Senior Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer (MongoDB / API Integrations / AWS / Vectorization)

Position Summary

We are hiring a Backend Engineer with expertise in MongoDB, data vectorization, and advanced AI/LLM integrations. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience developing backend systems that power intelligent data-driven applications, including robust API integrations with major social media platforms (Meta, Instagram, Facebook, with expansion to TikTok, Snapchat, etc.). In addition, this role requires deep AWS experience (Lambda, S3, EventBridge) to manage serverless workflows, automate cron jobs, and execute both scheduled and manual data pulls. You will collaborate closely with frontend developers and AI engineers to deliver scalable, resilient APIs that power our platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services with MongoDB and scalable data models.
• Build pipelines to vectorize data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other AI-driven features.
• Develop robust API integrations with major social platforms (Meta, Instagram Graph API, Facebook API; expand to TikTok, Snapchat, etc.).
• Implement and maintain AWS Lambda serverless functions for scalable backend processes.
• Use AWS EventBridge to schedule cron jobs and manage event-driven workflows.
• Leverage AWS S3 for structured and unstructured data storage, retrieval, and processing.
• Build workflows for manual and automated data pulls from external APIs.
• Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability at high data volumes.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to ensure smooth integration into Next.js applications.
• Ensure security, compliance, and best practices in API authentication (OAuth, tokens, etc.).
• Contribute to architecture planning, documentation, and system design reviews.

Required Skills/Qualifications

• Strong expertise with MongoDB (including Atlas) and schema design.
• Experience with data vectorization and embeddings (OpenAI, Pinecone, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, etc.).
• Proven track record of social media API integrations (Meta, Instagram, Facebook; additional platforms a plus).
• Proficiency in Node.js, Python, or other backend languages for API development.
• Deep understanding of AWS services:
• Lambda for serverless functions.
• S3 for structured/unstructured data storage.
• EventBridge for cron jobs, scheduled tasks, and event-driven workflows.
• Strong understanding of REST and GraphQL API design.
• Experience with data optimization, caching, and large-scale API performance.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Experience with real-time data pipelines (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments on AWS.
• Knowledge of serverless architecture best practices.
• Background in SaaS platform development or data analytics systems.

Position Overview:

We are looking for a talented and self-motivated Back-end Developer to join our development team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code that enhances workflow organization and automates various internal processes within the organization. The role involves continuous improvement of our software solutions to save man-hours and ensure overall organizational efficiency. Key tasks include development, testing, debugging, troubleshooting, and maintenance of both new and existing programs.

Key responsibilities:

1)    Software Development: Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code/flows that automate internal processes and improve workflow efficiency.

2)    Testing and Maintenance: Perform testing, debugging, troubleshooting, and daily maintenance of created or integrated programs.

3)    Adherence to Standards: Follow preferred development methodologies and adhere to organizational development standards.

4)    Team work: To work closely with other team members to ensure the successful implementation of projects. Maintain clear and concise documentation of code, APIs, and software components to aid in knowledge sharing and future development.

5)    Stay Current: Keep up to date with the latest developments in the Python, RPA ecosystem and engage in best practices of software engineering.

About You: ● Education ranging from a Bachelor’s of Science degree in computer science or related engineering degree. ● 12+ years of high level API, abstraction layers, and application software development experience. ● 5+ years experience building scalable, serverless solutions in GCP or AWS ● 4+ years of experience in Python, MongoDB ● Experience with large-scale distributed systems and streaming data services. ● Experience building, developing, and maintaining cloud native infrastructure, serverless architecture, micro-operations, and workflow automation. ● You are a hardworking problem-solver who thrives in finding solutions to difficult technical challenges. ● Experience with modern high-level languages and databases including Javascript, MongoDB, and Python. ● Experience in Github, Gitlab, CI/CD, Jira, unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, and collaborative documentation. ● Expertise with GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, or containerization, is a great plus. ● Ability to write and assess clean, functional, high quality and testable code for each of our projects. ● Positive and proactive, solution-focused contributor and team motivation.

1. Hands on programming skills.
2. Monitoring application and infrastructure health by using monitoring tools
3. Build and deployment automation tools on AWS
4. Design and coding experience in Java/golang
5. Design and coding experience in Java/golang
6. Hands on exposure to GitLab or Github

Job Description

We are looking for a ROR developer. If you're a creative problem solver who is eager to develop amazing products and hungry for a new adventure, a word class workplace is waiting for you.

• Production experience in Ruby.
• A completed technical degree in Computer Science or any related fields.
• 3+ years of professional product development experience.
• Being comfortable with microservices architectures, API-based
• You are a pragmatic programmer who understands what is needed to get things done.
• Problem solving and collaborative mindset.
• Experience working with DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• Experience with AWS (RDS, DDB, Lambda, CW, EC2, SQS, SNS, Cognito, Kinesis).
• Experience with performance improvements (Caching Techniques, SQL Query Optimization, Performance monitoring and profiling.
• Deep understanding of service-oriented and microservices architectural patterns, troubleshooting methods and best practices.
• Takes end to end ownership of the development and operation of complete features.

• Building scalable web applications
• Integrating UI elements with server-side
• Handling Security and Data Protection
• Integrating front- end with SQL and NoSQL databases and ensuring its consistency
• Building reusable code and libraries
• Optimizing the code to improve its quality and efficiency

• 2+ yrs of Backend development experience
• You have excellent programming skills in python, ORM libraries and Django
• You have experience inbuilt tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Rundeck
• You have experience in cross-browser/cross-platform front-end development with HTML/CSS/Javascript in Angular or similar frameworks
• You are an expert in SQL (Redshift, PostgreSQL, MySql, or similar) and NoSQL (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• You design, build and test RESTful web services.
• You have experience with Apache HTTP, NGINX, Tomcat or Jetty.

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We want to ensure that our tech is successfully consumed by end users easily.

We are looking forward to work with you.

We would love to have you for the following reasons :

• Strong hold in python based backends such as Flask & Django
• Knowledge of backend principles, patterns, and best practices
• Aware of the open-source ecosystem and the libraries available.
• Proficient understanding of Git
• Must have written Unit, Integration and UI Test Cases
• Understanding of Cloud hosting (AWS,Azure) principles and interface guidelines
• Experience in working with distrubuted data using REST APIs, JSON and other technologies
• Potential interns with experience in containers will hold an advantage.
• Experience in Kafka & ELK will be an advantage.
• Experience of 1-2 years.