leaks
12) Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with sub-second response times
13) Experience with ElasticSearch/Solr
14) Experience working in a collaborative team environment
15) Ability to understand and analyse issues across multiple vendors and interfaces
16) Experience with NoSQL queries
17) Experience with AWS
18) Experience in managing/mentoring small teams
In depth knowledge of all of the above is not mandatory but the nature of the work will involve learning and getting involved with all of the above. You would be working directly with key members of the management team to define and drive technical strategy.
Experience in the mobile space is mandatory. Please only apply if you have been part of building a mobile product. Since our product is mobile only, it is essential that you understand implications on the front end.







