Backend Engineer - SDE2

Role: Technical Co-Founder

Experience: 3+ years (Mandatory)

Compensation: Equity Only (No Salary)

Requirements:

Strong full-stack development skills

Experience building web applications from scratch

Able to manage complete tech independently

Startup mindset & owne

rship attitude

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role for a Python Developer located in Pune. The Python Developer will be responsible for back-end web development, software development, and programming using Python. Day-to-day tasks include developing, testing, and maintaining scalable web applications and server-side logic, as well as optimizing performance and integrating user-facing elements with server-side logic. The role also demands collaboration with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the backend development team, ensuring best practices in coding, architecture, and performance optimization.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Python and FastAPI.
• Architect and optimize databases, ensuring efficient storage and retrieval of data using MongoDB.
• Integrate AI models and data science workflows into enterprise applications.
• Implement and manage AWS cloud services, including Lambda, S3, EC2, and other AWS components.
• Automate deployment pipelines using Jenkins and CI/CD best practices.
• Ensure security and reliability, implementing best practices for authentication, authorization, and data privacy.
• Monitor and troubleshoot system performance, optimizing infrastructure and codebase.
• Collaborate with data scientists, front-end engineers, and product team to build AI-driven solutions.
• Stay up to date with the latest technologies in AI, backend development, and cloud computing.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3-4 years of experience in backend development with Python.
• Strong experience in FastAPI framework.
• Proficiency in MongoDB or other NoSQL databases.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (Lambda, S3, EC2, etc.).
• Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines.
• Data Science knowledge with experience integrating AI models and data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
• Experience in performance tuning, caching, and security best practices.
• Proficiency in working with Docker and containerized applications.

As a Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer, you will take ownership of backend systems and cloud infrastructure. You’ll work closely with our CTO and cross-functional teams (hardware, AI, frontend) to design scalable, fault- tolerant architectures and ensure reliable deployment pipelines.

1. What You’ll Do :

• Backend Development: Maintain and evolve our Node.js (TypeScript) and Python backend services with a focus on performance and scalability.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Manage our infrastructure on GCP and Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Storage, Functions, AppEngine, PubSub, Cloud Tasks). 
• Database Management: Handle Firestore and other NoSQL DBs. Lead database schema design and migration strategies.
• Pipelines & Automation: Build robust real-time and batch data pipelines. Automate CI/CD and testing for backend and frontend services.
• Monitoring & Uptime: Deploy tools for observability (logging, alerts, debugging). Ensure 99.9% uptime of critical services.
• Dev Environments: Set up and manage developer and staging environments across teams.
• Quality & Security: Drive code reviews, implement backend best practices, and enforce security standards.
• Collaboration: Partner with other engineers (AI, frontend, hardware) to integrate backend capabilities seamlessly into our global system.

Must-Haves :

• 5+ years of experience in backend development and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong expertise in Node.js (TypeScript) and/or Python.
• Advanced skills in NoSQL databases (Firestore, MongoDB, DynamoDB...).
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms, preferably GCP and Firebase.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, DevOps tools, and automation.
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems and performance tuning.
• Experience setting up and managing development & staging environments. 

• Proficiency in English and remote communication.

Good to have :

• Event-driven architecture experience (e.g., Pub/Sub, MQTT).
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Google Monitoring).
• Previous work on large-scale SaaS products.
• Knowledge of telecommunication protocols (MQTT, WebSockets, SNMP).
• Experience with edge computing on Nvidia Jetson devices.

What We Offer :

• Competitive salary for the Indian market (depending on experience).
• Remote-first culture with async-friendly communication.
• Autonomy and responsibility from day one.
• A modern stack and a fast-moving team working on cutting-edge AI and cloud infrastructure.
• A mission-driven company tackling real-world environmental challenges. 

Job Overview

As a software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in leading our development efforts, ensuring best practices, and supporting the team on a day-to-day basis. This role requires deep technical knowledge, a proactive mindset, and a commitment to guiding the team in tackling challenging issues. You will work primarily with .NET Core on the backend while also keeping a strategic focus on product security, DevOps, quality assurance, and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Forward-Looking Product Development:

o Collaborate with product and engineering teams to align on the technical

direction, scalability, and maintainability of the product.

o Proactively consider and address security, performance, and scalability

requirements during development.

