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🚀 We’re Hiring: Senior Software Engineer – Backend | Remote | Full-time
Are you a backend engineering expert who thrives in high-growth startup environments?
Do you enjoy solving complex challenges with the latest technologies like Java 18+, Spring Boot 3+, and scalable microservices?
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to help us build a world-class data science platform that powers cutting-edge AI solutions.
What You’ll Do:
🔹 Build and optimize scalable, secure backend systems
🔹 Collaborate with product owners & architects to shape business solutions
🔹 Deliver high-quality, production-ready code with best practices (unit testing, CI/CD, automation)
🔹 Work with modern tools like Kubernetes, Docker, NodeJS, React
🔹 Contribute to a high-performance engineering culture and drive innovation
What We’re Looking For:
✔️ 6+ years of experience with Java/Python, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices
✔️ Strong CS fundamentals, algorithms, and system design skills
✔️ Experience in secure web applications & scalable backend architectures
✔️ Knowledge of cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), GitHub Actions, and Unix scripting
✔️ Startup mindset – fast learner, problem solver, impact-driven
🌍 Remote | High-growth environment | Global impact
- Should be able to write APIs and connect with external systems
- Should be able to develop plugins or modify existing plugins
Note: This is not a WordPress management role. Development experience is a must.
PHP LAMP Developer [Min 4 Years, Location Chennai, Great Pay]
Are you excited about building products that will be used by millions of Indians? Do you love solving real technology problems of scalability, security, and world-class products?
Then being a PHP Developer is a perfect role.
We are looking for individuals who are really passionate about technology and have strong knowledge of PHP and MySql. We are using latest technology stack from CI / CD to React to microservices. With CashKaro's recent $10mm fundraise, we are looking to grow 10x. This can be a great career move to accelerate your own growth.
Location: Chennai
About CashKaro
We are India's No 1 Cashback platform and a leading marketing partner to most of India's biggest e-commerce companies, including Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, etc. We have recently closed a $10mm series B round. Our fun culture, superb team spirit and work-hard play hard approach make us one of the best start-ups to work at.
We offer best in class salaries, ESOPs and a really great working environment.
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Ideal candidate
• Minimum 4+ years of web development experience using PHP and MySQL (LAMP stack). Should be currently working on PHP or PHP related frameworks
• The candidate should be a hands-on developer. So, the candidate’s current roles should involve coding and development.
• Should have worked on developing microservice architecture.
• Should be very strong technically and understand web development in theory and practice and full software life cycles
• Should be extremely passionate to work and implement new and different technologies and should come up with new initiatives to scale up the project.
• Should have the know-how of the key technologies that could also be implemented like, ReactJs, CDN, Redis
• Candidate should be able to show examples of their work and explain their role in the projects and understand how it was developed
• Strong SQL development skills writing fine-tuned queries, stored procedures, triggers etc. and design skills (data normalization, foreign key constraints, indexes, etc.)
• Experience using MVC frameworks.
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About CashKaro and What Makes Us a Great Place to Work:
We are India's No 1 Cashback platform and a leading marketing partner to most of India's biggest eCommerce companies, including Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra etc. We have recently closed a $10mm series B round and looking to make the 10x scale jump now. So joining us right now ensures a great experience and to really make an impact!
Energetic Start-up Environment - Work with a passionate and energetic team that is driven by hustle, comradeship, and togetherness.
Good Compensation & Benefits – Best-in-class salaries to highly competitive ESOPs along with great learning work environment, we offer you a place full of opportunities to customize your career trajectory.
An Environment for Innovation - We create a culture for innovation by giving an employee the prowess to create, make and innovate.
Great Culture & Lots of Benefits - From medical insurance, well-defined policies to Flexi WFH options, scrumptious lunch to some amazing learning and development sessions- we've got your back. Our culture allows you to thrive, express yourself and really find a home.
- Solid understanding of Data structures and Algorithms.
- Exceptional coding skills in an Object-Oriented programming language (Golang/Python)
- Must have basic understanding of AWS (EC2, Lambda, Boto, CI/CD), Celery, RabbitMq and similar task queue management tools/libraries.
- Experience with web technologies Python, Linux, Apache, Solr, Memcache, Redis, grpc
- Experience with high performance services catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus
- Strong understanding of Python and Django.
- Good knowledge of various Python Libraries, APIs, and tool kits.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
- Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
- Understanding of databases and MySQL
Responsibilities :
- Comply with coding standards and technical design.
- Adapts structured coding styles for easy review, testing, and maintainability of the code.
- Active participation in troubleshooting and debugging.
- Preparing technical documentation of code.
Skills Required for Back-End (NodeJS) JR Developer (2-4 Yrs) /Sr Developer (4-8 Yrs) /Lead Developer (8-10 Yrs) /Architect (10-12 Yrs):
- Must: Strong experience and understanding of NodeJS and JavaScript Programming, Good at Native Cloud or AWS
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Good understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience working with AWS or other cloud providers
- Experience in service-oriented and/or microservice architectures
- Good to have knowledge with stream processing applications, Event-driven Architecture, Identity management (OAuth) - Not Mandatory
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases along with a server-side framework
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Good to have an understanding of low-level Kafka inner workings and partitioning schemes - Not Mandatory
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, review and evolve durable, highly scalable event-driven infrastructure
- Architect and lead the development of backend services.
- Work with REST APIs and integrating them with our software platform
- Develop front end capabilities such as dashboards, visualizations, features
- Work on building best performance UI features and linking with backend
- Integrate all the front end features with a backend pipeline
- Integrate our AI models with the platform pipeline
- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Own new initiatives, Debug production issues
- Help define the way we work in the future including coding and design standards
- Work effectively in an agile development process
- Research cutting edge technology that can be applied to accelerate business growth
- Be the communication bridge be product owners and development teams
1. Developing the modules according to the business requirements
2. Taking end-to-end responsibility of developing models, architecture, and developing product features
3. Working with the front end team and ensuring that the product/features are released and tested
4. Managing Team of Interns, Tracking Milestones, ensuring products features are released on time.








