Backend Engineer (Go+Python) at Blockify · Remote only · 3 - 8 years · ₹6L - ₹12L / yr (ESOP available) · Bootstrapped · Remote only · Posted 15 Mar 2026

We’re hiring a remote, contract-based Backend & Infrastructure Engineer who can build and run production systems end-to-end.
You will build and scale high-throughput backend services in Golang and Python, operate ClickHouse-powered analytics at scale, manage Linux servers for maximum uptime, scalability, and reliability, and drive cost efficiency as a core engineering discipline across the entire stack.
What You Will Do:
Backend Development (Golang & Python)
- Design and maintain high-throughput RESTful/gRPC APIs — primarily Golang, Python for tooling and supporting services
- Architect for horizontal scalability, fault tolerance, and low-latency at scale
- Implement caching (Redis/Memcached), rate limiting, efficient serialization, and CI/CD pipelines
Scalable Architecture & System Design
- Design and evolve distributed, resilient backend architecture that scales without proportional cost increase
- Make deliberate trade-offs (CAP, cost vs. performance) and design multi-region HA with automated failover
ClickHouse & Analytical Data Infrastructure
- Deploy, tune, and operate ClickHouse clusters for real-time analytics and high-cardinality OLAP workloads
- Design optimal table engines, partition strategies, materialized views, and query patterns
- Manage cluster scaling, replication, schema migrations, and upstream/downstream integrations
Cost Efficiency & Cost Optimization
- Own cost optimization end-to-end: right-sizing, reserved/spot capacity, storage tiering, query optimization, compression, batching
- Build cost dashboards, budgets, and alerts; drive a culture of cost-aware engineering
Linux Server Management & Infrastructure
- Administer and harden Linux servers (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS/RHEL) — patching, security, SSH, firewalls
- Manage VPS/bare-metal provisioning, capacity planning, and containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes/Nomad)
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Pulumi); optionally manage AWS/GCP as needed
Data, Storage & Scheduling
- Optimize SQL schemas and queries (PostgreSQL, MySQL); manage data archival, cold storage, and lifecycle policies
- Build and maintain cron jobs, scheduled tasks, and batch processing systems
Uptime, Reliability & Observability
- Own system uptime: zero-downtime deployments, health checks, self-healing infra, SLOs/SLIs
- Build observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry); structured logging, distributed tracing, alerting
- Drive incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems
Required Qualifications:
Must-Have (Critical)
- Deep proficiency in Golang (primary) and Python
- Proven ability to design and build scalable, distributed architectures
- Production experience deploying and operating ClickHouse at scale
- Track record of driving measurable cost efficiency and cost optimization
- 5+ years in backend engineering and infrastructure roles
Also Required
- Strong Linux server administration (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS/RHEL) — comfortable living in the terminal
- Proven uptime and reliability track record across production infrastructure
- Strong SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL); experience with high-throughput APIs (10K+ RPS)
- VPS/bare-metal provisioning, Docker, Kubernetes/Nomad, IaC (Terraform/Pulumi)
- Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
- Cron jobs, batch processing, data archival, cold storage management
- Networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, TLS)
Nice to Have
- AWS, GCP, or other major cloud provider experience
- Message queues / event streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS)
- Data pipelines (Airflow, dbt); FinOps practices
- Open-source contributions; compliance background (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR)
What We Offer
- Remote, contractual role
- Flexible time zones (overlap for standups + incident coverage)
- Competitive contract compensation + equity
- Long-term engagement opportunity based on performance

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Cybersecurity is undergoing a fundamental shift. AI is no longer an enhancement—it’s becoming the core engine of how detection, investigation, and response are executed. As our Golang Engineer, you will architect and build the backend systems that make this transformation real. Your work will influence not only the evolution of our platform, but also how an entire industry adapts to and leverages AI‑driven security. This is a chance to solve novel technical challenges while shaping how defenders outpace modern attackers.
What You’ll Do
● Design and develop scalable backend services and REST APIs using Golang.
● Architect and maintain microservices-based systems.
● Perform rigorous debugging and system performance optimization.
● Integrate services with Opensearch, Elasticsearch, and Sumo APIs.
● Manage and optimize data interactions with SQL databases.
Impact You’ll Have
● Build the foundational infrastructure that enables real-time AI-driven threat detection.
