


We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join our Technology team. You will be responsible for the server-side of our web applications. You’ll be working closely with our engineers to ensure system consistency and improve user experience.
You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.
Skills and Expertise
- Strong experience with backend technologies (PHP / Laravel framework)
- Deep understanding of REST API design and WebSockets
- Confident handling of Git, IntelliJ/Eclipse, Docker and/or Kubernetes, Maven, Jenkins or comparable tools
- You have knowledge in the development of a micro service architecture with modern technologies
- Apply software best practices such as CI/CD, TDD and clean code principles
- Eager to learn new technologies and concepts and aspiration to constantly improve yourself
- Experience in working with APIs, both third-party and custom written
- Good understanding of applications building and debugging with reusability and modularity in mind
- A structured, creative, and solution-oriented way of working
Responsibilities
- Work with development teams and product managers to ideate solutions
- Design client-side and server-side architecture
- Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
- Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
- Write effective APIs
- Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
- Create security and data protection settings
- Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
- Write technical documentation
- Work with data scientists and analysts to improve the product

About Instantpay
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Instantpay is a digital payments platform which is aggregating a host of services and distributing them to consumers through a network of local stores and vendors present across India.
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Join an innovative and groundbreaking cybersecurity startup focused on helping customers identify, mitigate, and protect against ever-evolving cyber threats. With the current geopolitical climate, organizations need to stay ahead of malicious threat actors as well as nation-state actors. Cybersecurity teams are getting overwhelmed, and they need intelligent systems to help them focus on addressing the biggest and current risks first.
We help organizations protect their assets and customer data by continuously evaluating the new threats and risks to their cloud environment. This will, in turn, help mitigate the high-priority threats quickly so that the engineers can spend more time innovating and providing value to their customers.
About the Engineering Team:
We have several decades of experience working in the security industry, having worked on some of the most cutting-edge security technology that helped protect millions of customers. We have built technologies from the ground up, partnered with the industry on innovation, and helped customers with some of the most stringent requirements. We leverage industry and academic experts and veterans for their unique insight. Security technology includes all facets of software engineering work from data analytics and visualization, AI/ML processing, highly distributed and available services with real-time monitoring, integration with various other services, including protocol-level work. You will be learning from some of the best engineering talent with multi-cloud expertise.
We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead the development and scaling of our backend systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in distributed systems, database management, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies. As a key technical leader, you will design, implement, and optimize critical backend services, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and Develop Distributed Systems: Design and implement scalable, distributed systems using microservices architecture. Expertise in both synchronous (REST/gRPC) and asynchronous communication patterns (message queues, Kafka), with a strong emphasis on building resilient services that can handle large data and maintain high throughput. Craft cloud solutions tailored to specific needs, choosing appropriate AWS services and optimizing resource utilization to ensure performance and high availability.
- Database Architecture & Optimization: Lead efforts to design and manage databases with a focus on scaling, replication, query optimization, and managing large datasets.
- Performance & Reliability: Engage in continuous learning and innovation to improve customer satisfaction. Embrace accountability and respond promptly to service issues to maintain and enhance system health. Ensure the backend systems meet high standards for performance, reliability, and scalability, identifying and solving bottlenecks and architectural challenges by leveraging various observability tools (such as Prometheus and Grafana).
- Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, guiding architecture decisions, reviewing code, and helping to build a strong engineering culture. Stay abreast of the latest industry trends in cloud technology, adopting best practices to continuously improve our services and security measures.
Key Qualifications:
- Experience: 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, with at least 5 years of experience in building distributed systems.
- Technical Expertise:
- Distributed Systems: Extensive experience with microservices architecture, working with both synchronous (REST, gRPC) and asynchronous patterns (SNS, SNQ). Strong understanding of service-to-service authentication and authorization, API rate limiting, and other critical aspects of scalable systems.
- Database: Expertise in database technologies with experience working with large datasets, optimizing queries, handling replication, and creating views for performance. Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Cassandra). Expertise in various database technologies and deep experience with creating data models that provide consistent data views to the customer while data is being morphed, handling data migrations, and ensuring data integrity and high availability.
- Kubernetes: In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, with experience deploying and managing services in Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS). Strong understanding of pods, services, networking, and scaling applications within Kubernetes environments.
- Golang: Proven experience using Golang as the primary programming language for backend development. Deep understanding of concurrency, performance optimization, and scalability in Golang applications.
- Cloud Technologies: Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, RDS, EKS). Experience in designing and optimizing cloud-based architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
- Problem Solver: Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with a proven ability to design and optimize complex systems.
- Leadership: Experience in leading engineering teams, guiding architectural decisions, and mentoring junior engineers.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Knowledge of GitHub-based CI/CD tools and best practices.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Cybersecurity experience.
- 5-7 years hands-on working experience in Java / Spring / Spring Cloud / Spring Data JPA / Spring Boot Microservices
- Data processing capability
- Hands-on working experience with GCP/AWS/Azure
- Hands-on working experience with Junit, Git, Jenkins, Maven
- Excellent communication skill
- Experience on Google cloud data flow would be an added advantage
Java, SpringBoot, Problem Solving skill, Apache Beam, AWS/GCP,

Responsibilities:
• Take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams.
• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which include: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support
• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules that handle the interaction between multiple components.
• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions
• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable
• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions
• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to the outage
• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.
• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results
Requirements:
• Experience: 3+ years
• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science
• Software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms
• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications
• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus
• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms
• Experience with web technologies, Go/Java/Python
• Language: GO or Python
• Strong expertise in DS and Algo
• Strong leadership skills - have experience mentoring, building products from scratch or incumbent in design and architecture.
• Have worked in the scaling of the system right from scratch.
• Someone worked in small user base to a large user base and wrote optimized code
• Both HLD and LLD

