Backend Engineer

We are looking for passionate people who love solving interesting and complex technology challenges, who are enthusiastic about building an industry first innovative product to solve new age real world problems. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence. As a Backend SDE-2, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization's goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and prepare technology roadmaps.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with releational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

AccioJob is conducting an offline hiring drive with Gaian Solutions India for the position of Backend Developer Intern.

Required Skills - DSA + Java/Node/Python

Apply Here - https://go.acciojob.com/DrWfTr

Eligibility -

• Degree: B.Tech/BE/BCA/MCA/M.Tech
• Graduation Year: 2023, 2024, and 2025
• Branch: All Branches
• Work Location: Hyderabad

Compensation -

• Internship stipend: 20- 25k 
• Internship duration: 3 months
• CTC:- 4.5-6 LPA

Evaluation Process -

• Assessment at the AccioJob Skill Centre in Hyderabad
• 2 Technical Interviews at Gaian Solutions India Office (Hyderabad)

Apply Here - https://go.acciojob.com/DrWfTr

Important: Please bring your laptop & earphones for the test.

Join an innovative and groundbreaking cybersecurity startup focused on helping customers identify, mitigate, and protect against ever-evolving cyber threats. With the current geopolitical climate, organizations need to stay ahead of malicious threat actors as well as nation-state actors. Cybersecurity teams are getting overwhelmed, and they need intelligent systems to help them focus on addressing the biggest and current risks first.

We help organizations protect their assets and customer data by continuously evaluating the new threats and risks to their cloud environment. This will, in turn, help mitigate the high-priority threats quickly so that the engineers can spend more time innovating and providing value to their customers.

About the Engineering Team:

We have several decades of experience working in the security industry, having worked on some of the most cutting-edge security technology that helped protect millions of customers. We have built technologies from the ground up, partnered with the industry on innovation, and helped customers with some of the most stringent requirements. We leverage industry and academic experts and veterans for their unique insight. Security technology includes all facets of software engineering work from data analytics and visualization, AI/ML processing, highly distributed and available services with real-time monitoring, integration with various other services, including protocol-level work. You will be learning from some of the best engineering talent with multi-cloud expertise.

We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead the development and scaling of our backend systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in distributed systems, database management, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies. As a key technical leader, you will design, implement, and optimize critical backend services, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and Develop Distributed Systems: Design and implement scalable, distributed systems using microservices architecture. Expertise in both synchronous (REST/gRPC) and asynchronous communication patterns (message queues, Kafka), with a strong emphasis on building resilient services that can handle large data and maintain high throughput. Craft cloud solutions tailored to specific needs, choosing appropriate AWS services and optimizing resource utilization to ensure performance and high availability.
• Database Architecture & Optimization: Lead efforts to design and manage databases with a focus on scaling, replication, query optimization, and managing large datasets.
• Performance & Reliability: Engage in continuous learning and innovation to improve customer satisfaction. Embrace accountability and respond promptly to service issues to maintain and enhance system health. Ensure the backend systems meet high standards for performance, reliability, and scalability, identifying and solving bottlenecks and architectural challenges by leveraging various observability tools (such as Prometheus and Grafana).
• Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, guiding architecture decisions, reviewing code, and helping to build a strong engineering culture. Stay abreast of the latest industry trends in cloud technology, adopting best practices to continuously improve our services and security measures.

Key Qualifications:

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, with at least 5 years of experience in building distributed systems.
• Technical Expertise:
• Distributed Systems: Extensive experience with microservices architecture, working with both synchronous (REST, gRPC) and asynchronous patterns (SNS, SNQ). Strong understanding of service-to-service authentication and authorization, API rate limiting, and other critical aspects of scalable systems.
• Database: Expertise in database technologies with experience working with large datasets, optimizing queries, handling replication, and creating views for performance. Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Cassandra). Expertise in various database technologies and deep experience with creating data models that provide consistent data views to the customer while data is being morphed, handling data migrations, and ensuring data integrity and high availability.
• Kubernetes: In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, with experience deploying and managing services in Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS). Strong understanding of pods, services, networking, and scaling applications within Kubernetes environments.
• Golang: Proven experience using Golang as the primary programming language for backend development. Deep understanding of concurrency, performance optimization, and scalability in Golang applications.
• Cloud Technologies: Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, RDS, EKS). Experience in designing and optimizing cloud-based architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Problem Solver: Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with a proven ability to design and optimize complex systems.
• Leadership: Experience in leading engineering teams, guiding architectural decisions, and mentoring junior engineers.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of GitHub-based CI/CD tools and best practices.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Cybersecurity experience.

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 5 years experience with the Django framework
• Experience with building APIs (REST or GraphQL) 
• Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
• React.js knowledge would be an added bonus 
• Understanding on how to use a database like Postgres (prefered choice), SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL.
• Sound knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis.
• A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.
• Strong communication skills.

Experience:

• Min 5 year experience
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location:

• Remote developer

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.