Backend Engineer / Architect

Senior Backend Developer

Job Overview: We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Backend Developer who excels in building robust, scalable backend systems using multiple frameworks and languages. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience working with at least two backend frameworks and be proficient in at least two programming languages such as Python, Node.js, or Go. As an Sr. Backend Developer, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining backend services, ensuring seamless real-time communication with WebSockets, and optimizing system performance with tools like Redis, Celery, and Docker.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems using multiple frameworks and languages (Python, Node.js, Go).
• Build and integrate APIs, microservices, and other backend components.
• Implement real-time features using WebSockets and ensure efficient server-client communication.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex issues, providing efficient and scalable solutions.
• Work with caching systems like Redis to enhance performance and manage data.
• Utilize task queues and background job processing tools like Celery.
• Develop and deploy applications using containerization tools like Docker.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality.
• Mentor junior developers, sharing best practices and promoting a culture of continuous learning.
• Stay updated with the latest backend development trends and technologies to keep our solutions cutting-edge.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience as a Backend Developer.
• Proficiency in at least two programming languages: Python, Node.js, or Go.
• Experience working with multiple backend frameworks (e.g., Express, Flask, Gin, Fiber, FastAPI).
• Strong understanding of WebSockets and real-time communication.
• Hands-on experience with Redis for caching and data management.
• Familiarity with task queues like Celery for background job processing.
• Experience with Docker for containerizing applications and services.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful API design and implementation.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience with GraphQL and other modern API paradigms.
• Familiarity with task queues, caching, or message brokers (e.g., Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ).
• Understanding of security best practices in backend development.
• Knowledge of automated testing frameworks for backend services.
• Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git.

Kutumb is the first and largest communities platform for Bharat. We are growing at an exponential trajectory. More than 1 Crore users use Kutumb to connect with their community. We are backed by world-class VCs and angel investors. We are growing and looking for exceptional Backend Developers to join our Engineering team.

More on this here - https://kutumbapp.com/why-join-us">https://kutumbapp.com/why-join-us.html

Core Responsibilities:

• Design and develop real-time, resillient and high availabilty systems
• Architect and Build Microservices
• Iterating and building experiments
• Will be working with Node.js, Go, MySQL and Redis

You are the right fit if you have:

• Strong systems, architecture and database fundamentals
• Build from scratch and be a good decision maker
• The Ownership skills and can own the problems end to end
• The Zeal and willingness to put in extra efforts to build a product which will be used by millions of users, and most importantly
• The ability to find the solution to any problem and get things done

What we offer:

• High pace of learning
• Opportunity to build the product from scratch
• High autonomy and ownership
• A great and ambitious team to work with
• Opportunity to work on something that really matters
• Top of the class market salary and meaningful ESOP ownership

It was nice talking with you

As discussed please find below the job description and other needed details

“Squadcast is an incident-management platform for software teams of all sizes and shapes”

Our product helps global organizations adopt Site Reliability Engineering practices to improve their incident resolution metrics and ultimately, the reliability of their systems. If you're excited about engaging user experiences, snappy interfaces, and trustworthy systems, we should talk!

We ideate fast, embrace change, and take risks. From scaling our business model to expanding our offerings, the day-to-day at Squadcast offers endless professional growth opportunities. Our engineers work on state-of-the-art tech stacks with a high degree of autonomy.

Position : Backend SDE3

Experience : 8 to 11 Years

Work Mode: Remote work

Location : Bangalore

Role & Responsibilities :

• Work with a team of skilled engineers to improve the Squadcast product.
• Control what you work on, how you deliver and the roadmap of the product.
• Solve service reliability problems for teams and companies worldwide.
• Build delightful experiences and scalable, reliable systems for fellow engineers, the end users of our platform.
• Plan & develop tooling, processes and technical improvements to improve the multiple codebases.
• Work closely with the product team to plan, spec and deliver features, bugfixes and documentation.
• Work with the SRE and Customer Success teams to help customers and troubleshoot issues during our paid on-call rotations.
• Build, deploy and manage services and Backend Coding using Go/Node.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Are passionate about building products for fellow engineers.
• Are you a full-stack engineer, or a frontend/backend engineer interested in expanding to other areas of the stack?
• Either has experience in our tech stack or wants to work on it. We care about your general engineering skills and learning abilities more than your current tech stack.
• Communicate proactively and work autonomously, requiring minimal supervision or follow-up.
• I like to collaborate and pair with other engineers.
• Want to own features end-to-end: bring your ideas to the stakeholders, build consensus, plan, implement, deploy and release.

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Lakshmi Kumari. S

(Associate - TA )