Backend Engineer

Backend Engineering Intern (Infrastructure Software) – Remote

Position Type: Internship (Full-Time or Part-Time)

Location: Remote

Duration: 12 weeks

Compensation: Unpaid (***3000 INR is just a placeholder***)

About the Role

We are seeking a motivated Backend Developer Intern to join our engineering team and contribute to building scalable, efficient, and secure backend services. This internship offers hands-on experience in API development, database management, and backend architecture, with guidance from experienced developers. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver features that power our applications and improve user experience.

Responsibilities

• Assist in designing, developing, and maintaining backend services, APIs, and integrations.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to support application functionality and data flow.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Support database design, optimization, and query performance improvements.
• Participate in code reviews, debugging, and troubleshooting production issues.
• Assist with unit testing, integration testing, and ensuring system reliability.
• Work with cloud-based environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) to deploy and manage backend systems.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Familiarity with one or more backend languages/frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Python/Django, Java/Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails).
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL.
• Basic knowledge of relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Familiarity with version control (Git/GitHub).
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, collaborative environment.

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have)

• Experience with cloud services (AWS Lambda, S3, EC2, etc.).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Basic understanding of authentication and authorization (OAuth, JWT).
• Interest in backend performance optimization and scalability.

What You’ll Gain

• Hands-on experience building backend systems for real-world applications.
• Exposure to industry-standard tools, workflows, and coding practices.
• Mentorship from experienced backend engineers.
• Opportunity to contribute to live projects impacting end users.

We are seeking an experienced & highly skilled Java Lead to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both front end & Back-end Technologies with expertise in JAVA, and Spring.

As a Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing the development

team, architecture saleable application & ensuring best practices in software development. This role requires a hands on leader with excellent problem solving abilities & a passion for mentoring junior

team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead & mentor a team of developers proving guidance on coding standards, architecture & best
• practices
• Architect, design & develop ent to end JAVA based web applications & ensure high performance,
• security & scalability
• Work closely with cross functional teams, including product managers, designers & other developers
• to ensure alignment on project requirements & deliverable.
• Conduct code reviews & provide constructive feedback to team members to improve code quality &
• maintain a consistent codebase
• Participate in Agile/Scrum Ceremonies such as stand ups, sprint planning & retrospectives to
• contribute to the development process.
• Troubleshoot & resolve complex technical issues & ensure timely resolution of bugs & improvements.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies & industry trends recommending & implementing
• improvements to keep our stack modern & effective

Skills & Requirements

• Minimum 8 Years of experience in Java development, with at least 2 years in Lead developer role.
• Back-end - Core JAVA/JAVA8, Spring-boot, Spring Framework, Micro-services, Rest API’s, Kafka,
• Database - MySQL
• Must be working in the fintech/ Payments domain

Preferred

• Experience with Batch writing, Application performance, Caches security, Web Security

Skills Required:

- 4+ years of technical experience in a developer role

- Strong proficiency with Core Java

- Database experience preferably with DB2, Sybase, or Oracle

- Complete SDLC process and Agile Methodology (Scrum)

- Strong oral and written communication skills

- Excellent interpersonal skills and professional approach

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or other technology/engineering discipline

Skill Desired:

-Strong proficiency with Scala on Spark

- Previous experience in front office and back office reports

- Strong understanding Order Life Cycle management from Equities or Listed derivatives perspective

- Previous experience in Trade Surveillance or working with data from the order lifecycle

- Good to have knowledge on Hadoop Technologies

- High quality software architecture and design methodologies and patterns

- Work experience as level-3 support for applications

- Layered Architecture, Component based Architecture

- XML-based technologies

- Unix OS, Scripting, Python or Perl

- Experience in development on other application types (Web applications, batch, or streaming)

• 2.5+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Experience in AWS.
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 2+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

About Us:

We’re a startup based in Hyderabad. We focus on making speech, text & structured data actionable. We are building an exciting range of products, and have paying customers.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Java Developer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate

will have 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in Java development, with a strong understanding

of software  development principles and methodologies. The Java Developer will be

responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions that

meet our clients' needs.

  Responsibilities:

·      Designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance and scalable Java applications.

·      Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

·      Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices.

·      Participating in code reviews and providing constructive feedback to peers.

·      Troubleshooting, debugging, and resolving technical issues in a timely manner.

·      Ensuring the performance, security, and scalability of applications.

·      Staying updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices.

·      Mentoring junior developers and assisting in their professional growth.

·      Develop Spring based server-side components of Enterprise applications.

·      Build self-dependent modules which can integrate with external applications.

·      Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications

·      Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency

What we will bring to the table:

·      Focused opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies

·      Exposure to key customers in India and abroad

·      Work closely with senior leadership that has already developed world class products

·      A learning environment

·      Challenging problems to solve

Relevant Experience

3 to 10 years

Job Description and Key Skills Required:

• Hands-on with any of the programming languages like NodeJS/ExpressJS, Python, Java, Php or any.
• Design and create efficient RESTful API endpoints for both internal and public consumption
• Strong understanding of database technologies such as MySQL, Postgress, Oracle , relational Database.
• Work closely with front end developers to understand required data model
• Comfortable deploying applications on AWS, and have a strong working knowledge of EC2, RDS and S3.
• Must understand overall system design, architecture , improve design and implement new processes.
• Strong understanding of sessions, cookies & local storage is must.
• Experience with in memory databases like redis basic, Memcache
• Independently think of solutions to complex requirements; possess exceptional logical skills.
• Analyse current products in development, including performance, scalability, diagnosis and troubleshooting.
• Work with the existing framework and evolve it by building reusable code & libraries
• Search and introduce new software related technologies, processes and tools.
• Bonus: You're fluent with React.
• Bonus: Interested in full-stack development.
• Bonus: Any experience of iOS/Android mobile development.
• Bonus: Experience with CI servers such as Jenkins, Travis or similar types
• Bonus: Experience with web server like Nginx