
Backend Engineer Golang
at Client on a mission to make crypto accessible to everyone.
About the Role:
As a part of the Tech team, you will be involved in solving technical challenges, working with modern databases and systems, design and architecture of components/services, and handling highly critical secure data.
Responsibilities:
- You’ll be working on our P2P and cryptocurrency exchange platforms to build more features around it.
- Understand the way current users interact with the chatbot and how to optimize the existing content.
- WazirX being a financial product, you’ll be involved in building tools to make our user’s data more secure.
- You will be working on blockchain technologies
- You will help maintain code quality and organization.
- We expect you to learn about new software technologies, and proactively look for ways to make WazirX better.
You'll be a good fit if:
- You’ve got 3 to 6 years of development experience.
- You’re an expert in writing background tasks, test-driven development.
- You’re an expert in Golang
- You’re good at understanding and implementing multithreaded environments to improve the speed of the execution
- You enjoy collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- You’re committed to quality, and your code solves more problems than it creates ;)

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Experience: 10–15 Years
Location: Bengaluru (Hybrid)
Role Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Lead Backend Web App Developer to design and maintain scalable, cloud-based backend systems. This role demands expertise in microservices, AWS, and backend technologies to deliver efficient and high-performing applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain scalable backend systems for cloud-based web applications.
- Develop microservices using AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS) and databases (MySQL, NoSQL).
- Design and implement REST APIs for seamless communication between systems.
- Create containerized solutions with Docker for efficient deployment.
- Solve real-world problems with enterprise-class product designs.
- Contribute to key decisions on product and technology direction.
- Promote frameworks, standards, and new technologies within the team.
Required Skills:
- Experience: 10+ Years in Backend Development; 3+ Years in large-scale, microservices-based projects.
- Backend Technologies: Proficiency in Python, Node.js, and Java.
- Cloud Expertise: Strong experience with AWS services (Lambda, SQS, SNS).
- Database Skills: Expertise in MySQL and NoSQL databases.
- Microservices Architecture: Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability.
- DevOps Tools: Hands-on experience with Docker.
- API Development: Proven expertise in designing and consuming REST APIs.
- Soft Skills: Excellent problem-solving and communication abilities.
Why Join Us?
- Work on impactful projects with real-world applications.
- Solve complex problems in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Collaborate with a team of skilled professionals.
About StepSecurity
StepSecurity, a US-based cybersecurity startup prevents, detects, and responds to software supply chain attacks by analyzing behavior across the full software development lifecycle for both developers and AI coding agents. We are building a vertical AI agent for supply chain security across three pillars: securing AI agents on developer machines, OSS package security, and CI/CD security, covering the entire agentic pipeline from dev environment to cloud.
We are a 16-person team, founded by Varun Sharma (ex-Microsoft, 21 years, led supply chain security for Azure) and Ashish Kurmi (ex-Uber, Microsoft, Plaid, 17 years).
About the Job
We are seeking backend engineers to build and maintain our CI/CD security platform's backend systems and components (GitHub Actions). This high-impact role involves setting best practices and owning engineering processes, with contributions used by thousands of developers globally. Our primary languages are Golang and Node.js.
Requirements
- 2–5 years of experience, strong engineering fundamentals (cyber security background not mandatory), AI-native mindset, comfortable with a hands-on zero-to-one environment. We use Golang as our primary language.
- Must-haves: Golang backend programming; AWS/Azure/GCP background; scalable/fault-tolerant system design.
- For all engineering positions, prior early-stage startup experience is a must-have requirement.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Solid understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices.Expertise in building scalable and fault-tolerant systems.
- Strong collaborative and problem-solving skills.
- Self-motivated, creative thinker with a drive for continuous improvement.
- Experience in a startup or high-impact, outcome-driven environment.
Location
India remote. Candidates should be able to overlap a few hours with Pacific Time (PT) when working on urgent customer issues as required.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable software solutions.
- Architect and implement CI/CD components (GitHub Actions).
- Deliver features incrementally in quick iterations.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following industry best practices.
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
- Troubleshoot and debug complex software issues promptly.
Why Join Us
- StepSecurity is at the forefront of supply chain security research and product development. We were the first to detect several major supply chain attacks in 2025 and 2026 such as the axios npm compromise, tj-actions, etc (https://www.stepsecurity.io/newsroom)
- Our research and findings are regularly cited by major publications such as Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Hacker News, and Dark Reading. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the primary cybersecurity agency for the US federal government, has published several cybersecurity advisories citing StepSecurity (e.g., https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/09/23/widespread-supply-chain-compromise-impacting-npm-ecosystem)
- In addition to having several enterprise customers, StepSecurity has been adopted by more than 15,000 open-source projects, including projects from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Datadog, and others.
