SDE - I/II/III at Leading Product Startup · Remote only · 1 - 8 years · ₹14L - ₹48L / yr · Remote only · Posted 13 Oct 2021

● Complete ownership of the components that one works on - starting from
architecture design to monitoring metrics post deployment
Strong bias for action with a problem solving mindset. Meeting current
requirements or resolving issues while keeping bigger picture in mind.
● Thinking big while designing components. Keeping in mind that if we build our
current version for x users, it will be 10x within a year & 100x within 1.5 years
hands on experience in software development with excellent
problem-solving skills.
● Hands on experience on building highly-available, scalable systems.
● Expertise in Java with data structures, algorithms, spring, hibernate skills.
● Knowledge of NoSQL, MongoDB, caching data stores, queuing and search.
● Proficiency in computer science fundamentals: Object oriented design, data
structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
● Good with the design patterns and architecture solution to large scale
applications.
● Nice to have: Cassandra, Kafka, Aerospike development experience with highly
scalable and performant software systems.

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We’re seeking a highly skilled, execution-focused Senior Backend Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience to join our team. This role demands hands-on expertise in building and scaling distributed systems, strong proficiency in Java, and deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure. You will be expected to design robust backend services, optimize performance across storage and caching layers, and enable seamless integrations using modern messaging and CI/CD pipelines.
You’ll be working in a high-scale, high-impact environment where reliability, speed, and efficiency are paramount. If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and have a passion for distributed systems, this is the right role for you.
Responsibilities—
- Design, develop, and maintain distributed backend systems at scale.
- Write high-performance, production-grade code in Java.
- Architect and optimize storage systems, ensuring efficient query performance and scalable data models.
- Implement caching strategies to reduce latency and improve system throughput.
- Build and manage services leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Develop resilient messaging pipelines using Kafka (or equivalent) for real-time data processing.
- Define and streamline CI/CD pipelines, ensuring rapid and reliable deployment cycles.
- Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply proactive fixes.
- Drive best practices in software engineering, testing, and code reviews.
Requirements—
- 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, with deep hands-on coding experience.
- Strong proficiency in Java and familiarity with modern frameworks.
- Proven track record in building scalable distributed systems.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS).
- Solid understanding of messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
- Strong grasp of query performance optimization and storage system design.
- Experience with caching solutions (Redis, Memcached, etc.).
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive mindset.
Benefits—
- Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
- Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
- Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.
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.
Strong Tech Lead / Staff Engineer / Lead Engineer Profiles
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Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have minimum 6+ years of overall Software Engineering/Development experience building production backend systems.
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Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have Tech Lead ownership, with experience setting technical direction, architecture, frameworks, or engineering standards used by other engineers.
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Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have strong hands-on Backend development experience with deep proficiency in at least one backend programming language. (Python, Java, Golang etc)
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Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have strong System design/distributed systems experience, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, failure modes, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
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Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have strong CS fundamentals in Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, and Networking, with the ability to apply them to complex backend/system problems
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Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have owned complex, ambiguous, or business-critical engineering problems end-to-end, demonstrating clear technical judgment, trade-offs, problem-solving, and measurable technical/business impact; not limited to feature implementation.
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Mandatory (Experience 7) - Must have formal technical leadership experience, including mentoring Senior Engineers, conducting design/code reviews, driving engineering quality, and leading technical decisions across a team.
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Mandatory (Experience 8) - Must be a hands-on IC + Tech Lead, with approximately 70–80% hands-on coding/engineering involvement, not a pure people-management profile.
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Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies / Startups / B2B SaaS
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Mandatory (Education) - CS degree or equivalent (B.Tech/B.E./B.S.)
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Preferred (Skills) - Experience with Kafka/NATS/RabbitMQ, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security/compliance, multi-tenant systems, and financial/billing platforms.
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.
We are looking for a Backend Software Development Engineer with 6+ years building scalable, high-availability server-side systems. You'll design and own microservices and REST APIs, model data in SQL, and deploy on AWS, partnering with product and frontend teams end-to-end.
