Backend Engineer

Description :

Job Title : Python Engineer- AI Agents & Code Optimization

Experience : 2+ Years

Employment Type : Full-time

Location : Remote

About the Role :

We are looking for a hands-on Software Engineer to build and improve AI agents that work directly on our production code.

Your core responsibility will be to design and evolve a specialized AI agent that deeply understands our codebase and actively helps make it faster, cleaner, simpler, and cheaper to maintain.

This is not a research role. This is real work on real systems with real business impact.

How We Work :

- Business impact first : Cheaper, Faster, Better

- Simple beats complex always

- Small changes, shipped fast

- You own your work end-to-end

- First question is always : Do we even need this?

- Flat team, zero micromanagement

- Decisions can change adaptability matters

- No long PRDs : one clear goal ? discuss ? execute

- Ship, measure, improve, repeat

What You Will Do :

- Build and use AI agents to optimize, refactor, and remove code

- Feed logs, metrics, and performance data back into AI agents

- Profile applications and identify performance bottlenecks

- Optimize SQL queries and database usage

- Improve deployment pipelines and release processes

- Continuously improve internal AI tooling

- Work closely with infrastructure and production systems

Tech You Should Be Comfortable With :

You dont need to be an expert in everything, but you should be comfortable working with :

- Linux CLI (Required)

- Python

- PHP

- SQL (MySQL or MariaDB)

- Shell scripting

- Large Language Models (LLMs)

What Were Looking For :

- 2+ years of software engineering experience (or strong hands-on projects)

- Solid understanding of performance optimization

- Experience cleaning up legacy or messy codebases

- Practical profiling and debugging skills

- Comfortable working close to infrastructure and deployments

- Automation-first mindset

- Ability to explain technical decisions clearly and simply in English

Nice to Have :

- Experience building AI agents

- Exposure to large or long-running systems

- CI/CD or deployment automation experience

When You Join :

- Career Growth : You are expected to grow into a tech lead, entrepreneur, or highly skilled specialist

- Bleeding-Edge Tech : Hands-on experience with alpha/beta software, cutting-edge infrastructure, and top tier hardware

- Global Exposure : Work with a global team and directly with C-level leadership

- Real Impact : Your code directly solves real user problems and moves the company forward

Job Title: Tech Lead (Backend Heavy)

Location: Onsite – Indore (Vijaynagar), MP, India

Experience: 4–6 Years

Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days preferred

Company Overview

Kuvaka Tech builds scalable, high-performance products across Web2 and Web3 ecosystems. We operate in a fast-paced startup environment, focusing on delivering efficient, production-ready solutions within tight timelines.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Tech Lead who is backend-heavy, highly product-driven, and capable of owning end-to-end technical execution. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working across multiple backend stacks, while also having enough frontend understanding to unblock issues independently.

This role requires someone who can solve problems proactively, handle technical blockers without unnecessary escalations, and drive projects efficiently in a startup environment.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Ownership

• Take end-to-end ownership of projects from planning to deployment
• Ensure timely delivery under tight deadlines
• Maintain high standards of code quality, scalability, and performance

Backend Development (Core Focus)

• Design and build scalable backend systems using Python and other backend stacks
• Architect APIs, services, and data flows for high-performance applications
• Handle complex technical challenges independently

Frontend Awareness

• Possess working knowledge of frontend technologies (React.js / Next.js)
• Be capable of debugging and resolving frontend issues when required

Problem Solving & Execution

• Identify and resolve technical blockers independently before escalation
• Drive solutions with a cost-efficient and time-efficient approach
• Optimise system performance and architecture
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Innovation & Product Thinking

• Contribute new ideas and technical improvements
• Think from a product perspective, not just implementation
• Continuously improve processes and delivery speed

Collaboration & Leadership

• Work closely with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Engineering)
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders
• Guide junior developers when required

Required Skills-

Core Technical

• Strong experience in Python (Django/FastAPI preferred)
• Experience with multiple backend stacks (Node.js, etc. is a plus)
• Solid understanding of system design, APIs, and databases

Frontend Understanding

• Hands-on or working knowledge of React.js / modern frontend frameworks

Engineering Mindset

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to handle pressure and tight deadlines
• Experience working in startup environments

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 4–6 years of experience in product-based or startup environments
• Has worked on multiple projects end-to-end
• Highly productive, proactive, and ownership-driven
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to take initiative and make decisions independently
• Focused on efficiency, scalability, and execution speed

What We’re Looking For

• Someone who doesn’t wait for instructions but takes initiative
• A problem solver who fixes issues before they escalate
• A tech-driven thinker with strong execution capability
• Comfortable in fast-moving, high-pressure startup setups

Hiring Process

• HR Round
• Assignment
• Technical Round
• Cultural Fit Round
• Founder’s Call

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs 
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc. 

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter. We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred. 
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

• 3+ years of work experience as a Python Developer. 
• Sound understanding and knowledge of Python and its ecosystem libraries like pandas and numpy. Also be able to write modular code and understand the python packaging system. 

• Experience on web crawling, scraping (Scrapy,BeautifulSoup, Selenium) and web application development using Django/Flask Framework. 
• Experience on Data-Science; exposure to Theanos, Tensorflow, Pytorch (preferable) 
• Exposure to data mining, Pyspark (preferable)