Lead Backend Engineer

The candidate should have extensive experience in designing and developing scalable data pipelines and real-time data processing solutions. As a key member of the team, the Senior Data Engineer will play a critical role in building end-to-end data workflows, supporting machine learning model deployment, and driving MLOps practices in a fast-paced, agile environment. Strong expertise in Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, AWS SageMaker, and Terraform is essential. Additional experience with infrastructure automation and CI/CD for ML models is a significant advantage.

Key Responsibilities

1. Design, develop, and maintain high-performance ETL and real-time data pipelines using Apache Kafka and Apache Flink.
2. Build scalable and automated MLOps pipelines for training, validation, and deployment of models using AWS SageMaker and associated services.
3. Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision and manage AWS environments.
4. Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and DevOps teams to streamline model deployment workflows and ensure reliable production delivery.
5. Optimize data storage and retrieval strategies for large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
6. Develop data transformation logic and integrate data from various internal and external sources into data lakes and warehouses.
7. Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance performance of data systems in a cloud-native, fast-evolving production setup.
8. Ensure adherence to data governance, privacy, and security standards across all data handling activities.
9. Document data engineering solutions and workflows to facilitate cross-functional understanding and ongoing maintenance.

Job Title: Backend Developer (Full Time)

Location: Remote

Interview: Virtual Interview

Experience Required: 3+ Years

Backend / API Development (About the Role)

• Strong proficiency in Python (FastAPI) or Node.js (Express) (Python preferred).
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and integrating APIs for production-grade applications.
• Hands-on experience deploying to serverless platforms such as Cloudflare Workers, Firebase Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
• Solid understanding of Google Cloud backend services (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Secret Manager, IAM roles).
• Expertise in API key and secrets management, ensuring compliance with security best practices.
• Skilled in secure API development, including HTTPS, authentication/authorization, input validation, and rate limiting.
• Track record of delivering scalable, high-quality backend systems through impactful projects in production environments.

About the role:

The SDE 2 - Backend will work as part of the Digitization and Automation team to help Sun King design, develop, and implement - intelligent, tech-enabled solutions to help solve a large variety of our business problems. We are looking for candidates with an affinity for technology and automations, curiosity towards advancement in products, and strong coding skills for our in-house software development team.

What you will be expected to do:

• Design and build applications/systems based on wireframes and product requirements documents
• Design and develop conceptual and physical data models to meet application requirements. 
• Identify and correct bottlenecks/bugs according to operational requirements
• Focus on scalability, performance, service robustness, and cost trade-offs.
• Create prototypes and proof-of-concepts for iterative development.
• Take complete ownership of projects (end to end) and their development cycle
• Mentoring and guiding team members
• Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability
• Integrate existing tools and business systems (in-house tools or business tools like Ticketing softwares, communication tools) with external services
• Coordinate with the Product Manager, development team & business analysts

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:

• Development experience: 3 – 5 years
• Should be very strong in problem-solving, data structures, and algorithms.
• Deep knowledge of OOPS concepts and programming skills in Core Java and Spring Boot Framework
• Strong Experience in SQL
• Experience in web service development and integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML)
• Understanding of code versioning tools (e.g., git)
• Experience in Agile/Scrum development process and tools
• Experience in Microservice architecture
• Hands-on experience in AWS RDS, EC2, S3 and deployments

Good to have:

• Knowledge on messaging systems RabbitMQ, Kafka.
• Knowledge of Python
• Container-based application deployment (Docker or equivalent)
• Willing to learn new technologies and implement them in products

What Sun King offers:

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.

About Sun King

Sun King is a leading off-grid solar energy company providing affordable, reliable electricity to 1.8 billion people without grid access. Operating across Africa and Asia, Sun King has connected over 20 million homes, adding 200,000 homes monthly.

Through a ‘pay-as-you-go’ model, customers make small daily payments (as low as $0.11) via mobile money or cash, eventually owning their solar equipment and saving on costly kerosene or diesel. To date, Sun King products have saved customers over $4 billion.

With 28,000 field agents and embedded electronics that regulate usage based on payments, Sun King ensures seamless energy access. Its products range from home lighting and phone charging systems to solar inverters capable of powering high-energy appliances.

Sun King is expanding into clean cooking, electric mobility, and entertainment while serving a wide range of income segments.

The company employs 2,800 staff across 12 countries, with women representing 44% of the workforce, and expertise spanning product design, data science, logistics, sales, software, and operations.

We are seeking a highly skilled Backend Developer to join our team and contribute to the development and improvement of both our customer-centric SaaS platform and internal systems. As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the server-side logic of our application, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security.

As a Backend Developer with expertise in Java, and PostgreSQL, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure of our SaaS and internal platforms, ensuring its reliability, scalability, and performance. Join our team and be a part of building cutting-edge software solutions that empower our customers and drive business growth.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, product managers, and designers, to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Design and develop server-side logic, APIs, and database schema to support the functionality and performance requirements of our SaaS platform.
• Write clean, modular, and well-documented code using any relevant programming language preferably Java with SpringBoot.
• Optimize the backend systems for maximum speed and scalability, ensuring high performance and responsiveness of the application.
• Implement data storage solutions using PostgreSQL or other relational databases, ensuring data integrity and security.
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging to identify and resolve any issues or bugs in the backend code.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in backend development and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes.

