Backend Engineer

Passionate about education? Join us at CK-12 !!

CK-12 (www.ck12.org) is on the lookout for talented, creative, and dedicated people to join our mission to provide great education to students around the world. We are looking for candidates to join our office in Bangalore.

We have a strong education platform that has served over 352+ Million users, have got over 2.88+ Billion questions answered, and have more than 350 thousand customized Flexbooks. We have embarked on an exciting journey to build an AI-powered student tutor and Teacher Assistant to build the next generation of learning platforms.

About CK-12 Foundation

CK-12’s mission is to provide free access to open-source content and technology tools that empower students as well as teachers to enhance and experiment with different learning styles, resources, levels of competence, and circumstances.

To achieve this noble and ambitious vision, we at CK-12 are challenging the traditional model of education to transform it dramatically. Technology has opened up lots of opportunities to revolutionize education for the benefit of students, teachers and parents.

We have chosen to be non-profit so that we can effectively realize our mission and do the right thing! It also provides us with the ability to experiment with big and bold ideas. CK-12 is backed by Vinod Khosla, a renowned technology venture capitalist.

At CK-12, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative and non-bureaucratic environment where you will get a lot of cool things done than you ever imagined! We are a small group of passionate folks who are determined to disrupt the current form of education.

Technology is key to scale education and we deeply believe in it. Come develop great solutions on our cloud-based (AWS) and AI-first platform delivering rich and interactive content.

Does our mission, people and technologies excite you? If the answer is YES! and you are a great technologist who will challenge status-quo (no order takers please!) by innovating, please come join us! Together, we will change the world!

Check out our latest product offerings

• Introducing Flexi 2.0
• Flexi, our AI-powered Student Tutor – https://www.flexi.org/
• AI-powered Teacher Assistant – https://www.ck12.org/pages/teacher-assistant/

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Backend Engineer

Basic

● Design, maintain, and monitor infrastructure for data products

● Design and develop RESTful APIs for the data infrastructure

● Design, implement and drive adoption of new analytic technologies and solutions

● Work closely with data scientists, front end engineers and peers to gather requirements and

develop solutions

● Handle and resolve issues escalated from the production operational environment.

● Troubleshoot performance, reliability, and scalability issues.

● Excellent Problem solving skills

● A Code Craftsman that follows best software development and coding practices delivering

understandable and maintainable code with thorough unit tests coverage

Requirements

● 6+ years of development experience with Java, Scala, and/or Python

● Experience with writing and executing queries on RDBMS and NoSQL databases. Working knowledge of MongoDB, MySQL. We are not looking for a DBA.

● Experience with ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Vector Embeddings, and large-scale search systems.

● Experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency backend services in production environments.

● Experience with horizontal and vertical scaling strategies, load balancing, caching, rate

limiting, and performance optimization.

● Experience identifying and resolving application bottlenecks through profiling, monitoring, and performance tuning.

● Experience in virtualization technologies and deployment frameworks (familiarity with working on UNIX shell, Jenkins.)

● Bachelors or masters degree in computer science or equivalent

Desired

● Experience working with FastAPI/Pylons Web Framework.

● Familiarity with messaging and distributed processing systems such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, or Celery.

● Experience designing systems to support millions of requests, large datasets, and high-concurrency workloads.

● Adept at AI Coding assistants, leveraging them beyond prompting. Working experience in Skill and tool development and usage in AI Coding tools.

● Experience with AWS EC2, Redshift, RDS, S3

Job Title: Golang Developer

Location: Kolkata

Job Type: Full-time

Working Days: 5 Days (Rotational off)

About the Role:

We are seeking a skilled Golang Developer with experience in Golang, Node.js, WebSocket

communication, and API development. In this role, you will work closely with our development

team to design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend systems and real-time

applications.

Key Responsibilities:

 Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Golang code.

 Develop scalable APIs and microservices.

 Integrate and build real-time communication using WebSocket protocols.

 Collaborate with frontend developers and other team members to establish objectives

and design more functional, cohesive systems.

 Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

 Optimize applications for maximum performance, scalability, and security.

 Participate in code reviews, contribute to team knowledge, and continuously improve

development processes.

 Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.

 Occasionally work with Node.js services and modules when needed.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

 Min 3+ years of experience in backend development with Golang.

 Solid understanding of Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript.

 Hands-on experience with WebSocket integration and real-time applications.

 Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, API design principles, and API documentation. Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

 Good understanding of concurrent programming and microservices architecture.

 Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus.

 Knowledge of containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.

 Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a proactive attitude.

**Company Overview**

We are a VC-backed fintech startup developing an innovative online trading platform. As we scale, we're seeking a skilled Backend Engineer with expertise in Python to join our growing team and help build a robust, scalable infrastructure for our cutting-edge trading application.

We're based out of the UK and have our engineering team in India.

**Job Description**

We are looking for a backend developer who specialises in Python. Your role will focus on developing and maintaining the server-side logic, optimising performance, and ensuring seamless integration with the frontend. You’ll work closely with the engineering and product teams to deliver a high-quality, secure, and scalable platform.