Mandatory skills
• 6+ years of backend development in Java and/or Python
• Strong hands-on experience designing microservices and RESTful APIs
• Solid database design and SQL optimization
• Production experience on AWS (or equivalent cloud)
• Strong CS fundamentals — data structures, concurrency, system design
• Experience owning services from design through production support
Total Experience: 2+ years
Mode Of Hire: Permanent
Required Skills Set (Mandatory): Object Oriented Programming, data structures, algorithms, software design, and database systems.
Desired Skills (Good if you have): Springboot, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Crawling/ Web Scraping, Programming languages(Java, Python, C, C++)
Job Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Managers and other Engineers to help define, scope, and implement high-quality features that solve critical user needs.
- Break down requirements into architecture and deliver code, while keeping operational issues in mind.
- The ability to own end-to-end responsibility right from the requirement to release.
- Write clear documentation so that other engineers can jump in and get things done.
- Actively participate in design and code reviews.
- Help take Tracxn to the next level as a world-class engineering team
Job Requirements
- Experience with building backend services. Strong algorithm and CS skills.
- Experience designing and implementing large‐scale distributed systems.
- Experience with multiple programming languages (Java, Python) and data stores (MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, etc)
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, agile, and in ownership, and results-oriented culture.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Culture
- Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
- Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
- No strict deadlines focus on delivering quality work.
- Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
- Very high visibility regarding which startups and markets are exciting globally.
About Tracxn
Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem. We are a team of 800+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.
Founders
- Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
- Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)
About Technology Team
Tracxn's Technology team is 50+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each of which owns one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team as compared to an individual.
We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to Spring, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Mongo, MySQL, Redis, ReactJS, Next.js, Node, AWS Lambda, Ansible, etc.
We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.
We are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer to drive the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable B2B products from our Bangalore office. This role requires a strong hands-on technologist who can lead a team of engineers, make sound architectural decisions, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, DevOps, and Customer Success teams.
As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of our platform, ensuring high-quality engineering practices, and delivering enterprise-grade solutions to our customers. This job can quickly grow into a Technical Lead position.
**Key Responsibilities**
🔹 Technical Leadership
Own end-to-end technical architecture and system design for core product modules.
Drive scalable, secure, and high-performance backend and frontend solutions.
Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and ensure adherence to engineering best practices.
Evaluate and introduce new technologies where appropriate.
🔹 Team Management
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5–6 engineers.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation.
Support hiring, onboarding, and mentoring.
🔹 Product Delivery
Collaborate closely with mangement to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Drive sprint planning, estimations, and delivery timelines.
Ensure predictable, high-quality releases aligned with business goals.
🔹 Quality & DevOps
Champion CI/CD practices, automated testing, and DevOps processes.
Ensure system reliability, uptime, security, and performance monitoring.
Participate in incident management and root cause analysis.
🔹 Stakeholder Collaboration
Work cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, and Support teams for enterprise deployments.
Communicate technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
**Required Qualifications**
4+ years of software development experience in product-based companies.
Strong experience with modern backend technologies (e.g., Java, Node.js, Python, or similar technologies).
Experience with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or similar).
Solid understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful APIs.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL).
Experience building scalable B2B SaaS products.
**Preferred Qualifications**
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture.
Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SSO, APIs, third-party systems).
Experience handling high-scale systems with large enterprise clients.
Exposure to security and compliance standards (ISO, SOC2, GDPR).
**Key Competencies**
Strong problem-solving and system design skills.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to balance hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities.
Strong ownership mindset with attention to detail.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
**What We Offer**
Competitive compensation and performance bonuses.
Opportunity to work on cutting-edge B2B products.
Collaborative and growth-oriented culture.
Health insurance and wellness benefits.
If you are passionate about building scalable B2B platforms and leading high-performing engineering teams, we would love to hear from you.
Strong Backend Software Engineer Profile with strong Core Java expertise
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Mandatory (Company): Must come from a product company background (B2B SaaS or B2C both acceptable).
