JUNIOR BACKEND ENGINEER (GOLANG) -REMOTE

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.

Job Title: Associate Backend Engineer

Job Summary:

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Associate Backend Engineer with 1 to 2 years of experience to join our growing engineering team. Whether you're a recent graduate or have some industry experience, this role offers a strong foundation to grow your skills in real-world backend development. You’ll work closely with experienced engineers and contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend systems that power our products.

This position is ideal for individuals who are eager to learn, write production-grade code, and grow into a high-performing backend engineer.

Website: https://www.thealteroffice.com/about

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in building and maintaining backend services and APIs for web and mobile applications.
• Work with both relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis) databases for data modeling and storage.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code under guidance.
• Contribute to authentication, authorization, and other core backend features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, frontend, and QA to deliver complete features.
• Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback to improve code quality.
• Debug issues, write unit/integration tests, and help maintain service reliability and performance.
• Learn to work with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and deployment workflows.
• Use tools like Docker, basic cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure), and optionally explore monitoring/logging tools.
• Explore new technologies such as GraphQL, WebSockets, or message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) when relevant.

Requirements:

• 1 to 2 years of backend development experience, including internships, academic projects, freelance, or open-source work.
• Familiarity with at least one backend programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, etc.).
• Basic understanding of RESTful APIs, HTTP, databases, and server-side logic.
• Exposure to SQL and NoSQL databases and understanding of CRUD operations.
• Familiarity with Git and fundamental development workflows.
• Willingness to learn and apply best practices in scalability, security, and asynchronous programming.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and eagerness to take feedback and grow.
• Good communication and collaboration skills in a team environment.

✔️ 8+ years of overall software development experience

✔️ 5+ years of relevant experience in Azure Integration using Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and .NET C#

✔️ Work closely with the Integration Architect. Understand and review requirement with Integration Architect for Biztalk/Foresight/Azure interface integrations.

✔️ Implement (Code in Azure Logic Apps, C#, Azure functions), modify integrations interface as per the interface specification.

✔️ Perform and document unit testing for implemented interfaces.

✔️ Assess and manage risk with leads and discuss possible recommendations.

✔️ Follow best practices, standards, and policies in implementation.

✔️ Perform code review sessions, and follow the coding guidelines.

✔️ Perform and support Integration & UAT testing; fix issues and defects.

Skills:

We would prefer it if the candidate has 1 + years of experience. 

• Node.js - must have knowledge and experience

• MySQL/MongoDB - must have knowledge and experience
• GIT

• Any JS backend framework

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Gather and understand technical and design requirements
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies

Qualification: 

• Bachelors in IT Engineering  (Preferred) 
• Master in Computer Applications
• M.Sc IT

Other Information: 

Location: 

Mumbai, Malad. 

Age group: 

22 years to 27 years. 

Working Days:

Monday to Friday only, Saturdays and Sundays fixed off. 

Working Timings: 

10:30 am to 7:30 pm

• BS in CS or EE or equivalent
• Experience working on large scale systems in rapid growth environments
• Experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Solid programming skills; preferred experience in Java, and/or Python
• Experience with modern web frameworks, advanced algorithms/data intelligence, public
• cloud platforms and streaming data pipelines
• Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, continuous integration, and delivery
• 5+ years’ experience preferred

Job functions/Description:

• Work on building custom web pages and websites for departmental applications.
• Work on improvements to existing web pages and sites, as well as connecting to backend databases to extract and store data.
• Build reports as needed for user requirements.
• Evaluate new technologies around reporting, low-code webpage development and others.
• Assist team lead in testing new enhancements to our websites and reporting solutions.
• Test of the website enhancements that we are doing, especially from a compliance/audit perspective.
• Support and ongoing patching/maintenance of our systems.

Must to have skills : 

• .NET – mandatory skill
• C#, ADO.net, MVC 
• SQL Server, T-SQL, stored procedure
• Javascript, jQuery
• AWS – important, but can learn on the job.
• Power BI – Very important skill, but can learn on the job

Must to have skills : 

• .NET – mandatory skill
• C#, ADO.net, MVC 
• SQL server, T-SQL, stored procedure
• Java script, jQuery
• AWS – important, but can learn on the job.
• Power BI – Very important skill, but can learn on the job

 2+ years of .NET Development experience

- Exceptional skills Experience with .NET,  technologies (WPF, Web Forms, .NET Core). Also skilled in MS SQL and PostgreSQL, Bootstrap and DevOps.

- Experience with DevExpress, Elasticsearch.Net, VS Studio is preferred SolarSearch

- Great business process understanding and written and verbal communication skills

- GitHub and Git experience.