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● Directly contribute to the resilience of global critical infrastructure by shipping secure and efficient code.
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● 4-8+ years of experience in Golang and REST APIs
● Extensive experience in professional backend software development.
● Proven track record of designing and deploying distributed systems at scale.
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● Expertise in Golang development.
● Deep experience building Backend/REST APIs.
● Proficiency in Python.
● Strong understanding of Microservice architecture.
● Experience with SQL databases.
● Experience with Opensearch, Elasticsearch, or Sumo APIs.
● Strong capabilities in debugging and performance optimization.
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● Knowledge of Identity, Authentication, and Authorization protocols (OAuth, SAML, JWT).
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● Ownership‑Driven: You take initiative, move fast, and deliver outcomes without hand‑holding.
● Continuous Learner: You stay ahead of the curve in AI, ML, and emerging technologies.
● Startup DNA: You excel in fast‑moving environments where priorities evolve and impact is immediate.

Required Experience: 10–15 years (with at least 3–5 years in leadership roles)
● 10–15 years of overall experience in backend engineering, with strong exposure to
Python and/or Golang.
● 3–5 years of experience managing engineering teams.
● Proven experience delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production
environments.
● Strong understanding of microservices, cloud-native architecture, and DevOps
practices.
● Hands-on background in backend engineering (able to guide teams technically, even
if not coding daily).
● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and performance optimization.
● Experience in financial services or high-transaction domains is a plus.
● Experience leading teams that have utilized AI-driven development practices (e.g.,
agentic coding, LLM integration) to improve productivity and innovation is a
significant advantage.
Skills
● Excellent leadership and people management abilities.
● Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
● Ability to balance technical depth with business priorities.
● Problem-solving mindset with a focus on delivery and impact.
● Passion for building engineering culture and improving developer experience.
🚀 Job Title : Backend Engineer (Go / Python / Java)
Experience : 3+ Years
Location : Bangalore (Client Location – Work From Office)
Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days
Open Positions : 4
Working Days : 6 Days a Week
🧠 Job Summary :
We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Engineer to build scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems in a fast-paced product environment.
You will own large features end-to-end — from design and development to deployment and monitoring — while collaborating closely with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams.
This role requires strong backend fundamentals, distributed systems exposure, and a mindset of operational ownership.
⭐ Mandatory Skills :
Strong backend development experience in Go / Python (FastAPI) / Java (Spring Boot) with hands-on expertise in Microservices, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka/SQS, AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and strong DSA & System Design fundamentals.
🔧 Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, test, and deploy backend services end-to-end.
- Build scalable, modular, and production-grade microservices.
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs.
- Architect reliable distributed systems with performance and fault tolerance in mind.
- Debug complex cross-system production issues.
- Implement secure development practices (authentication, authorization, data integrity).
- Work with monitoring dashboards, alerts, and performance metrics.
- Participate in code reviews and enforce engineering best practices.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams.
✅ Required Skills :
- Strong proficiency in Go OR Python (FastAPI) OR Java (Spring Boot).
- Hands-on experience building Microservices-based architectures.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs & distributed systems.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis.
- Exposure to Kafka / SQS or other messaging systems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of Data Structures & System Design.
- Ability to independently own features and solve ambiguous engineering problems.
⭐ Preferred Background :
- Experience in product-based companies.
- Exposure to high-throughput or event-driven systems.
- Strong focus on code quality, observability, and reliability.
- Comfortable working in high-growth, fast-paced environments.
🧑💻 Interview Process :
- 1 Internal Screening Round
- HR Discussion (Project & Communication Evaluation)
- 3 Technical Rounds with Client
This is a fresh requirement, and interviews will be scheduled immediately.
We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low-latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.
Responsibilities—
- Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code.
- Solving complex technical problems.
- Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
- Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.
- Participating in and driving code reviews.
- Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices.
- Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
- Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
- Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog
- Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
- Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
- Architecting & designing the platform.
- Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation.
- Writing documentation & create engineering processes.
- Working as an individual contributor.
- Helping drive KPIs with Product.
- Taking ownership of backend systems.
- Helping with unit tests & QA process.
- Scaling the engineering team.
- System scaling to hundreds of millions of users.
- Working with product managers and designs.
Requirements—
- Overall 5-10 years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional).
- Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD.
- Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux.
- Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments.
- Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix).
- Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
- Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ.
- DevOps experience.
- Experience with AWS stack.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment.
- To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
- To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities.
- To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.
- To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional).
- To have contributed to open-source projects.
- To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth.
- Proficiency in English.
- Experience with Web3(optional).
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- Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
- Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
- Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
- High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.
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Core Responsibilities:
- Design & Development: Architect and implement scalable backend services and APIs using Python or Golang, ensuring high performance, resilience, and extensibility.
- System Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of critical modules, from design and development to deployment and support.
- Technical Leadership: Conduct design and code reviews, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers to raise the team’s technical bar.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, architects, and other engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Performance & Reliability: Troubleshoot complex issues in production systems, identify root causes, and design sustainable long-term solutions.
- Innovation: Evaluate new technologies, contribute to proof-of-concepts, and recommend tools that can improve developer productivity.
- Process Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing practices.
- Knowledge Sharing: Document designs, create technical guides, and share insights with the broader engineering team.
Experience and Expertise:
- 4–7 years of backend development experience with Python or Golang.
- Strong expertise in designing, developing, and scaling microservices and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and performance optimization.
- Proficiency with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Linux development, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and related services.
- Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for production-grade systems.
- Experience with AI-powered development tools is a strong plus; familiarity with concepts like 'agentic coding' for workflow automation or 'context engineering' for leveraging LLMs in system design is highly desirable.
Skills:
- Strong problem-solving ability, with experience handling complex technical challenges.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and articulate trade-offs.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and able to operate independently while aligning with team goals.
- Passionate about engineering culture, quality, and developer productivity.
🚀Job Title : Senior Backend Engineer (Java / Golang) SDE 3
Experience : 5 to 12 Years
Positions : 4
Employment Type : C2H (Contract to Hire)
Contract Duration : 3 Months
Location : Remote during contract → Pune after conversion
Work Mode After Conversion : 5 Days WFO
Notice Period : Immediate / Serving Notice / Up to 15 Days preferred
Mandatory Skills : Golang (1+ year mandatory), 5+ years Backend Development, System Design, Distributed Systems, Microservices, REST / GraphQL APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, SQL & NoSQL Databases, AWS / GCP / Azure, Strong Problem-Solving & Communication Skills.
About the Role :
We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer / SDE 3 with strong expertise in Java / Golang to design and build scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services and APIs.
The role involves hands-on coding, system design, microservices, distributed systems, and collaboration with engineering and infrastructure teams.
Must-Have Skills :
- 5+ years of backend development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Golang.
- Minimum 1+ year of Golang experience is mandatory.
- Strong understanding of System Design & Distributed Systems.
- Experience with REST / GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with Microservices and Event-Driven Architecture.
- Experience with Event Queues / Asynchronous Processing.
- Strong knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
Important Note for Java Candidates :
Java candidates can be considered only if they have at least 1+ year of hands-on Golang experience and are willing to work in Golang.
Candidates with less than 1 year of Golang experience will not be considered.
Good to Have :
- Experience in Fintech / Payments / Transaction-heavy systems
- Docker & Kubernetes
- Datadog / Prometheus / Grafana
- CI/CD experience
- Exposure to Java or Ruby
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Golang.
- Build reliable, secure, and high-performance microservices and APIs.
- Implement event-driven and asynchronous processing systems.
- Work on system architecture, scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Participate in system design, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Collaborate with mobile, web, and infrastructure teams.
- Develop unit, integration, and performance tests.
- Contribute to CI/CD, observability, documentation, and engineering best practices.
Interview Process :
Round 1 : Take-Home Coding Assessment – Submission within 48 hours
Round 2 : Code Pairing – Problem Extension
Round 3 : Culture Fitment
Senior Backend Engineer
What You'll Do :
- Build and scale the core backend and infrastructure powering a customer feedback intelligence platform - owning systems from data ingestion through real-time analytics.
- Harden ML and NLP infrastructure, including pipelines, model serving, and data flows, so features remain reliable in real-world production environments at scale.
- Own critical infrastructure decisions around data models, event flows, and service boundaries, with strong correctness and data-integrity guarantees.
- Instrument systems deeply for observability, ensuring failures surface early and production behavior becomes a source of continuous learning.
