Backend developer (Go) at chaabi · Gurugram · 2 - 5 years · ₹12L - ₹15L / yr (ESOP available) · Bootstrapped · Posted 19 Sep 2023

Position Overview:
We seek a talented and experienced professional to serve as the Head of Engineering and a Senior Backend Developer with expertise in Go (Golang). In this dual role, you will lead our engineering team and contribute hands-on to developing our B2B SaaS platform, which aims to revolutionize blue-collar worker training in India. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, set engineering standards, and ensure the successful execution of our technology initiatives.
As Head of Engineering:
- Oversee the recruitment, mentoring, and performance management of engineering team members.
- Define and maintain engineering best practices, coding standards, and development methodologies.
- Manage project timelines, resources, and budgets
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
- Drive technical decisions and architecture discussions to ensure scalability, security, and maintainability.
As Senior Backend Developer (Go):
- Design the architecture and implement high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend services in Go.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while ensuring the security and integrity of the platform.
- Optimize and fine-tune the backend components for maximum speed and scalability.
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs for seamless integration with frontend and external systems.
- Implement asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture for handling concurrent requests efficiently.
- Work on data modelling and integration with databases for data storage and retrieval.
- Write unit tests and perform code reviews to maintain code quality and ensure robustness.

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At BigThinkCode, our technology solves complex problems. We are looking for talented backend engineer to join our development team at Chennai.
If you are passionate about building scalable applications and have strong experience in any backend programming or with interest for Golang and modern web technologies, we would love to hear from you!
Please find below our job description, if interested apply / reply sharing your profile to connect and discuss.
- Company: BigThinkCode Technologies
- URL: https://www.bigthinkcode.com/
- Experience required: 4 - 5 years
- Work location: Chennai
- Joining time: Immediate – 2 weeks
- Work Mode: Work from office (Hybrid)
We are looking for a skilled and passionate Developer with strong Golang experience to join our growing engineering team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in building scalable web applications, backend services, APIs, and modern frontend applications.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable and high-performance web applications.
- Build and maintain robust backend services and RESTful APIs using Golang.
- Develop responsive and user-friendly frontend applications using modern JavaScript/TypeScript technologies.
- Work on end-to-end application development, including frontend, backend, APIs, and database integrations.
- Design and develop scalable, secure, and maintainable application architecture.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Write clean, reusable, efficient, and well-tested code.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices and coding standards.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application and production issues.
- Contribute to performance optimization, scalability, and continuous improvement of applications.
What We’re Looking For
- 4–5 years of hands-on experience in software development.
- Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
- Managing, mentoring small team of 2-3 members.
- Strong hands-on experience with Golang or Erlang or other programming languages with interest, learn Golang for backend development.
- Experience building RESTful APIs, backend services, and microservices.
- Good experience with JavaScript and/or TypeScript and modern frontend development.
- Experience working with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of software design principles, data structures, and scalable application architecture.
- Experience with Git and version control workflows.
- Good understanding of API security, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a fast-paced engineering environment.
Preferred / Nice to Have
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or containerized applications.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
Location: Bangalore
Department: Engineering
Reports to: SVP
Experience required: 6+ years
About Tracxn:
Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem.
We are a team of 600+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.
Founders
- Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
- Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)
About Technology Team:
Tracxn's Technology team is 60+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each owning one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team compared to an individual.
We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.
Our Tech Stacks:
We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to backend and frontend systems such as Java, Python, Spring Boot, Node.js, ReactJS, Next.js, Webpack, and Storybook; cloud and serverless platforms like AWS, etc; data and infrastructure technologies such as Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch), MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Ansible; large-scale web crawling solutions; modern data pipelines and ETL workflows; and AI/ML-driven projects.
Job Overview:
We are looking for experienced software engineers with 6+ years of overall software development experience, including backend development and proven people-management skills. The ideal candidate will lead the engineering team(s), drive technical excellence, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers
- Own technical planning, architecture discussions, and execution
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders
- Drive best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
- Conduct code reviews and ensure high engineering standards
- Manage delivery timelines, resource planning, and technical risks
- Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management of engineers
Job Requirements :
Professional Experience
- Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams
- Track record of delivering complex, scalable software systems
- Experience driving technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions
- Strong collaboration experience with product, design, and cross-functional teams.
