SDE- Backend Engineer

About the Role

We’re building the next generation of AI-powered business software, and we’re looking for people who want to shape that future with us. With Lumen, we’re reimagining how users interact with CRM — moving beyond screens, menus and dashboards to an intelligent interface where users can simply ask AI to take actions, retrieve knowledge, generate insights and get work done. With Agent Studio, we’re enabling businesses to build, test and deploy their own AI agents for real-world workflows. And with Invorto, we’re bringing AI to voice, allowing businesses to create intelligent voice agents tailored to their customer and operational use cases.

What makes this especially exciting is the stage and scale of the opportunity. You’ll get to work on genuinely hard problems across LLMs, agents, reasoning, orchestration, voice AI, evaluation, reliability and enterprise security — not as isolated experiments, but as products used in real business workflows. You’ll have the opportunity to build zero-to-one, own meaningful parts of the product end-to-end, work closely with customers, experiment rapidly, and see your work reach production at scale.

Why join now? Because the playbook for enterprise AI is still being written. You won’t just be implementing someone else’s roadmap — you’ll help define the product, architecture and experiences that become that playbook. Expect high ownership, fast iteration, hard technical and product problems, direct customer impact, and the chance to build AI systems that have to work reliably in the real world — not just in a demo.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior AI/ML Backend Engineer to help build the core intelligence layer powering Lumen and Agent Studio. You will design and ship production-grade backend systems that integrate LLMs into real agentic workflows — taking actions, retrieving knowledge and generating insights inside a live CRM product used by real businesses. This is a hands-on, build-focused role with direct ownership of systems that ship to production.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build and scale backend services in Python that power LLM-driven and agentic features within Lumen and Agent Studio.
• Build and productionize agentic AI systems — including planning, tool use, orchestration, memory and multi-step task execution.
• Integrate LLMs into core product workflows, focusing on reliability, latency, cost and correctness at production scale.
• Build robust APIs and services that connect AI agents with CRM data, business logic and third-party systems.
• Own evaluation, testing and monitoring for AI features to ensure they behave reliably in real-world, not just demo, conditions.
• Collaborate closely with product, design and other engineers to take features from zero to one and iterate rapidly based on real usage and customer feedback.
• Work directly with customers and customer-facing teams to understand real workflows, debug issues and translate feedback into product and engineering decisions.

What We’re Looking For

• 2–4 years of professional backend engineering experience, with strong hands-on Python skills.
• Design and build LLM-powered agentic systems using frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, or CrewAI to automate complex, multi-step workflows.
• Should be hands-on with traditional Machine learning frameworks like Pytorch, Scikit-learn
• Solid understanding of API design, backend architecture, databases and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Familiarity with LLM orchestration concepts — prompting, tool/function calling, RAG, agent frameworks, evaluation and guardrails.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, ambiguous, zero-to-one environment where you’ll be defining as much as building.
• Strong communication skills — this is a customer-facing role, and you will be expected to clearly articulate technical concepts, decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including customers.

Good to Have

• Experience with enterprise security, reliability or observability practices for AI systems.
• Prior experience working on CRM, SaaS or other enterprise business software.
• Exposure to voice AI or real-time systems.

Senior Backend Engineer

What You'll Do :

- Build and scale the core backend and infrastructure powering a customer feedback intelligence platform - owning systems from data ingestion through real-time analytics.

- Harden ML and NLP infrastructure, including pipelines, model serving, and data flows, so features remain reliable in real-world production environments at scale.

- Own critical infrastructure decisions around data models, event flows, and service boundaries, with strong correctness and data-integrity guarantees.

- Instrument systems deeply for observability, ensuring failures surface early and production behavior becomes a source of continuous learning.

- Balance speed, cost, and long-term system health, making pragmatic, cost-effective trade-offs while shipping continuously.

- Partner closely with Product, Design, and the founding team to turn ambiguous problem statements into clear, scalable infrastructure.

- Raise the engineering bar through clean code, thorough design reviews, mentorship, and platform-level improvements.

What It Takes :

- 6-8 years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and shipping reliable systems in production.

