Backend Engineer · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 1 - 2 years · ₹3L - ₹6L / yr · Posted 19 Jul 2022

Backend Engineer
- Building customer products that operate at a scale
- Working on a back-end system using Python and Java
- Working on MySQL, NoSQL, Solr, Thrift, Flask, RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
- Working on analytics and data science
- Working on server management (Google Cloud)
- Explore different functions of building a tech product/company early in your career.
- Learn to Prioritize Work and learn the ability to decide some technical decisions vs others ata very early stage of your career
- Be instilled with the value of hard work, ownership, and self-sustainability.
- Be more actively involved in the decision-making and functioning of the company.
- Understand the great importance of personal ownership and the liberty needed to pursue that ownership
- Hungry for Growth & Learning
- Willing to go all out for an accelerated career in software engineering
- Ready to experiment things never done before – Conquer uncharted waters
- Think Out-of-the-Box – Innovative and effective solutions
- Top Gun command over technologies (Mentioned above)
- You'll learn how to target efficiency rather than perfection.
- This empowerment will help you become a better leader at a very early stage of your career.
- Join the Core team – Get real insights into building a Product and Business ground up
- Enjoy the freedom, that comes with a lot of ownership
- Challenging and fun work environment
- Flexible Work Culture – We are a target driven organization. We like hard-workers, but we adore smart-workers more!
- Unlimited Vacation policy - Work hard, and take a break when you need

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Senior Software Engineer – Backend
Company: House of EdTech (Goenka Kachave LLP)
Location: Bangalore, Hybrid
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 5+ Years
About the Role
House of EdTech is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to design, develop, and scale high-performance backend services and APIs supporting products used by millions of learners.
You’ll work closely with Product, Frontend, Data, and Engineering teams while taking end-to-end ownership of backend features and contributing to system architecture and technical decisions.
What You'll Do
- Design and develop scalable backend services and REST APIs.
- Build reliable systems capable of handling high traffic and large data volumes.
- Own backend features from design and development through deployment and monitoring.
- Work with microservices, databases, and distributed systems.
- Identify and solve performance, scalability, reliability, and security challenges.
- Participate in system design and architecture discussions.
- Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
- Monitor production systems and troubleshoot incidents.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of professional backend development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java, Python, Scala, C++, or a similar language.
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and databases.
- Experience with cloud/infrastructure technologies such as GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including security, reliability, testing, and code quality.
- Experience with system design, architecture, and technical decision-making.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience mentoring engineers is a plus.
Why Join House of EdTech?
- Work on products impacting millions of learners.
- Solve challenging backend and scalability problems.
- Take significant ownership of architecture and engineering decisions.
- Opportunity to grow into technical leadership and architectural ownership.
- Work in a fast-growing technology environment.






