Backend Developer at EmptyCup Innovations Pvt Ltd · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 4 - 5 years · ₹15L - ₹20L / yr (ESOP available) · Bootstrapped · Posted 21 Aug 2021

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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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• Strong CS fundamentals — data structures, concurrency, system design
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Company: House of EdTech (Goenka Kachave LLP)
Location: Bangalore, Hybrid
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 5+ Years
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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.
You’ll work closely with Product, Frontend, Data, and Engineering teams while taking end-to-end ownership of backend features and contributing to system architecture and technical decisions.
What You'll Do
- Design and develop scalable backend services and REST APIs.
- Build reliable systems capable of handling high traffic and large data volumes.
- Own backend features from design and development through deployment and monitoring.
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- Participate in system design and architecture discussions.
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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.
- Experience with cloud/infrastructure technologies such as GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including security, reliability, testing, and code quality.
- Experience with system design, architecture, and technical decision-making.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
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Why Join House of EdTech?
- Work on products impacting millions of learners.
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🚀 Job Title : Backend Engineer (Go / Python / Java)
Experience : 3+ Years
Location : Bangalore (Client Location – Work From Office)
Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days
Open Positions : 4
Working Days : 6 Days a Week
🧠 Job Summary :
We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Engineer to build scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems in a fast-paced product environment.
You will own large features end-to-end — from design and development to deployment and monitoring — while collaborating closely with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams.
This role requires strong backend fundamentals, distributed systems exposure, and a mindset of operational ownership.
⭐ Mandatory Skills :
Strong backend development experience in Go / Python (FastAPI) / Java (Spring Boot) with hands-on expertise in Microservices, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka/SQS, AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and strong DSA & System Design fundamentals.
🔧 Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, test, and deploy backend services end-to-end.
- Build scalable, modular, and production-grade microservices.
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs.
- Architect reliable distributed systems with performance and fault tolerance in mind.
- Debug complex cross-system production issues.
- Implement secure development practices (authentication, authorization, data integrity).
- Work with monitoring dashboards, alerts, and performance metrics.
- Participate in code reviews and enforce engineering best practices.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams.
✅ Required Skills :
- Strong proficiency in Go OR Python (FastAPI) OR Java (Spring Boot).
- Hands-on experience building Microservices-based architectures.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs & distributed systems.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis.
- Exposure to Kafka / SQS or other messaging systems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of Data Structures & System Design.
- Ability to independently own features and solve ambiguous engineering problems.
⭐ Preferred Background :
- Experience in product-based companies.
- Exposure to high-throughput or event-driven systems.
- Strong focus on code quality, observability, and reliability.
- Comfortable working in high-growth, fast-paced environments.
🧑💻 Interview Process :
- 1 Internal Screening Round
- HR Discussion (Project & Communication Evaluation)
- 3 Technical Rounds with Client
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We're hiring an SDE 2 to build reliable, high-scale services and own features end-to-end. You'll turn ambiguous problems into clean designs, write well-tested code, and raise the engineering bar on the team.
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• 5+ years shipping production software
• Strong data structures, algorithms and problem-solving
• Hands-on system design for scalable services
• Proficiency in Java or Python
• Building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Solid SQL and version control (Git)
Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles
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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.
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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility (informal Senior Engineer / Tech Lead experience managing a team does not count)
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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have directly managed 4–6+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.
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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.
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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems; specific language/framework can vary.
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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.
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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.
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Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college
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● Lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable backend services
using Python.
● Own technical direction and architectural decisions for backend systems and services.
● Design and build robust RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
capable of handling high-scale workloads.
● Design and implement real-time communication systems, including WebSocket-based
services, where required.
● Drive system performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security.
● Lead performance optimization, capacity planning, monitoring, debugging, and
production issue resolution.
● Establish and promote best practices around code quality, testing, observability, CI/CD,
and production readiness.
● Collaborate closely with frontend, product, DevOps, infrastructure, and other
cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
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and engineering excellence.
● Review code and architecture designs, identify technical risks, and drive improvements
across backend systems.
● Take ownership of complex technical problems and deliver reliable, maintainable,
production-grade solutions.
Required Skills & Qualifications
● 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in backend
development.
● Strong expertise in Python and experience building production-grade backend
applications.
● Proven experience designing and developing REST APIs and microservices
architectures.
● Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, fault tolerance, and
high-availability architectures.
● Hands-on experience with WebSockets and real-time backend integrations.
● Strong experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, caching systems, and data-intensive
applications.
● Experience with performance optimization, monitoring, logging, debugging, and
production operations.
● Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and clean
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● Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and make sound architectural decisions.
● Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.
● Experience mentoring engineers and conducting effective code and design reviews.
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StrideOne is a unified tech-enabled financial platform and NBFC focused on enabling MSMEs and SMEs through structured credit solutions, receivables financing, and receivables management. We are designed to simplify access to capital, improve cash flow visibility, and support risk-aware financial decision-making for growing businesses across industries. With a steadily growing disbursement footprint, an expanding anchor network, and established partnerships with multiple lending institutions, StrideOne is entering its next phase of growth. The organisation is building a financial ecosystem that combines lending, receivables management, and data-driven workflows, positioning itself to scale sustainably while maintaining strong governance, portfolio quality, and operational discipline.
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• Own the engineering roadmap and help decide what should be built first.
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• Write production code and review code written by others.
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• Investigate production issues and make sure the same problems do not repeat.
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What we are looking for
• 3–5 years of professional software-engineering experience.
• Experience building and running production systems.
• Strong backend skills, including APIs, databases, and cloud services.
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Experience : 3+ Years
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Interview Process : 3 Client Rounds
Job Overview :
We are looking for an SDE 2 – Backend with strong hands-on experience in Java / Spring Boot or Golang to design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend applications. Candidates with experience in caching services will be highly preferred.
Mandatory Skills :
Java, Spring Boot, Golang, Gin, gRPC, REST APIs, Microservices, MySQL / PostgreSQL / Oracle, System Design, Caching, Data Structures & Algorithms, Git, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS / GCP.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable backend applications and APIs.
- Develop microservices using Java / Spring Boot or Golang.
- For Golang roles, experience with Gin and gRPC is preferred.
- Work with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or similar databases.
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- Participate in system design and architecture discussions.
- Conduct code reviews and write unit/integration tests.
- Troubleshoot bugs and performance issues.
- Collaborate with Product, QA, and other engineering teams.
- Contribute to CI/CD, cloud, and DevOps practices.
Requirements :
- 3 to 5 years of backend development experience.
- Strong proficiency in Java / Spring / Spring Boot or Golang.
- Good understanding of REST APIs, Microservices, DSA, and System Design.
- Experience with relational databases.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Exposure to AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, and CI/CD.
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Round 1 – LeetCode / Coding Round
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- Problem-solving and coding proficiency
Round 2 – System Design
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- Communication and collaboration
- Role and culture fit
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Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have minimum 6+ years of overall Software Engineering/Development experience building production backend systems.
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Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have strong CS fundamentals in Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, and Networking, with the ability to apply them to complex backend/system problems
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Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have owned complex, ambiguous, or business-critical engineering problems end-to-end, demonstrating clear technical judgment, trade-offs, problem-solving, and measurable technical/business impact; not limited to feature implementation.
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Mandatory (Experience 7) - Must have formal technical leadership experience, including mentoring Senior Engineers, conducting design/code reviews, driving engineering quality, and leading technical decisions across a team.
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Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies / Startups / B2B SaaS
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Mandatory (Education) - CS degree or equivalent (B.Tech/B.E./B.S.)
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