
Job Title: Mid-Level Backend Engineer
Location: Remote
Type: Full-time or Project Basis
About Us:
At Tese, we are committed to advancing sustainability through innovative technology. Our platform helps SMEs and financial institutions manage their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals using AI, IoT, and data-driven insights. We are looking for a skilled Backend Engineer with mid-level experience to join our dynamic team and contribute to building scalable, robust backend systems.
Role Overview:
As a Mid-Level Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining backend services that power our core platform. You will work closely with our frontend developers, product team, and data scientists to implement solutions that are scalable, secure, and efficient. You will focus on building APIs, managing databases, and optimizing the performance of our services.
Key Responsibilities:
- API Development:
- Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs that serve our frontend applications and third-party integrations.
- Ensure high-performance and responsiveness of APIs, while following best practices for security and scalability.
- Database Management:
- Work with both NoSQL (MongoDB) , SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and databases, ensuring efficient data storage and retrieval.
- Optimize database queries and manage migrations, ensuring data integrity and consistency across the platform.
- Microservices and Cloud Infrastructure:
- Develop microservices architecture using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring that services are scalable and maintainable (Good to have).
- Work with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) to deploy and manage backend services, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
- Collaboration and Documentation:
- Collaborate with frontend developers, data scientists, and product managers to gather requirements and develop backend solutions.
- Write clear, maintainable code with proper documentation, including technical designs, API specifications, and test cases.
- Performance and Security:
- Monitor backend services to ensure optimal performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements.
- Implement security best practices for APIs, databases, and backend systems, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience: 3-5 years of experience in backend development, with a strong focus on building scalable and efficient systems.
- Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Node.js, Python.
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs.
- Hands-on experience with SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control (e.g., Git).
- Soft Skills:
- Strong problem-solving abilities and the capacity to work independently as well as in a collaborative environment.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A strong passion for sustainability and a desire to contribute to impactful projects that drive positive environmental change.
Preferred Qualifications:
The following qualifications are bonus, but not strictly necessary:
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerisation and orchestration (Good to have).
- Experience working with microservices architecture.
- Knowledge of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) metrics and sustainability (Good to have).
- Familiarity with serverless architectures and API gateways.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and benefits package and performance bonuses.
- Flexible working hours and remote work options.
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology with a focus on sustainability.
- Professional development opportunities, including access to conferences and training.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should submit their CV and a cover letter detailing their experience and passion for backend development and sustainability here.
Join Us:
Be a part of a forward-thinking team that is making a real difference in the world. At Tese, you'll have the opportunity to innovate, grow, and contribute to a more sustainable future through technology.

About Tese Capital Limited
About
At Tese, we see a direct link between business and our planet's vitality. We're here to reduce the friction between reporting, financing, and improving sustainability performance by providing SMEs with the knowledge, access, and connections that they need to succeed. Tese brings everything into one ecosystem. From managing your ESG performance, purchasing real, tangible solutions to staying up to date on the green market and getting access to sustainable finance, empowering every business to benefit from earth-centric solutions.
Candid answers by the company
We understand that when our businesses become disconnected from nature, risk follows. But we imagine a world - not far from now - where wasteful enterprises evolve into earth-centric allies.
It starts with (re)connection. People connecting to people. People connecting over their communities and livelihoods; (re)connecting their businesses to nature.
This (re)connection offers learning. And in the fertile soil of sustainable technology, fresh approaches begin to sprout. Ways to clean up and do better, supplemented with sustainable financing to unlock your productivity.
And when others see the difference that one-planet solutions make to your enterprise, they’ll want in too; creating more opportunities. Opportunities to scale up, to collaborate and grow. To protect what we have, and restore what we’ve lost.
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Roles and Responsibilities
1) Understand client requirements and functionalities.
2) Write well-designed, testable, efficient code.
3) Responsible for solving complex technical issues.
4) Ensure quality projects are delivered within defined timelines.
5) Active involvement in client communication to understand functional requirements.
6) Maintain high standards of quality for code, documentation and other deliverables.
At least 3 years' experience as a Node.js developer.
Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
Mandatory experience in MongoDB and MySql.
Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- New features developed independently with the ability to document the design after understanding and evaluating the requirements with necessary groundwork on required application components
- Hands-on coding to implement the design for feature completion
- Able to write unit tests that ensures bug free code
- Able to handle the multi-tenant and performance requirements of the new features and applications.
