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Job Details

- Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

- Industry: SAAS

- Function – Information Technology

- Experience Required: 5-8 years

- Working Days: 6 days a week, (5 days-in-office, Saturdays WFH)

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bangalore

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Preferred Skills: AWS, NodeJS, RESTful APIs, NoSQL

Criteria

· Minimum 5+ years in backend engineering with strong system design expertise

· Experience building scalable systems from scratch

· Expert-level proficiency in Node.js

· Deep understanding of distributed systems

· Strong NoSQL design skills

· Hands-on AWS cloud experience

· Proven leadership and mentoring capability

· Preferred candidates from SAAS/Software/IT Services based startups or scaleup companies

Job Description

The Role:

What You’ll Build:

1. System Architecture & Design

● Architect highly scalable backend systems from the ground up

● Define technology choices: frameworks, databases, queues, caching layers

● Evaluate microservices vs monoliths based on product stage

● Design REST, GraphQL, and real-time WebSocket APIs

● Build event-driven systems for asynchronous processing

● Architect multi-tenant systems with strict data isolation

● Maintain architectural documentation and technical specs

2. Core Backend Services

● Build high-performance APIs for 3D content, XR experiences, analytics, and user interactions

● Create 3D asset processing pipelines for uploads, conversions, and optimization

● Develop distributed job workers for CPU/GPU-intensive tasks

● Build authentication/authorization systems (RBAC)

● Implement billing, subscription, and usage metering

● Build secure webhook systems and third-party integration APIs

● Create real-time collaboration features via WebSockets/SSE

3. Data Architecture & Databases

● Design scalable schemas for 3D metadata, XR sessions, and analytics

● Model complex product catalogs with variants and hierarchies

● Implement Redis-based caching strategies

● Build search and indexing systems (Elasticsearch/Algolia)

● Architect ETL pipelines and data warehouses

● Implement sharding, partitioning, and replication strategies

● Design backup, restore, and disaster recovery workflows

4. Scalability & Performance

● Build systems designed for 10x–100x traffic growth

● Implement load balancing, autoscaling, and distributed processing

● Optimize API response times and database performance

● Implement global CDN delivery for heavy 3D assets

● Build rate limiting, throttling, and backpressure mechanisms

● Optimize storage and retrieval of large 3D files

● Profile and improve CPU, memory, and network performance

5. Infrastructure & DevOps

● Architect AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache)

● Build CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and rollbacks

● Use IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation) for infra provisioning

● Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting systems

● Use Docker + Kubernetes for container orchestration

● Implement security best practices for data, networks, and secrets

● Define disaster recovery and business continuity plans

6. Integration & APIs

● Build integrations with Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento

● Design webhook systems for real-time events

● Build SDKs, client libraries, and developer tools

● Integrate payment gateways (Stripe, Razorpay)

● Implement SSO and OAuth for enterprise customers

● Define API versioning and lifecycle/deprecation strategies

7. Data Processing & Analytics

● Build analytics pipelines for engagement, conversions, and XR performance

● Process high-volume event streams at scale

● Build data warehouses for BI and reporting

● Develop real-time dashboards and insights systems

● Implement analytics export pipelines and platform integrations

● Enable A/B testing and experimentation frameworks

● Build personalization and recommendation systems

Technical Stack:

1. Backend Languages & Frameworks 

●  Primary: Node.js (Express, NestJS), Python (FastAPI, Django)

●  Secondary: Go, Java/Kotlin (Spring)

●  APIs: REST, GraphQL, gRPC

2. Databases & Storage

● SQL: PostgreSQL, MySQL

● NoSQL: MongoDB, DynamoDB

● Caching: Redis, Memcached

● Search: Elasticsearch, Algolia

● Storage/CDN: AWS S3, CloudFront

● Queues: Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS

3. Cloud & Infrastructure: 

● Cloud: AWS (primary), GCP/Azure (nice to have)

● Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS

● Infrastructure: Terraform, CloudFormation

● CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI

● Containers: Docker, Kubernetes

4. Monitoring & Operations 

● Monitoring: Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch

● Logging: ELK Stack, CloudWatch Logs

● Error Tracking: Sentry, Rollbar

● APM tools

5. Security & Auth

● Auth: JWT, OAuth 2.0, SAML

● Secrets: AWS Secrets Manager, Vault

● Security: Encryption (at rest/in transit), TLS/SSL, IAM

What We’re Looking For:

