Senior Backend Engineer at One Impression · Gurugram · 4 - 8 years · Profitable · Posted 30 Jul 2025

Job Overview:
We are looking for a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer (SDE III) with over 5 years of experience to lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in software development, deep technical expertise, and a proven track record of successfully leading large-scale engineering teams and projects. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence.As a Backend Lead, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization’s goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leadership and Team Development: Lead and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. Manage the hiring, training, and career development of engineering staff.
- Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Define technology roadmaps and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
- Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, robust software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure high-quality product delivery.
- Project and Program Management: Oversee the successful delivery of engineering projects, ensuring deadlines, quality standards, and budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
- Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.
- Stakeholder Communication: Act as the technical point of contact for stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, resource allocation, and performance metrics. Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and scalable system design.
- Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks For this role we require expertise in Python/Django and API Development
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
- Good experience with MySQL and ElasticSearch. Slight experience with other NoSQL and SQL databases.
- Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
- Experience in delivering full-stack B2B/SaaS applications including mobile applications, web frontend, and a scalable backend.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

About One Impression
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One Impression is India's largest and first of its kind Full-Stack IMaaS (Influencer Marketing as a Service) Platform. We help brands manage high-impact influencer marketing campaigns. We are active in over 12 countries including India, US, Australia, the Middle East, etc, and have a network of over 6.5 Mil + influencers across Instagram & YouTube. Our creator network is one of the largest ranging from top celebrities to nano creators in 10+ languages.
Backed by some of the top investors in the country including founders of Livspace, MamaEarth, Vedantu, Wow Skin Sciences, OML, People Group etc. as well as celebrities like KL Rahul, Zakir Khan, Masoom Minawala, our ultimate vision is to capture 25% of the global media spend by becoming the world's de-facto influencer marketing platform.
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About Leegality:
Leegality works with large Indian businesses to digitally transform critical compliance processes in a fast, easy and secure way.
We have multiple products across 2 categories:
Document Infrastructure:
Products that help businesses build paperless processes at scale:
- Document Execution Workflow: A unified platform for businesses to digitally execute (eSign, eStamp, Template Pre-fill, Document Fraud Prevention etc.) agreements, forms and other documents in a compliant way. Currently in use by 2000+ Indian businesses from giants like HDFC and SBI Cards to high-growth disruptors like goDigit and Cars24.
- Contract Management: An AI-powered platform for businesses to quickly review, negotiate and take action on contracts
- Signstation: A simple platform for businesses to digitally sign simple documents like invoices, policies and letters in a cost effective manner
Consent Infrastructure:
- Consentin: An end-to-end DPDP and Privacy compliance platform for Indian businesses
- Consentin Lens: A data discovery platform for businesses to identify the personal data they collect and store.
If you’re interested in building mission critical software that operates at population scale (75 million + Indians have signed at least one document through Leegality) then join Leegality.
Curious about our impact? Explore our customer success stories: leegality.com/case-studies
Our Culture
At Leegality, trust, ownership, transparency, and having fun while doing meaningful work are core to how we operate — not just values on paper. Our team rated us an incredible 97 eNPS for FY 2023–24 — the highest among 175+ startups surveyed.
We focus deeply on helping our people grow and stay motivated. Some of the perks you’ll enjoy:
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid work setup
- Bi-annual performance appraisals
- A culture that rewards initiative, curiosity, and impact
If you're looking for a place where you can make a real difference while working with smart, driven, and genuinely nice people, welcome to Leegality.
Location: Hybrid
Role Overview
We are looking for a Technical Lead – Python to lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable backend systems that power Leegality's products. This role combines hands-on backend development with technical leadership, enabling you to influence architecture, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence across the team.
You will work closely with Product, Design, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams to build reliable, secure, and high-performance applications while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend applications using Python.
- Own the technical architecture of backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, maintainability, and security.
- Design, develop, and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices for high-performance applications.
- Drive architectural decisions, establish engineering best practices, and promote clean, maintainable code.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers through technical guidance, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
- Lead technical estimation, sprint planning, solution design, and execution for engineering initiatives.
- Optimize application performance through database tuning, caching, asynchronous processing, and efficient system design.
- Ensure high code quality through unit testing, integration testing, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues while driving root cause analysis and long-term improvements.
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies, frameworks, and engineering practices to continuously improve the platform.
- Build and foster a high-performing engineering culture focused on collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
Desired Skills
- 7–11 years of experience in backend software development, with at least 2–4 years in a technical leadership role.
- Strong proficiency in Python and object-oriented programming concepts.
- Hands-on experience with Python frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design and development, authentication mechanisms (JWT/OAuth), and API security best practices.