Technical Leadership & Management
- Ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers across different experience levels
- Experience conducting performance reviews and providing technical feedback
- Strong ownership of team delivery, timelines, and quality
- Experience balancing hands-on technical work with people management
Backend & System Architecture Expertise
- Strong proficiency in modern backend architectures, design patterns, and microservices architecture.
- Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Java, Python, etc.)
- Solid understanding of API design principles and implementation
- Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases and knowledge of data pipelines and data warehousing concepts.
Technical Competencies
- Strong system design and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of caching strategies, performance optimization, and scalability
- Understanding of data modeling and query optimization
- Familiarity with search and indexing technologies
- Understanding of security best practices in backend systems
Culture:
- Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
- Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
- No strict deadlines, focus on delivering quality work.
- Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
- Very high visibility regarding which startups and markets are exciting globally.
Primary Skills:
Python / Golang, RESTful APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux
Core Responsibilities:
- Design & Development: Architect and implement scalable backend services and APIs using Python or Golang, ensuring high performance, resilience, and extensibility.
- System Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of critical modules, from design and development to deployment and support.
- Technical Leadership: Conduct design and code reviews, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers to raise the team’s technical bar.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, architects, and other engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Performance & Reliability: Troubleshoot complex issues in production systems, identify root causes, and design sustainable long-term solutions.
- Innovation: Evaluate new technologies, contribute to proof-of-concepts, and recommend tools that can improve developer productivity.
- Process Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing practices.
- Knowledge Sharing: Document designs, create technical guides, and share insights with the broader engineering team.
Experience and Expertise:
- 4–7 years of backend development experience with Python or Golang.
- Strong expertise in designing, developing, and scaling microservices and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and performance optimization.
- Proficiency with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Linux development, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and related services.
- Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for production-grade systems.
- Experience with AI-powered development tools is a strong plus; familiarity with concepts like 'agentic coding' for workflow automation or 'context engineering' for leveraging LLMs in system design is highly desirable.
Skills:
- Strong problem-solving ability, with experience handling complex technical challenges.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and articulate trade-offs.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and able to operate independently while aligning with team goals.
- Passionate about engineering culture, quality, and developer productivity.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the software development function, including developers, technical leads, architects, and QA engineers.
- Define and execute the software development roadmap in alignment with the company's business strategy and growth objectives.
- Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and high-performance software applications.
- Lead the development and enhancement of fintech platforms, financial applications, payment solutions, and digital financial products, as applicable.
- Drive API development, third-party integrations, banking integrations, payment gateway integrations, and other financial technology integrations.
- Establish software architecture standards, coding practices, development methodologies, and engineering best practices.
- Ensure application security, data protection, system reliability, scalability, and performance across software platforms.
- Drive the adoption of modern technologies, cloud-based solutions, DevOps practices, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Oversee software development life cycles, sprint planning, release management, quality assurance, and production support.
- Establish engineering KPIs, monitor team performance, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
- Collaborate with Product, Business, Compliance, Information Security, and Operations teams to translate business requirements into effective technology solutions.
- Ensure software development processes adhere to applicable regulatory requirements, security standards, internal policies, and IT governance practices.
- Manage technology budgets, external development partners, software vendors, and resource allocation.
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders, build a high-performing technology team, and foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities for process optimization, technical debt reduction, and improvement in software delivery efficiency.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 15–20+ years of experience in software development, engineering, and technology delivery, with approximately 20 years preferred.
- Significant experience in leading software development teams and managing large-scale application development initiatives.
- Strong expertise in software architecture, system design, API development, databases, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience with modern programming languages, frameworks, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, and software engineering tools.
- Proven experience in developing scalable, secure, and high-availability applications.
- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, digital lending, financial services, or related technology domains is preferred.
- Understanding of financial data security, application security, regulatory compliance, and secure software development practices.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, engineering teams, delivery timelines, and technology priorities.
