Product Engineer (Backend Heavy)

ABOUT

The Persona Labs is building a new kind of social platform focused on something most social products do not explicitly optimize for: helping people become real friends.

We want to help people discover interesting people around them, find meaningful common ground, start low-pressure interactions, continue promising conversations, create shared experiences, and ultimately build real-life friendships.

DISCOVER → CURIOSITY → COMPATIBILITY → INTERACTION → UNDERSTAND → IRL EXPERIENCE → FRIENDSHIP

THE AI LAYER

Alongside the platform, we are building a proactive personal companion that learns about the user and helps them navigate this journey through personalized recommendations, suggestions, reminders and experiences.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for a Founding Product Engineer to help build the platform from the ground up. This is a 0→1 product engineering role where you work directly with the founder and engineering team to turn ambiguous product problems into working software.

You will be expected to:

Understand the problem → explore solutions → make trade-offs → design → build → ship → measure → improve.

WHAT YOU WILL BUILD & OWN

MOBILE

Onboarding, profiles, discovery, interactions, messaging, activities, and companion experiences.

SOCIAL SYSTEMS

Relationships, social graph, compatibility, and interaction flows.

BACKEND

APIs, services, authentication, notifications, and background processes.

DATA

PostgreSQL models, user/activity data, analytics, and behavioural signals.

REAL-TIME

Messaging, live interactions, notifications, and event-driven workflows.

AI-ENABLED

Recommendations, personalization, and companion-powered experiences.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Cloud deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, reliability, and cost management.

WHAT YOUR DAY-TO-DAY LOOKS LIKE

• Build and ship mobile and full-stack product features end-to-end.

• Design APIs, database models, and backend services for a social product.

• Translate ambiguous product problems into simple, reliable technical solutions.

• Make architecture and engineering trade-offs for performance, scalability, security, and cost.

• Work closely with the founder, product/design team, and Companion Intelligence engineer.

• Prototype quickly, test assumptions, and iterate based on user behaviour and product feedback.

• Own features from problem → architecture → implementation → deployment → improvement.

• Help establish engineering practices around testing, monitoring, security, and reliability.

WHO SHOULD APPLY

• Experience: 0–4 years, including exceptional fresh graduates. Strong 1–3 year engineers and experienced 3–4 year product builders are welcome.

• Fundamentals: Strong CS/software engineering fundamentals.

• Evidence of Building: We value what you have built more than the number of years on your résumé. Shipped apps, strong side projects, hackathons, internships, open source, or startup work are highly valued.

• Mindset: High ownership, curiosity, strong fundamentals, clear communication, learning velocity, and the ability to work through ambiguity.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

MOBILE CAPABILITY

Can you build and ship a polished mobile experience?

ENGINEERING DEPTH

Do you understand why a system works, not just how to make it run?

PRODUCT JUDGMENT

Can you determine what should be built when the problem is ambiguous?

ARCHITECTURE / SYSTEMS

Can you reason across APIs, databases, services, real-time systems, scale, and cost?

SPEED OF EXECUTION

Can you move from idea → prototype → production quickly without compromising fundamentals?

AI FAMILIARITY

Do you understand how modern AI can become a useful, reliable product capability?

BUILD WITH US

You will join at a stage where many answers do not exist yet. You will not simply implement someone else’s architecture, you will help decide what the architecture and product should become.

CAREERS:

Apply with your resume, GitHub, portfolio or shipped work.

https://forms.gle/12YpUSBY2Sqs5xjp8

www.thepersonalabs.com

Job Title: Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer – Java Backend

Experience: 5–10 Years

Location: Pune (Baner) – Work from Office (5 Days a Week)

About the Role :

We are looking for passionate Java Backend Engineers to build highly scalable, high-performance enterprise applications used by millions of users globally. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Java, Microservices, Payment Gateway integrations, and Checkout platform development, with a product engineering mindset.

Candidates from FinTech, E-commerce, Payments, or Product-based companies will be preferred.

Key Responsibilities :

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Java and Microservices.

Build secure, high-performance REST APIs and distributed services.

Develop and enhance Checkout platforms and Payment Gateway integrations for seamless payment processing.

