Backend Developer

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

• Design and implement scalable APIs and microservices using Node.js & Express
• Manage deployments via GitHub Actions and CodeDeploy; work with Docker & AWS
• Optimize MongoDB queries and use Redis caching for high-concurrency traffic
• Bridge Figma designs to backend logic using Next.js and Tailwind CSS
• Maintain monitoring with Nginx & PM2 to ensure 99.9% uptime

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 1+ year of professional experience building and maintaining production applications
• Deep Node.js knowledge: async programming, RESTful API architecture
• MongoDB mastery: schema design, indexing strategies, complex aggregation pipelines
• Hands-on AWS (EC2/S3 minimum) and practical CI/CD pipeline experience
• Proven ability to take a feature from PRD / Figma to stable production deployment

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT

• Experience maintaining apps with high concurrent user counts
• Comfortable with Nginx configs and Dockerfiles
• Hands-on with payment gateway integration (Cashfree) and webhook handling
• Obsession with maintainable, well-documented, DRY code

AI Usage Policy:

AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, GPT-4) are force multipliers — use them. But you must own your code, reason hrough architectural trade-offs, and debug without relying solely on AI.

HOW TO APPLY:

• Tell us about the most complex bug you've solved or a backend system you built from scratch
• Share your GitHub profile
• Include at least two live project links showcasing your best work
• Your code will directly impact the learning outcomes of thousands of students.

This Company is building the platform to drive Wealth Mangement .
They own and operate an online investing platform that distributes mutual funds in India. Its platform allows investors to buy and sell equity, debt, and tax saving mutual funds. It has its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

Looking for Great Talent for Backend Developer with beloww skills.

As an SSE, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our backend systems

that power our platform. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in Python Django and a

strong understanding of databases, caching, and distributed systems.

● Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems using

Python Django.

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate

them into technical solutions.

● Optimize application performance and scalability by implementing caching strategies, load

balancing, and distributed computing techniques.

● Ensure data integrity and security by implementing best practices for data storage, retrieval,

and access control.

● Develop and maintain integrations with external APIs and services to support seamless

interactions with third-party systems.

● Identify and address performance bottlenecks and other system issues to improve overall

system efficiency.

● Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following industry-standard coding practices.

● Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers to ensure code quality and

adherence to best practices.

● Mentor junior team members and assist in their professional growth.

Job Summary
- Expand the product to suit the needs of all kinds of travellers. From family travellers to hardcore backpackers and from free independent travellers to those who need a more guided approach to planning their trip. 
- Launch across more countries. This means adding support for more geographies, things to do, weather, currencies and payments, transport and accommodation. 
- Scale it up to serve millions of users a year, from across the globe. We are seeing decent growth, but it is time to up the game.

Responsibilities and Duties
How you'll add value: 
- Own the architecture and design decisions that go into shaping our backend microservices 
- Build and ship robust features. 
- Work with web and mobile engineers to design and build APIs to power the traveler and influencer applications. 
- Help us scale out to multiple geographies and serve millions of travelers
Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- An innate desire to grow. Both personally and with respect to the value you add to other people's lives. 
- 4+ years industry experience working with golang/Django
- Sound understanding of CS fundamentals. We don't expect you to remember every algorithm by heart. But if you know how to find the most appropriate one for any given problem, let's talk. 
- Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence and product sense. 
- Interest in contributing to open source projects 
- Bonus points if you have an interest in the philosophy behind technologies. - You are intrigued by why did people develop certain technologies the way they did.
Benefits
- Work with a bunch of amazing people on a challenging problem. 
- 1 backpacking trip each year to travel outside India. We don't allow you to travel, we WANT you to travel. 
- Stock. 
- We don't mind work from home/cafe/some random city in the world as long as your work and your team is not disrupted. 
- We don't have a leave policy (there is a guideline for legal reasons) but you are free to take as much personal time as you need as long as you get your job done.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: ₹2,000,000.00 to ₹3,000,000.00 /year

•  Software Architecture and Design.

•  Development and Testing.

•  Deployments and Operations.

Roles & Responsibilities :

We are looking for Senior Software Developer (Elixir/ROR) who have past experience in Elixir or Erlang.

• Design and write with the cutting edge Elixir/ ROR language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the company's range of products.
• Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
• Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations.
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale distributed systems.

Qualifications :

We are looking for developers with 5+ years of experience of which 1-2 yrs of past work experience with ROR / Elixir or Erlang. In terms of Elixir we expect the following:

• You should be aware of idiomatic programming in Elixir, and should have good awareness of concepts such as pattern matching, recursion, and behaviors.
• You should be well versed with concurrency and processes in Elixir. 
• You should be hands on with Genservers, Tasks, Agents, Supervisors, and other OTP concepts in Elixir.
• Plus points if you have worked with data processing libraries such as Genstage, Flow and Broadway.
• 5+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• You should have good experience working with relational and non-relational databases. We use Postgres and Cassandra.
• Good to have but not mandatory working experience with caching tools such as Redis, Queue mechanism setup with RabbitMQ.
• Good knowledge of version management with Git.
• Awareness of TDD. 
• CI/CD knowledge would be a huge advantage.
• Will to design and maintain large scale distributed systems.
• Past experience in building complex applications, either by yourself, or as part of a larger team
• Desire (obsessive?) for maintainability.
• Experience of working with cross-functional remote teams in an Agile software development framework.
• Experience in designing APIs with proper documentation.
• Ability to write useful and maintainable tests.
• Good understanding of the common architectural patterns and design principles.
• Solid understanding of how modern web applications work.
• (Nice to have) Being an active member of the Elixir community (writing blog posts, giving presentations in meetups, etc).
• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English to engage a variety of large audiences, internally and externally.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in any relevant discipline.

Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

Role and Responsibilities

1. Helping lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
2. Working with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
3. Proactively identifying engineering bottlenecks and initiating proposals to improve them.
4. Writing high-quality, well-tested code in alignment with industry-wide best practices.
5. Applying a product mindset to back-end systems.
6. 1.  

1. About five years of experience delivering product-quality code in an agile set-up
2. Experience with Node.js (Hapi, Restify, Express, Mongoose, Socket.IO, Mocha)
3. Experience with Elasticsearch
4. Experience building and deploying Docker containers
5. Strong general Linux experience
6. Extensive experience with REST APIs
7. Experience with microservice architecture
8. Experience with MongoDB
9. Expert knowledge of Redis and caching strategies
10. Strong knowledge of unit/integration testing, including the art of mocking and writing testable code

1. Passionate about technology and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative and works well in a team.

Blok is a technology-first online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business, and we are on our way to revolutionize how millions of people across countries consume groceries. We believe in a world where getting everything you need, when you need it, sustainably, is the new normal. And it takes less than 10 minutes.

We believe we are positioned to lead this revolution. Why? Our founding and early team have held senior positions at Deliveroo, Uber, Glovo, Mercadona, or Unilever. We have done this before, and we believe we can do it again. But this time, even better.

Embark on the journey and help us launch the revolution in one of the highest growth industries of the year. Help us shape the new normal.