Backend Developer - Python & Go

Backend 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.

We are looking to recruit a candidate for a role that will require:

• Create and consume restful APIs
• Design, develop, and maintain internal and external applications
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable modules
• Write high quality, structured application/interface code and documentation
• Identify solutions through research and collaboration that resolves the root of problems as they arise
• Define functional and technical requirements for application software to develop skills and knowledge
• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle

Requirement

∙ Proficient in Node.JS

∙ 2+ years’ experience designing, querying, and updating databases in MySQL/nosql 

∙ Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas

∙ Good to have knowledge of AWS, Redis, ElasticSearch

Education: Min. Graduate in related discipline

Work experience: 2 years relevant experience
Compensation: Based on Industry Standards
Interview Mode : Face to Face 

About us:

Hiver offers teams the simplest way to offer outstanding and personalized customer service. As a customer service solution built on Gmail, Hiver is intuitive, super easy to learn, and delightful to use. Hiver is used by thousands of teams at some of the best-known companies in the world to provide attentive, empathetic, and human service to their customers at scale. We’re a top-rated product on G2 and rank very highly on customer satisfaction.

At Hiver, we obsess about being world-class at everything we do. Our product is loved by our customers, our content engages a very wide audience, our customer service is one of the highest rated in the industry, and our sales team is as driven about doing right by our customers as they are by hitting their numbers. We’re profitably run and are backed by notable investors. K1 Capital led our most recent round of $27 million. Before that, we raised from Kalaari Capital, Kae Capital, and Citrix Startup Accelerator.

Opportunity:

As a Senior Staff Engineer at Hiver, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our platform and technology landscape. You will operate as a senior technical leader — driving architectural strategy, establishing engineering excellence across teams, and influencing product direction at scale.

Hiver processes over 5 million emails daily for thousands of active users — and as we continue to grow rapidly, you’ll lead efforts to build highly scalable, intelligent, and resilient systems that power this growth. This is a hands-on and strategic role where you will architect complex systems, mentor other Staff Engineers and Technical Leads, and champion technical innovation across the company.

What you will be working on?

Strategic Technical Leadership

• Define and evolve Hiver’s technical architecture and long-term technology roadmap in alignment with business strategy.
• Lead architectural design reviews and ensure coherent technical direction across multiple product and platform teams.
• Partner with senior leadership across all functions to make strategic build vs. buy, scale vs. optimize, and AI adoption decisions.
• Drive technical vision-setting for next-generation AI-driven capabilities across the product suite.

AI and Systems Architecture

• Design and scale advanced Generative AI and Machine Learning solutions integrated with Hiver’s core workflows.
• Build frameworks to improve system scalability, resilience, and observability for high-throughput email and data processing.
• Ensure architectural decisions are guided by performance, maintainability, and cost efficiency principles

Engineering Excellence & Mentorship

• Set and enforce engineering-wide standards for system design, code quality, and technical documentation.
• Mentor and coach Staff Engineers, Tech Leads, and Senior Engineers, helping them grow as system thinkers and problem solvers.
• Act as the final technical reviewer for complex or high-risk projects, reducing uncertainty and ensuring timely delivery.
• Build a culture of engineering excellence that values clarity, simplicity, and accountability.

Cross-Functional Influence

• Collaborate closely with Product, Data, and Design teams to translate business goals into technically feasible and scalable solutions.
• Drive consensus and alignment on key architectural trade-offs across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Lead post-incident reviews and proactively drive initiatives that improve system reliability and developer productivity.

Innovation & Technical Thought Leadership

• Champion emerging technologies — AI, automation, data analytics — to create business leverage.
• Promote a culture of continuous innovation, experimentation, and learning within engineering.
• Represent Hiver’s engineering excellence in external forums, conferences, and open-source communities.

What we are looking for?

