Senior Backend Developer

Hiring: Backend Developer – Java + Golang

📍 Location: Bengaluru

💼 Experience: 4+ Years

🛠️ Tech Stack: Java + Golang (Backend)

⏳ Notice Period: Immediate joiners or candidates with a maximum 10-day notice period preferred.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer with strong expertise in Java and Golang to join our engineering team in Bengaluru.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Java and Golang.
• Build and integrate REST APIs and backend services.
• Write clean, efficient, reusable, and maintainable code.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable software solutions.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in Java and Golang.
• 4+ years of experience in backend development.
• Experience in REST APIs, backend services, and application development.
• Good understanding of databases, debugging, and performance optimization.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

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.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Backend Java Development.
• Strong proficiency in Core Java.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot.
• Experience with Spring Framework, Spring Data JPA, and Hibernate.
• Experience with Spring Batch.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs.
• Good knowledge of Microservices architecture.
• Strong experience with SQL databases.
• Exposure to NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD.
• Experience with JUnit, Mockito, or similar testing frameworks.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of software development best practices.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Docker / Kubernetes
• AWS / Azure / GCP
• Kafka / RabbitMQ
• Redis
• Swagger / OpenAPI
• Monitoring and logging tools

Eligibility:

• Only IIT / NIT graduates
• Immediate joiners preferred

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong experience in Core Java
• Spring Boot & Microservices
• REST APIs
• SQL / Relational Databases
• Data Structures & Algorithms
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience in designing scalable backend applications

Good to Have:

• Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Kafka / Messaging Systems
• Docker & Kubernetes

Interested candidates who meet the above criteria can share their updated resume along with:

• Total Experience
• Current CTC
• Expected CTC
• Notice Period
• Current Location

● 4–7 years of backend development experience with Python or Golang.

● Strong expertise in designing, developing, and scaling microservices and distributed

systems.

● Solid understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and performance optimization.

● Proficiency with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems (Redis, Memcached),

and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).

● Hands-on experience with Linux development, Docker, and Kubernetes.

● Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and related services.

● Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for production-grade systems.

● Experience with AI-powered development tools is a strong plus; familiarity with

concepts like 'agentic coding' for workflow automation or 'context engineering' for

leveraging LLMs in system design is highly desirable.

● Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers.

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 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend applications using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build and consume RESTful APIs and integrate with third-party services.
• Develop scalable microservices and distributed systems.
• Optimize application performance, reliability, and security.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Collaborate with front-end developers, QA engineers, DevOps, and product teams.
• Troubleshoot production issues and implement bug fixes.
• Participate in code reviews and follow software development best practices.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.

Required Skills & Experience 

• Strong proficiency in Java (Java 8/11/17+).
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, and Spring Security.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Knowledge of Hibernate/JPA.
• Strong understanding of SQL databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with Git and version control.
• Understanding Maven or Gradle.
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito.
• Understanding object-oriented programming principles and design patterns.

About the Role

We're looking for engineers who can independently design and build reliable backend services. Beyond writing code, you should be comfortable thinking about performance, data consistency, reliability, and maintainability.

Responsibilities

● Design and implement backend services.

● Translate business requirements into technical solutions.

● Design efficient database schemas.

● Build reliable asynchronous workflows.

● Debug production issues independently.

● Review code and mentor junior engineers.

● Improve application performance and reliability.

● Contribute to technical design discussions.

Must Have Strong Programming Skills

● Proficiency in at least one backend language.

● Strong Object-Oriented Design.

● Good understanding of design principles.

● REST API design.

● Writing maintainable, testable code.

Database Knowledge Comfortable with:

● Database design

● Query optimization

● Transactions

● Indexing strategies

● Locking (high-level understanding)

● Isolation levels (basic understanding)

● Data modelling Concurrency

Working knowledge of:

● Race conditions

● Concurrent updates

● Idempotency (basic understanding)

● Optimistic vs pessimistic locking (conceptual)

● Thread safety (language dependent)

Asynchronous Systems Experience with:

● Background jobs

● Queues

● Retry mechanisms

● Scheduled jobs

● Event-driven workflows (nice to have)

Problem Solving Should be comfortable:

● Debugging production issues.

● Reading logs.

● Identifying bottlenecks.

● Breaking large features into smaller tasks.

● Evaluating trade-offs before implementation.

Good to Have Experience with:

● Redis

● RabbitMQ / Kafka / BullMQ or similar

● Docker

● Kubernetes

● AWS

● CI/CD

● Monitoring & Logging tools

What We Look For Successful engineers here typically:

● Think before coding.

● Write maintainable solutions.

● Understand why a design works, not just how.

● Consider edge cases.

● Take ownership of production issues.

● Help improve the engineering practices of the team.

Interview Focus

● Programming fundamentals

● Database design

● SQL

● Concurrency scenarios

● API design

● Production debugging

● Problem-solving exercise

● Code review discussion

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Java Backend Lead with strong expertise in backend application development, system design, and technical leadership. The candidate will be responsible for developing scalable applications, guiding the development team, and ensuring high-quality delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor backend development teams.
• Design and develop scalable, high-performance backend applications.
• Develop applications using Core Java, Java 8/11/17+ and Spring Boot.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Work with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or similar.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure coding standards and best practices.
• Troubleshoot performance, production, and technical issues.
• Collaborate with architects, product teams, QA, and other stakeholders.
• Participate in system design, technical discussions, and solution development.
• Ensure application security, scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Guide the team in Agile/Scrum development practices.

Mandatory Skills

• 10–15 years of overall IT experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in Java.
• Strong experience with Spring Boot and Microservices.
• Experience in REST API development.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
• Experience in system design and application architecture.
• Good experience in technical leadership and team mentoring.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Knowledge of Kafka/RabbitMQ.
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Experience working in Agile environments.