Collaborate with Product, Architecture, QA, and DevOps teams throughout the SDLC.

Participate in system design, architecture discussions, and technical decision-making.

Ensure high code quality through unit testing, code reviews, and engineering best practices.

Build and support CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments.

Troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, and improve application reliability.

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering excellence.

Required Skills :

5–10 years of backend development experience.

Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Hibernate/JPA.

Hands-on experience with Microservices Architecture.

Experience building RESTful APIs.

Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases.

Experience with Payment Gateway Integration (Stripe, Adyen, Razorpay, Worldpay, PayU, Checkout.com, etc.).

Hands-on experience developing Checkout and Payment Processing workflows.

Understanding of Payment Lifecycle, including Authorization, Capture, Refunds, Settlement, Webhooks, and Transaction Management.

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized applications.

Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools.

Familiarity with Git, Agile methodologies, and engineering best practices.

Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

Preferred Skills :

Experience working in FinTech, Payments, E-commerce, or Product-based organizations.

Exposure to Cloud Platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure).

Experience with Kafka or event-driven architecture.

Knowledge of OAuth2, JWT, Keycloak, or similar authentication mechanisms.

Experience with Monitoring & Observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk).

Performance tuning and scalability optimization experience.

Preferred Background :

Candidates from FinTech, Digital Payments, Banking Products, E-commerce, or Product Engineering companies.

Experience working on high-volume transaction systems handling secure payment processing and checkout experiences.

🚀 Job Title : Backend Engineer (Go / Python / Java)

Experience : 3+ Years

Location : Bangalore (Client Location – Work From Office)

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days

Open Positions : 4

Working Days : 6 Days a Week

🧠 Job Summary :

We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Engineer to build scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems in a fast-paced product environment.

You will own large features end-to-end — from design and development to deployment and monitoring — while collaborating closely with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams.

This role requires strong backend fundamentals, distributed systems exposure, and a mindset of operational ownership.

⭐ Mandatory Skills :

Strong backend development experience in Go / Python (FastAPI) / Java (Spring Boot) with hands-on expertise in Microservices, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka/SQS, AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and strong DSA & System Design fundamentals.

🔧 Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, test, and deploy backend services end-to-end.
• Build scalable, modular, and production-grade microservices.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs.
• Architect reliable distributed systems with performance and fault tolerance in mind.
• Debug complex cross-system production issues.
• Implement secure development practices (authentication, authorization, data integrity).
• Work with monitoring dashboards, alerts, and performance metrics.
• Participate in code reviews and enforce engineering best practices.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams.

✅ Required Skills :

• Strong proficiency in Go OR Python (FastAPI) OR Java (Spring Boot).
• Hands-on experience building Microservices-based architectures.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs & distributed systems.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Exposure to Kafka / SQS or other messaging systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Data Structures & System Design.
• Ability to independently own features and solve ambiguous engineering problems.

⭐ Preferred Background :

• Experience in product-based companies.
• Exposure to high-throughput or event-driven systems.
• Strong focus on code quality, observability, and reliability.
• Comfortable working in high-growth, fast-paced environments.

🧑‍💻 Interview Process :

• 1 Internal Screening Round
• HR Discussion (Project & Communication Evaluation)
• 3 Technical Rounds with Client

This is a fresh requirement, and interviews will be scheduled immediately.

About Venxr

VenXR is an AI-driven AdTech startup building AdsGPT, redefining how brands plan, execute, and optimize ad campaigns through AI. We're a fast-growing, lean team looking for a Product Engineer who can own features end-to-end, from idea to shipped product.

About the Role

We're looking for a Product Engineer who thinks like a builder, not just a coder. Someone who cares as much about why we're building something as how it's built, and takes real ownership of the product outcomes, not just the code they ship.