- 3+ years at a single organization where you've built infrastructure from the ground up and owned complex projects end to end.

- Deep expertise in infrastructure, including data pipelines, event-driven and microservices architectures, observability, reliability, and cost optimization.

Tech Stack :

-serverless computing, SQL/NoSQL databases, Elasticsearch, or GraphQL.

Bonus :

- Experience building or operating ML/NLP infrastructure such as data pipelines, model serving, feature stores, or inference systems.

Why This Opportunity :

- High Impact : Build foundational backend and infrastructure systems at an early-stage, high-growth technology company.

- Ownership : Take end-to-end responsibility for critical features, systems, and infrastructure.

- Complex Challenges : Work across ML/NLP infrastructure, distributed systems, data pipelines, and real-time analytics.

- Growth : Deepen your technical expertise while having the opportunity to grow into a technical leadership path.

- Culture : Work in an open, collaborative, and values-driven environment with significant autonomy.

- Benefits : Competitive compensation, equity, hybrid work setup, premium healthcare, and more.

Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Company: House of EdTech (Goenka Kachave LLP)

Location: Bangalore, Hybrid

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 5+ Years

About the Role

House of EdTech is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to design, develop, and scale high-performance backend services and APIs supporting products used by millions of learners.

You’ll work closely with Product, Frontend, Data, and Engineering teams while taking end-to-end ownership of backend features and contributing to system architecture and technical decisions.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop scalable backend services and REST APIs.
• Build reliable systems capable of handling high traffic and large data volumes.
• Own backend features from design and development through deployment and monitoring.
• Work with microservices, databases, and distributed systems.
• Identify and solve performance, scalability, reliability, and security challenges.
• Participate in system design and architecture discussions.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
• Monitor production systems and troubleshoot incidents.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Python, Scala, C++, or a similar language.
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and databases.
• Experience with cloud/infrastructure technologies such as GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including security, reliability, testing, and code quality.
• Experience with system design, architecture, and technical decision-making.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers is a plus.

Why Join House of EdTech?

• Work on products impacting millions of learners.
• Solve challenging backend and scalability problems.
• Take significant ownership of architecture and engineering decisions.
• Opportunity to grow into technical leadership and architectural ownership.
• Work in a fast-growing technology environment.

Role overview

The client is building a multimodal AI platform that processes multi-hour video, audio and text to generate structured insights, narratives and highlight workflows for broadcasters and media organisations.

We are seeking a Backend / Platform Engineer to design and build high-throughput media pipelines, robust APIs, and model-serving infrastructure that connect our AI engine (video perception + multimodal reasoning) to real products and customer environments.

This is not a CRUD‑only backend role.

You will work on:

• long‑running jobs
• distributed processing
• GPU inference orchestration
• storage for embeddings and metadata
• integration with AI models
• reliability and observability at scale

Key responsibilities

Media ingestion & processing pipelines

• Design and implement ingestion pipelines for multi‑hour video and audio content.
• Build microservices for frame extraction, audio processing, transcription integration and metadata generation.
• Handle long‑running, asynchronous jobs using queues, workers and robust retry strategies.
• Integrate with FFmpeg or similar tools for transcoding, segmenting and preparing media for AI models.

API & platform architecture

• Design and implement REST/gRPC APIs that expose AI model outputs (perception, multimodal alignment, narratives) to frontend and external systems.
• Define clear contracts for internal services and external integrations.
• Implement authentication, authorisation and rate‑limiting for platform endpoints.
• Ensure backward‑compatible API evolution as the product matures.

Model‑serving & AI integration

• Integrate with AI inference services (video models, multimodal models, LLM/VLM) running on GPUs or specialised infrastructure.
• Design request/response flows that handle large payloads, streaming outputs and structured results.
• Optimise throughput and latency for inference pipelines, including batching, caching and concurrency control.
• Collaborate closely with AI engineers to productionise models and debug end‑to‑end behaviour.

Storage, data models & performance

• Design data models to store embeddings, timelines, metadata, scene/shot boundaries, and narrative units.
• Work with appropriate storage technologies (SQL/NoSQL, object storage, search indices) based on access patterns.
• Implement indexing and query strategies for fast retrieval of segments, highlights and multimodal insights.
• Optimise performance for large datasets and high‑volume workloads.

