Backend Engineer

About Tamasha

Tamasha is building next-generation live, social, and real-time consumer

experiences across gaming, audio, video, and interactive platforms. Our backend

systems power millions of real-time interactions, low-latency data flows, and high

throughput event-driven services.

Role Overview

As a Software Development Engineer III (Backend), you will operate as a senior

individual contributor owning mission-critical backend systems. You will design

scalable architectures, solve complex distributed systems problems, and influence

engineering standards across teams.

Roles & Responsibilities

 Own backend systems end-to-end, from design and implementation to

production reliability and long-term evolution.

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Design scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency backend architectures for real

time and event-driven use cases.

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Lead system design decisions including data models, service boundaries, async

workflows, and scalability strategies.

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Build and operate high-throughput services handling millions of events, requests,

or messages per day.

 Own reliability metrics such as p95/p99 latency, uptime, error budgets, and

participate in incident resolution and post-mortems.

Drive architectural migrations including monolith to microservices and

synchronous to asynchronous flows.

 Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to translate complex

requirements into robust backend solutions.

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Improve developer productivity by contributing to internal platforms, tooling,

CI/CD pipelines, and coding standards.

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Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance

without direct people management.

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Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and scalability

risks and resolve them at the system level.

Tech Stack

Backend: Node.js (NestJS / Express), Golang, Java

Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis

Messaging & Async: Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub

Real-time: WebSockets, Server-Sent Events

Cloud & Infra: AWS / GCP, Docker, Kubernetes

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience

• Proven ownership of production systems at scale

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and async architectures

• Experience handling production incidents and system reliability

• Ability to independently design and evolve backend systems

Experience: 2 years - 4 years
providing 100% remote 

We love solving hard problems together because the hardest challenges are often the most rewarding. You will have an opportunity to create products that will disrupt the industry. Providing customer delight is not just a phrase for us - It’s our mantra, Voice will always be heard - we encourage different points of view. 

Do you aspire to be a tech ninja?

Do you have a passion for building products in India and changing the worldview that we are just about services?

We want people who go deep and understand the fundamentals

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Development and maintenance of automatic regression tests suites used in the product delivery process
• Development and maintenance of testing frameworks supporting the automatic regression testing
• Management and tracking of automatic regression test suite execution
• You will own some or all of a product/feature. You will also mentor others, read and review code, maintain code, deploy code, and tune the performance of systems.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• We’re looking for 2 - 4 years of experience. However, the number is irrelevant if you have the necessary skills.
• Strong proficiency in Java, J2EE, JDBC, Spring MVC & Boot, Hibernate, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery, Ajax
• Good exposure to RESTful API concept and JSON
• Experience with cloud-based technologies such as AWS.
• Proficient understanding of development tools such as SVN, GIT
• Good communication skills with proficiency in English (Oral and Writing) / banking knowledge. 

Plus Points:

• Product experience
• Startup experience
• Technologies that are Self-taught
• Contributed to stock exchange etc
• Open source contributions
• Any of your work in public that we can see

We are looking for an experienced Back-end developer to join our IT team! As a Back-end Developer, you will be responsible for the server-side web application logic as well as for the integration of the front-end part. 

• Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle
• Main focus on coding and debugging
• Collaborate with Front-end developers 
• Define and communicate technical and design requirements
• Provide training, help and support to other team members
• Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in thew future
• Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean codes
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Learn about new technologies
• Stay up to date with current best practices
• Conduct UI tests and optimize performance
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve applications
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team of designers, developers and system administrators
• Follow new and emerging technologies

• Strong proficiency in MySQL database administration, migrations /up-gradation, patching, cloning, capacity planning, designing, and automation of database tasks.
• Good experience with the latest versions of the database
• In-depth experience configuring database replication on multiple versions
• Strong experience in Monitoring, DB Performance Tuning, DB Availability, DR, Security, Storage
• Analyzes and provides recommendations to optimize the database for improved performance, manageability, and scalability
• Expertise in enterprise backups, recovery, and performing point-in-time recovery Experience in deploying and integrating PM tools
• Experience in data partitioning and encryption
• Knowledge of de-facto standards and best practices in MySQL and MongoDB
• Proficient in writing and optimizing SQL statements and Knowledge of MySQL features, such as its event scheduler
• Familiarity with other SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds in contrast to other popular relational databases
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git / Mercurial / SVN

• Experience in Web and Mobile Applications.
• Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript (ECMAScript 5, 6)
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (SailsJS, Express)
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.Familiarity with front-end technologies.
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Interaction with multiple data sources.
• Good understanding of SQL syntax.
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
•  Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Knowledge in the field of IOT is good to have.

HealthifyMe is a Health Tech Startup on a mission to make healthy living easy, fun and affordable for everyone by providing tech-enabled solutions. Founded in 2012, HealthifyMe is now India's largest and most loved health/fitness app with over 3 million users. The company helps consumers manage their health and fitness with diet and exercise tracking through a mix of technology intervention and human experts/coaches backed with artificial intelligence. HealthifyMe is co-founded by Tushar Vashisht (UPenn graduate, ex UID) and Sachin Shenoy (ex Google), and was incubated by Microsoft Accelerator.  HealthifyMe is the highest rated app on Google Play with a rating of 4.6/5 and has been featured by Google and Apple multiple times for its quality benchmarks. The company, delivers measurable results on eating habits, fitness, and weight and is a platform of choice by leading Corporates and Healthcare partners in India.

Leadership Skill

• Technically hands on.
• Have previous experience of leading teams.
• Have experience with agile process, and ability to guide the team to follow the process.
• Comfortable in chaotic & high-energy, high-stakes start-up environment.
• Hates wasting time in unproductive meetings, and prefers getting quick consensus to move ship forward.
• Prefers delivering in production than spending time in meeting.
• Able to technically mentor team and guide them to high performance.

Technical Skills

• Loves solving technically hard problems. 
• Have previous experience with Python(Django), MySQL.
• Have previous experience with one or more of AWS, RDS, SQS, EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache. 
• NoSQL experience is good to have.  
• Loves clean and structured code, and thrives to maintain it. 
• Fast at coding, fast in learning and technically solid.
• Have previous experience in building, running and managing scalable and highly availability web services.

Look forward to

• Working with a world-class team. 
• Fun & work at the same place with an amazing work culture and flexible timings. 
• Get ready to transform yourself into a health junkie