Tech Stack

Frontend: React.js | Backend: Python (Django) | AI: Claude / LLM-driven development

Roles & Responsibilities

• End-to-End Feature Ownership
• Own features from concept to deployment — writing clean, scalable code while staying closely tied to the product goal and user impact behind it.
• Full-Stack Development
• Build and maintain front-end interfaces in React.js and back-end systems in Python/Django, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability across the product.
• Product Thinking
• Work closely with Product, Design, and Founders to shape specs, question assumptions, and suggest simpler or smarter ways to solve user problems.
• Rapid Iteration
• Ship fast, test in production, gather feedback, and iterate, balancing speed with code quality.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Partner with Design and Data teams to bring dashboards, AI-driven features, and data visualizations to life.
• System Design & Architecture
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions, ensuring the codebase stays scalable as the product and team grow.
• Debugging & Problem Solving
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues quickly, treating downtime or bugs as urgent, customer-impacting problems.
• AI-Native Development
• Actively build with AI — using Claude and other LLM tools not just to assist coding, but to develop AI-powered features, prompt workflows, and intelligent product capabilities within AdsGPT itself.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience as a Product Engineer, ideally in a startup or B2B SaaS environment
• Strong proficiency in React.js for front-end development
• Strong proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience in Django for back-end development
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and system design fundamentals
• Hands-on experience building with AI tools (like Claude), not just using them for coding assistance, but developing core AI products.
• Experience working directly with Product/Design teams, not just executing tickets
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-changing environments with minimal hand-holding
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills

Good to Have

• Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for securely connecting LLMs to external tools and APIs.
• Experience building conversational AI interfaces or managing complex multi-turn chatbot state across various platforms and channels.
• Experience in AdTech, MarTech, or data-heavy SaaS platforms.
• Exposure to cloud infra (AWS/GCP/Azure), Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with LLM evaluation/monitoring tools (Ragas, LangSmith, Langfuse, or similar).
• Experience with data visualization libraries (Recharts, D3.js, Chart.js).
• Familiarity with compliance-aware or explainable AI design in regulated domains.

What We Look For In Candidates

• Customer Obsession – A genuine curiosity about how your code impacts the customer's experience, not just whether it compiles.
• Ownership – You drive features to completion, chasing down blockers instead of waiting on them.
• Stakeholder Understanding & Management – You know when to loop in Product, Design, or Business to unblock yourself fast.
• High Standards – You hold your own code to a higher bar, even when no one's checking.
• Disagree and Commit – You debate technical decisions hard, then commit fully once the call is made.
• Simplify Relentlessly – You reach for the simplest working solution, not the most "clever" one.
• Solidarity with the Team – You show up for your teammates, no invitation needed.
• Vitality – You bring real energy and resilience that keeps you (and others) going.

• Why Join Venxr?
• Be part of a fast-growing startup that puts data at the heart of every decision.
• Opportunity to work on high-impact, real-world business challenges.
• Collaborative, transparent, and learning-oriented work environment.
• Flexible work culture with a strong focus on career development.
• Comprehensive health benefits to support your well-being.
• Team offsites and engagement activities to build stronger connections beyond work.
• Performance-based incentives and rewards recognizing your contribution and impact.

Role Description

Software Engineer is a full-time role based in Hyderabad with Onsite work arrangement. This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining back-end services and APIs, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security across platforms. The engineer will participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making, collaborating closely with product owners, QA, and cross-functional teams. Daily responsibilities include writing clean, maintainable code, troubleshooting complex issues, improving system performance, and contributing to best practices, documentation, and engineering standards. The role also includes mentoring less experienced engineers and supporting continuous improvement in development processes and tooling.

Key Requirements/Skills

4-7 years of overall experience in software development with strong expertise in building scalable web & mobile applications.

• Strong technical decision-making ability, including architecture design, technology selection and implementation of best practices.
• Front-end expertise: Strong experience in React, JavaScript, TypeScript, NextJS and building responsive and user-friendly UI/UX.
• Back-end development: Hands-on experience with Node.js, Express JS, Nest JS, RESTful APIs, API design, and server-side architecture.
• Databases : Good Hands on Exprience in both SQL(PostgreSQL Preferred) & No SQL Databases
• Gen AI Expertise: Experience in building RAG & LLM Systems, implementing AI/ML models and integrating AI-based solutions to solve business problems. Expereince with Langchain, langgraph and Vector DBs, Voice AI(STT, TTS) Models and experience in using Open AI Tools (Calude, Cursor, etc.)
• Cloud & DevOps exposure: Experience with AWS/Azure, understanding of CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based deployments.
• Code quality & best practices: Experience in code reviews, Git version control, and ensuring maintainable and secure code.
• Team leadership: Ability to mentor developers, guide technical discussions, and collaborate across teams.
• Strong communication skills to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in high-compliance environments such as healthcare systems is a plus.
• Certifications in AWS & Other skills and technologies will be an added advantage.

