Backend Developer

As a Software Development Engineer II at Hiver, you will have a critical role to play to build and scale our product to thousands of users globally. We are growing very fast and process over 5 million emails daily for thousands of active users on the Hiver platform. You will get a chance to work with and mentor a group of smart engineers as well as learn and grow yourself working with very good mentors. You’ll get the opportunity to work on complex technical challenges such as making the architecture scalable to handle the growing traffic, building frameworks to monitor and improve the performance of our systems, and improving reliability and performance. Code, design, develop and maintain new product features. Improve the existing services for performance and scalability.

What will you be working on?

• Build a new API for our users, or iterate on existing APIs in monolith applications.
• Build event-driven architecture using highly scalable message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.
• Build microservices based on the performance and efficiency needs.
• Build frameworks to monitor and improve the performance of our systems.
• Build and upgrade systems to securely store sensitive data.
• Design, build and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Hiver's engineering teams.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

What we are looking for?

• Have worked in scaling backend systems over at least 3 years.
• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails (RoR) or Pythonis good to have, with hands-on experience in at least one project.
• Have worked on the microservice and event-driven architecture.
• Have worked on technologies like Kafka in building data pipelines with a high volume of data.
• Enjoy and have experience building Lean APIs and amazing backend services.
• Think about systems and services and write high-quality code. We care much more about your general engineering skill than - knowledge of a particular language or framework.
• Have worked extensively with SQL Databases and understand NoSQL databases and Caches.
• Have experience deploying applications on the cloud. We are on AWS, but experience with any cloud provider (GCP, Azure) would be great.
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.
• Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders.
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise.

Job Title: Backend Developer (Full Time)

Location: Remote

Interview: Virtual Interview

Experience Required: 3+ Years

Backend / API Development (About the Role)

• Strong proficiency in Python (FastAPI) or Node.js (Express) (Python preferred).
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and integrating APIs for production-grade applications.
• Hands-on experience deploying to serverless platforms such as Cloudflare Workers, Firebase Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
• Solid understanding of Google Cloud backend services (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Secret Manager, IAM roles).
• Expertise in API key and secrets management, ensuring compliance with security best practices.
• Skilled in secure API development, including HTTPS, authentication/authorization, input validation, and rate limiting.
• Track record of delivering scalable, high-quality backend systems through impactful projects in production environments.