**Responsibilities**

1. Develop and maintain server-side logic using Python

2. Design and implement APIs for seamless integration with frontend components

3. Optimise backend performance and scalability for high traffic and large data loads

4. Build and maintain databases, ensuring security, data integrity, and optimal performance

5. Collaborate with frontend engineers to ensure smooth integration between backend and frontend systems

6. Troubleshoot, debug, and optimise backend infrastructure

7. Implement data protection, security protocols, and authentication mechanisms (e.g., JWT)

8. Maintain and enhance real-time communication systems using WebSockets or similar protocols

**Required Skills**

1. Strong proficiency in Python and related technologies, knowledge of databases and SQL, and experience with web frameworks like Django or FastAPI

2. Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, and the ability to solve problems

3. Good understanding of OOPs, task broking services, Queues, Redis

4. Familiarity with RESTful API design and integration

5. Strong understanding of database management (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis) and caching strategies

6. Familiarity with modern authentication and authorization mechanisms (e.g., JWT, OAuth)

7. Proficiency in working with cloud hosting services (AWS, Google Cloud, etc.)

8. Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)

9. Knowledge of real-time communication protocols (e.g., WebSockets, TCP, SSE)

10. Strong understanding of security best practices for server-side applications

11. Experience with version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines

12. Minimum of 2-3.5 years of experience building scalable backend systems

**Perks**

1. Work From Anywhere Flexibility

2. Unlimited Leaves policy*

3. Competitive salary and unlimited growth opportunities

4. Insights on how HFT is done using cutting edge technology

If you’re passionate about building scalable, high-performance backend systems and want to be part of a cutting-edge fintech startup, we’d love to hear from you!

JOB DESCRIPTION: BACKEND DEVELOPER

Do you want to work in a fast growing company by doing meaningful work and have fun doing it? Remitbee, a FinTech with headquarters in Canada and office in Chennai is seeking a skilled Backend developer with experience in Node JS. Individuals who apply for Remitbee careers should be passionate about tech and driven towards innovating the industry further with the Remitbee team. This position will be based out of Chennai or Remote.

This position also comes with the opportunity for career growth and working hour flexibility. We look forward to reading your application. At least 3+ years of experience in backend technologies like Node.js, Express, Sequelize

What will you do?

• Work in an agile team of developers, QA, DevOps and founders
• Implement new systems and redesign legacy systems, using leading technologies, to support advancing Research business requirements
• Research and analyze business and system needs. Explore solution options to recommend designs and technologies
• Writing test cases
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Skills and requirements:

• At least 3 years of experience in backend technologies like Node.js, Express, Sequelize
• Experience with automated task runners such as Grunt or Gulp
• Experience in Database like MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Comfortable applying engineering best practices for Test Driven Development, integration testing version control, release management, work estimation and planning
• Experience to work with Rest and GraphQL APIs
• You know how to use Git,
• You are passionate about code quality. Writing tests and documentation belong to your natural workflow.
• Participate in or lead all parts of the software development lifecycle, including analysis, design, programming, testing, implementation, and support.
• A history of active contributions to open source projects

Type: Full time

Location: Chennai

Experience: 3+yrs (Required)

Notice Period: 0-30 days (Preferred)

Work timing: 9 AM - 6PM IST

• Writing scalable, robust,, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code

• Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software

• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient micro services distributed architectur

• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms

• Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns

• Experience with the full site of Go frameworks and tools, including:

  • Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc.
  • Go’s templating language
  • Go’s code generation tools, such as Stringer
  • Popular Go web frameworks, such as Revel
  • Router packages, such as Gorilla Mux

• Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments

• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

Backend Developer

Role : Backend Developer

Department : Technology Team

Experience : 2 - 3 Years of working experience in Backend

Experience in a related position from Gaming Industry would be preferred 

Location : South Delhi; 5 Day Working

Qualification : Bachelor’s degree in Technology

Major Skills : Java, NodeJs, Microservices, Data Structures, etc

Ideal Candidate Requirements :

• Experience in development of Java and NodeJs based applications.
• Experience in building microservices from scratch to production level.
• Strong experience in Core Java and MultiThreading
• Good Knowledge of Data Structures
• Worked on Oracle, REDIS and DYNOMITE
• Good Knowledge of Telecom Protocol SIP

Ideal Candidate Skills Requirements :-

• Distributed systems - Microservices - Algorithm design, System Design
• Performance Engineering, Scalability and Architecture
• Gaming Models, Matching and Allocation Algorithms
• Spring Boot, Hibernate, Java reactive, JPA 
• Relational Databases - MSSQL,
• Design Patterns : MVC, Singleton, Adapter, Factory, Builder, Strategy
• Messaging Queues - Apache Kafka
• Cache - Redis
• Search - Elastic Search
• Java
• NoSQL - Mongo, Cassandra 
• Jenkins, GIT, BitBucket, JIRA