SDE III Back-end Engineer (Chennai or Bangalore)

Key Responsibilities:

Backend Ownership

• Own the design, evolution, and reliability of mission-critical backend systems.
• Ensure scalability, performance, maintainability, and overall system health.
• Lead technical initiatives to address scaling challenges, technical debt, and architectural improvements.

System Design & Architecture

• Drive both High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD).
• Design scalable APIs, data models, service boundaries, and asynchronous workflows.
• Make sound engineering trade-offs balancing delivery speed with long-term system health.

Code Quality & Engineering Excellence

• Improve backend code quality through architecture reviews, code reviews, and refactoring.
• Simplify complex codebases and establish maintainable engineering patterns.
• Introduce best practices and guardrails to improve long-term maintainability.

Database & Performance Optimization

• Optimize PostgreSQL performance through schema design, indexing, query optimization, and tuning.
• Improve application performance using caching strategies and asynchronous processing.
• Design and operate analytics pipelines using ClickHouse or similar large-scale data systems.
• Work with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or equivalent.

Technical Leadership

• Mentor backend engineers on architecture, debugging, and engineering best practices.
• Influence technical direction through thoughtful design discussions and strong technical reasoning.
• Raise overall engineering standards across teams.

Production Ownership

• Own production stability, incident management, and root cause analysis.
• Improve observability, monitoring, debugging, and operational excellence.
• Drive long-term reduction in production incidents and operational overhead.

Required Skills & Experience

Must Have

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in Node.js.
• Deep experience with PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and optimization.
• Experience designing and operating distributed backend systems.
• Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and microservices architecture.
• Experience owning backend services end-to-end—from architecture to production support.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Experience improving code quality, maintainability, and engineering standards.

Good to Have

• Experience with RabbitMQ or similar messaging systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse or large-scale analytics platforms.
• Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS.
• Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, and production reliability.

What We're Looking For

Engineering Mindset

• Passion for improving existing systems rather than simply building new ones.
• Ability to simplify complex architectures and create maintainable solutions.
• Strong focus on writing clean, readable, and scalable code.
• Testing mindset with emphasis on reliability and long-term quality.
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and design for future scalability.

Leadership Without Authority

• Influence technical decisions through expertise and clear reasoning.
• Challenge scope or timelines when necessary to protect system health.
• Mentor engineers and elevate overall engineering standards.
• Lead by example through hands-on technical excellence.

Why Join Vahan?

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance
• Monthly Wellness Leaves
• Competitive Compensation
• Opportunity to solve large-scale engineering challenges impacting millions of users
• Ownership-driven engineering culture with significant technical autonomy
• Work alongside exceptional engineers building products that create meaningful social impact

We are looking for a Senior Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. Collaborate with front-end and back-end developers and designers to build website following client requirements.

Responsibilities

• Create clear, simple, and reusable code
• Develop all server-side logic, including data storage to optimize website performance
• Identify programming bottlenecks and bugs and find fixes
• Test, update and validate web applications to be used on different web browsers
• Execute automated testing platforms and system tests
• Familiarity with front-end technologies
• Attention to detail, especially in identifying and fixing errors.

Required Skills

• 3+ Years of experience in back-end development
• Knowledge and experience in Node js and Mongo DB
• Experience in Microservices Architecture

1. Develop, maintain, and enhance robust backend systems using Python3 and frameworks like Django (mandatory), Flask, and FastAPI (good to have).
2. Design, implement, and maintain highly efficient and automated continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes using Jenkins and configuration management with Ansible.
3. Elevate our testing culture by architecting and implementing innovative testing strategies, focusing on both unit and integration testing to ensure exceptional code quality and extensive coverage.
4. Follow peer-to-peer code reviews and cross-team collaboration to build scalable and reliable solutions.
5. Proficiently work with at least one cloud technology, preferably AWS, to deploy and manage applications in the cloud environment.
6. Possess knowledge of Nginx, load balancing, and scalability to optimize system performance and reliability.
7. Good experience working in distributed micro-service architecture and driving them with crucial requirements like request tracing, debugging critical issues, logging, monitoring, and alerting. 
8. Work in containerized environments using Docker and Docker Compose, and have experience with AWS ECS for container orchestration.
9. Prioritize maintainability and reliability in developing and maintaining software systems, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in our product ecosystem.
10. Collaborate effectively within a team, taking initiatives and driving projects forward with minimal micro-management.
11. Pave the way for maintainable and reliable codebases by introducing novel approaches and best practices in software development.