- Integrate the new features with existing modules, deliver ready to use code meeting necessary build requirements and CI/CD requirements.
- Work with other functional groups for product, technology, QA, tech support and deployment team.
QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate must have the following qualifications.
- BE/B.Tech Degree from a reputed institution with at least 7 years of relevant experience
- Hands-on experience with Core Java, J2EE with a good knowledge of its ecosystem
- Experience with JUnit, JMH like performance tuning test tools preferred
- REST API design and development experience. Usage of Swagger or other API spec tools would be preferred. Working knowledge on Spring Boot is a plus
- Hands-on experience with some of the following application components is a plus: Solr, Kafka, OpenTSDB, Elasticsearch, Janus graph or any graph DB.
- Experience with databases such as MongoDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL required.
- Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI, Maven, Ant required
- Experience building applications using microservices architecture is highly preferred. Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker would be ideal
- Working knowledge on public clouds like AWS or Google cloud or Azure is a plus
- Experience building scalable systems
- Strong problem solving skills and ability and interest to solve complex problems
- Interest in machine learning (ML) data science is a plus
· 3+ years of Java backed application development and implementation experience.
· Minimum of one year of experience in Cloud, AWS Engineering & Development .
· Demonstrated knowledge of Distributed and Scalable systems.
· Experience on AWS Services is a big plus, such as EC2, ECS, ECR, Lambda, Elastic Cache, API Gateway.
· Knowledge about API design standards, patterns and best-practices especially Swagger and OpenAPI 3.0, REST, SOAP, MQ, JSON, Microservices etc.
· Java Microservices, RESTful Web Services.
· Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate.
· JMS, queues, JBoss/Wildfly.
· Tools - JUnit, Easymock, Mockito, Docker, Kubernetes, Teraform.
Who you are:
- You have an overall software development experience of 4 to 10 years
- 3+ years proficiency in Java and Spring boot
- Familiar with distributed computing and frameworks such as gRPC/ protobuf
- Understands JVM metrics, Garbage collection and performance tuning
- Experience in creating high-level design(HLD) and low-level design(LLD)
- You have a good understanding of relational database, NoSQL technologies, and REST
- Good to have experience in HTML, JavaScript, GraphQL, TypeScript, ReactJS and related toolsets
- Exposure to AWS stack/cloud computing
- Self-motivated developer who takes ownership of work
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computing related discipline
- Experience in Product Development Environment is a plus.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- At least 8+ years of IT experience most of which will have been in helping the design and implementation of the software suite/module.
- 2+ years on any Cloud Platform (AWS, Azure, Google etc).
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
- Strong programming skills in Java.
- Strong hands-on experience in integrating multiple databases like Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL etc.
- Deep hands-on experience in the design, development and deployment of business software at scale.
- Customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
- Leading/Involved in highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software applications.
- Experience in performance optimization techniques
- High end Troubleshooting and Communication skills.
- Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Implementing experience with primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway Route53 & S3).
- AWS Solutions Architect Certified
- Experience in programming languages like Java/Python.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
- Integration of AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.).
- Extended travel to customer locations may be required to sell and deliver professional services as needed

Roles and responsibilities
- Develop well-designed performant and scalable applications and microservices
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code aligning to software development best practices
- Integrate data storage solutions including databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
- Build integrations with 3rd party applications through apis’ to ingest and process data
- Develop state-of-the-art analytics tools to support diverse tasks ranging from ad hoc analysis to production-grade pipelines and workflows for customer applications
- Ensure security and data protection aspects within the applications
- Partner with Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers to improve the performance and reliability of advanced algorithms
- Ensure high performance and availability of distributed systems and applications
- Interact directly with client project team members and operational staff to support live customer deployments and production issues
- 4+ years of experience in developing applications using python and related technologies.
- Familiarity in data ingestion and processing libraries in python.
- Thorough understanding of REST and GRPC technologies.
- Experience in using ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries for data access.
- Experiencing in developing and hosting APIs and integration with external applications.
- Experience in building data models and repositories using relational and NoSql databases.
- Knowledge of JIRA, Bitbucket and agile methodologies.
- Good to have knowledge of AWS services like Lambda, dynamodb, kinesis and others.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Familiarity with event-driven programming
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Affinity for learning and applying new technologies and solving new problems
- Effective organizational skills with strong attention to detail
- Experience in working with docker is a plus
- Comfortable in working with Unix/Linux environment
- Strong communication skills — both written and verbal




