




We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who thrive in agile, fast-moving teams and can turn bold ideas into impactful products. You will play a critical role in developing high-quality backend systems, solving complex problems independently, and shaping next-gen solutions that drive our company’s mission forward. You should excel in building scalable, performant systems and have a deep understanding of design and architecture patterns.
What You’ll Do
- 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.
- Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance and maintainable code.
- The entire lifecycle of stories: development, test, production, and subsequent fixes and improvements.
- Solving complex technical problems.
- Develop a highly scalable and performant backend based on event-driven architecture.
- Building robust, secure and scalable microservices.
- Splitting features into tasks and for the backend architecture and its evolution.
- 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. This includes collaborating with QAs, PMs to ensure timely delivery of high-quality apps.
- Participating in, designing and driving the code review process.
- Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
- Ensuring sub-second server response and implementing relational, document, key, object or graph data-stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
- Tracking defects and working 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.
- Owning and delivering end-to-end backend features, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Collaborating with product stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions aligned with business objectives.
- Writing clean, efficient, maintainable code using best practices and participating in code reviews.
- Building reusable services and contributing to core engineering libraries.
- Documenting and demonstrating solutions through documentation, DFDs, and code comments.
- Solving complex technical problems with objectivity before writing code.
- Taking ownership of backend systems, including APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
- Working closely with Product to help drive KPIs and align engineering goals with business outcomes.
- Staying agile and adapting quickly to evolving requirements, scope, and priorities.
What You Bring
- 3+ years of experience in software development with strong expertise in Golang.
- Overall 6+ years of experience in software development with a strong base and framework expertise in Java/Go/Python.
- Basic working knowledge of frontend technologies.
- Experience with frameworks – like Springboot, Quarkus, Gin/Mux.
- Experience in working with microservice architectures, transactional systems, and distributed environments.
- Exposure in building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance and metrics (with something like Newrelic).
- Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
- Proficient in OOP, SQL, Design Patterns with Data modeling experience in Relational databases.
- Proficient in building GraphQL APIs.
- Proficient with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and version control (Git).
- Well-versed with TDD and Test Engineering and Automation.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience mentoring a team of 2–3 engineers.
- A self-starter who can work well with minimal-to-no guidance in a fluid environment.
- Excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
- Agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements, scope, and priorities.
- Experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.
Bonus Points For
- Open-source contributions, side-projects, blog posts and YT tech videos.
- Experience deploying serverless applications to GCP.
- Experience in Cloud Run, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Kubernetes, Cloud Vision.
- Experience with AWS stack.
- Machine learning experience.
What You Get
- 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 created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies.
We are Proximity - a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product and design teams.

About Proximity Works
About
We are Proximity - a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks and experts. We solve hard, long-term engineering problems and build cutting edge tech products.
About us
Born in 2019, Proximity Works is a global, fully distributed tech firm headquartered in San Francisco - with hubs across Mumbai, Dubai, Toronto, Stockholm, and Bengaluru. We’re in the business of solving high-stakes engineering challenges with AI-powered solutions tailored for industries like sports, media & entertainment, fintech, and enterprise platforms. From real-time game analytics and ticketing workflows to creative content generation, we help build software that serves millions every day.
About the Founders
At the helm is Hardik Jagda, CEO - a technologist with a startup DNA who brings clarity to complexity and a passion for building delightful experiences.
Milestones & Impact
- Trusted by some of the world’s biggest players - from major media & entertainment giants to one of the world’s largest cricket websites and the second-largest stock exchange in the world.
- Delivered game-changing tech: slashing content creation by 90%, doubling performance metrics for NASDAQ clients, and accelerating speed/performance wins for platforms like Dream11.
Culture & Why It Matters
- Fully distributed and flexible: work 100% remotely, design your own schedule, build habits that work for you and not the other way around.
- People-first culture: Community events, “Proxonaut battles,” monthly off-sites, and a liberal referral policy keep us connected even when we’re apart.
- High-trust environment: autonomy is encouraged. You’re empowered to act, learn fast, and iterate boldly. We know great work comes when talented people have space to think and create.
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- Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
- We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
- You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
- See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
- Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
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- Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
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Responsibilities:
- Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
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Requirements:
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- Engineering management with a strong sense of ownership
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