1. Must-Haves

● 5+ years in backend engineering with strong system design expertise

● Experience building scalable systems from scratch

● Expert-level proficiency in at least one backend stack (Node, Python, Go, Java)

● Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices

● Strong SQL/NoSQL design skills with performance optimization

● Hands-on AWS cloud experience

● Ability to write high-quality production code daily

● Experience building and scaling RESTful APIs

● Strong understanding of caching, sharding, horizontal scaling

● Solid security and best-practice implementation experience

● Proven leadership and mentoring capability

2. Highly Desirable

● Experience with large file processing (3D, video, images)

● Background in SaaS, multi-tenancy, or e-commerce

● Experience with real-time systems (WebSockets, streams)

● Knowledge of ML/AI infrastructure

● Experience with HA systems, DR planning

● Familiarity with GraphQL, gRPC, event-driven systems

● DevOps/infrastructure engineering background

● Experience with XR/AR/VR backend systems

● Open-source contributions or technical writing

● Prior senior technical leadership experience

Technical Challenges You’ll Solve:

● Designing large-scale 3D asset processing pipelines

● Serving XR content globally with ultra-low latency

● Scaling from thousands to millions of daily requests

● Efficiently handling CPU/GPU-heavy workloads

● Architecting multi-tenancy with complete data isolation

● Managing billions of analytics events at scale

● Building future-proof APIs with backward compatibility

Why company:

● Architectural Ownership: Build foundational systems from scratch

● Deep Technical Work: Solve distributed systems and scaling challenges

● Hands-On Impact: Design and code mission-critical infrastructure

● Diverse Problems: APIs, infra, data, ML, XR, asset processing

● Massive Scale Opportunity: Build systems for exponential growth

● Modern Stack and best practices

● Product Impact: Your architecture directly powers millions of users

● Leadership Opportunity: Shape engineering culture and direction

● Learning Environment: Stay at the forefront of backend engineering

● Backed by AWS, Microsoft, Google

Location & Work Culture:

● Location: Bengaluru

● Schedule: 6 days a week, (5 days-in-office, Saturdays WFH)

● Culture: Builder mindset, strong ownership, technical excellence

● Team: Small, highly skilled backend and infra team

● Resources: AWS credits, latest tooling, learning budget

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable database solutions on the AWS platform.
• Architect, deploy, and optimize DynamoDB databases for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Configure and manage AWS OpenSearch (formerly Amazon Elasticsearch Service) clusters for real-time search and analytics capabilities.
• Design and implement data processing and analytics solutions using AWS EMR (Elastic MapReduce) for large-scale data processing tasks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, design database solutions, and implement best practices.
• Perform performance tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting of database systems to ensure high availability and performance.
• Develop and maintain documentation, including architecture diagrams, configurations, and operational procedures.
• Stay current with the latest AWS services, database technologies, and industry trends to provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Participate in the evaluation and selection of new technologies, tools, and frameworks to enhance database capabilities.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering knowledge sharing and skill development.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Proven experience as an AWS Architect or similar role, with a focus on database technologies.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and optimizing DynamoDB databases in production environments.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS OpenSearch (Elasticsearch) and experience configuring and managing clusters for search and analytics use cases.
• Proficiency in working with AWS EMR (Elastic MapReduce) for big data processing and analytics.
• Strong understanding of database concepts, data modelling, indexing, and query optimization.
• Experience with AWS services such as S3, EC2, RDS, Redshift, Lambda, and CloudFormation.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex database issues.
• Solid understanding of cloud security best practices and experience implementing security controls in AWS environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Database - Specialty, or equivalent certifications are a plus.

Business Development Representatives (BDRs) are focused on generating and qualifying leads through LinkedIn and other channels. Their main goal is to use these platforms to create connections with potential clients and identify opportunities for the sales team.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Lead Identification: Utilizing LinkedIn (especially tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator) to identify and connect with potential leads that match the target profile.

2. Initial Outreach: Engaging with leads through personalized LinkedIn messages,

comments, InMails, calling, and sending emails, creating interest in the

company's products or services.

3. Qualifying Leads: Assessing the needs and interest levels of the leads, determining if they are a fit for what the company is offering.

4. Scheduling Appointments: Setting up meetings or calls between qualified leads and the sales team, ensuring a smooth handover.

5. Collaboration with Sales and Marketing: Working closely with the Sales Manager and marketing team to align outreach efforts with overall campaign strategy.

