Backend Developer

About the Role

We are undertaking a platform migration from our existing WordPress site to a modern React frontend. We are seeking a highly capable Backend Engineer on a 1-month contract to lead the backend aspects of this transition. The ideal candidate has strong experience with serverless backends and API-first architectures, particularly using Cloudflare Workers and the Cloudflare ecosystem. You will collaborate closely with our in-house Frontend Engineer (specialized in React) to deliver a seamless, performant, and secure end product.  

Key Responsibilities

Audit current WordPress backend (data structures, plugins, custom code). Design and implement a backend solution leveraging Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare KV / Durable Objects, and related services (or propose suitable alternatives such as Node.js/Express or headless CMS if appropriate). Develop secure APIs for authentication, content, and form handling. Migrate existing WordPress data (pages, posts, forms, and media) into the new system. Integrate with our CRM (_Zoho_) and other existing systems. Ensure compliance with NZ data protection standards. Deploy backend on Cloudflare (and/or coordinate with existing hosting infrastructure as needed). Provide documentation and handover to the internal team.

Qualifications & Skills

Proven experience in backend engineering with serverless platforms (Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda, or similar). Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, authentication, and security best practices. Familiarity with Cloudflare KV, Durable Objects, R2, or equivalent distributed data solutions. Experience with WordPress architecture and React-based frontend integration. Experience in migration projects (legacy CMS → modern stack) highly valued. Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively alongside frontend specialists.

Deliverables

Backend environment and Cloudflare Worker (or alternative) architecture established. Secure APIs deployed and tested with React frontend. Migration of content/data from WordPress. Integration with Zoho CRM and forms. Production deployment. Documentation + handover.

Duration: 1 month.

Engagement: Remote, with short daily and hourly weekly check-ins.

Compensation: 75,000 INR

Experience with Cloudflare Workers, the Cloudflare CDN, prior Wordpress migration experience, and any experience of working alongside frontend engineers prioritized. A huge bonus would be experience with Zoho CRM/Zoho Forms.

Your Impact:

•                 Interact clearly with clients and the on-shore and off-shore project teams

•                 Regular involvement in thought leadership Best Practices development

•                 Facilitate end to end project design & development while working closely with global client

Your Skills & Experience:

•                 4 to 14 years of development experience in SFDC

•                 Excellent hands-on experience in Salesforce application development including VF, Apex Triggers, Asynchronous Apex

•                 Deep knowledge of Lightning framework

•                 Expertise in Business Requirement gathering, Analysis & conceptualizing high-level architectural framework & design

•                 Experience working with Sales or Service cloud, Community Cloud, Marketing Cloud

•                 Conceptualize end to end integration projects & knowledge of authentication mechanism

•                 Experience in REST & SOAP APIs, knowledge of Governor limits involved during Integration

•                 Working knowledge on continuous integration, working with repositories (e.g. Git)

•                 Should have experience to design the data flow and work with any ETL or dataloader

•                 Excellent experience in designing and architecting large scale applications

•                 Thorough understanding of Solution architecting & Estimation process

•                 Excellent consulting skills, oral and written communication, presentation, and analytical skills 

Set Yourself Apart With:

•                 Salesforce Certifications

•                 Knowledge of Heroku, Angular.js and Salesforce Einstein, Salesforce CPQ, CloudCraze B2B

•                 Incident and problem management skills

•                 Ability to provide necessary coaching to bring juniors up to speed on the technology

•                 Exceptional written skill for solution documentation creation for both technical and non-technical material

•                 Background in force.com platform and deployment experience in an outsourced service environment

•                 Articulation skills & Good team player

•                 Self-starter and self-learner with keen interest to grow

•                 Process orientation and the ability to define and setup processes

•                 Mentoring team members

Benefits of Working Here:

•                 Gender Neutral Policy

•                 18 paid holidays throughout the year for NCR/BLR (22 For Mumbai)

•                 Generous parental leave and new parent transition program

•                 Flexible work arrangements

•                 Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well being  

1. Develop, maintain, and enhance robust backend systems using Python3 and frameworks like Django (mandatory), Flask, and FastAPI (good to have).
2. Design, implement, and maintain highly efficient and automated continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes using Jenkins and configuration management with Ansible.
3. Elevate our testing culture by architecting and implementing innovative testing strategies, focusing on both unit and integration testing to ensure exceptional code quality and extensive coverage.
4. Follow peer-to-peer code reviews and cross-team collaboration to build scalable and reliable solutions.
5. Proficiently work with at least one cloud technology, preferably AWS, to deploy and manage applications in the cloud environment.
6. Possess knowledge of Nginx, load balancing, and scalability to optimize system performance and reliability.
7. Good experience working in distributed micro-service architecture and driving them with crucial requirements like request tracing, debugging critical issues, logging, monitoring, and alerting. 
8. Work in containerized environments using Docker and Docker Compose, and have experience with AWS ECS for container orchestration.
9. Prioritize maintainability and reliability in developing and maintaining software systems, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in our product ecosystem.
10. Collaborate effectively within a team, taking initiatives and driving projects forward with minimal micro-management.
11. Pave the way for maintainable and reliable codebases by introducing novel approaches and best practices in software development.