- Balance speed, cost, and long-term system health, making pragmatic, cost-effective trade-offs while shipping continuously.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and the founding team to turn ambiguous problem statements into clear, scalable infrastructure.
- Raise the engineering bar through clean code, thorough design reviews, mentorship, and platform-level improvements.
What It Takes :
- 6-8 years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and shipping reliable systems in production.
- 3+ years at a single organization where you've built infrastructure from the ground up and owned complex projects end to end.
- Deep expertise in infrastructure, including data pipelines, event-driven and microservices architectures, observability, reliability, and cost optimization.
Tech Stack :
-serverless computing, SQL/NoSQL databases, Elasticsearch, or GraphQL.
Bonus :
- Experience building or operating ML/NLP infrastructure such as data pipelines, model serving, feature stores, or inference systems.
Why This Opportunity :
- High Impact : Build foundational backend and infrastructure systems at an early-stage, high-growth technology company.
- Ownership : Take end-to-end responsibility for critical features, systems, and infrastructure.
- Complex Challenges : Work across ML/NLP infrastructure, distributed systems, data pipelines, and real-time analytics.
- Growth : Deepen your technical expertise while having the opportunity to grow into a technical leadership path.
- Culture : Work in an open, collaborative, and values-driven environment with significant autonomy.
- Benefits : Competitive compensation, equity, hybrid work setup, premium healthcare, and more.
At BigThinkCode, our technology solves complex problems. We are looking for talented backend engineer to join our development team at Chennai.
If you are passionate about building scalable applications and have strong experience in any backend programming or with interest for Golang and modern web technologies, we would love to hear from you!
Please find below our job description, if interested apply / reply sharing your profile to connect and discuss.
- Company: BigThinkCode Technologies
- URL: https://www.bigthinkcode.com/
- Experience required: 4 - 5 years
- Work location: Chennai
- Joining time: Immediate – 2 weeks
- Work Mode: Work from office (Hybrid)
We are looking for a skilled and passionate Developer with strong Golang experience to join our growing engineering team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in building scalable web applications, backend services, APIs, and modern frontend applications.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable and high-performance web applications.
- Build and maintain robust backend services and RESTful APIs using Golang.
- Develop responsive and user-friendly frontend applications using modern JavaScript/TypeScript technologies.
- Work on end-to-end application development, including frontend, backend, APIs, and database integrations.
- Design and develop scalable, secure, and maintainable application architecture.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Write clean, reusable, efficient, and well-tested code.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices and coding standards.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application and production issues.
- Contribute to performance optimization, scalability, and continuous improvement of applications.
What We’re Looking For
- 4–5 years of hands-on experience in software development.
- Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
- Managing, mentoring small team of 2-3 members.
- Strong hands-on experience with Golang or Erlang or other programming languages with interest, learn Golang for backend development.
- Experience building RESTful APIs, backend services, and microservices.
- Good experience with JavaScript and/or TypeScript and modern frontend development.
- Experience working with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of software design principles, data structures, and scalable application architecture.
- Experience with Git and version control workflows.
- Good understanding of API security, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a fast-paced engineering environment.
Preferred / Nice to Have
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or containerized applications.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

Role overview
The client is building a multimodal AI platform that processes multi-hour video, audio and text to generate structured insights, narratives and highlight workflows for broadcasters and media organisations.
We are seeking a Backend / Platform Engineer to design and build high-throughput media pipelines, robust APIs, and model-serving infrastructure that connect our AI engine (video perception + multimodal reasoning) to real products and customer environments.
This is not a CRUD‑only backend role.
You will work on:
- long‑running jobs
- distributed processing
- GPU inference orchestration
- storage for embeddings and metadata
- integration with AI models
- reliability and observability at scale
Key responsibilities
Media ingestion & processing pipelines
- Design and implement ingestion pipelines for multi‑hour video and audio content.
- Build microservices for frame extraction, audio processing, transcription integration and metadata generation.
- Handle long‑running, asynchronous jobs using queues, workers and robust retry strategies.
- Integrate with FFmpeg or similar tools for transcoding, segmenting and preparing media for AI models.
API & platform architecture
- Design and implement REST/gRPC APIs that expose AI model outputs (perception, multimodal alignment, narratives) to frontend and external systems.
- Define clear contracts for internal services and external integrations.
- Implement authentication, authorisation and rate‑limiting for platform endpoints.
