Backend Engineer (Search and recommendation team)
at AI-driven automation tool for designers
✔ Defining the over all architecture and choose the best stack, components, and
subsystems for search & storage infrastructure
✔ Design & build user-friendly APIs for accessing the backend infrastructure
✔ Active mentoring on engineering best practices, reducing technical debt and
designing scale ready solutions.
✔ Proactively identify architectural gaps and enhancements and recommending
appropriate solutions.
✔ Work closely with the product and customer teams to effectively drive innovative
solutions and drive adoption of features.
Requirements
✔ Experience level 4+ years.
✔ A bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering
✔ Production experience with a scalable search engine or building storage
infrastructure for scaled out consumer companies.

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performance feedback
● Architect, design, and develop scalable backend services and APIs using Golang
● Own SQL database design, optimization, indexing, and performance tuning to ensure data integrity
and efficiency
● Work closely with Product, QA, DevOps, and Analytics teams to translate business requirements
into robust technical solutions
● Drive best practices in system design, code quality, security, and reliability
● Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across development, staging, and production
environments
● Oversee CI/CD pipelines and ensure smooth, reliable deployments
● Conduct and participate in code reviews to maintain high engineering standards
● Collaborate with QA teams to ensure thorough testing and high-quality releases
● Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends, recommending and implementing
improvements where applicable
● Foster a collaborative, innovative, and growth-oriented engineering culture
What You’ll Need
● 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years of hands-on Golang
development
● Proven experience leading or managing engineering teams
● Strong expertise in SQL databases (schema design, query optimization, indexing, performance
tuning)
● Hands-on experience with Columnar OLAP databases (Druid, ClickHouse, or similar)
● Hands-on experience with OLTP databases (ScyllaDB, Redis, or similar)
● Solid understanding of microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems
● Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure)
● Strong proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows
● Deep understanding of concurrency, performance optimization, and memory management in
Golang
Nice to Have:
● Experience with NoSQL databases and data modeling
● Exposure to messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar
● Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
● Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments
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- Strong understanding of software development principles (OOPS, REST APIs, etc. ) and tooling such Git
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Requirements:
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- Experience with API design and development, including RESTful APIs.
- Solid understanding of software development principles, including object-oriented programming, design patterns, and data structures.
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- Good knowledge of various Python Libraries, APIs, and tool kits.
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- React
- mongoDB
- AWS
- Docker
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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RESPONSIBILITIES
- Expert in Python with knowledge of Python best practices (PEP8)
- Strong knowledge of python web frameworks such as Django, Flask • Strong knowledge of building RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework • Good Understanding of Django ORM Libraries
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system • Strong experience on Linux
- Solid database skills in a relational database (i.e. PostgresSQL,MYSql) • Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes • Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (git)
- Experience deploying on AWS is desirable
- Experience with Docker,Test Drive Development will be a plus
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership, influence and communication skills • Experience in designing scalable micro-services is desirable
QUALIFICATIONS
- 1-3 years of experience as a backend developer
- At least one product build and published
- SKILLS Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code
- Work well under pressure and meet deadlines without sacrificing quality • Work with distributed development teams
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Lead the Software Team. Ensure consistent deliveries of planned features while ensuring code quality, testing standards, and processes are maintained.
• Work with the leadership team to cultivate and grow the Internal Software Team Culture at
• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design.
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at a large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
CANDIDATES MUST HAVE
• Experienced in designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of Python
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
• 3-5 years of experience building large-scale software applications and working with large software teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering • Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of Python and Backend Development
• Experience building Web/Mobile applications
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Unit and Integration testing experience
• Being knowledgeable about engineering processes and good practices
• Passionate about learning new tools. Ability to continuously learn and acquire knowledge.
• Able to adapt to changing complexity of tasks.
•Web frameworks: Django, Flask
•JavaScript libraries: jQuery
•Web servers: Nginx, Apache, uWSGI
•Data stores/tools: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch
•Virtualization: AWS, VMWare, VirtualBox, Docker
•Web scraping and browser automation
•Selenium
Good to Have Skills
•ExperiencewithFrontendJavaScriptFrameworks
•Experience with third party and OAuth implementations.
•Understanding of cloud service platforms and web service infrastructure
Must Have Traits
•Self Starter
•Able to manage projects with minimal hand-holding
•Good verbal and written communication skills
•Enthusiastic, able to research and implement new technologies
•Ability to handle high-pressure situations
Experience Specifics
•Proven expertise in product development •GoodandPracticalUnderstandingofPython(2.7,3.3+)
•Hands on with Linux systems for deploying systems and applications
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