- Engineers joining now get to work on hard, high-impact problems at the intersection of security, AI, and open source, with meaningful equity upside at an early stage.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Tech Lead who can drive the development of high-performance, scalable products while contributing hands-on to coding, architecture, and system design. You will work closely with a small engineering team, guiding them in technology decisions, quality delivery, and best practices while also taking ownership of key modules yourself.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end product development from design to deployment.
- Act as both a technical contributor and mentor within a small, agile team.
- Architect scalable, robust, and secure backend and frontend systems.
- Participate in and guide:
- System design & architecture decisions
- Algorithmic analysis and performance optimization
- Database modeling and API design
- Write clean, maintainable, high-quality code.
- Own deployment pipelines and ensure reliable production releases.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable technical plans.
- Conduct code reviews, enforce coding standards, and ensure engineering excellence.
- Troubleshoot and solve complex technical challenges in production environments.
Required Technical Skills
- Strong expertise in Node.js and/or Python.
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript and React.js for frontend development.
- Knowledge of Go (Golang) is a strong advantage.
- Deep understanding of:
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- System Design
- Distributed systems concepts
- Microservices architecture
- Experience with deployment using:
- Docker, Kubernetes, or similar orchestration tools
- CI/CD pipelines
- Cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure)
- Strong understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL).
Soft Skills
- Strong leadership and ability to guide a small development team.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ownership mindset with focus on delivering quality, on time.
- Problem-solver with the ability to make quick and correct technical decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
- 4–10 years of experience in software development.
- Prior experience in a startup or fast-moving product environment.
- Experience deploying and managing real-world products at scale.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to build and influence real products end-to-end.
- A collaborative, high-ownership environment.
- Freedom to experiment and drive product and engineering decisions.
Strong skills in Go language
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain REST APIs
- Proficient in Python or any other programming language
- Experience in writing Unit/Integration tests.
- Experience with Distributed Version Control System.
- Elasticsearch or Solr experience.
- NOSQL experience- Cassandra, MongoDB.
- Experience in Message brokers - Rabbitmq.
- Experience with AWS Infrastructure, Lambda, Docker/Containers
Desired to have:
- Should be pragmatic and realize when a solution is over-engineered as well as knowing when to spend time on creating the right abstraction that allows us to move faster in the long run.
- Passion for your work and striving to do things “the right way”.
- Familiarity with Agile/Lean process.
- Willingness to work in a Startup environment.
- Excellent debugging and optimization skills.
- Knowledge of emerging technologies and a solid understanding of the full product development life cycle.
- Excellent knowledge of mobile user experience, information architecture and trends
Job description
We are Virtual Internships, an EdTech startup on a mission to bridge the gap between education and the workplace by making internships accessible to all.
Over the last four years, we’ve established partnerships with 12,000+ companies, 100+ universities, and supported thousands of students and graduates in becoming more employable via our online work experience product.
We are a team of 130+ across 25+ countries, and recently https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/virtual-internships-matches-students-with-top-companies-around-the-world/">secured our Series A funding from investors such as Hambro Perks, Sequoia Capital, Kaplan, Arsenal Growth, and Ascend Vietnam Ventures - who have collectively guided the likes of Google, Linkedin, WhatsApp, Canva, Udemy, and Applyboard.
Our 2022 awards include:
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Ranked 23rd out of 13,000 organizations in https://www.escapethecity.org/escape100/2022?utm_source=media_kit&utm_medium=blogpr&utm_campaign=esc100_2022&utm_id=launch">The Escape 100: the top purposeful organisations to ‘escape’ to in 2022
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https://www.techinasia.com/50-rising-startups-southeast-asia">Tech in Asia’s “Top 50 Rising Startups” (No.6 in Vietnam)
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Top100 EdTechStartup Selected by https://www.holoniq.com/notes/holoniq-europe-edtech-100/">HolonIQ
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Finalist for https://www.businessleader.co.uk/gotech-awards-22-finalists/">Go:Tech Awards
Your Role
Become one of our new Senior Software Engineers, where you will play a role in building an enterprise-level WordPress platform. If you want to work in a flexible environment where you can own technology, strategies, design, and build new systems from scratch using the tools YOU choose, read on!
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Work with the Marketing team to conduct a plan for building the website and scale-up plan yearly.
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Development/Deployment of enterprise-level WordPress plugins and themes in a WordPress VIP multi-site environment.
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Building and collaborating with developers from other teams to create modular, extensible PHP and JS solutions (plugins, packages, blocks, and components).
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To create own themes based on requirements from HTML scratch.
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Local Development Environment Setup/Configuration.
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Theme and Plugin Security.
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Understanding of best standards and guidelines about WordPress.org.
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Ability to handle complex problems from design to execution and deliver in time bound manner under constraints.
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Autonomously architect, prototype, and maintain solutions to different problems.
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Comfortable wearing many hats and willing to work on all parts of the stack.
Your Impact
In your first month, you will:
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Get onboarded and brought up to speed with all things VI - our company structure, product, mission, and values
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Meet with colleagues across the company and start building relationships that will help you better understand the company
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Review our current programs, systems, and data so you can gain insight into where we currently are
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Take over our new WordPress website which is in setting phase
Within 3 months, you will:
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Take ownership of your role and started working directly with stakeholders.
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Have strong relationships with our external vendors and be the front line of people support for the company
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Deliver 1st version of the new website.
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Coordinate with analysis to set up Google Analytics and other tools.
Within 6 months, you will:
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Work with the Marketing team to maintain, and improvement by the analyst result of the new website.
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Be a strong technical advisor for the marketing team about SEO/other Google and WordPress technologies.
Job Requirements
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A Bachelor’s degree is preferred.
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Extensive experience in writing and building PHP applications at scale using object-oriented coding, namespace, autoloading, dependency injection, PHPCS, Psalm, PHPUnits etc., as well as interacting with REST API/ GraphQL
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Familiarity with WordPress development (multisite, configuration, parent/child themes, plugins, Gutenberg) and understanding of security concerns and site optimization for performance.
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Possesses an understanding of and commitment to web standards, including web accessibility standards (WCAG)
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Familiarity with package managers for PHP (Composer) and JS (NPM/Yarn)
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Familiarity with PSR specifications
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Previous working experience with Code versioning and code review
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Previous working experience with Docker, Git, and dependency management via Composer
Consider this our wish list. We know there will be great candidates that don't meet every one of these criteria—if you're passionate about the role and have early-stage startup experience, we'd still love to hear from you.
What do we offer?
One of our core values at Virtual Internships is transparency. That’s why, we’re allowing you to ‘try before you apply’ in our “https://www.notion.so/virtualinternship/Virtual-Internships-VI-P-GUIDE-0aaa39e9a3304d4cbc19fad96bd0c72d">VI-P Guide” which includes our values, how we operate, how we build our packages, and how we interview.
To give you an example of some of our perks and benefits:
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Flexible Working Hours - start earlier, leave earlier, take a shorter lunch or leave a bit later, it's totally up to you.
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Remote First - work from anywhere, with a budget to support your remote setup
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Learn from the world’s best - access to exclusive content including how-to guides and playbooks from Sequoia/500Global-backed organizations
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Professional Development Budget - dedicated budget towards content/platforms/courses that can contribute to your professional growth
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Impact - we’re still at an early stage, so your impact is magnified. You will likely be solving something that hasn’t already been solved or you will be taking something to an entirely new level!
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Birthday Leave - go enjoy yourself on your birthday without needing to use your annual leave
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Meritocracy - a culture that prides itself on internal promotions and meritocracy. The majority of our managerial team has risen up (quickly), including our COO, CAO, CFO, Head of Host Companies, and Head of Intern Experience.
Roles and Responsibilities:-
- Work with a tight-knit team of engineers and Product managers to deliver features & functionalities that delight our customers
- Build end-to-end systems that powers the health insurance stack - payments, onboarding, claims & integrations.
- Build for high observability, improve performance and remove bottlenecks within the application and infrastructure.
- Participate in design meetings, code reviews, mentoring new starters, technical interviews, and contribute to growing the team.
Experience and Qualifications:-
- 5+ years of experience in Go or Java.
- Proven experience in building scalable backend systems (databases, middleware and APIs).
- Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
- Excellent analytical and time management skills.
You will be building efficient, scalable & high performance microservices and applications which will power the network of thousands of retailers across the country and at the same time improve the efficiency and visibility of information flow in our supply chain systems.
Your core responsibilities:
- Create elegant, efficient and maintainable software to support and extend our current products.
- Solve complex architectural challenges when implementing new features.
- Integrate with databases, file systems, cloud services when delivering scalable solutions.
- Troubleshoot and fix reported customer issues, delivering software patches as needed.
- Assisting in making design decisions based on performance, scalability, security, and future expansion.
- Communicating and collaborating with management, product, QA teams.
What will help you thrive in this role?
- Degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer.
- Proficiency in web development using any of the languages: PHP, Python, Java, NodeJS or Golang.
- Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, system architecture & design, databases, development, and testing methodologies.
- Good in Design (HLD and LLD).
- Good in Database schema design.
- Good to have experience with AWS or Google Cloud or Azure and serverless architecture.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Track record of delivering successful products as an engineer.
- Experience with large applications of some scale will be a plus.
- Ability to deep dive, understand & improve the legacy code.
- Domain knowledge of supply chain & retail industry is a plus.
Whom you will be sharing your work day with?
We are a language agnostic engineering team of independent thinkers who understand the priorities of a rapidly growing startup and excel at choosing high impact projects. Our core beliefs are:- We are in the forefront of disrupting traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
- We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of open source community.
- We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
- We use a data driven approach to build new products and features.
- Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
- We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.
And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office everyday.
Work Perks
- Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere.
- A great salary, commensurate with experience.
- Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
- A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
- Weekly parties (Unofficial).
- Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
- Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.












