FirstFiling is a FinTech startup that is managed, operated, and driven by Chartered Accountants, Company secretaries, IT engineers, and Lawyers. We provide registration and financial compliance services to businesses and individuals across India.
Our aim is to simplify the lives of people by helping individuals and businesses with mandatory compliances, filings, and statutory requirements while promoting financial literacy among the masses.
Role: Backend Developer (2 openings)
Technology Profile-
The candidate must have experience in the following technologies (the more the better):
Backend:
Languages and Frameworks: PHP, NodeJS, Python, etc.
Database: MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Neo4j, etc.
Extra: OAuth, Firebase
Requirements:
- Ability to reuse components
- Proven experience in working with Git and Github
- Creating and consuming a RESTful API
- You must have clear concepts of client-server architecture
- Familiarity with MVC (Model-View-Controller) design patterns
- Working experience with NoSQL and relational databases
- Understanding of OOP concepts
Furthermore, the candidate must have built or published any web app or project through which they can demonstrate their experience and knowledge of the aforementioned technologies and requirements.

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We’re hiring a remote, contract-based Backend & Infrastructure Engineer who can build and run production systems end-to-end.
You will build and scale high-throughput backend services in Golang and Python, operate ClickHouse-powered analytics at scale, manage Linux servers for maximum uptime, scalability, and reliability, and drive cost efficiency as a core engineering discipline across the entire stack.
What You Will Do:
Backend Development (Golang & Python)
- Design and maintain high-throughput RESTful/gRPC APIs — primarily Golang, Python for tooling and supporting services
- Architect for horizontal scalability, fault tolerance, and low-latency at scale
- Implement caching (Redis/Memcached), rate limiting, efficient serialization, and CI/CD pipelines
Scalable Architecture & System Design
- Design and evolve distributed, resilient backend architecture that scales without proportional cost increase
- Make deliberate trade-offs (CAP, cost vs. performance) and design multi-region HA with automated failover
ClickHouse & Analytical Data Infrastructure
- Deploy, tune, and operate ClickHouse clusters for real-time analytics and high-cardinality OLAP workloads
- Design optimal table engines, partition strategies, materialized views, and query patterns
- Manage cluster scaling, replication, schema migrations, and upstream/downstream integrations
Cost Efficiency & Cost Optimization
- Own cost optimization end-to-end: right-sizing, reserved/spot capacity, storage tiering, query optimization, compression, batching
- Build cost dashboards, budgets, and alerts; drive a culture of cost-aware engineering
Linux Server Management & Infrastructure
- Administer and harden Linux servers (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS/RHEL) — patching, security, SSH, firewalls
- Manage VPS/bare-metal provisioning, capacity planning, and containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes/Nomad)
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Pulumi); optionally manage AWS/GCP as needed
Data, Storage & Scheduling
- Optimize SQL schemas and queries (PostgreSQL, MySQL); manage data archival, cold storage, and lifecycle policies
- Build and maintain cron jobs, scheduled tasks, and batch processing systems
Uptime, Reliability & Observability
- Own system uptime: zero-downtime deployments, health checks, self-healing infra, SLOs/SLIs
- Build observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry); structured logging, distributed tracing, alerting
- Drive incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems
Required Qualifications:
Must-Have (Critical)
- Deep proficiency in Golang (primary) and Python
- Proven ability to design and build scalable, distributed architectures
- Production experience deploying and operating ClickHouse at scale
- Track record of driving measurable cost efficiency and cost optimization
- 5+ years in backend engineering and infrastructure roles
Also Required
- Strong Linux server administration (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS/RHEL) — comfortable living in the terminal
- Proven uptime and reliability track record across production infrastructure
- Strong SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL); experience with high-throughput APIs (10K+ RPS)
- VPS/bare-metal provisioning, Docker, Kubernetes/Nomad, IaC (Terraform/Pulumi)
- Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
- Cron jobs, batch processing, data archival, cold storage management
- Networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, TLS)
Nice to Have
- AWS, GCP, or other major cloud provider experience
- Message queues / event streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS)
- Data pipelines (Airflow, dbt); FinOps practices
- Open-source contributions; compliance background (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR)
What We Offer
- Remote, contractual role
- Flexible time zones (overlap for standups + incident coverage)
- Competitive contract compensation + equity
- Long-term engagement opportunity based on performance
Must have exp in Django. [ Mandatory]
- The ability to problem-solve and critically think.
- High level of knowledge of Python and the Django framework.
- Familiarity with event driven programming as well as the MVC.
- Good understanding of SQL databases.
- Good understanding of REST APIs.
About Company:
We are a Hybrid company with multiple in-house products and client products which means our team gets to work with the latest technologies always. Just in 6 years, we have grown to 45+ full-time developers in Vadodara and 450+ salespeople in the US.
Job profile:
We are looking for a PHP developer to join us as a Software Developer.
Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic using PHP Framework.
You will be a part of a full-stack creative team that is responsible for all aspects of the ongoing software development.
Roles and Responsibilities
- We are looking for a PHP/LARAVEL, CODEIGNITER Or Yii2 Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users.
- Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
- Utilize backend data services and contribute to increasing existing data services API
- You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application
- Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well
Requirements
- Extensive knowledge and experience with PHP Laravel
- Basic knowledge on other PHP Frameworks
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
- Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
- An intricate understanding of PHP design patterns & methodologies
- Experience with Project Management is highly desirable
- Strong understanding and development experience
- Sound communication and documentation skills
- Understanding and use of source version control (Git)
- PHP Object-Oriented programming knowledge
- Database design and development (MySQL)
- Experience with test-driven development
Good to have
- Experience with rest API & microservice
- Experience with AWS(Cloud) Services
- Knowledge of any front end technologies like Node.Js, React.Js or Vue.Js is advantage
Why join us?
- All our products are being used by thousands of users each day which means you get to work with the latest technologies always.
- As all our products are enterprise-grade solutions so you get to work with the latest technologies to compete with the world.
- Work-life balance
- flexible working hours
- Mental health sessions with experts.
- Inc 5000 company, the world recognizes us as the fastest-growing company in the US with 400+ salespeople just in the USA.
- Work-life balance
- 5 Days Working
- Building scalable, reliable, high-performing platforms
- Managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Participating in the entire lifecycle including analysis, development, fixing and monitoring of issues on the assigned product lines
- Maintaining a high service levels in terms of security, performance, availability, and quality
- Establishing and implementing good development practices to create a top-class, results oriented engineering culture.
Requirements :
- 7 years - 10 years of solid hands on experience in J2EE & related technologies.
- Ability to think in terms of APIs all the time
- Hands on experience in object-oriented designs and principles.
- Hands on experience in data structures, algorithms & design patterns
- Hands on experience in server side, web architecture
- Working knowledge in Spring Framework
- Knowledge in data modeling and hands on experience with at least one RDBMS, MySQL is preferred.
- Knowledge on any of the scripting languages is desirable as you may need to write scripts Javascript, HTML or any front-end frameworks experience is desirable
- Understanding on NoSQL databases.
- You can extrapolate requirements from customers and product management and distinguish between what they need vs. what they want?
- You are always on the lookout for adding configurability and extensibility to your design.
- You cannot agree with not having ability to automatically test software.
- Usability of the solution keeps you awake at nights
Your responsibilities as an Engineer:
• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Obtains and licenses software by obtaining required information from vendors; recommending purchases; testing and approving products.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment
• Participate in educational opportunities & read professional publications;
• Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
Skill sets we require:
• Proven work experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer
• Experience designing interactive applications
• Ability to develop software in or other programming languages like JIRA or Postman
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases, MYSQL and Restful API
• Experience developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (Laravlel, Codeigniter and Magento)
• Experience with test-driven development
• Proficiency in software engineering tools
• Ability to document requirements and specifications
Educational Qualification:
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent
- B.E Computer Science or equivalent
- 3 years experience with the Django framework
- Experience with building APIs (REST or GraphQL)
- Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
- React.js knowledge would be an added bonus
- Understanding on how to use a database like Postgres (prefered choice), SQLite,
MongoDB, MySQL.
- Sound knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis.
- A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.
- Strong communication skills.
Experience:
- Min 3 year experience
- Startup experience is a must.
Location:
- Remote developer
Timings:
- 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone. Typically
clients are in California PST Timezone.
Position:
- Full time/Direct
Other Benefits
- We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12
PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other
incentives etc.
- We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods. You will stay here
because you love the company. We have only a 15 days notice period.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering,
- 3-5 years of exp in building web applications using PHP (Laravel framework)
- Very good in build rich UI using HTML/CSS and Jquery
- Good understanding of databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc
- Good Communication
Responsibilities
- Compensation Industry leading compensation
- Write clean and well-designed codes
- Produce detailed specifications Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product software and databases
- To ensure strong optimization and functionality.
- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle Follow industry best practices
- Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary
Responsibilities:
- Ability to work in an existing codebase and collaborate with a diverse team
- Experience in building enterprise-scale backend REST APIs with frameworks such as Nest.js & Express.js using an API-first paradigm
- Intimate knowledge of crafting highly performant database queries
- Hands-on experience implementing relational database structures, including tables, indexes, views, etc.
- A mindset towards building systems for the cloud and DevOps fundamentals
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services is good to have. If not then willingness to learn should be there.
- Focus towards building security, performance, and scalability into services from the beginning
- Experience with debugging code and troubleshooting technical issues in order to craft appropriate solutions
• Strong Nodejs experience with knowledge and understanding of ES6/7/8.
• Experience with DevOps.
• Understanding multi-threading concepts.
• Experience with NoSQL Databases.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools, such as Git, Github, Bitbucket.
• Experience working with common project management tools and Agile
development workflow
• Ingenuity, creativity, drive and determination are a must
Responsibilities:
- Should be able to write web services for the app.
- Manage projects from conceptualization, all the way through deployments by collaborating with everyone.
- Take initiatives to optimize.
- Keep up with the latest trends and tools and keep updating.
Our Tech Stack:
- On the backend, we use Node JS
- For the frontend, we use React
Skills
Mandatory:
Nodejs, Mongo DB, Express js, AWS Experience, Experience with mail, and phone authentication.
Must have exp in kafka and integrating with other data sources