- Excellent leadership, strategic planning, analytical, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
Work Location: In person

Required Experience: 10–15 years (with at least 3–5 years in leadership roles)
● 10–15 years of overall experience in backend engineering, with strong exposure to
Python and/or Golang.
● 3–5 years of experience managing engineering teams.
● Proven experience delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production
environments.
● Strong understanding of microservices, cloud-native architecture, and DevOps
practices.
● Hands-on background in backend engineering (able to guide teams technically, even
if not coding daily).
● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and performance optimization.
● Experience in financial services or high-transaction domains is a plus.
● Experience leading teams that have utilized AI-driven development practices (e.g.,
agentic coding, LLM integration) to improve productivity and innovation is a
significant advantage.
Skills
● Excellent leadership and people management abilities.
● Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
● Ability to balance technical depth with business priorities.
● Problem-solving mindset with a focus on delivery and impact.
● Passion for building engineering culture and improving developer experience.
Core Responsibilities:
- Design & Development: Architect and implement scalable backend services and APIs using Python or Golang, ensuring high performance, resilience, and extensibility.
- System Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of critical modules, from design and development to deployment and support.
- Technical Leadership: Conduct design and code reviews, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers to raise the team’s technical bar.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, architects, and other engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Performance & Reliability: Troubleshoot complex issues in production systems, identify root causes, and design sustainable long-term solutions.
- Innovation: Evaluate new technologies, contribute to proof-of-concepts, and recommend tools that can improve developer productivity.
- Process Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing practices.
- Knowledge Sharing: Document designs, create technical guides, and share insights with the broader engineering team.
Experience and Expertise:
- 4–7 years of backend development experience with Python or Golang.
- Strong expertise in designing, developing, and scaling microservices and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and performance optimization.
- Proficiency with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Linux development, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and related services.
- Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for production-grade systems.
- Experience with AI-powered development tools is a strong plus; familiarity with concepts like 'agentic coding' for workflow automation or 'context engineering' for leveraging LLMs in system design is highly desirable.
Skills:
- Strong problem-solving ability, with experience handling complex technical challenges.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and articulate trade-offs.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and able to operate independently while aligning with team goals.
- Passionate about engineering culture, quality, and developer productivity.
🚀Job Title : Senior Backend Engineer (Java / Golang) SDE 3
Experience : 5 to 12 Years
Positions : 4
Employment Type : C2H (Contract to Hire)
Contract Duration : 3 Months
Location : Remote during contract → Pune after conversion
Work Mode After Conversion : 5 Days WFO
Notice Period : Immediate / Serving Notice / Up to 15 Days preferred
Mandatory Skills : Golang (1+ year mandatory), 5+ years Backend Development, System Design, Distributed Systems, Microservices, REST / GraphQL APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, SQL & NoSQL Databases, AWS / GCP / Azure, Strong Problem-Solving & Communication Skills.
About the Role :
We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer / SDE 3 with strong expertise in Java / Golang to design and build scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services and APIs.
The role involves hands-on coding, system design, microservices, distributed systems, and collaboration with engineering and infrastructure teams.
Must-Have Skills :
- 5+ years of backend development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Golang.
- Minimum 1+ year of Golang experience is mandatory.
- Strong understanding of System Design & Distributed Systems.
- Experience with REST / GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with Microservices and Event-Driven Architecture.
- Experience with Event Queues / Asynchronous Processing.
- Strong knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
Important Note for Java Candidates :
Java candidates can be considered only if they have at least 1+ year of hands-on Golang experience and are willing to work in Golang.
Candidates with less than 1 year of Golang experience will not be considered.
Good to Have :
- Experience in Fintech / Payments / Transaction-heavy systems
- Docker & Kubernetes
- Datadog / Prometheus / Grafana
- CI/CD experience
- Exposure to Java or Ruby
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Golang.
- Build reliable, secure, and high-performance microservices and APIs.
- Implement event-driven and asynchronous processing systems.
- Work on system architecture, scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Participate in system design, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Collaborate with mobile, web, and infrastructure teams.
- Develop unit, integration, and performance tests.
- Contribute to CI/CD, observability, documentation, and engineering best practices.