• 12+ years of total experience in software engineering with at least 5+ years in architecture or technical leadership roles.
• 3+ years of experience leading Staff-level in large-scale distributed systems.
• Extensive expertise in AI/ML (including Generative AI), with a deep understanding of model lifecycle management and deployment.
• Proven experience architecting high-availability, large-scale SaaS platforms in cloud environments (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Strong foundation in Python or Java, object-oriented design, and system performance optimization.
• Advanced understanding of distributed systems, data architecture, and event-driven design patterns.
• Experience managing technical strategy and decision-making across multiple teams or product areas.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, build consensus, and influence without direct authority.
• Passion for mentoring and developing senior engineering talent and shaping engineering culture at scale.

We are looking for a Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

You will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications. Java developer roles and responsibilities include managing Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.

Java developer responsibilities include designing, developing and delivering high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.

• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Proven hands-on Software Development experience (Microservices & Springboot)
• Proven working experience in Java development
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Experience in the Spring Framework
• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (Spring MVC)
• Experience with test-driven development

Who We are

At e6data (https://e6x.io/">https://e6data.io) we’re building core algorithms that makes querying 25 - 200X more performant (i.e. faster and/or cheaper) than every other analytics platform in the world. This results in billions of dollars of value unlocked across faster analytics, savings on compute / infra, and new use cases becoming possible.

Our core team has 100+ years of combined experience and 10+ patents across diverse but complementary disciplines like real time databases, time series databases, SQL OLAP engines, distributed computing platforms, stream processing, and log analytics. Two of the founding team are second time founders with past exits.

We are passionate about solving the deepest and most important problems in computer science, and believe in making our technology available to customers regardless of their location, size, or budget. Our vision is for e6data to power every analytical workload in the world - regardless of deployment scenario (cloud, on-premise, edge), across every use case (end user queries, ETL / data pipelines), and every latency requirement (batch, streaming / real time).

What you'll do?

• Write awesome code
• The focus will be on performance of our data platform
• Identify tactical and long-term product improvements (could be code, script, etc.)
• Responsible for Planning and executing Metadata and Governance tool supports
• Build our internal Data Platform using exdata
• Adding scalable functionality to the system for new features like UDF's, sql functions etc

What are we looking for?

• Worked with Python for a minimum of 2 years
• Well versed with Django REST framework
• Knowledge of document based data stores like MongoDB
• Strong team player
• A passion for continuous learning and growth (both at a personal and team level)
• Experience (or enjoys) working in a startup will be an added advantage

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Design, Develop, test and maintain software applications with MVC architectures, Microservices and scalable cloud-native apps.
• Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews
• Mentor and lead team members to continuously improve the quality and productivity of deliverables
• Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies. Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
• Effective Communication Skills- An ability to express your ideas to the recipient & Co-ordinate and communicate with the cross-functional team along with the client's team
• Problem Solving, Hustler - Get Stuff Done, Self-Disciplined Open-minded, User-Focused, Adaptive
• Lean Principles & Analytical Thinking
• Project planning, timelines and milestones for execution and deliverables
• Participate in the Evaluation Review of your team member

Primary Skills

• Expert in Python with experience on Django.
• Expert in server programming, you should be able to implement complex business logic.
• Good understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
• Good understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Knowledge of event-driven programming in Python.
• Experience with python packages like Numpy, pandas, flask, Pyspark, pymongo, os, logging, re, pyyaml.
• Experience with swagger io module to expose API
• Strong unit test and debugging skills.
• At least 2 years of experience in RESTful API/HTTP/JSON`
• Knowledge of AWS cloud and python Boto lib.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Like Git.
• Good understanding of Linux OS.

Secondary Skills:

• AWS Kinesis
• Web Sockets
• RAbbitMQ
• AWS Cloud formation

What you need to have:

• Extensive experience in developing Java EE application
• Hands-on experience working with Spring, Spring Boot
• In-depth knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience working with Java Web Services, RESTful services 
• Experience using Redis, Memcached or any other caching system
• Experience working with message brokers– preferably RabbitMQ
• Experience with infrastructure automation technologies like Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience with build automation technologies like Maven, Gradle.