Backend Engineer

Job Summary:

As a Back-end Golang Developer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining our back-end infrastructure and applications. You will be responsible for crafting scalable, secure, and robust APIs and products that meet our high standards of performance and reliability. Your expertise in Golang and profound understanding of software engineering principles will be critical in building solutions that drive our company's success.

Responsibilities:

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, product managers, and designers, to understand project requirements and contribute to technical discussions.

● Design, develop, and implement high-quality Golang-based back-end systems and applications, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.

● Create and maintain APIs that enable seamless integration with various platforms and services.

● Utilize best practices in software development, testing, version control, and deployment to ensure the delivery of top-notch products.

● Optimize existing code and database queries to improve overall system performance and response times.

● Conduct thorough code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members to maintain code quality and consistency.

● Implement security best practices in Golang development to safeguard sensitive data and prevent security vulnerabilities.

● Proficiently use Goroutines and Channels to handle concurrent operations and enhance system efficiency.

● Employ Go's built-in testing and benchmarking tools to ensure robustness and optimize performance.

● Implement caching strategies and data storage solutions tailored to specific project requirements.

● Develop RESTful APIs adhering to API design principles and standards.

● Implement logging and monitoring systems to facilitate efficient debugging and monitoring of applications.

● Integrate third-party libraries and APIs to enhance application functionality.

● Leverage Go's interfaces and struct composition to build modular and extensible codebases.

● Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in Golang and related technologies, recommending suitable technologies and methodologies to enhance development processes.

● Mentor junior developers, sharing your expertise and providing guidance to help them grow professionally.

Qualifications:

● Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

● Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on back-end development using Golang.

● Proven track record of successfully delivering high-quality APIs and products in a production environment.

● Strong knowledge of Golang and its core libraries, with the ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code.

● Experience with Go frameworks and proficiency in building RESTful APIs.

● Extensive experience with various database systems, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Graph, or NoSQL databases, and proficiency in writing optimized queries.

● Solid understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns, including microservices architecture.

● Familiarity with cloud computing platforms, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and experience deploying applications in a cloud environment.

● Experience with containerization technologies, like Docker and Kubernetes, is a plus.

● Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.

● Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Join our dynamic team and help shape the future of our innovative products and APIs with your deep expertise and passion for back-end development in Golang. We offer a competitive salary, a comprehensive benefits package, and a stimulating work environment where your skills and contributions will be highly valued. Apply now and be part of our exciting journey!

Why this role exists:

You’ll own our data pipelines—ingesting, cleaning, and serving fashion/e-commerce data at scale—so the team (and founder) can focus on building new capabilities. If you love end-to-end ownership and turning messy web data into reliable, queryable systems, this role is your playground.

What you’ll do:

• Ingestion at scale: Design, build, and operate resilient crawlers/scrapers with rotation, rate-limits, backoff, and change-tolerance.
• Robust pipelines: Normalization, deduping, schema evolution, enrichment, and SLAs for freshness & completeness.
• Data stores & caching: Model products/variants/attributes in PostgreSQL, manage Redis for caching/queues, and keep costs predictable.
• Observability & quality: Instrument with metrics/tracing, add data QA checks, alerts, and auto-healing where sensible.
• Performance & reliability: Optimize throughput, memory, I/O, and infra spend; design for retries, idempotency, and correct delivery semantics.
• Collaboration: Partner with search/ML/product teams; write crisp docs; raise the bar in reviews; mentor where helpful.

Must-haves:

• Super high ownership: End-to-end closure on tasks you lead.
• 3.5+ years building backend systems, preferably in Python with production ownership.
• Strong data pipeline experience (batch/stream): schema design, deduplication, and backfills.
• Hands-on with PostgreSQL/MySQL and Redis (caching, rate-limits, queues).
• Real-world web scraping: requests/httpx/aiohttp, BeautifulSoup/lxml/Scrapy/Playwright, anti-bot tactics, respectful crawling.
• Concurrency & async (asyncio, multiprocessing), robust error handling, idempotent jobs.
• Solid testing habits and bias for simple, maintainable code.

Nice-to-haves:

• Message queues/streams: Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS.
• Workflow schedulers: Airflow, Prefect.
• GraphQL; search tech (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch).
• Cost/perf tuning, on-call pragmatism, or prior startup/founding team experience.

How we work:

• High ownership, fast shipping, clear interfaces, strong documentation.
• We optimize for time to go live—startups that succeed outpace those that don’t.
• Competitive salary + meaningful ESOPs.
• (Optional) Work from our hacker-house on MG Road, Gurgaon.

Hiring process (fast closures)

1. 30-min technical deep-dive
2. Take-home (optional)
3. Founder conversation & references

JD:

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of software modules owned by a team. You will guide and mentor junior team members by reviewing their code and designs to ensure that they are writing well designed and high quality code. This role requires excellent communication skills as you will need to collaborate across teams. 

Key Skills:

• 3 to 6 years of experience
• Extensive experience on C/C++/Python
• Experience on OS - Unix/Linux and Windows
• Hands on experience in Networking and Multi-threading

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in Cloud Technologies, system programming is a plus

Roles and responsibilities:

• Play key role in design/development of security product. 
• Responsible for the complete software development cycle.
• Gathering & understanding requirements.
• Design, development & implementation independently.
• Responsible for ensuring timely and quality delivery.
• Will be able to work in end to end features. 

Qualification:

• B.Tech / B.E / M.E./ M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent.

• Work on large-scale, custom distributed software systems using Java, Scala,
• MongoDB, JavaScript (AngularJS, ReactJS), and the likes
• We work almost exclusively on customer site providing a mix of delivery and consulting
• services, so you'll be flexible about travel
• Employ Agile development including task estimation, test automation, deployment automation, and Continuous Integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over a designation or title
• Spread the word about best practices in software development inside and outside the Equal Experts community like Expert Talks

• 6 + years of Hands-on development and delivery experience with Java, Scala, and the likes
• Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess
• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
• Experience working with Agile, TDD, Lean, and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Extreme Programming (XP)
• Enthusiastic to work collaboratively with people and sharing your ideas to solve real business problems

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• M-Tech or advanced degree a plus
• Hackathon participation and accolades are a plus

Job Role:

• 4+ years of object-oriented Java / J2EE development
•  Full SDLC experience (requirements gathering, architecture, development, QA, etc)…
•  Experience with Spring (MVC, IOP/DI, REST, Security) & Hibernate/Spring
•  Experience with SOAP / REST web services
•  Knowledge of SQL
•  Knowledge of No SQL concepts, understanding of Solr, Redis and Mongo DB is desirable
•  Must have worked on any one messaging solutions
•  Bonus Points for micro service design and development experience
•  Bonus points for any mobile development experience
•  Used Agile methodology
•  Bonus Points for experience working on Unix, shell scripting & Build Systems
•  Experience in performance optimization is an added advantage

• Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
• Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions
• Consistently delivers complex, well backed and bug-free products in time
• Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions
• Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. able to mentor/train in areas which are new to them.
• Drives people to solve engineering challenges
• Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams
• Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and

internal/external clients as necessary.

• Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them
• Champion for SDLC best practices and high quality standards

• Expert at in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
• Must have experience in cloud computing
• Operates independently with almost no oversight
• Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the

team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints.

• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership
• Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary
• 7+ years of experience in product driven organization
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Deep and wide knowledge of Java ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries

Desired Skills and Experience

• Golang , Java , Python , Ruby