- Experience designing scalable backend architectures, distributed systems, and microservices.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, with experience in query optimization, indexing, and schema design.
- Exposure to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and caching technologies like Redis.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, containerization using Docker, orchestration using Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including design patterns, SOLID principles, code reviews, testing, and documentation.
- Experience with version control systems such as Git and modern development workflows.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to balance hands-on development with technical leadership and delivery ownership in a fast-paced product environment.
- Experience working in SaaS or product-based organizations is preferred.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or ChatGPT is an added advantage.
Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location- Delhi
Job type: Full time, On site
About Us: TIMBLE is leading Authentication Company, delivering cutting edge technology and alternate data analysis for Identity management, Onboarding & Verification and Business Intelligence. We provide solutions across three verticals
1. BFSI Solutions
2. KYC and background check Solutions
3.AI Solutions
Role Overview
As an Engineering Manager at Timble AI, you will manage, mentor, and scale our core engineering teams (including Backend, Frontend, and AI/ML divisions). You will remain highly technical, contributing to architecture decisions and system design, while taking full ownership of project delivery timelines, agile sprints, and team performance metrics.
Key Responsibilities
- People Leadership & Mentorship: Manage and grow a cross-functional team of software engineers (SDE-1 to SDE-3). Conduct regular 1-on-1s, drive career growth paths, and foster an innovative, high-ownership engineering culture.
- Delivery & Agile Project Management: Own the engineering sprint cycles. Work closely with Product Managers to break down roadmaps into execution goals, manage dependencies, and ensure high-velocity, predictable delivery.
- System Design & Architecture: Provide technical governance and direction. Collaborate on core system architecture, design reviews, and ensure codebases remain clean, scalable, and modular.
- Engineering Excellence: Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for the engineering team, including code quality, test coverage, uptime, and system performance.
- Hiring & Scaling: Actively partner with the talent acquisition team to identify, interview, and onboard top-tier engineering talent to help build our core verticals.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Experience: 5+ years of core software engineering experience, with at least 1–2 years of experience in an engineering management, tech lead, or team leadership role.
- Technical Roots: Strong foundational background in backend systems, distributed architectures, or AI integration. Prior hands-on experience with Python/Django ecosystems, microservices, cloud infra (AWS/GCP), or heavy automation systems is highly valued.
- Agile Mastery: Deep familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies, sprint planning tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Communication: Exceptional interpersonal and cross-functional communication skills, with a track record of translating complex technical visions into clear execution steps.
- Education: B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline from a reputed institute.
Learn more about us at: https://timbleglance.com

About the company
The company delivers the power of technology and intelligence to investors and companies and enables growth and value creation in the private unlisted markets. We make it easier for investors to know everything about a company, and a company to know everything about an investor. Our intelligence is used by more than 400+ customers across Venture Capital, Private Equity, Investment Bankers, and Corporates. Our intelligence covers the entire universe of Indian private companies and investors. We are gearing to power growth and transactions in private markets in India and around the world. We want our solutions to be reliable, timely and trustworthy to make investment and business decisions.
Founded in 2015 by IIT Madras Alumni Mr. Krishna Saraswati and Mr. Avinash Loganathan, as a fintech startup we have 3 products in the market. 1. PrivateCircle Research: Private Market Intelligence product. 2. PrivateCircle Connect: Intelligent Prospecting tool for Sales teams. 3. PrivateCircle Markets: Investment opportunities discovery platform.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior backend engineer with 4+ years of experience building large scale web applications. A highly skilled Python Developer with advanced coding abilities in Python.
Responsibilities:
- Design, Develop and maintain products using bleeding-edge technologies on Python
- Collaborating with the rest of the engineering team to design and deploy the code to test/production and implement new features.
- Debug, validate, review and test new and existing code.
- Act as a mentor to junior developers, providing guidance and support on technical issues.
- Write clean, efficient and well documented code
- As a Senior, you are required to regularly interact with their peers, managers and PMs (product/program managers).
Requirements:
- Advanced knowledge of Python (3+ years) with strong OOPs fundamentals.
- Version Control using git.
- Experience with web frameworks and MVC/ MVT architecture.
- Experience with Django framework and its ORM.
- Experience with REST API's and microservices architecture.
- In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB).
- Knowledge of distributed systems is a plus.
- Experience with Elasticsearch is a plus.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or any other container technologies is a plus.
- Experience with Celery or other asynchronous task queues.
- Experience using system monitoring tools, automated testing frameworks and implementing server-side security.
We offer a dynamic and fast-paced work environment with ample opportunities for growth and advancement. If you're a highly motivated individual with a passion for coding and a desire to work with cutting-edge technologies, please apply today!