Educational Qualification

• B.Tech / M.Tech in CSE/IT/AI&ML only from a recognized university/college. 

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, become part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Project Description: Client is looking for a Senior Software Engineer will work closely with other engineers of varying disciplines (DevOps, QA, Front-End ReactJS, etc), product, as well as other parts of the organization. They craft applications in Java/Kotlin, leveraging AWS, CircleCI, and Terraform. We are always looking to adopt modern technology to solve business challenges.

Responsibilities:

Build out features and solutions to collect, moderate, and/or deliver user-generated content to our customers

Become an expert on multiple of our solutions and areas of our codebase, while understanding the larger architecture of our entire suite of solutions

Participate in technical brainstorming and knowledge transfer sessions; provide technical advice at a team level and a department level

Communicate across teams by collaborating with fellow engineers, product managers, UX designers, operations, and other development teams to build a holistic experience

Proactively identify pain points and potential issues within our architecture and code base, and proactively tackle tech debt

Contribute to each step of the product development process, from ideation and design, to planning and architecting, to building out the solution and infrastructure, to testing, to releasing, and maintenance

Participate, build, and implement department CI/CD, application monitoring, security, and general developer tooling initiatives

Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

6+ years of full-stack application development in our language stack (Kotlin, Java) and with AWS

5+ years of experience developing APIs for front-end applications

5+ years of strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and large data sets

2+ years of experience leveraging and maintaining CI/CD tooling (CircleCI, Drone, GitHub Actions)

2+ years of experience leveraging infrastructure as code using Terraform

1+ years of experience with event-driven development (SQS, SNS, Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and idempotent patterns

Previous experience leveraging automated database DDL (Liquibase, Flyway)

Previous experience leveraging automated database DDL (Liquibase, Flyway)

Previous experience with object data stores (AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, GCP Cloud Storage) and/or document data stores (AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, NoSQL)

Previous experience building containerized applications (Docker) and deploying them to orchestration (AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)

Experience with source control tools such as Git

About NonStop io Technologies

NonStop io Technologies is a value-driven company with a strong focus on process-oriented software engineering. We specialize in Product Development and have a decade's worth of experience in building web and mobile applications across various domains. NonStop io Technologies follows core principles that guide its operations and believes in staying invested in a product's vision for the long term. We are a small but proud group of individuals who believe in the 'givers gain' philosophy and strive to provide value in order to seek value. We are committed to and specialize in building cutting-edge technology products and serving as trusted technology partners for startups and enterprises. We pride ourselves on fostering innovation, learning, and community engagement. Join us to work on impactful projects in a collaborative and vibrant environment.

Brief Description

We're seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer/Tech Lead to join our team. As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying scalable backends for the products we build at NonStop. This includes APIs, databases, and server-side logic. Also, guiding the mentoring the junior team members

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy backend systems, including APIs, databases, and server-side logic
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code that adheres to industry standards and best practices
• Code Quality: Ensure code quality through code reviews, adherence to best practices, and continuous improvement
• Mentorship: Guide and mentor team members, fostering growth and innovation
• Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders to align technical goals with business objectives
• Problem-Solving: Analyze and resolve technical challenges promptly
• Innovation: Stay updated with the latest technology trends and integrate them into solutions

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience building scalable and reliable backend systems
• Strong expertise in NodeJS/NestJS, Express, PostgreSQL
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Proficiency in database design (SQL and NoSQL)
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and CI/CD pipelines
• Deep understanding of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Frontend Development Technologies (React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and methodologies
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication skills and ability to effectively lead and maintain a collaborative team environment

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to work on a cutting-edge healthcare product
• A collaborative and learning-driven environment
• Exposure to AI and software engineering innovations
• Excellent work ethic and culture

If you're passionate about technology and want to work on impactful projects, we'd love to hear from you!