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Mandatory (AI-Native): Must have actually built and deployed AI/LLM-powered features in production (e.g. RAG, LLM-based scoring, AI assistant) — demonstrable AI-native engineering, not merely using AI tools to write code.
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Staff Engineer - AI:
Location : India, Remote
Job Description
Egnyte is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering department. The Engineering department builds large distributed components and services that run Egnyte's Cloud Platform. Our code serves billions of requests per day with sub-second latency in a fault-tolerant environment. We process and analyze millions of files and events daily. Some of the responsibilities for this department include Egnyte's Cloud File System, Content Classification, Content Lifecycle Management, User Behavior Analysis, Object Store, Metadata Stores, Search Systems, Recommendations Systems, Synchronization, and intelligent caching of multi-petabyte datasets. We are looking for candidates with a shared passion for building large-scale distributed systems and a keen sense for tackling complexities that come with scaling through multiple orders of magnitude.
In this role, you will (But are not limited to):
- Design and develop highly scalable and resilient cloud architecture that seamlessly integrates with on-premises systems
- Drive the team’s goals and technical direction to find and pursue technical opportunities that make Egnyte’s cloud platform more efficient
- Effectively communicate complex design and architecture details
- Understand company and industry-wide trends to help develop new technologies
- Conceptualize, develop, and implement changes that prevent key systems from becoming unreliable, under-utilized, or unsupported
- Own all aspects of critical software projects from design to implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring
Qualifications
- BS, MS, or PhD. in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8-15 years of professional experience in engineering with a history of technical innovation
- Experience providing technical leadership to engineers
Bonus Qualifications (Good to Have)
- The breadth of knowledge across infrastructure domains, with the ability to reason about everything from data center machine software to database solutions to machine learning infrastructure to front-end web or mobile applications
- Demonstrated success in designing and developing large-scale, complex systems
- Expertise with multi-tenant, highly complex, cloud solutions; experience with Hybrid and/or on-premises solutions desired
About Egnyte
In a content critical age, Egnyte fuels business growth by enabling content-rich business processes, while also providing organizations with visibility and control over their content assets. Egnyte’s cloud-native content services platform leverages the industry’s leading content intelligence engine to deliver a simple, secure, and vendor-neutral foundation for managing enterprise content across business applications and storage repositories. More than 16,000 customers trust Egnyte to enhance employee productivity, automate data management, and reduce file-sharing cost and complexity. Investors include Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, and Goldman Sachs. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com
Why This Role Matters
Our backend is what keeps checkout, RTO, and payments fast and reliable at ~$2B GMV across 15,000+ merchants. As an SDE 2 you own services end to end, make the architecture calls that keep them performant, and set the technical bar for the engineers around you. The trade-offs you pick show up directly in merchant conversions and platform reliability - this is a builder's seat with real ownership.
What You'll Own
- Design and build backend services primarily in Node.js/NestJS, with Go for select services, backed by Postgres, Mongo, and Redis.
- Own event-driven flows on Kafka - throughput, ordering, and failure handling.
- Make and document the architecture and trade-off decisions for systems you lead.
- Ship features end to end, dropping into the frontend (React/Svelte) when it's the fastest path.
- Strengthen CI/CD, observability, and deployments on AWS.
- Review code, mentor SDE 1s and AEs, and raise the quality bar on the team.
- Take ambiguous problems and drive them to delivery with minimal hand-holding.
Who You Are
- Strong backend engineer in JavaScript/TypeScript on Node.js/NestJS (our primary stack); working knowledge of Go, or ready to pick it up.
- Solid at data modelling across Postgres and Mongo, and knows when Redis earns its place.
- Has built and scaled event-driven systems (Kafka or equivalent).
- At home on the backend but happy to work across the stack in React/Svelte.
- Thinks in systems - scalability, reliability, maintainability - not just features.
- Has mentored engineers and owns code quality and delivery, not just their own tickets.
- Communicates clearly and does well with ambiguity in a fast-moving team.