- Ensure backward‑compatible API evolution as the product matures.
Model‑serving & AI integration
- Integrate with AI inference services (video models, multimodal models, LLM/VLM) running on GPUs or specialised infrastructure.
- Design request/response flows that handle large payloads, streaming outputs and structured results.
- Optimise throughput and latency for inference pipelines, including batching, caching and concurrency control.
- Collaborate closely with AI engineers to productionise models and debug end‑to‑end behaviour.
Storage, data models & performance
- Design data models to store embeddings, timelines, metadata, scene/shot boundaries, and narrative units.
- Work with appropriate storage technologies (SQL/NoSQL, object storage, search indices) based on access patterns.
- Implement indexing and query strategies for fast retrieval of segments, highlights and multimodal insights.
- Optimise performance for large datasets and high‑volume workloads.
Reliability, observability & operations
- Implement logging, metrics and tracing across services for debugging and monitoring.
- Set up health checks, circuit breakers and graceful degradation for critical services.
- Work with CI/CD pipelines to ensure safe, repeatable deployments.
- Collaborate on Kubernetes‑based deployments (or equivalent orchestration) for scaling services.
Requirements (must‑have)
Experience:
- 4–8 years in backend or platform engineering.
- At least 3 years working on distributed systems, high‑throughput services or complex pipelines (not just simple CRUD apps).
Languages & frameworks:
- Strong proficiency in Python or Node.js (one primary, both are a plus).
- Experience with at least one modern backend framework (FastAPI, Flask, Express, NestJS, etc.).
Distributed systems & pipelines:
- Hands‑on experience with queues and workers (e.g. Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, etc.).
- Experience building asynchronous, long‑running job pipelines.
- Understanding of idempotency, retries, backoff, and failure handling.
APIs & integration:
- Strong experience designing and implementing REST APIs (gRPC is a plus).
- Experience integrating with external services and handling network‑level failures.
Cloud & infrastructure:
- Experience deploying services on AWS, GCP or Azure (EC2/Compute Engine, S3/GCS, IAM, networking basics).
- Experience with Docker; exposure to Kubernetes is a strong plus.
Data & storage:
- Experience with SQL and at least one NoSQL store.
- Ability to design schemas and data models for performance and maintainability.
Engineering quality:
- Strong debugging skills across services and environments.
- Experience with unit/integration tests for backend systems.
- Clear, structured communication in English.
Nice‑to‑have
- Experience with media/video processing (FFmpeg, transcoding, segmenting).
- Experience with AI/ML model integration (serving models, handling inference requests).
- Experience with search/retrieval systems (e.g. Elasticsearch, vector databases).
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- Experience working with remote teams across time zones.
What we are explicitly NOT looking for
To reduce noise and mismatches, we are not looking for:
- Pure CRUD‑only backend developers with no pipeline or distributed systems experience.
- Engineers who have only worked on small, single‑service apps without scale or complexity.
- Candidates who cannot explain trade‑offs in architecture, data modelling and reliability.
- Candidates who are uncomfortable with ownership of subsystems end‑to‑end.
Why join us
- Work on real, complex problems at the intersection of media, AI and distributed systems.
- Collaborate with senior AI engineers working on perception, multimodal fusion and narrative reasoning.
- Build the core platform that turns AI models into a usable product for broadcasters and media organisations.
- Operate with high ownership, clear expectations and direct access to the CTO.

Core Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Python or Golang.
- Write high-quality, testable, and maintainable code with a focus on performance and scalability.
- Implement automated tests and contribute to CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with product, QA, and DevOps teams for end-to-end feature delivery.
- Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely resolutions.
- Participate in design and architecture discussions to improve system efficiency.
- Contribute to improving development processes, coding standards, and best practices.
Experience and Expertise:
- 2–4 years of experience in backend development with Python or Golang.
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and OOPS principles.
- Hands-on experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with Linux development, Docker, and basic cloud concepts (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Proficiency with Git and version control workflows.
- Familiarity with AI-powered development tools or exposure to projects involving large language models (LLMs) is a plus.
Skills:
- Strong analytical and debugging skills with the ability to solve complex problems.
- Good communication and collaboration skills across teams.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while being a strong team player.
- Growth mindset – eagerness to learn new technologies and improve continuously.