Requirements:

• Proven work experience as a Backend Developer or similar role, with a focus on server-side development.
• Proficiency in working with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, and writing efficient SQL queries.
• Familiarity with SaaS concepts and architecture.
• Experience with API design and development, including RESTful APIs.
• Solid understanding of software development principles, including object-oriented programming, design patterns, and data structures.
• Experience with version control systems, such as Git.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with keen attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, but not mandatory.

About Rocketlane

https://rocketlane.com/">Rocketlane is a SaaS startup founded in April 2020 by https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikrishnang/">Srikrishnan Ganesan, https://www.linkedin.com/in/vignesh-girishankar/">Vignesh Girishankar, and https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepakbsub/">Deepak Balasubramanyam. Before Rocketlane, they built a successful in-app messaging startup that was acquired by Freshworks(NASDAQ: FRSH) in 2015.

Rocketlane launched in June 2021 and washttps://www.producthunt.com/posts/rocketlane"> #1 Product of the day on Product Hunt. It has a fast-growing, global customer base, including LinkSquares, AppCues, ContractPodAI, Chargebee, parcelLab, and many more.

Rapid early traction and customer love has catapulted Rocketlane to be recognized as a Leader in the G2 Category of Client Onboarding. Rocketlane has raised $21M in capital from global VCs such as 8VC, Nexus Venture Partners, Matrix Partners India, and super angels like Gokul Rajaram and Girish Mathrubootham.

Rocketlane offers a first-of-its-kind collaborative customer onboarding platform that enables businesses to onboard their customers better, faster, and smoother. It helps speed up revenue recognition and grow NRR for the vendor and enables faster time-to-value and a delightful customer onboarding experience.

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

At Rocketlane, we’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser focused on delivering a world class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers.

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with devops initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work-on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization. 

About you:

• 3 - 7 years of experience
• Expertise in the following areas
• Java
• HTTP Protocol
• You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks / products
• Spring
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Docker
• Message brokers
• GitHub
• These non-functional areas are familiar to you
• Performance 
• Debugging
• Log management

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with AWS

What’s in it for me?

• Great opportunity: Rocketlane genuinely cares about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups. 
• Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out thehttps://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=rocketlane_meet_the_team"> MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn. 
• Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.
• Growth:  You could easily and quickly transition into other sales roles you might like.
• Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.
• Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more! 

• 3 years Experience in Ruby on Rails
• Minimum 3 years in MongoDB / PostgreSQL
• Must be from Product based companies   

Your Responsibilities :

• Write lots of bug-free, efficient, scalable and reusable code.
• Write unit tests and take responsibility for the quality of your own code.
• Coach, encourage and mentor your fellow software developers to do the same.
• Consult with product owners to define, scope and plan new features.
• Test, evaluate and recommend technologies to improve the overall product.
• Be a key participant in the Agile process.
• Produce excellent documentation.
• Undertake and implement processes for smoother and efficient deployment of code base
• Maintain code base as it grows bigger and scales

What we value

• 2-3 Years of experience building and shipping API’s using python based frameworks
• Proficiency with NoSql Databases (Elastic, Mongo) is a must
• Experience in working with Amazon Cloud Services like SNS, SQS, VPC, etc. is preferred
• Experience with databases migration and system re-architecture is valued
• Ability to write modular, reusable, and clean code
• Comfortable with ticket management and documentation

We are looking for a Backend Developer who has hands-on experience in coding, building technology blocks, help answer choice of certain platform/tech over others, help the team visualise the product with the available resources and assets. 

What you’ll do:

• Design, develop, and test functionality for the latest app design.
• Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release, and support).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and develop new features.
• Take requirements and specs from design to development and be the first line of quality assurance.
• Understand user requirements—these apps have to meet real-world scenarios.
• Support the Supersub Mobile application in its entirety, including working on bug fixes and improving application performance, reliability and stability.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development efficiency.

What you bring:

• 3+ years of experience in building Java, Node JS applications. 
• Experience in Building Robust REST APIs Using MEAN or MERN Stack. 
• Good programming skills, with the ability to Perform UI testing, Debugging Taking the ownership of the complete lifecycle of a product. 
• Solid experience with Unit Testing. 
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment) 
• Experience with deploying the code in AWS or AZURE is a plus. 
• Ability to write clean code and document the same to develop functional APIs and Admin Panel. 

Proven work experience in building a product is a plus. And the candidate must have an Engineering CS background. 

We are looking for strong Backend developers to join our growing Team and help build Software applications and Tools that help streamline enterprise processes and build efficiency.

Roles & Responsibilities:

-Well versed with Javascript / Typescript, Node.js, Node.js frameworks like Nest.js, express.js, Postgres DB (relational databases), Redis / Memcache, Queues.