About Venxr

VenXR is an AI-driven AdTech startup building AdsGPT, redefining how brands plan, execute, and optimize ad campaigns through AI. We're a fast-growing, lean team looking for a Product Engineer who can own features end-to-end, from idea to shipped product.

About the Role

We're looking for a Product Engineer who thinks like a builder, not just a coder. Someone who cares as much about why we're building something as how it's built, and takes real ownership of the product outcomes, not just the code they ship.

Tech Stack

Frontend: React.js | Backend: Python (Django) | AI: Claude / LLM-driven development

Roles & Responsibilities

• End-to-End Feature Ownership
• Own features from concept to deployment — writing clean, scalable code while staying closely tied to the product goal and user impact behind it.
• Full-Stack Development
• Build and maintain front-end interfaces in React.js and back-end systems in Python/Django, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability across the product.
• Product Thinking
• Work closely with Product, Design, and Founders to shape specs, question assumptions, and suggest simpler or smarter ways to solve user problems.
• Rapid Iteration
• Ship fast, test in production, gather feedback, and iterate, balancing speed with code quality.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Partner with Design and Data teams to bring dashboards, AI-driven features, and data visualizations to life.
• System Design & Architecture
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions, ensuring the codebase stays scalable as the product and team grow.
• Debugging & Problem Solving
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues quickly, treating downtime or bugs as urgent, customer-impacting problems.
• AI-Native Development
• Actively build with AI — using Claude and other LLM tools not just to assist coding, but to develop AI-powered features, prompt workflows, and intelligent product capabilities within AdsGPT itself.

Requirements

• 1-2 years of experience as a Product Engineer, ideally in a startup or B2B SaaS environment
• Candidates with B.Tech in CSE, AI/ML or any other equivalent educational background from Tier-1 and Tier-2 colleges will be preferred
• Strong proficiency in React.js for front-end development
• Strong proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience in Django for back-end development
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and system design fundamentals
• Hands-on experience building with AI tools (like Claude), not just using them for coding assistance, but developing core AI products.
• Experience working directly with Product/Design teams, not just executing tickets
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-changing environments with minimal hand-holding
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills

Good to Have

• Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for securely connecting LLMs to external tools and APIs.
• Experience building conversational AI interfaces or managing complex multi-turn chatbot state across various platforms and channels.
• Experience in AdTech, MarTech, or data-heavy SaaS platforms.
• Exposure to cloud infra (AWS/GCP/Azure), Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with LLM evaluation/monitoring tools (Ragas, LangSmith, Langfuse, or similar).
• Experience with data visualization libraries (Recharts, D3.js, Chart.js).
• Familiarity with compliance-aware or explainable AI design in regulated domains.

What We Look For In Candidates

• Customer Obsession – A genuine curiosity about how your code impacts the customer's experience, not just whether it compiles.
• Ownership – You drive features to completion, chasing down blockers instead of waiting on them.
• Stakeholder Understanding & Management – You know when to loop in Product, Design, or Business to unblock yourself fast.
• High Standards – You hold your own code to a higher bar, even when no one's checking.
• Disagree and Commit – You debate technical decisions hard, then commit fully once the call is made.
• Simplify Relentlessly – You reach for the simplest working solution, not the most "clever" one.
• Solidarity with the Team – You show up for your teammates, no invitation needed.
• Vitality – You bring real energy and resilience that keeps you (and others) going.

• Why Join Venxr?
• Be part of a fast-growing startup that puts data at the heart of every decision.
• Opportunity to work on high-impact, real-world business challenges.
• Collaborative, transparent, and learning-oriented work environment.
• Flexible work culture with a strong focus on career development.
• Comprehensive health benefits to support your well-being.
• Team offsites and engagement activities to build stronger connections beyond work.
• Performance-based incentives and rewards recognizing your contribution and impact.