6. Monitoring and Reporting: Tracking interactions, responses, and success rates within LinkedIn and reporting these metrics to the Sales Manager.

7. Maintaining Professionalism: Representing the brand in a professional manner, adhering to LinkedIn's guidelines, and maintaining the quality of interactions.

8. Content Engagement: Sharing, liking, and commenting on relevant content to increase visibility and engage with the community within the target market.

9. Utilizing Supporting Tools: If using additional tools like CRM or other integrations, maintaining accurate records and ensuring data integrity.

Skills Required:

• Proficiency in using LinkedIn, especially LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including phone and email etiquette.
• Ability to analyze profiles and identify potential leads.
• Self-motivated and goal-oriented approach.
• Understanding of the company’s products or services.

About the role: In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end development of software solutions related to banking, payments, investments, wallets, and other fintech products. You will work closely with software engineers, test engineers, researchers, designers, and the management team.

You will be responsible for enforcing software development best practices in a fast-paced Agile/DevOps environment, while always focusing on delivering high-value. In the process, you will work with primarily fintech technologies and other distributed systems-related tools,
techniques and methodologies.

If you want to join an early-stage startup that values you and your skills, and gives you the freedom to work at your pace while delivering a fantastic all-in-one financial app for all Indians, this is the perfect role for you.

About us: Mool is an all-in-one financial app where you can save, spend and invest your money with confidence. We understand that everyone deserves a good relationship with their money and growing your wealth should not be a difficult process. To help you gain financial freedom, we bring together champions of the financial service industry to champion you with best-in-class products.

Our ideal candidates will:
• Be highly experienced in Golang. So, if you have at least 1 year of active golang development experience, we want you!
• Have a good understanding of the MVC framework and also proficiency in using advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as ExpressJS, FastifyJS and other backend and frontend frameworks
• Understand and experience with cloud technologies: AWS (Must have) and Azure.
• Be knowledgeable in code versioning tools and dev ops methodologies such as Git.
• Highly experienced with various databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MYSQL
• Have worked on Relational Database and can figure out where to add Indexes in DB to optimise the performance
• Know how Cache Layer works (e.g. Redis)
• Have experience with queuing services and frameworks such as KafkaRabbit MQ. We prefer it if you have experience with fintech systems and applications
• Expected to have a good understanding of security practices for financial systems.
• Have experience in writing Unit and E2E test cases
• Have experience with Network Security or Ethical Hacking
• Experience with integrating banking APIs

Roles and responsibilities:
• Take an active part in the design process of the architecture of the mobile application
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features
• Maintain code integrity and organization
• Working with the design team to convert designs to visual elements
• Implement security and data protection systems and processes to ensure information security compliance
• Oversee full software development lifecycle for the product

Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript & OOPS
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it 
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors 
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Knowledge of AWS will be preferable

• Develop user interfaces with the latest frontend technologies
• Research, analyze, and develop product features of increasingly complex nature
• Code tested and documented JavaScript, HTML, PUG and CSS
• Make design and technical decisions for ReactJs projects.
• Develop application code and unit testing in the ReactJs with REST APIs
• Ensure high performance of all systems developed
• Experience in ReactJS project deployments and hosting on AWS/Google Cloud/Azure servers
• Good understanding of Linux based systems.
• 3+ years’ experience with ReactJs
• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Experienced in Typescript is a plus
• Familiarity with testing frameworks
• Experience in building highly reusable and decoupled components
• Experience in State management Libraries like Redux, mobx
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills.

Job Description:

• Resource should be proficient in analyzing, designing and developing applications based on the requirements provided by business counterparts
• Developing and maintaining applications developed in Java, J2EE, Struts and Spring and possessing 3-layer architecture
• Good knowledge in Spring Boot, Hibernate, Angular JS, Docker, VUE JS and AWS
• Applications development or maintenance using ORM tools such as Hibernate
• Database management which includes DB design and maintenance, mostly related to 2016 and Oracle 19c, DB2
• Should have knowledge in Unix / Linux OS.
• Should have good knowledge in Shell scripting language
• Strictly adhere to the internal SDLC process quality standards set but the organization and providing the drive to the team to achieve the KPI and SLA targets
• Flexible to work in extended time
• Candidate should have good experience on Java / J2EE, Springboot, Hibernate / JPA, Oracle query, Web Services and Rabbit MQ.
• Should have minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience. Should be able to work on enhancement, maintenance and production support.
• Good to have hands-on experience on DEVOPS & API development.