Reliability, observability & operations

• Implement logging, metrics and tracing across services for debugging and monitoring.
• Set up health checks, circuit breakers and graceful degradation for critical services.
• Work with CI/CD pipelines to ensure safe, repeatable deployments.
• Collaborate on Kubernetes‑based deployments (or equivalent orchestration) for scaling services.

Requirements (must‑have)

Experience:

• 4–8 years in backend or platform engineering.
• At least 3 years working on distributed systems, high‑throughput services or complex pipelines (not just simple CRUD apps).

Languages & frameworks:

• Strong proficiency in Python or Node.js (one primary, both are a plus).
• Experience with at least one modern backend framework (FastAPI, Flask, Express, NestJS, etc.).

Distributed systems & pipelines:

• Hands‑on experience with queues and workers (e.g. Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, etc.).
• Experience building asynchronous, long‑running job pipelines.
• Understanding of idempotency, retries, backoff, and failure handling.

APIs & integration:

• Strong experience designing and implementing REST APIs (gRPC is a plus).
• Experience integrating with external services and handling network‑level failures.

Cloud & infrastructure:

• Experience deploying services on AWS, GCP or Azure (EC2/Compute Engine, S3/GCS, IAM, networking basics).
• Experience with Docker; exposure to Kubernetes is a strong plus.

Data & storage:

• Experience with SQL and at least one NoSQL store.
• Ability to design schemas and data models for performance and maintainability.

Engineering quality:

• Strong debugging skills across services and environments.
• Experience with unit/integration tests for backend systems.
• Clear, structured communication in English.

Nice‑to‑have

• Experience with media/video processing (FFmpeg, transcoding, segmenting).
• Experience with AI/ML model integration (serving models, handling inference requests).
• Experience with search/retrieval systems (e.g. Elasticsearch, vector databases).
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience working with remote teams across time zones.

What we are explicitly NOT looking for

To reduce noise and mismatches, we are not looking for:

• Pure CRUD‑only backend developers with no pipeline or distributed systems experience.
• Engineers who have only worked on small, single‑service apps without scale or complexity.
• Candidates who cannot explain trade‑offs in architecture, data modelling and reliability.
• Candidates who are uncomfortable with ownership of subsystems end‑to‑end.

Why join us

• Work on real, complex problems at the intersection of media, AI and distributed systems.
• Collaborate with senior AI engineers working on perception, multimodal fusion and narrative reasoning.
• Build the core platform that turns AI models into a usable product for broadcasters and media organisations.
• Operate with high ownership, clear expectations and direct access to the CTO.

Key Responsibilities

● Lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable backend services

using Python.

● Own technical direction and architectural decisions for backend systems and services.

● Design and build robust RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems

capable of handling high-scale workloads.

● Design and implement real-time communication systems, including WebSocket-based

services, where required.

● Drive system performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security.

● Lead performance optimization, capacity planning, monitoring, debugging, and

production issue resolution.

● Establish and promote best practices around code quality, testing, observability, CI/CD,

and production readiness.

● Collaborate closely with frontend, product, DevOps, infrastructure, and other

cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.

● Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, contributing to overall team growth

and engineering excellence.

● Review code and architecture designs, identify technical risks, and drive improvements

across backend systems.

● Take ownership of complex technical problems and deliver reliable, maintainable,

production-grade solutions.

Required Skills & Qualifications

● 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in backend

development.

● Strong expertise in Python and experience building production-grade backend

applications.

● Proven experience designing and developing REST APIs and microservices

architectures.

● Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, fault tolerance, and

high-availability architectures.

● Hands-on experience with WebSockets and real-time backend integrations.

● Strong experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, caching systems, and data-intensive

applications.

● Experience with performance optimization, monitoring, logging, debugging, and

production operations.

● Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and clean

architecture.

● Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and make sound architectural decisions.

● Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

● Experience mentoring engineers and conducting effective code and design reviews.

🚀 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.

Passionate about education? Join us at CK-12 !!

CK-12 (www.ck12.org) is on the lookout for talented, creative, and dedicated people to join our mission to provide great education to students around the world. We are looking for candidates to join our office in Bangalore.

We have a strong education platform that has served over 352+ Million users, have got over 2.88+ Billion questions answered, and have more than 350 thousand customized Flexbooks. We have embarked on an exciting journey to build an AI-powered student tutor and Teacher Assistant to build the next generation of learning platforms.

About CK-12 Foundation

CK-12’s mission is to provide free access to open-source content and technology tools that empower students as well as teachers to enhance and experiment with different learning styles, resources, levels of competence, and circumstances.

To achieve this noble and ambitious vision, we at CK-12 are challenging the traditional model of education to transform it dramatically. Technology has opened up lots of opportunities to revolutionize education for the benefit of students, teachers and parents.

We have chosen to be non-profit so that we can effectively realize our mission and do the right thing! It also provides us with the ability to experiment with big and bold ideas. CK-12 is backed by Vinod Khosla, a renowned technology venture capitalist.

At CK-12, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative and non-bureaucratic environment where you will get a lot of cool things done than you ever imagined! We are a small group of passionate folks who are determined to disrupt the current form of education.

Technology is key to scale education and we deeply believe in it. Come develop great solutions on our cloud-based (AWS) and AI-first platform delivering rich and interactive content.

Does our mission, people and technologies excite you? If the answer is YES! and you are a great technologist who will challenge status-quo (no order takers please!) by innovating, please come join us! Together, we will change the world!

Check out our latest product offerings

• Introducing Flexi 2.0
• Flexi, our AI-powered Student Tutor – https://www.flexi.org/
• AI-powered Teacher Assistant – https://www.ck12.org/pages/teacher-assistant/

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Backend Engineer

Basic

● Design, maintain, and monitor infrastructure for data products

● Design and develop RESTful APIs for the data infrastructure

● Design, implement and drive adoption of new analytic technologies and solutions

● Work closely with data scientists, front end engineers and peers to gather requirements and

develop solutions

● Handle and resolve issues escalated from the production operational environment.

● Troubleshoot performance, reliability, and scalability issues.

● Excellent Problem solving skills

● A Code Craftsman that follows best software development and coding practices delivering

understandable and maintainable code with thorough unit tests coverage

Requirements

● 10+ years of development experience with Java, Scala, and/or Python

● Experience with writing and executing queries on RDBMS and NoSQL databases. Working knowledge of MongoDB, MySQL. We are not looking for a DBA.

● Experience with ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Vector Embeddings, and large-scale search systems.

● Experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency backend services in production environments.

● Experience with horizontal and vertical scaling strategies, load balancing, caching, rate

limiting, and performance optimization.

● Experience identifying and resolving application bottlenecks through profiling, monitoring, and performance tuning.

● Experience in virtualization technologies and deployment frameworks (familiarity with working on UNIX shell, Jenkins.)

● Bachelors or masters degree in computer science or equivalent

Desired

● Experience working with FastAPI/Pylons Web Framework.

● Familiarity with messaging and distributed processing systems such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, or Celery.

● Experience designing systems to support millions of requests, large datasets, and high-concurrency workloads.

● Adept at AI Coding assistants, leveraging them beyond prompting. Working experience in Skill and tool development and usage in AI Coding tools.

● Experience with AWS EC2, Redshift, RDS, S3

Strong Backend Software Engineer Profile with strong Core Java expertise

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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 2+ years of hands-on backend software engineering experience.

3

Mandatory (Experience 2): Must be able to design and implement moderately complex features with minimal supervision, and contribute to system design and architecture discussions.

4

Mandatory (Experience 3): Must be comfortable owning business-critical production components — maintaining connectors, handling customer escalations, security fixes, bug fixes, and building new features end-to-end.

5

Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong, current Core Java depth with solid, clear coding fundamentals — Java is the primary skill for this role. Deep hands-on core engineering strength matters more than framework knowledge.

6

Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have strong core backend engineering fundamentals and experience with scalable systems (connectors handle millions of events/data points daily across customers).

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Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have microservices experience.

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Mandatory (AI Fluency 1): Must have demonstrated, hands-on use of AI coding assistants (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) as a core part of the daily workflow — scaffolding, writing tests, reviewing code, and debugging.

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Mandatory (AI Fluency 2): Must be able to write precise, effective prompts for production-quality output, decompose tasks so AI assistance is effective, and critically evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, security, and standards before merging.

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Mandatory (Company): Must come from a product company background (B2B SaaS or B2C both acceptable).

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Mandatory (Note1): This is a 3-month contract role. Candidate must be comfortable with the contract engagement and able to join immediately (urgent — onboarding within ~a week)

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Mandatory (Note 2): Must be based in or near Chennai, Bangalore, or Ahmedabad (Chennai: hybrid, Tue & Thu in office)

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Preferred (Backend): Hands-on Python experience is a plus.

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Preferred (Database): Hands-on database / JDBC integration experience in a production environment.

Strong Backend Node.js Developer Profile

2

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 7+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience using Node.js building production-grade systems for B2C products at meaningful consumer scale

3

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must be AI-native in their own engineering workflow: already uses LLMs and agentic tooling across the SDLC, from design and code generation through testing and debugging

4

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have owned backend architecture end to end, including greenfield builds. Should be able to make early architecture calls and reason clearly about service boundaries, data flow, caching, queueing, failure modes, scalability, and reliability trade-offs under real constraints.

5

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have a solid understanding of backend fundamentals, including API development, service-oriented architecture, data structures, algorithms, and clean coding practices

6

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs and backend services, including integrations with external systems and third-party platforms

7

Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have strong experience working with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), including efficient data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning

8

Mandatory (Company) – Must have worked in B2C product companies / startups at meaningful consumer scale. (WealthTech, FinTech, or high-growth consumer product background is highly preferred)

9

Mandatory (Stability) – Must have a stable career history, with consistent tenure across previous companies; frequent job-hopping will not be considered

10

Mandatory (AI Product) – Must have experience building and shipping products that use LLMs and agentic workflows to end users.

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Mandatory (College) – ) - B.Tech or Dual degree (Btech and Mtech or Integrated Msc/MS) from Tier 1 Engineering Institutes (IITs, not NITs). Candidates from other institutions will not be considered unless they come from top top-tier product companies

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Mandatory (Compensation Alignment) – Candidate must be comfortable with the compensation structure where the company matches their current CTC and provides ESOPs, without any salary hike

Job Overview

Architect and build scalable, high-performance backend systems while working on mission-critical platforms that process real-time market data and portfolio analytics. The role also involves leveraging Generative AI capabilities to enhance data intelligence, automation, and user-facing features, while ensuring regulatory compliance and secure financial transactions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using NodeJS and Python
• Build event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ and Kafka for real-time data processing
• Develop and manage data pipelines integrating PostgreSQL and BigQuery for analytics and warehousing
• Integrate and deploy Generative AI models (LLMs, embeddings, AI APIs) into backend systems for automation, insights, and intelligent workflows
• Design AI-powered features such as recommendation systems, document processing, or conversational interfaces
• Ensure system reliability, security, and low-latency performance for mission-critical systems
• Lead technical design discussions, conduct code reviews, and mentor junior engineers
• Optimize database queries, implement caching strategies, and improve overall system performance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end product features
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional backend development experience
• Strong expertise in NodeJS and Python for production-grade applications
• Proven experience building RESTful APIs and microservices architectures
• Experience working with Generative AI frameworks/APIs (OpenAI, LangChain, vector databases, prompt engineering)
• Understanding of integrating LLMs into production systems (RAG, embeddings, fine-tuning basics)
• Strong proficiency in PostgreSQL, including query optimization and schema design
• Hands-on experience with RabbitMQ and Kafka
• Experience with BigQuery or similar data warehousing solutions
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability patterns, and high-traffic applications
• Strong knowledge of authentication, authorization, and security best practices
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development workflows
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Exposure to fintech or financial services, cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure), Docker/Kubernetes, caching tools (Redis/Memcached), and regulatory requirements (KYC, compliance, data privacy) is a plus

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