About the Role

Unico Connect is an AI-first technology partner that builds custom mobile, web, and AI products for clients across multiple geographies. We are hiring a Backend Engineer for a dedicated client engagement building an AI-powered application builder platform.

The backend is the operational core of the product: it manages user projects and sessions, coordinates long-running AI agent workloads, maintains project state, and serves as the integration layer between the frontend, the AI system, and the underlying infrastructure.

The mandatory requirement is hands-on production experience shipping Node.js services, with end-to-end ownership of API design, data modelling, and at least one production system involving background job processing or event-driven patterns.

Responsibilities

API and service development: Design and build REST APIs in Node.js with TypeScript. Cover authentication, session management, input validation, structured error handling, streaming responses (SSE, WebSockets), and rate limiting. Maintain clean API contracts that the frontend and AI system can rely on.

Database design and management: Own PostgreSQL schema design for product domains including user accounts, projects, file trees, session state, and generated artefacts. Write efficient queries, manage migrations, and optimise for read patterns that serve a real-time editor experience.

Caching strategy: Implement and maintain caching with Redis for session data, project state, and frequently read configuration. Design cache invalidation logic that keeps the editor experience consistent without stale reads.

Queue and background job management: Implement and operate background job infrastructure using BullMQ or equivalent. AI agent runs are long-running and stateful; handle retries, failure states, priority queues, and concurrency limits.

AI system integration: Build the integration layer between the backend and the AI agent system. Manage job dispatch, result handling, streaming output to the frontend, and error propagation.

Multi-tenancy and access control: Implement tenant data isolation, RBAC, and resource ownership enforcement across all API surfaces.

Observability and reliability: Instrument services with structured logging, metrics, and tracing. Write defensive code with sensible timeouts, fallback behaviour, and circuit breaking on external dependencies.

Testing and code quality: Write unit and integration tests for the services you ship. Review the work of peers and contribute to shared engineering conventions.

Requirements

• Hands-on production Node.js experience (mandatory) — must have personally shipped at least one feature area end to end in a production Node.js service, owning API design, data modelling, and testing.

• 3 to 5 years of professional backend engineering experience. Candidates with slightly less time but strong demonstrated ownership are welcome to apply.

• Strong Node.js and TypeScript. Production experience with Express, NestJS, or Fastify. Solid with async patterns, streaming, error handling, and building services that run reliably under sustained load.

• PostgreSQL depth. Schema design, query writing, indexing, and migrations on at least one production system.

• Redis and caching. Production experience using Redis for caching and session management. Understands cache invalidation trade-offs.

• Queue and background job systems. Hands-on with BullMQ, RabbitMQ, SQS, or equivalent. Experience managing retries, dead-letter queues, job priority, and concurrency control.

• AWS working knowledge. Comfortable with EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, and IAM. Familiar with Docker and basic deployment and environment management.

• Strong written and spoken English. Able to communicate clearly with engineers across disciplines and write precise technical documentation.

Nice to Have

Experience integrating with AI or LLM services (streaming responses, structured outputs, retry patterns); WebSocket or SSE implementation for real-time features; multi-tenant SaaS product experience; GraphQL; OpenTelemetry instrumentation; prior work on developer tools or editor-style products.

We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low-latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities—

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code.
• Solving complex technical problems.
• Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
• Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.
• Participating in and driving code reviews.
• Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices.
• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
• Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
• Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog
• Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
• Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
• Architecting & designing the platform.
• Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation.
• Writing documentation & create engineering processes.
• Working as an individual contributor.
• Helping drive KPIs with Product.
• Taking ownership of backend systems.
• Helping with unit tests & QA process.
• Scaling the engineering team.
• System scaling to hundreds of millions of users.
• Working with product managers and designs.

Requirements—

• Overall 5-10 years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional).
• Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD.
• Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux.
• Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments.
• Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix).
• Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ.
• DevOps experience.
• Experience with AWS stack.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment.
• To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
• To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities.
• To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.
• To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional).
• To have contributed to open-source projects.
• To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth.
• Proficiency in English.
• Experience with Web3(optional).

Benefits—

• Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
• Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
• High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.

About us—

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.