Requirements

1. Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science.
2. Strong teamwork and communication skills, with a proactive approach to project management and task ownership.
3. Proven track record as an innovative Python developer with a focus on product engineering.
4. Visionary mindset to work in an agile environment, participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Benefits

100% Remote

Insurance

Overview: 

• Design and develop Rest APIs. 
• Create documentation around processes including front-end design and service architecture. 
• Follow industry trends regarding backend-end technologies and techniques. 
• Agile rituals like Feature elaboration/Estimation, daily stand-ups, release planning, Iteration Planning Meeting, Retrospective, Showcase, etc. 
• Build content and data driven enterprise level web application which works for Multiple clients in multiple countries. 

Relevant experience and Exposure: 

• 1+ years relevant work experience showing growth as a Backend developer. 
• Extensive technical experience and development expertise in C#, .Net core, Web services (REST) 
• Proficient with OOPS and Design principles. 
• Expertise in writing clean, secure and refactored code. 
• Knowledge and hands-on Experience with Test Driven Development. 
• Experience with relational and non-relational Database technologies like SQL, MongoDB. 
• Proficient with Git or any source code management tool. 
• Excellent listening, writing skills and strong technical competency are essential. 
• Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail. 

Nice to haves: 

• Experience with .Net core. 
• Experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, Azure etc.). 
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Docker, Spinnaker etc. 
• Exposer to an Agile Development Methodology would be beneficial. 
• Atlassian suit knowledge (Jira particular). 

About The Team

We are striving to create the best productivity tools which will help small businesses to go online and scale their growth consistently with the bleeding edge of technology. Our backend team is looking for a solid Rockstar engineer who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low latency, distributed systems. You will work closely with our product team to build new and compelling experiences for our customers!

We place special emphasis on the continuous growth of each team member - and we do this with regular 1-1s and open communication. As Software Engineer - Backend, you will be part of self-starters who thrive on teamwork and constructive feedback.

About The Role

As a Software Engineer - Backend, you will solve real-life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our users. In this role, you will ensure that the solutions and processes that we create are of the highest quality. And in doing so, you will champion a seamless app experience for all our users. You will also collaborate with your fellow engineers to create scalable solutions that are pertinent to Product IO's overall growth.

If you are confident about solving hard, interesting and UNIQUE problems, and creating an impact within an entrepreneurial environment, then you might just be our next Software Engineer - Backend

What You'll Do:

• Lead, build, test, and release mobile application features using cross-platform tools.
• Collaborate with the front-end team to expose weaknesses and problems
• Build out our APIs and tools using Python & Firebase libraries on the backend.
• Experience with NodeJS and deployment in Serverless
• Experience with NoSql(MongoDB) and SQL(PostregSQL)
• Work closely with Product, Design, Platform, and other cross-functional groups to drive product vision.
• Previous experience helping shape API structures and building REST APIs.
• Understanding of accessibility and server compliance (GCP)

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years professional software development experience, preferably mobile apps with a cloud backend. Example projects in (Python, Firebase)
• 6 months experience in Google Cloud Platform
• Excellent communication skills are a must, and experience with estimating and managing project tasks is important, too
• Highly driven, naturally curious, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

Bonus points:

• 1+ years of experience in developing Firebase apps.
• Experience in developing or designing APIs and web applications.
• Deployment in Cloud Environment.
• Familiarity with Flutter.

Why join us:

• 👫 A fast-moving, fun, growth-oriented company made up of skillful team players
• 💬 Transparent, open, and collaborative work environment
• 🌟 An opportunity to work closely with a proven executive team, board, and serial entrepreneurs

About the Role

In this role, you'll work on design, implementation, and test for Dremio's system internals. If you want to be part of a fast-moving, fun, and accomplished team, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities & ownership

• Own design, implementation, testing, and support of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of the product.
• Capable of working Individually and collaboratively with other engineers.
• Collaborate with support and field resources to make sure that customers are successful with Dremio

Requirements

• Fluency in Java and/or C++ with 3 to 5+ years of experience developing production level software
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded and asynchronous patterns and their applications towards developing scalable systems
• Experience developing scalable distributed systems and deploying, scaling, and managing microservices
• Experience with  containers and kubernetes for orchestration and container management in private and public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) a plus
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork
• Interested in and motivated to be  part of a fast-moving startup with a fun and accomplished team
• Startup experience a plus
• B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience