Backend Engineer

Role Overview

We are hiring a Principal Datacenter Backend Developer to architect and build highly scalable, reliable backend platforms for modern data centers. This role owns control-plane and data-plane services powering orchestration, monitoring, automation, and operational intelligence across large-scale on-prem, hybrid, and cloud data center environments.

This is a hands-on principal IC role with strong architectural ownership and technical leadership responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end backend architecture for datacenter platforms (orchestration, monitoring, DCIM, automation).
• Design and build high-availability distributed systems at scale.
• Develop backend services using Java (Spring Boot / Micronaut / Quarkus) and/or Python (FastAPI / Flask / Django).
• Build microservices for resource orchestration, telemetry ingestion, capacity and asset management.
• Design REST/gRPC APIs and event-driven systems.
• Drive performance optimization, scalability, and reliability best practices.
• Embed SRE principles, observability, and security-by-design.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical roadmap decisions.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in Java and/or Python.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud-native deployments.
• Databases: PostgreSQL/MySQL, NoSQL, time-series data.
• Messaging systems: Kafka / Pulsar / RabbitMQ.
• Observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch.
• Secure backend design (OAuth2, RBAC, audit logging).

Nice to Have

• Experience with DCIM, NMS, or infrastructure automation platforms.
• Exposure to hyperscale or colocation data centers.
• AI/ML-based monitoring or capacity planning experience.

Why Join

• Architect mission-critical platforms for large-scale data centers.
• High-impact principal role with deep technical ownership.
• Work on complex, real-world distributed systems problems.

Job Title: Backend Developer (Full Time)

Location: Remote

Interview: Virtual Interview

Experience Required: 3+ Years

Backend / API Development (About the Role)

• Strong proficiency in Python (FastAPI) or Node.js (Express) (Python preferred).
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and integrating APIs for production-grade applications.
• Hands-on experience deploying to serverless platforms such as Cloudflare Workers, Firebase Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
• Solid understanding of Google Cloud backend services (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Secret Manager, IAM roles).
• Expertise in API key and secrets management, ensuring compliance with security best practices.
• Skilled in secure API development, including HTTPS, authentication/authorization, input validation, and rate limiting.
• Track record of delivering scalable, high-quality backend systems through impactful projects in production environments.

Key Skills & Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Java 11 and above
• Hands-on expertise in Spring Boot and Microservices Architecture
• Strong Programming, Analytical, and Problem-Solving skills
• Proficiency with NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, Cosmos DB) and RDBMS (SQL/Oracle/Postgres)
• Experience with Messaging Queues (RabbitMQ/Kafka)
• Good understanding of Functional and Domain knowledge
• Expertise in Project Architecture & Data Flows
• Proficient in CI/CD tools (Jenkins or equivalent)
• Strong experience with Testing Frameworks: JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, BDD
• Basic knowledge of Cloud Platforms (Azure / AWS)
• Familiarity with Project Management Tools – JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow
• Monitoring tools knowledge like New Relic, Splunk, Nagios (good to have)

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Java 11+ and Spring Boot
• Build and manage microservices-based solutions ensuring high performance and low latency
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Implement best practices for CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment workflows
• Ensure code quality through unit testing, integration testing, and BDD practices
• Work with databases (SQL/NoSQL) for data modeling and optimization
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance system performance using tools like Splunk, New Relic, Nagios
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members

Job Description

Primary Skills

• Server Side (Java) & AWS serverless framework.
• Must have hands-on experience on serverless framework.
• Design knowledge/experience of cloud-based web application. Familiarity with software design representation tools like astah, visio etc.
• Must have good experience on AWS (Overall knowledge, EC2 Volume, EC2 Security Group, EC2 AMI, Lambda, S3, AWSbackup, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, IAM, SecretsManager, StepFunction, CostExplorer, KMS, VPC/Subnet)
• Understanding business requirements w.r.t UI/UX.
• Working experience on development/staging/production servers.
• Good testing and verification skills
• Knowledge on SSL certificates and encryption.
• Knowledge on Docker containerization.

Soft Skills

• Excellent interpersonal, oral and writing communication skills.
• Strong Analytical and Problem-solving skills.
• Should have skills to understand and analyzecustomers requirements and expectations.
• Must have experience in interaction with customer
• Work experiences with international cross-culture teams (Good to have)

Secondary SKills

• Scripting using Python
• Good to have knowledge of identity management
• UI/UX
• Knowledge of ReactJS/typescript/bootstrap
• Understanding business usecases w.r.t UI/UX
• Fixing issues wrt to integration on cloud(front end/back end/system/services APIs)

As a senior software engineer, you will contribute to our end-to-end supply chain platform. You'll work with all key stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable backend code and work with frontend developers to deliver amazing user experiences. We are building a design and process-centric culture where you'll play a key role in the implementation of the foundation of all our systems. Up for a challenge?

You are:

• A self-starter with a sense of what it takes to be successful as a team
• An agile - welcome change, do as little as possible and embrace continuous delivery
• Conscious about how quality is carried through from the UI to all layers underneath
• Opinionated, but flexible to accommodate the big picture

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements, provide estimates and deliver code in an agile setup
• Stay on top of all owned work and raise red flags as early as possible
• Define the architecture, best practices, and coding standards
• Support continuous technical improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and present them for architectural review 
• Motivate team members, coach junior members, and extend goodwill to other employees