A Fintech start up company that bridges the gap between the digital payments
and the micro-retailing industry of the market. A nexus for the B2B sector providing multi-utility services via an Android app, enabling the micro-retailers across India to revolutionize their business and thus providing them with an opportunity to generate more revenue by offering multiple micropayment and digital services at their offline store. We intend to leverage the mode of smartphone technology in the rural and urban markets across India, thus empowering micro-retailers and creating a sustainable self-employment for this segment.
Overall Competencies:
1. Tech Depth/Breadth/Problem Solving.
2. Design & Architecture (Code/Design review).
3. Team Management.
Leadership Competency:
- Managing & mentoring a team.
- Ability to deliver projects/sprints on time.
- Obsessed with quality: Design reviews, code reviews, testing (system/performance).
- Spending at least 50% time with hands-on coding while doing the above Programming.
Tech Competency:
- Hands-on with Python/Django/Flask.
- Knowledge of PHP & Laravel is a plus.
- Experience with any JavaScript framework (Angular / React ).
- Prior experience in micro-services based architecture.
- Good understanding of SQL (MySQL, Postgres, or similar).
- Good understanding of one no-SQL (MongoDB / DynamoDB etc).
- Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance.
- Can reason about the complexity of algorithms (time and space).
- Basic CI/CD and DevOps.
- Experience in Docker & Kubernetes.
- Design, QA, and Infrastructure.
- Knowledge of design patterns and cloud scaling.
- AWS & GCP experience. AWS is mandatory.
- Understands BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing/Unit Testing
- Understands REST principles and Microservices
- Understands version control & branching strategies
- Understands application security fundamentals and potential security risks
Education: Bachelors in Computer Science|

You will get while working with us
- Opportunity to work on highly distributed systems with micro-services architecture and big-data volumes
- Solve challenging real-world problems by leveraging OOP & functional programming concepts
- Opportunity to incubate an open source project
- Get to work with cutting edge technologies to name a few Kafka, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Scala
- Developing scalable, sustainable and reliable enterprise systems
- Hands-on experience of working with TDD and BDD
- Develop environment using practices such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery
- Learning opportunity on how to turn complex business requirements into a working product
Roles & Responsibilities
- Requirement understanding & analysis by interacting with client
- Carry out architectural and design discussions with fellow team members and come up with right approach
- Understand system domain, user’s perspective of system and use-cases
- Understand patterns in existing code and effectively leverage and improvise it
- Develop backend involving Java8 based functional programming and REST services
- Ensure best practices of code reviews, automated testing and CI
- Research new tools & technologies required for the projects
- Mentor fellow team members and bring their level up
Must have
- Strong hold on written/verbal communication
- Strong core Java fundamentals
- Strong Analytical & problem solving skills
- Proactive and inherent nature of working with ownership
- Passion of writing clean code
- Experience in designing relational data model from business requirements
Good to have
- Knowledge of functional programming (Scala or Java 8 lambda)
- Knowledge of NOSQL
- Working knowledge of linux & networking
- Performance optimisation - Optimise/refactor queries, code, stored procedures to take performance next level


Experience : 1- 6 yrs
Qualification - MCA /B. Tech, BE/BCA
Job Nature - Permanent
Skills - PHP, Laravel, Codeigniter, MYSQL, CSS, Jquery
Working days - 5
Description :
1. Should have hands-on experience in Web Development
2. Good understanding of PHP and Object-oriented programming paradigm.
3. Able to understand project requirements and handle project independently.
4. Strong learning capability.
5. Having a good knowledge of Jquery.
6. Framework experience would be beneficial.
7. Should be comfortable to work with the team.
8. Should be comfortable with work on any MVC based framework.
Skills required :
1. Able to understand project requirement and handle project independently.
2. Strong learning capability.
3. Contribute in all phases of the development.
4. Knowledge of PHP/CodeIgniter/Magento/ Laravel/ Symfony/ Wordpress will be preferred.
4. Basic Knowledge of JavaScript, Web Services.
5. Sound knowledge of PHP, Mysql, Jquery
PERKS & BENEFITS :
Employees Family Health Insurance, EPF & ESIC.
Employee Health Insurance.
Late-night meal facility.
Innumerable in-house & outdoor party.
Cab facility available in late-night working.
Various compensations & bonuses.
No dress code
Festival Celebration
Employees B'day celebration.
Hobby club
Mini Gym
Cafeteria facility
Work from home
About Webkul :
- Webkul Software Pvt. Ltd. is a leading ERP and E-Commerce development company with more than 1000 products in our marketplace and serves more than 80,000 customers worldwide. Working range of open source platform for E-Commerce, ERP, CMS. Webkul store is the largest plugin marketplace in the world and serving open source as well as other sectors.
- Our Culture is the most important factor for our growth. This is the place where people will be learning till they are working. We are now 400 plus from just 3, being a self-funded company it's a big count. We follow open communication, completely unbiased towards caste, creed, gender, and religion. We conduct many national and international conferences also.
Webkul is one of the largest open source contributors from India, We have more than 12000+ Github star, which is one of the largest from the country, Two of our open source projects :
- Bagisto
- Uvdesk
Has been selected by GITHUB, you may visit- https://github.com/collections/made-in-india
We are also major open source contributor to popular open source project like :
- Magento
- Opencart
- Woocommerce
- Prestashop
- Akeneo
Awards & Appreciation :
- Deloitte winner
- Magento Top Selling Extension Awards
- Top Enterprise Venture by Smart CEO
https://webkul.com/deloitte-award-winner-2018/
Startup 50 by smart CEO - 2018
To know about our partners and certifications please do visit:
https://webkul.com/about-us/certification/
https://webkul.com/events/magento-live-2019/




