Backend Engineer

Job Details

- Job Title: Staff Engineer

- Industry: Technology

- Domain - Information technology (IT)

- Experience Required: 9-12 years

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bengaluru

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at company, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities-

• Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with company’s technical strategy.
• Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
• Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen company’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong staff engineer profile
• Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
• Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
• Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
• Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
• Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
• Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
• Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
• Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior React Native Developer with backend experience to join our team and lead the development of our cross-platform mobile application and its supporting backend services. You'll play a pivotal role in building, launching, and scaling a high-performance app that runs seamlessly on both iOS and Android — all from a single codebase — while also architecting and maintaining robust backend infrastructure in Node.js.

If you're passionate about mobile technologies, experienced in backend systems, and excited about building high-quality products from the ground up, we’d love to hear from you Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end development of a cross-platform mobile application using React Native.
• Build and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver intuitive and seamless user experiences.
• Design and implement secure, reusable, and modular components (both frontend and backend).
• Optimize app and API performance across a wide range of devices and platforms.
• Ensure app and backend compliance with modern security, performance, and design standards.
• Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines for both frontend and backend (e.g., Fastlane, EAS, GitHub Actions).
• Integrate third-party APIs, services, analytics, push notifications, and more.
• Manage app store submissions and backend deployments.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to establishing mobile and backend development best practices.

Requirements

Must-Have:

• 5+ years of experience in full-stack or mobile application development.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with React Native.
• 2+ years of experience working with Node.js for backend development.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, and modern React architecture.
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs, managing authentication, and handling network issues.
• Deep knowledge of mobile app development lifecycle for both iOS and Android.
• Familiarity with native build tools (Xcode, Android Studio).
• Solid grasp of mobile UI/UX principles and performance optimization techniques.
• Proficiency with Git, GitHub/GitLab, and agile workflows.
• Experience with features like push notifications, deep linking, in-app purchases, and analytics SDKs.

Preferred:

• Experience with Expo or EAS for managed workflows.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools (Fastlane, Bitrise, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Exposure to native modules (Objective-C/Swift and Java/Kotlin).
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks (Jest, Detox, etc.).
• Experience publishing apps to the App Store and Google Play.
• Prior experience in startups or high-growth product environments.
• Working knowledge of databases (e.g., MongoDB, PostgreSQL) and cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Firebase).

What We Offer

• Opportunity to lead and build a product end-to-end — frontend and backend.
• Work with a dynamic, high-performing team in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Remote-first culture with flexible working hours.
• Competitive salary and equity options (if applicable).
• Dedicated learning and development budget to help you grow.

Our core customer-facing product today is a native Android application. In addition to this, we are building internal tools for customer support, investment management, marketing analytics and business management. In the future, we plan to hugely expand the features in our core product, build iOS and web products, and continuously improve our internal tools to better serve our customers.

For our back-end, we use Node.js / MySQL / AWS. We are currently a 3-member engineering team (1 back-end, 1 Android, 1 full stack) led by our founding engineer and advised by a senior technology executive from a leading fintech company.

Key Responsibilities of the Role

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our software applications
• Build reusable libraries and frameworks that support complex web applications
• Set-up our technology infrastructure and integrate with 3rd party applications
• Contribute to internal discussions around product features, roadmap and technologies used
• Mentor & recruit engineers to the team
• Set up processes related to engineering & product

Skills / Required Experience:

• B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent, with solid foundational knowledge in at least two general programming languages, data structures, algorithms, system architecture, security and networking protocols.
• At least 6 years of back-end development experience in a software product company is required for this role.
• Exposure to modern software development processes, multiple front-end and back-end technologies, and open-source software.
• Proficiency with tools like Gitlab/Jira/Firebase, as well as AWS and commonly used database systems etc. is required
• Experience in an early-stage startup or having founded your own startup would be good to have (but not necessary).