Interview Process :
Round 1 : Take-Home Coding Assessment – Submission within 48 hours
Round 2 : Code Pairing – Problem Extension
Round 3 : Culture Fitment
Celeco Labs is hiring a hands-on Head of Engineering on behalf of a confidential client in the housing-finance sector.
This is a role for an engineer who wants to own delivery, not only manage it. You will set the technical direction, build and maintain production systems, and work closely with the business team. You should be comfortable taking a requirement from the first discussion through technical planning, implementation, release, and production support.
What you will do
• Own the engineering roadmap and help decide what should be built first.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable customer-facing products and internal systems.
• Write production code and review code written by others.
• Turn business requirements into clear technical plans and releases.
• Choose practical architecture, tools, and vendors that fit the company's needs.
• Set working standards for testing, deployment, monitoring, backups, and access control.
• Protect customer and company data through practical security controls.
• Investigate production issues and make sure the same problems do not repeat.
• Help hire and guide a small engineering team as the company grows.
What we are looking for
• 3–5 years of professional software-engineering experience.
• Experience building and running production systems.
• Strong backend skills, including APIs, databases, and cloud services.
• Enough frontend knowledge to work across a product when needed.
• Good judgment about system design, security, reliability, and cost.
• The ability to explain technical choices in simple language.
• Comfort working independently and taking full ownership of delivery.
Experience in lending, housing finance, fintech, or another regulated industry is useful, but not required. Experience leading engineers or working directly with founders and business leaders is also useful.
How to apply
Please share your CV or LinkedIn profile and two short examples of production systems you have owned. This is a confidential search. More information about the company will be shared with shortlisted candidates during the interview process.
We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low-latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.
Responsibilities—
- Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code.
- Solving complex technical problems.
- Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
- Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.
- Participating in and driving code reviews.
- Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices.
- Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
- Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
- Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog
- Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
- Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
- Architecting & designing the platform.
- Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation.
- Writing documentation & create engineering processes.
- Working as an individual contributor.
- Helping drive KPIs with Product.
- Taking ownership of backend systems.
- Helping with unit tests & QA process.
- Scaling the engineering team.
- System scaling to hundreds of millions of users.
- Working with product managers and designs.
Requirements—
- Overall 5-10 years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional).
- Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD.
- Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux.
- Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments.
- Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix).
- Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
- Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ.
- DevOps experience.
- Experience with AWS stack.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment.
- To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
- To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities.
- To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.
- To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional).
- To have contributed to open-source projects.
- To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth.
- Proficiency in English.
- Experience with Web3(optional).
Benefits—
- Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
- Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
- Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
- High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.
About us—
Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.
Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.
Experience and Required Skill Sets:
1 Solid experience in software design and development using Microsoft ASP.NET framework, C#, Visual Studio, and in writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
2 5+ years of experience in WCF, WPF, VB.NET, SQL Server, JQuery, Angular 10 and above.
3 5+ years of experience in developing highly scalable REST/Web APIs
4 5+ years of experience in developing highly efficient SQL/NoSQL Queries
5 5+ years of experience in Relational and Document databases
6 Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and possess strong fundamental design principles for building a scalable application.
7 Experience in using the MVC framework, working knowledge in APIs, and Service Oriented Architecture
8 Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and possess strong fundamental design principles for building a scalable application.
9 Experience in Angular version 10 and above is required
10 Expert in SQL programming & Database Design (Stored procedure, Function, Trigger, Constraints, Replication)
11 Strong ability in HTML and JavaScript (AJAX, DOM)
12 Development experience with data integration technologies including REST, SOAP, JSON, XML
13 Expertise in programming and usage of any unit testing framework. Expertise in integration testing and continuous integration.
14 Experience working in a DevOps environment will be an added advantage.
Responsibilities:
• Ability to create complex, enterprise-transforming applications that meet and exceed client expectations.
• Responsible for the bottom line. Strong project management abilities. Ability to encourage the team to stick to timelines.
• Follow best-in-class coding practices and review the solutions vis-à-vis the requirements and technical specifications.
• Should demonstrate strong client interfacing capabilities like emails and calls with clients in the US/UK












