
The firm :
It’s an amazing time to be joining SalaryBox as we continue to transform attendance and payroll for over 60 million MSME’s in India.
We launched the app in Jan 2021, and now have more than 2 million downloads of the app. We support more than 200k businesses and operate at scale.
Backed by Y-Combinator, SalaryBox is India’s leading attendance and payroll app. Considered to be the engine of economies around the world, the MSME segment in India alone has ~63 million units, and employs ~100 million people. The sector accounts for 27% of GDP and is crucial to the functioning of the economy.
We are on a mission to make work easier for these business owners, managers, and employees so that they can focus on the things they do best.
Today, SalaryBox is a fun bunch of analytical and ambitious folks building the first-of-its-kind technologies for the MSME ecosystem. We are here to enhance the employee experience of over 10 million end consumers in the next twelve months. Our mission is big, so we act with urgency in everything we do. We find creative ways to test ideas and learn today so that we focus on the right things tomorrow.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with at least 6 years experience. You will be an integral part of building the back-end architecture and developing core systems.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and develop our core systems from scratch.
- Deploy and maintain the product on AWS.
- Make strategic technical decisions.
- Commit to best practices for testing, logging, and deployments
- Help build the engineering team & subsequently mentor junior developers.
Requirements:
- 6+ years’ experience as a backend engineer.
- Expert in Python and Django.
- Experience with databases (Postgres, Redis etc. ).
- Good understanding of platforms (Docker, AWS).
- Basic understanding of Dev Ops.
- Previous experience architecting and scaling back-end systems
- Hands-on attitude and ability to drive solutions to completion.

About SalaryBox
About
SalaryBox is solution that makes employee management effortless.
Our product offers a range of features, from time and attendance tracking to employee payments, and much more. We help small businesses manage their payroll by eliminating the hassle of manual, paper-based processes With our service, you'll always know what you owe employees when payments are due, and who's been paid.
With our automated system, you can have your payroll processed in seconds, right from the palm of your hands. Our customers enjoy peace of mind knowing their company is following all regulations.
Founded in 2020 , we have raised capital from top-tier investors including Y Combinator, DoorDash Inc.’s Gokul Rajaram, former Tinder and Spotify executive Sriram Krishnan and former Facebook executive Anand Chandraskeran.
Our values are rooted in Customer Empathy & a relentless obsession with Product Innovation. Our passion to build an extremely useful and usable product has helped us grow significantly within a small span of time.
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Responsibilities
- Build, deploy, and maintain production backend services in Golang and Python
- Design scalable architectures: stateless services, queues, caching, DB scaling, horizontal scaling, load balancing
- Own backend infra end-to-end: server setup, deployments, rollbacks, monitoring, alerting, incident response
- Set up and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure): networking, IAM, security groups, VPC/VNet, secrets, backups
- Improve performance and reliability: profiling, p95 latency reduction, throughput, resilience, graceful degradation
- Drive cost optimization: right-sizing, autoscaling, storage tuning, caching strategy, data transfer reduction, reserved/savings plans
- Implement observability: metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, SLOs, and alerting
- Ensure security and hygiene: least privilege, patching, key rotation, audit logs, basic threat modeling
Required skills (must-have)
- Strong production experience with Golang (concurrency, profiling/pprof, performance tuning)
- Strong production experience with Python (backend services, async/task systems, performance awareness)
- Hands-on Linux server management (debugging, networking basics, processes, memory, disk I/O)
- Experience with backend infrastructure and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Proven ability to design systems that scale horizontally across multiple servers/instances
- Track record of improving cost efficiency without breaking SLOs (latency/uptime)
Nice to have
- Docker + Kubernetes (or strong containerization + orchestration experience)
- Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation (Infrastructure-as-Code)
- Postgres/MySQL at scale; Redis; Kafka/RabbitMQ/SQS; CDN and edge caching
- Security best practices: WAF, rate-limits, secure secrets management, hardening
- Experience with high-throughput systems (1,000+ RPS or large request volumes)
Contract details
- Remote, contract role
- Flexible time zones (overlap for standups + incident coverage)
- Start: ASAP
- Duration: ongoing / project-based (extendable based on performance)
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✅ MongoDB & Mongoose
✅ RESTful APIs & GraphQL
✅ JavaScript (ES6+) & TypeScript
✅ JWT Authentication
✅ Docker & Containerization
✅ Git Version Control
✅ Postman/Thunder Client
Good to have knowledge of AWS, prometheus, kubernetes and other monitoring tools.
Min exp 1 year. Must be from Pune since we are not able to provide relocation.
Enguru is India’s leading destination for online learning English, with over 4 crore learners who have used our products. enguru caters to multiple audiences, including adult and children learners looking to learn English through live group and/or personal classes.
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You will get to lead backend development across the enguru product suite, including our spoken English app for adults and spoken English app for kids amongst others. You will work closely with other engineers and product managers to help optimise the architecture across our apps.
Desired Experiences & Skillsets
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- End-to-end expertise in web application
- Strong understanding of structured & unstructured databases
- Proficient with JS Frameworks
- Dev-ops experience around handling deployments &
- Led and/or collaborated closely with team members
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- Python
- Django
- Rest APIs (and RESTful API principles)
- Angular
- React
- mongoDB
- AWS
- Docker
As a Java Developer, you will be responsible for developing cutting edge health-tech applications that include high scale transaction processing, intelligent bot based programs and data analytics.
What you will do:
- Building components for the company’s advanced health tech platform using Java, Solr, SpringBoot, DialogFlow
- Communicating effectively in a cross-functional product development team and presenting ideas and solutions effectively
- Prioritizing and managing workload and meeting critical project milestones and deadlines
- Effectively collaborating with a team as well as taking initiative and working independently to solve problems
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- B.Tech/ B.E. (with 65% marks)
- Expertise at hands on programming in JAVA and J2EE
- Proven expertise in Java interfaces with MongoDB (or similar noSQL databases) as well as relational databases (mySQL, Postgres etc)
- Experience in atleast one 6+ months development project involving SpringBoot and Hibernate
- Strong understanding of application server infrastructure
- Good working knowledge of Maven based build systems
- Good understanding of build and deployment pipelines that involve ANT and Jenkins
- Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git or SVN
- Good knowledge of working on Rest API’s, Webservices
- Excellent problem-solving and interpersonal skills
- Hands on experience with Lucene/ Solr
- Familiarity with DiagFlow based chat bot building
- Knowledge of NLP
- Experience in product based companies
• Strong in Java 8 - streaming and non-blocking APIs
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- 1-2 years of hands-on experience in developing applications of Odoo.
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- Understanding of Cloud services like SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) & IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service)
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Job Location: Pune ( Baner)
Experience: 4 to 8 years
Notice Period: 1 Month or Less
Skills: Python (Django, Flask), MySQL, Strong focus on OOPS and Architecture, Bitbucket/GitHub, NoSQL
Technical Requirements:
- Experience in developing web applications and APIs(REST, XML, other open sources)
- Strong programming foundation in Python, MYSQL & OOPS Experience in Django/Flask
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- Solid exposure of API integrationsand familiar with various design & architectural patterns.
- In depth knowledge of Source Code Repository and experience working with Bit-bucket.
- Experience working on Apache HTTP or any other web/app server.
- Hands on experience in DB design, Architecture, coding, unit testing and debugging.
- Experience working in an Agile development environment.
- Sound in data structure analysis and algorithm design.
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- Should be able to Participate in the requirements gathering and come up efficient solutions
- Should be able to Efficiently estimate on high and low level along with assessing risk items
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To be able to work in teams and collaborate with others to clarify requirements
To be able to assist in documenting requirements as well as resolve conflicts or ambiguities