• Cloud and Infrastructure: Leverage Microsoft Azure for cloud infrastructure,
• ensuring efficient and secure use of cloud services. Work closely with DevOps to
• improve deployment processes.
• DevOps & CI/CD: Support the setup and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, enabling
• smooth and frequent deployments. Collaborate with the DevOps team to automate and
• optimize the development process.
• Technical Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and support to team members,
• helping them solve day-to-day challenges, enhance code quality, and adopt best
• practices.
• Quality Assurance: Collaborate with QA to ensure thorough testing, automated testing
• coverage, and overall product quality.
• Product Security: Actively implement and promote security best practices to protect
• data and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Documentation & Code Reviews: Promote good coding practices, conduct code
• reviews, and maintain clear documentation.
• Qualifications

• Technical Skills:

o Strong experience with .NET Core for backend development and RESTful API

design.

o Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services, including but not limited

to VMs, databases, application gateways, and user management.

o Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools, particularly CI/CD pipeline

configuration and deployment automation.

o Strong knowledge of product security best practices and experience implementing secure coding practices.

o Familiarity with QA processes and automated testing tools is a plus.

o Ability to support team members in solving technical challenges and sharing

knowledge effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on .NET Core
• Previous experience as a Staff SE, tech lead, or in a similar hands-on tech role.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, startup environment.
• What We Offer
• Opportunity to lead and grow within a dynamic and ambitious team.
• Challenging projects that focus on innovation and cutting-edge technology.
• Collaborative work environment with a focus on learning, mentorship, and growth.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and stock options.
• If you’re a proactive, forward-thinking technology leader with a passion for .NET Core and you’re ready to make an impact, we’d love to meet you!

 Strong written/verbal communication skills

·        Minimum 2-15 Years of Core Java Programming with Collections Framework, Concurrent Programming, Multi-threading (Good knowledge in Executor service, Forkjoin pool and other threading concepts)

·        Good knowledge of the JVM with an understanding of performance and memory optimization.

·        Extensive and expert programming experience in JAVA programming language (strong OO skills preferred).

·        Excellent knowledge on collections like, Array List, Vector, LinkedList, Hashmap, HashTable, HashSet is mandate.

·        Exercised exemplary development practices including design specification, coding standards, unit testing, and code-reviews.

·        Expert level understanding of Object-Oriented Concepts and Data Structures

·        Good experience in Database (Sybase, Oracle or SQL Server) like indexing (clustered, non-clustered), hashing, segmenting, data types like clob / blob, views (materialized), replication, constraints, functions, triggers, procedures etc.

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About the role:

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer with expertise in building scalable, extensible applications, identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, collaborate with other team members to innovate current/new products; Identify, communicate and implement best practices for application engineering. Our engineering process is fully agile and has a really fast release cycles - which keeps our environment very energetic and fun.

What you’ll do:

• Architect, Design and build scalable applications.
• Work with Product Management teams to get maximum value out of existing data.
• Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements software system.
• Ensure high scalability and performance
• You will advocate for good, clean, well-documented and performing code; define and follow standards and best practices for front-end development.
• Ability to deliver great results in an agile development
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

We’d love for you to have:

• Experience: 3-5 years of experience as a backend developer is required
• Education: B.Tech. in Computer Science from tier - 1 engineering colleges in India

• A self-starter who is passionate about problem solving across complex technology stack.
• Highly skilled back-end engineer using Object-Oriented programming preferably Java, exposure to open source libraries and frameworks.
• Strong knowledge and experience in REST based programming using Restlet framework.
• Ability and experience in evaluation and integration of third party systems and libraries.
• Experience in system architecture, data structures, algorithm design and their optimization.
• Passion for performance benchmarking and debugging.
• Strong knowledge of web standards (i.e. REST/SOAP) concepts
• Knowledge of version control (GIT) and databases (MySQL)
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle, design, develop, debug, document, and deliver (especially in a multiple location organization).
• Experience in Test-driven development.

• Should be comfortable working in support with development projects
• Experience working on Spring (MVC, Boot, Batch, Security, Data)
• 4-5 years experience in Java-J2EE Development.
• Individual contributor.
• Extensive technical experience and development expertise in Core Java, J2EE.
• Experience working with and applying Design patterns to solve problems.
• Good in development code in Java/J2EE, new oracle query, procedures, functions, design the page, validate of java/Script
• Should be able to identify, track and mitigate risks to the product.

GeoSpoc is looking for passionate backend developers who would like to solve complex business problems using location-aware data and cutting-edge tools and technologies such as microservices and cloud platforms such as AWS.

• A passionate developer with solid understanding of software basics  
• Always willing to learn and explore upcoming technologies
• Pro-active, reliable and result oriented
• Someone who can continuously perform in a fast-paced environment

• Write effective, scalable code
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications
• Test and debug programs
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions

• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework (like Django, Flask or Pyramid)
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)

• Writing and testing code, debugging programs and integrating applications with third-party web services
• Work closely with small teams of designers, frontend developers, GIS experts as well as business stakeholders
• Own the development lifecycle of backend systems from design to deployment
• Go above and beyond to deliver great quality software solutions on time

• You will be responsible for design, development and testing of Products
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle

• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications

• Prepare and produce releases of software components

• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

• Some of the technologies you will be working on: Core Java, Solr, Hadoop, Spark, Elastic search, Clustering, Text Mining, NLP, Mahout and Lucene etc.