Backend Developer

Required Skills: CI/CD Pipeline, Data Structures, Microservices, Determining overall architectural principles, frameworks and standards, Cloud expertise (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Distributed Systems

Criteria:

• Candidate must have 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with 1–2 years leading engineers or owning major systems.
• Must be strong in one core backend language: Node.js, Go, Java, or Python.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, caching, high availability, and microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong command over system design, data structures, performance tuning, and scalable architecture
• Ability to partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and lead end-to-end backend roadmap execution.

Description

What This Role Is All About

We’re looking for a Backend Tech Lead who’s equally obsessed with architecture decisions and clean code, someone who can zoom out to design systems and zoom in to fix that one weird memory leak. You’ll lead a small but sharp team, drive the backend roadmap, and make sure our systems stay fast, lean, and battle-tested.

What You’ll Own

● Architect backend systems that handle India-scale traffic without breaking a sweat.

● Build and evolve microservices, APIs, and internal platforms that our entire app depends on.

● Guide, mentor, and uplevel a team of backend engineers—be the go-to technical brain.

● Partner with Product, Data, and Infra to ship features that are reliable and delightful.

● Set high engineering standards—clean architecture, performance, automation, and testing.

● Lead discussions on system design, performance tuning, and infra choices.

● Keep an eye on production like a hawk: metrics, monitoring, logs, uptime.

● Identify gaps proactively and push for improvements instead of waiting for fires.

What Makes You a Great Fit

● 6+ years of backend experience; 1–2 years leading engineers or owning major systems.

● Strong in one core language (Node.js / Go / Java / Python) — pick your sword.

● Deep understanding of distributed systems, caching, high-availability, and microservices.

● Hands-on with AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.

● You think data structures and system design are not interviews — they’re daily tools.

● You write code that future-you won’t hate.

● Strong communication and a let’s figure this out attitude.

Bonus Points If You Have

● Built or scaled consumer apps with millions of DAUs.

● Experimented with event-driven architecture, streaming systems, or real-time pipelines.

● Love startups and don’t mind wearing multiple hats.

● Experience on logging/monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, OpenTelemetry.

Why company Might Be Your Best Move

● Work on products used by real people every single day.

● Ownership from day one—your decisions will shape our core architecture.

● No unnecessary hierarchy; direct access to founders and senior leadership.

● A team that cares about quality, speed, and impact in equal measure.

● Build for Bharat — complex constraints, huge scale, real impact.

You’ll be responsible for building APIs for a progressive web app. You must know Node.js, Express.js, Mongo.db, and basic Github.

Expectations:

• Design and develop REST API modules.
• Good experience in building and testing API’s and integrating them.
• Assuring the complete stack is designed and built for speed and scalability.

Your Requirement:

• Must know Node.js, Express.js, Mongo.db, and basic Github.
• 1-3 years of backend experience.
• Previously worked on similar projects (e commerce, food delivery, etc).
• Logical and problem solver.
• Optimized and clean code

Good to have:

• Worked on Payment Gateways
• Worked with food tech or similar projects

Hiring Process:

• Round 1 - Task based on backend technologies
• Round 2 - Task review and technical round

Responsibility:

• Complete the goal without missing any deadlines.
• Compensated on feature or hourly basis.

About Menu Cart Private Limited

We are a high growth startup currently experimenting in stealth. We are solving food delivery related problem with gamification features.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting system design, development, and maintenance
• Taking responsibility for personal technical quality standards within the team
• Assisting in defining structured practices, especially in source code management, building, and deployment
• Optimizing applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Taking initiatives to build better and faster solutions to the problems of scale

Requirements:

• Experience with NodeJS for at least 3-5 years
• Experience with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
• Experience with other programming languages such as Go, Python, and Java
• Experience being in a leadership/ mentorship position for 2-3 years
• Should have built systems that have scaled to at least ten thousand users
• Should have an open mind to learn and experiment with new technologies as our needs change

Role:

• Design and Develop scalable high performance server applications
• Contribute towards scalable Design / Architecture for various modules / complete application
• Deliver high quality, robust, bug free code

Details

• Location – Pune
• Reporting to – CEO
• Team – To be built

This is what you will do

• Interface with the QA teams to ensure that the product meets desired quality standards
• Strong individual contributor who can develops excellent application without much supervision
• Excellent team player who can collaborate with other engineers to ship quality product in timely manner
• Assist Engineers in estimating effort, assigning tasks to engineers and tracking deliverables
• Research on new technologies, libraries and frameworks as per project needs
• Help maintain code quality, follow coding standards and guidelines
• Communicate on assignment progress / completion on a frequent basis

Educational Background:

• Engineering Graduate / Post Graduate Degree holder / MCA

Professional Experience:

• 4 – 7 Years of software development experience using Java/J2EE

Tech Skills

• Have very good hands on experience of Core Java, Spring, Hibernate and related JEE technologies
• Have good understanding of data structure and algorithms
• Good in programming fundamentals
• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web technologies
• Basic understanding of RDBMS concepts, preferably using MySQL
• Good understanding of client-server architecture and multi-threading
• Knowledge of Web Services, XML and socket programming is plus
• Have very strong problem-solving skills

Other Skills

• Good listener
• Confident approach
• Strong problem-solving skill
• Highly proficient with MS Office
• Ability to structure processes and lay down the foundation for a department

Personality and attitude traits

• Passionate about work – We like people who like to work, and want their work to mean something
• Self-starter and motivator – We do not believe in monitoring or tracking team members
• Eager and quick to learn – If you are not excited to learn new things, then tech companies are not for you
• Individual contributor – We are a small team, and everyone has hands on contribution
• Start-up savvy