Backend Engineer

We’re Hiring: TernStack Developer – Golang

At BigThinkCode, our technology solves complex problems. We are looking for talented backend engineer to join our development team at Chennai.

If you are passionate about building scalable applications and have strong experience in backend programming with interest for Golang and modern web technologies, we would love to hear from you!

Please find below our job description, if interested apply / reply sharing your profile to connect and discuss.

Company: BigThinkCode Technologies

URL: https://www.bigthinkcode.com/

Experience required: 4 - 5 years

Work location: Chennai

Joining time: Immediate – 4 weeks

Work Mode: Work from office (Hybrid)

We are looking for a skilled and passionate TernStack Developer with strong Golang experience to join our growing engineering team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in building scalable web applications, backend services, APIs, and modern frontend applications.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable and high-performance web applications.
• Build and maintain robust backend services and RESTful APIs using Golang.
• Develop responsive and user-friendly frontend applications using modern JavaScript/TypeScript technologies.
• Work on end-to-end application development, including frontend, backend, APIs, and database integrations.
• Design and develop scalable, secure, and maintainable application architecture.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Write clean, reusable, efficient, and well-tested code.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices and coding standards.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application and production issues.
• Contribute to performance optimization, scalability, and continuous improvement of applications.

What We’re Looking For

• 4–5 years of hands-on experience in software development.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with Golang or Erlang or other programming languages with interest, learn Golang for backend development.
• Experience building RESTful APIs, backend services, and microservices.
• Good experience with JavaScript and/or TypeScript and modern frontend development.
• Experience working with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, data structures, and scalable application architecture.
• Experience with Git and version control workflows.
• Good understanding of API security, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively managing small 2-3 members team in a fast-paced engineering environment.

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or containerized applications.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

Strong Python Backend Engineer Profile with hands-on GenAI capabilities

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 3+ years of experience in application development using Python (Django) with atleast 6 months of hands on experience building GenAI applications in production

Mandatory (Tech skill 1) – Must have strong proficiency in Python with a backend framework (Django, Flask or FastAPI) and developing/consuming RESTful APIs.

Mandatory (Tech skill 2) – Must have hands-on experience integrating LLMs (OpenAI GPT-4, Claude, Llama or similar) into production and orchestrating LLM workflows (LangGraph, LangChain)

Mandatory (Tech skill 3) – Must have experience building RAG pipelines using vector databases such as Pinecone or PGVector.

Mandatory (Tech skill 4) – Must have experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and writing efficient, scalable queries.

Mandatory (Tech skill 5) – Must have a good understanding of software design principles, code modularity and version control (Git).

Mandatory (Education) – Must have a full-time B.E./B.Tech degree, with a minimum of 60% throughout (10th, 12th and B.E./B.Tech). Only B.E./B.Tech is considered; however, the 60% benchmark can be relaxed for candidates with strong technical skills (Kindly mention in resume)

Mandatory (Communication) – Must have good communication skills in both English and Hindi.

Mandatory (Company): IT services/IT consulting

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

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain scalable products
• Participate in code reviews, and design discussions to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Pair with team members for functional and non-functional requirements to write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code.
• Help to define roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
• Understand business requirements and work closely with the business to provide solutions

Eligibility

• Strong expertise in Backend Python Development with skills to create APIs, integrate the functions into UI, and store and retrieve data from a variety of databases.
• Strong experience with Django/Flask.
• Strong experience in writing unit tests.
• B.Tech/B.E (Preferred CSE)

We are looking for a Tech with a proficiency in backend technologies to design, develop a new state-of-the-art, paradigm changing product in software development. Responsibilities include evaluating technologies, developing proof-of concept prototypes, designing, and developing complete end-to-end products.

What would you be doing?

• should be able to mentor, guide, and train other engineers.
• should also be able to work with different stakeholders such as business owners, leadership, and customers.
• able to evaluate the business requirements, performance constraints, trade-offs and system limitations when developing software.
• should be well versed with new technologies and software development practices and be able to judge the trade-offs to make well thought out decisions, design choices and build the system for extensibility and robustness.
• The Django developer will be part of the core engineering team, entrusted with the complete architecture, design and development of the product.
• Work on a great product which empowers next generation entrepreneurs from its early phase

What makes you a suitable candidate?

• 1+ years of experience in designing and developing large scale, complex software applications
• Strong analytical, problem solving and design skills
• Strong knowledge of data structure, algorithms, and coding
• Proven experience in any high-level programming languages like Python, Django, DRF, Elasticsearch etc
• Knowledge of MVC architecture and hands-on experience with Spring, Spring security, Spring boot, and Hibernate framework
• Proven experience in database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB).
• Working knowledge of developing Restful Micro services, ORM technologies etc
• Experience in container-based deployments
• Working experience in Amazon DynamoDB, Docker, AWS-Lambda
• Experience with Messaging technologies like Kakfa, RabbitMQ, redis etc
• Ability to multitask
• Good communication, organizational and leadership skills

• Should be able to analyse requirements, design solutions, write code, debug code and modify existing software enhancements or develop new product software.
• Should be able mentor junior developers to perform their tasks more effectively and efficiently.
• Should be able to perform executions against project plans and meet delivery commitments.
• Should have good experience in source control, unit testing, code verification, documentation, automated build, continuous integration, metrics, and code reviews.
• May interact with product specialists / Project Managers / Product Owners to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications and to give status feedback.
• Should be able to work in an Agile Development Environment using SCRUM methodology.
• Should be able to communicate with other teams and stakeholders to achieve the given goal.
• Should be able to participate in the hiring processes.

Product Development

At E2open, you will be an integral member of a dynamic organization, working on cutting-edge technology that transforms the way companies do business with their trading partners in complex, multi-tier supply chains. Currently, E2open is seeking an energetic Application Engineer to join our Research & Development Group. This position involves the development of leading-edge Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) supply chain management applications that drive complex multi-company supply chain management dashboards, workflows, and business-to-business supply chain data interchanges.

Technical Requirements

• Strong experience in Core Java 8 and above, Collections and Data structures.
• Develop solutions using core java, Spring / Spring Boot, JSON, Rest API and other web technologies.
• Ability to design and develop UIs like Javascript, HTML5, Angular and end to end integration.
• Object oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Enforcing and Writing code following good standards (well documented with good code coverage and properly tested code).
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (Hibernate and Mybatis). Ability to model & design databases for high availability and high volume.

Job Description for NodeJS/Backend Developer (2 - 4 years experience ) :

Responsibilities:

1. Writing reusable, efficient code.
2. Implementation of security and data protection.
3. Development and design of high performant APIs and implementing server side logic.
4. User authentication, DB Schema design etc.

Skills and Qualifications:

1. Javascript
2. Typescript
3. Object oriented programming
4. Express and Mongo DB.
5. AWS and basic devOps

Other Tools:
1. Git and other development tools.