Backend SDE3 Engineer

Role & Responsibilities

As a Founding Engineer, you'll join the engineering team during an exciting growth phase, contributing to a platform that handles complex financial operations for B2B companies. You'll work on building scalable systems that automate billing, usage metering, revenue recognition, and financial reporting—directly impacting how businesses manage their revenue operations.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic startup environment where requirements evolve quickly and problems require creative solutions. You'll work on diverse technical challenges, from API development to external integrations, while collaborating with senior engineers, product managers, and customer success teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Build core platform features: Develop robust APIs, services, and integrations that power billing automation and revenue recognition capabilities.
• Work across the full stack: Contribute to backend services and frontend interfaces to ensure seamless user experiences.
• Implement critical integrations: Connect the platform with external systems including CRMs, data warehouses, ERPs, and payment processors.
• Optimize for scale: Design systems that handle complex pricing models, high-volume usage data, and real-time financial calculations.
• Drive quality and best practices: Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews and architectural discussions.
• Solve complex problems: Debug issues across the stack and collaborate with cross-functional teams to address evolving client needs.

The Impact You'll Make

• Power business growth: Enable fast-growing B2B companies to scale billing and revenue operations efficiently.
• Build critical financial infrastructure: Contribute to systems handling high-value transactions with accuracy and compliance.
• Shape product direction: Join during a scaling phase where your contributions directly impact product evolution and customer success.
• Accelerate your expertise: Gain deep exposure to financial systems, B2B SaaS operations, and enterprise-grade software development.
• Drive the future of B2B commerce: Help build infrastructure supporting next-generation pricing models, from usage-based to value-based billing.

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems.
• Strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks: FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), or Express (Node.js).
• Deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework.
• Strong experience with databases (SQL & NoSQL), including efficient data modeling and performance optimization.
• Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems with solid system design and clean code practices.

Domain

• Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred.

Company Background

• Experience working in product companies or startups (preferably Series A to Series D).

Education

• Candidates from Tier 1 engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, etc.) are highly preferred.

About Team:

CaratLane's mission is to help customers express their emotions through jewellery. Consumer Experience Technology team is an enabler to deliver the exceptional Consumer Experience and WoW business features in large scale website, apps and backend systems.

What do we want:

* 5 to 8 years of experience in Java and Spring Boot working with large scale backend applications

* Expertise in PostgreSQL and any of caching databases

* Experience in developing RESTful/GraphQL APIs and microservices based applications

* Good problem solving and debugging skills.

* Exposure on event-driven, asynchronous I/O

* Good knowledge of engineering excellence: Unit Testing/TDD, Code quality, Documentation, CI&CD

* Experience in non-functional requirements (Scalability, Performance optimisation, Security)

* Experience is Linux development and AWS ecosystem tools

Required skills:-

• 2+ years of experience in the Development of JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands-on experience on Relational 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.

•  2 - 6 years of software development experience
•  Good grasp on programming fundamentals including OOP, Design Patterns and Data Structures
•  Excellent analytical, logical and problem-solving skills
• Software Development Engineer
• Good understanding of complexities involved in designing/developing large scale systems
• Strong system design skills
•  Experience in technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka etc
• Good knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with common machine learning algorithms. In-depth knowledge is a plus
• Experience of working with big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Hive is a big plus
• Ability to understand business requirements and take ownership of the work
• Exhibit passion and enthusiasm for building and maintaining large scale platforms

We are looking for Senior Backend Engineers to design and build the systems that power our core business of lending and loan processing.  As a Senior Backend Engineer you will be expected to contribute significantly to your team. Your work is consistently of high quality. You solve complex problems, applying appropriate technologies, design patterns, and best practices. Your focus is on a major portion of existing or new team software. You work with your team to design and build software that is secure, correct, observable, and resilient. Your solutions are pragmatic. You identify the proper level of complexity for a task and advise your peers and manager on technical approach.

What you’ll do

• Design, implement, and maintain developer-friendly APIs and services

• Contribute to code and architecture reviews to keep our code quality high
• Debug and resolve production issues; take part in blameless postmortems
• Plan and execute smooth migrations to new technology as a way of managing technical debt
• Build tools and automation for our business and operations teams
• Make decisions on trade offs such as: Reuse versus introducing dependencies; Extensibility versus over-engineering; and Maintainability versus time to delivery (via short-term workarounds)
• Contribute to the improvement of your team’s code review standards, design discussions, team planning, and AARs.

You may shine in this role if you

• Have a track record of shipping software in a distributed systems environment

• Are enthusiastic about collaborating across departments to solve challenging problems
• Are pragmatic about the need to release less-than-perfect software and continuously iterate on it
• Can identify and articulate trade-offs in software and data design
• Can communicate both technical and business requirements fluently
• Are excited about both learning new things and teaching others

We speak mainly in javascript and golang, though we are open to engineers with different backgrounds and languages