Backend Developer

Senior Software Engineer – Retail Platforms (GCP | Java/Kotlin | MongoDB)

Location

 Kochi or Chennai or Bangalore ,willing to work on Bangalore

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale next-generation

retail and eCommerce platforms. The role focuses on developing cloud-native, high-

performance backend systems that power customer journeys, order management,

product catalogue, and real-time retail operations.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Java/Kotlin, and MongoDB, along

with experience in GCP, React JS and high-scale, customer-facing applications.

Key Responsibilities

 Design and develop scalable backend systems for eCommerce platforms

 Ensure high availability and low latency for retail workloads

 Enable auto-scaling and high-availability architectures for peak retail

traffic

 Develop and manage microservices architecture for modular retail systems

Required Skills & Qualifications

 4–8 years of experience in backend development

 Strong proficiency in Java and Kotlin.

 Knowledge in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) , React JS and MongoDB /

NoSQL databases (Preferred).

 Experience in eCommerce or retail platforms .

 Strong understanding of microservices and event-driven architecture.

 Experience with REST APIs and distributed systems.

 Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines .

 Understanding of retail analytics and customer behaviour .

 Write clean, maintainable, and testable code

 Ensure adherence to security and data protection standards

DevOps & Release Engineering

 Implement CI/CD pipelines for faster releases

 Use Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments

Soft Skills

 Strong collaboration and communication skills

 Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset

 Ability to work in fast-paced, high-scale environments

 Customer-first thinking

What We Offer

 Opportunity to work on large-scale retail and eCommerce platforms

 Exposure to high-traffic, real-time systems

 Collaborative and innovation-driven environment

 Career growth in cloud-native and retail technologies

Responsibilities:

• Research, design and build highly reliable, available and scalable solutions that can

handle Millions of API calls across systems.

• Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner, complete ownership

of functional Services that your team is responsible for.

• Take the accountability of the overall health of the products you build and predictability

of the deliverables of your team.

• Platformism components as libraries, utilities and service and promote reuse.

• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly.

Requirements

• Ability to take ownership of projects under the guidance of your mentor.

• Must be an excellent problem solver.

• Must be familiar with one of the languages Java, Spring, Hibernate, microservices etc.

object-oriented high level proprietary or open-source language with strong programming

constructs.

• Solid understanding of DS and algorithms, OOP concepts, and MVC architecture.

Responsibilities :

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our client's first product.
• Build reliable, secure, and performant backend systems.
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates.
• You should have a min of 8 years of software development experience and management.
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests, good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling.
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems.
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries.

• Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.

What you will do?

Project Management

• Work with the product management team to create an engineering roadmap that aligns with the product roadmap. 
• Translate engineering roadmap into executable internal projects, and own the end-to-end execution of these projects.
• Plan, execute and deliver projects as per schedule, content, and quality metrics.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team using Agile practices.
• Keep stakeholders continually updated on the progress of projects and operations.
• Track and report engineering health metrics (such as bugs by severity, production incidents etc.)

People Management

•  Hire and mentor a team of engineers
•  Manage learning and development, and performance of your team.
•  Own, Conceptualize and Build a tech-focused team

Technical Work

•  Core stakeholder to all technical design and architecture of team.
•  Review code, test plans, and deployment plans.
•  Focus and Strengthen all aspects of reliability

What we look for?

Must Haves

• Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
• Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
• Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress.

Good to Have

• Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
• Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
• Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress

Requirements:

• Should be a go-getter, ready to shoulder more responsibilities, and shows enthusiasm and interest in work.

• Excellent core Python skills including threading, dictionary, OOPS Concept, Data structure, and Web service.

• Should have work experience on the following stacks/libraries: Flask

• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries

• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code

• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance

• Experience in both RDBMS(MySQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, HDFS, HIVE etc) or in-memory caching technologies such as ehcache etc is preferable.

We are looking for an experienced Node.js Developer with at least 3-years of experience. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining server-side applications and building scalable applications using Node.js. It is a WFH/Remote, full-time position.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop RESTful APIs using Node.js
• Build and maintain high-performance, reusable, and reliable code
• Write unit and integration tests for all code changes
• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Optimize application performance and ensure scalability and reliability
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in the application codebase
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience designing and/or developing applications using node.js
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks
• Strong experience with ExpressJS or Restify frameworks
• Very well understanding of Javascript, Browsers, real time communication
• Experience with ReactJS & MongoDB is a plus
• Strong fundamentals in OOPS, Data structured and Design Patterns
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3

StoryXpress (a Techstars-backed company) is an end-to-end video platform and is an efficient and effective way of humanizing the way you promote and sell your product or services, and communicate with your customers. With a suite of professional video tools (Video Creator, Video Recorder, Video Hosting and Analytics, Video APIs, and SDKs), we help small and medium-sized businesses drive more revenue through the strategic use of video. Founded in 2014, StoryXpress has a rich community of 500K+ users including small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies.

Why Work with Us:

• Get an opportunity to contribute to an exciting, forward-thinking and fast-moving Start-Up.

• Shape-Up your career by working with young and supportive teams and peers!

• Innovation and Creativity is all what matters!

• Friendly Policies, good competitive salaries, team outings and what not!
  
  

Job Description:

We're looking for an enthusiast Back End Developer who will be an integral part of the early StoryXpress team and can produce scalable solutions. The creativity and intelligence are much more essential to us than the experience with our stack.Thus, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment, in order to strive for excellence!

If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you :)

Job Responsibilities:

Building and scaling web products that directly impact our customers or partners.

Translate several RESTful data sources to be used in a front-end application.

Dig into bugs and feature requests.

Monitor reliability and performance through dashboards and tools to ensure availability.

Help other engineers on the team and across StoryXpress.

Work with our team to engineer new growth initiatives.

Job Requirements:

• Skills: Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, Express.js, MySQL, Git, Go
• Proficiency JavaScript developer.
• Should have a good understanding of micro-server architecture and REST API.
• Thorough understanding of MVC principles and JS design patterns. *Node.js, Express.js, MySQL should be thoroughly worked upon
• GIT, GitOps and standard versioning management tools should be known.
• Knowledge of User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.

Brownie Points For:

• Knowledge of Go will be a big plus
• Experience with Redis and TypeScript would fetch you a brownie point

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions

• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming
• Evolved Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

• A graduate or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or IT Engineering
• 3+ years of work experience developing commercially successful web products
• Experience with analytics and process automation
• Attention to detail and a disciplined mind
• Extraordinary analytical and logical prowess
• Common Sense and Curiosity