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.

• 3+ years of experience in the Development in JAVA technology.
• AWS or cloud Experience
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem-solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

About the Role-

Thinking big and executing beyond what is expected. The challenges cut across algorithmic problem solving, systems engineering, machine learning and infrastructure at a massive scale.

Reason to Join-

An opportunity for innovators, problem solvers & learners.  Working will be Innovative, empowering, rewarding & fun. Amazing Office, competitive pay along with excellent benefits package.

Requiremets and Responsibilities- (please read carefully before applying)

• The overall experience of 3-6 years in Java/Python Framework and Machine Learning.
• Develop Web Services, REST, XSD, XML technologies, Java, Python, AWS, API.
• Experience on Elastic Search or SOLR or Lucene -Search Engine, Text Mining, Indexing.
• Experience in highly scalable tools like Kafka, Spark, Aerospike, etc.
• Hands on experience in Design, Architecture, Implementation, Performance & Scalability, and Distributed Systems.
• Design, implement, and deploy highly scalable and reliable systems.
• Troubleshoot Solr indexing process and querying engine.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science from Tier 1 Institutions

As a Backend Developer for Amura, expect your days to be supercharged with challenges and excitement while building and mastering the core software with your own bare hands. You will be developing low-latency APIs and functions to exchange data between the server and the user ensuring high performance and responsiveness. You are going to work closely in developing challenging components like a chat application, event scheduler, and much more. We are looking for someone who comes alive while developing server-side application logic with good problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

- Have an eye for building, maintaining, and creating a schema for RDBS.

- Define and communicate technical and design requirements.

- Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future.

- Work seamlessly in any IDEs like VS Code, WebStorm, etc.

- Work collaboratively with BA teams to ensure the requirement

criteria are met.

- Participate in the creative process. Thinking out of the box.

- Writing time-efficient, space-efficient, and generic code.

- Oversee all technical challenges that might occur during development.

- Delivering user story development as per acceptance criteria.

- Preparing LLD (Low-level document) on a solution or a component for better understanding to another developer.

- Participate in the entire application life cycle focusing on coding and debugging.

- Learn about new technologies and stay up to date with current best practices.

Requirements-

- Hands-on backend web development experience.

- 7+ years of relevant experience

- Decent understanding of Git, and Bit Bucket.

- Excellent grip on node JS/express JS, like how nodeJS/expressJS works, behind the scenes.

- A person who thinks like a compiler.

- Good problem-solving skills through JavaScript /Typescript.

- Ability to resolve a real-time problem through code.

- Familiar with Agile software development.

- Good understanding of JSON.

- Matured enough to consume and make API calls.

- Experience with issue tracking, and bug tracking tools like JIRA, and Azure DevOps.

- Working on any cloud services like AWS, or Azure would be an added advantage.

- Good at estimating ETA and also good at delivering by ETA.

- Be up for anything. A can-do attitude.

- Not just restricted to the backend.

What is our technology stack?

We have used top-notch technologies to build our product. We use React JS for web apps and react native for mobile apps. Both the frameworks are coded in typescript. We use AWS lambdas, ECS, and API Gateway for hosting our backend services. All the services are written in Node JS/Express JS. We use a wide variety of AWS services like Dynamo DB, S3, Cognito, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, etc. We use Figma for UI/UX design and wireframing.

Are there any technologies you want me to be good with? Yes, we expect you to be good in node Js

Here are answers to some questions you may have:

Who is Amura?

We are a health start-up with a presence in multiple countries

How old are you?

5 years

What is special about you?

Our clients. The Amura protocol is an intensive health program to follow and execute and the clients who choose to go through the journey are the most special. Next comes our team. The Amura Team is one filled with brilliant minds, brimming with creativity be it in operations, medical, or marketing. You can be one among them. Come and explore.

What is special about working with you?

You will grow crazy fast. As a rule of thumb, you can expect 5 years of growth for every year you are with us. But beware, growth like that cannot be achieved with life as usual. / But beware, growth like that cannot be achieved by any ordinary person.

What kind of people are you looking to add to your team?

We are looking for people who, when allowed to have a measurable

impact on the world will take it. Who value human life and are willing to work tirelessly on not only improving themselves for their own sake but for the benefit of everyone in the world. We work on the edge of our own best, striving to find what could come next in our growth. Anyone who joins the team will not only find the challenges they need to push

them, but also will have Amura at their back for support and guidance.

Is this a WFH role?

If you are in a role where you keep pushing your envelope every day, you are going to be asked to come to the office. But if you are in a role that calls for doing stuff that you are already very proficient in, you will be required to be in the

Where is your office?

Chennai (ECR)

Do you have an online presence?

https://amura.ai (we are @AmuraHealth on all social media)

Perks I get when I join Amura?

Health is the hardware of success. Amura has a one-of-its-kind performance health program. It has helped thousands of people to grow and flourish in dimensions that are important to them. Everyone in Team Amura, and their dependents, get all of our medical knowledge and services at no cost. This is very unique to Amura. Until you speak with one of us, you can never know what an unbelievable power-up it can be.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer at Prescribe You will be responsible for architecting and developing backend for the features being added in the mobile app. You will be joining a talented, collaborative team that is very passionate about solving this massive problem.

Location:

Work from Home

About Prescribe:

Prescribe (YC W21) is one of India's fastest-growing startups in the Healthcare sector, founded by IIT Madras alumni. We are building a D2C brand GetYara in the natural healthcare space.

Requirements and Responsibilities:

Below is a list of several skills required to deliver on responsibilities for this role:

• Comfortable with AWS infrastructure.
• Sound knowledge in JS ES6.
• Great at problem-solving
• Experience with Amplify and Cloud formation is a plus.
• Bonus: Graphql, Elastic Search, SQL

Benefits

• Work flexibility
• Medical insurance
• Work from Home
• Stock Options based on performance

If you always thought of yourself as entrepreneurial, customer-obsessed, results-oriented, strategic yet execution-focused, hungry and passionate about technology, we have a dream opportunity to back yourself up.

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.

About Us

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Role & Responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior developer/Architect to be part of our growing team. In this role you will be handling

• Design and architecture of various core platform components
• Develop and deliver various products for our customers
• Mentor and develop various team members

Skills & Capabilities

• System design for function, scale, security and maintenance
• Data engineering concepts and practice
• Test driven development
• Server-side skills: Nodejs/.Net/Java, Devops, SQL, microservices
• DevOps & SRE skills: Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana
• System modelling and visualization skills
• Written & oral communication skills
• Front-end skills: (nice to have) Ionic, Angular/React, Javascript, HTML, CSS

What you can expect from us

• Product engineering culture: hypothesis-develop-test-evolve
• Failures are part of learning and growing
• Organization structure and processes to maximize creativity and openness
• Success is about 5 WINS: Customer, Employee, Supplier, Society and Investor