Requirements

1. Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science.
2. Strong teamwork and communication skills, with a proactive approach to project management and task ownership.
3. Proven track record as an innovative Python developer with a focus on product engineering.
4. Visionary mindset to work in an agile environment, participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Benefits

100% Remote

Insurance

We are looking for an experienced top-notch Python developer to grow with our dev team. As a Python Developer, you will be involved from conception to completion with projects that are technologically sound. Role and Responsibilities

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework {such as Django, Flask, etc}

• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries

• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture

• Good understanding of server-side templating languages

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance • Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes

• Strong unit test and debugging skills

• Develop and adhere to best-practices for developing applications

• Continuously contribute to team performance improvement and collaboration

• Work and collaborate with the rest of the engineering team

• Work with product team and graphic designers Technical Skills

• Experience in Python and frameworks such as Django, Flask, etc

• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively

• Git knowledge is a plus

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

• Team player

• Good time-management skills

• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Qualifications

• B.S Degree in Computer Science

• 4-6 years overall IT industry experience

As an SDE, you will develop a deep understanding of our business, work closely with development teams and own the architecture and end-to-end delivery of software components.

Requirements:

• Exp: 3 - 8 years.
• 4 + years' experience building successful production software systems.
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field).
• The ability to take convert raw requirements into good design while exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.
• Expertise in System design (design patterns, LLD, HLD, Solid principle, OOAD, Distributed systems etc. ), Architecture (MVC/Micro services).
• Excellence in technical communication.
• Has experience in mentoring other software developers.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience developing service oriented architectures and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers to maintain architectural vision and software quality.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
• Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative application.
• Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Strong organisational and problem solving skills with great attention to detail.
• Ability to triage issues, react well to changes, work with teams and ability to multi-task on multiple products and projects.
• Experience building highly scalable, high availability services.
• The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader, builder and operator.
• He/she should have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and initiatives.
• He/she needs to balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
• He/she needs to be constantly striving for simplicity, and at the same time demonstrate significant creativity, innovation and judgme.
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language.
• Experience in SQL or Non-SQL database.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good understanding of at least some of the modern programming languages (Java) and open-source technologies

1. Should have experience in full life cycle of Web Application Development in Linux environment using Apache, PHP, MySQL/MSSQL/ Oracle.

2. Hands on experience in these technologies is a must (PHP 5, Ajax, CSS / HTML5 / XHTML , Web development)

3. Should have experience in template engine like smarty and at least one MVC frame work (Laravel / Zend / Symphony / Cake Php / Code Igniter).

4. Should have worked on any of the content management system (Joomla / Drupal / Simple CMS etc)

5. Should have worked on any of one of JS frameworks like YUI, JQuery , MooTools, ExtJS and AJAX

6. Hands on experience with the following PHP modules: PEAR, CURL, SoapClient (WSDL mode), libXML, Memcache, PCRE, SQLITE, etc

7. Ability to write and consume SOAP & REST web services.

8. Create requirement document and work with team members to deliver the application.

9. Knowledge of Version Control Software ;such as SVN/CVS will be preferable.

10. Experience in Architecture Design & Developed of Web Application.

11. Should have experience in web application optimization/caching/DB performance tuning

12. Extensive OOD / OOP experience

13. Ability to propose, advocate and critique design alternatives to determine solutions.

14. Hands-on experience with web application architecture and relational database design Interact with Client to understand business requirement.

15. Hands on knowledge of best practices for cross-platform, cross-browser compatibility.

16. Hands on knowledge of UI optimization techniques and experience of working with UI performance measurement tools like Yslow, Firebux, Fiddler, HTTPWatch, Page Speed, DynaTrace, etc.