Location: Bangalore
Department: Engineering
Reports to: SVP
Experience required: 6+ years
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 600+ 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 60+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each owning 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 compared to an individual.
We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.
Our Tech Stacks:
We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to backend and frontend systems such as Java, Python, Spring Boot, Node.js, ReactJS, Next.js, Webpack, and Storybook; cloud and serverless platforms like AWS, etc; data and infrastructure technologies such as Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch), MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Ansible; large-scale web crawling solutions; modern data pipelines and ETL workflows; and AI/ML-driven projects.
Job Overview:
We are looking for experienced software engineers with 6+ years of overall software development experience, including backend development and proven people-management skills. The ideal candidate will lead the engineering team(s), drive technical excellence, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers
- Own technical planning, architecture discussions, and execution
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders
- Drive best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
- Conduct code reviews and ensure high engineering standards
- Manage delivery timelines, resource planning, and technical risks
- Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management of engineers
Job Requirements :
Professional Experience
- Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams
- Track record of delivering complex, scalable software systems
- Experience driving technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions
- Strong collaboration experience with product, design, and cross-functional teams.
Technical Leadership & Management
- Ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers across different experience levels
- Experience conducting performance reviews and providing technical feedback
- Strong ownership of team delivery, timelines, and quality
- Experience balancing hands-on technical work with people management
Backend & System Architecture Expertise
- Strong proficiency in modern backend architectures, design patterns, and microservices architecture.
- Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Java, Python, etc.)
- Solid understanding of API design principles and implementation
- Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases and knowledge of data pipelines and data warehousing concepts.
Technical Competencies
- Strong system design and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of caching strategies, performance optimization, and scalability
- Understanding of data modeling and query optimization
- Familiarity with search and indexing technologies
- Understanding of security best practices in backend systems
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 Orenda
Orenda is a fintech-enabled financial services company founded in 2017 and based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. We work as a corporate DSA and channel partner for leading banks and NBFCs, helping individuals, professionals, and MSMEs access suitable financial solutions across business loans, personal loans, home loans, loan against property, and professional loans.
At Orenda, we combine financial expertise, technology, and streamlined processes to simplify the lending journey. We are building our own lending-tech platform to improve operational efficiency, strengthen lender and partner integrations, and develop technology-driven solutions that support our evolving business needs.
About the role
We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer who enjoys building as much as designing. You'll shape how our systems are architected, write a good share of the code yourself, and lead a team of 3 to 5 engineers, including AI/ML engineers.
This is a hands-on leadership role, not a pure management or architecture position. Your time will be roughly split like this:
Share of time
Leading the team ~30%
Solution design ~30%
Hands-on coding ~30%
Deployment and infrastructure~10%
What you'll work on
Solution design and architecture
• Turning business needs into technical designs that are practical to build and easy to maintain
• Making architecture decisions across services, integrations and data flows
• Estimating, scoping and planning new features with business and product stakeholders
• Shaping the solution design for AI/ML use cases alongside the AI/ML engineers
Engineering and delivery
• Writing production code in Python and Node.js
• Rolling out new features across our internal and partner-facing platforms, including our CRM and partner portal
• Continuously improving existing systems for performance, reliability and code quality
• Reviewing code and setting engineering standards for the team
Infrastructure and cloud
• Maintaining and upgrading our infrastructure, including a planned move to a major cloud platform
• Owning deployments and production stability together with the team
• Working with event-driven and messaging systems (NATS today, Kafka planned)
Team leadership
• Leading and mentoring a team of 3 to 5 engineers
• Planning and prioritising work, unblocking the team, and making sure things ship
• Building a culture of ownership, clear documentation and quality
What we're looking for
• 5 to 8 years of software engineering experience, with hands-on coding in your recent roles
• Strong command of Python and Node.js
• Proven experience designing and building backend systems and microservices that run in production
• Hands-on experience deploying and running workloads on at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL
• Experience with messaging or event streaming systems such as NATS, Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience leading or mentoring a small engineering team
• Comfort estimating effort, breaking down features and planning delivery
• Enough understanding of AI/ML systems to guide their solution design and integration
• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Good to have
• Experience working at a fintech, lending or financial services company
• Hands-on experience with Kafka
• Experience leading an infrastructure upgrade or cloud migration
• Experience building or scaling CRM or partner-facing portal products
Why Join Us?
- Build a growing lending-tech platform: Play a key role in shaping the technology behind a growing financial services business.
- Own technical decisions: Contribute directly to architecture, engineering standards, and technology direction.
- Stay hands-on: Combine solution design and technical leadership with meaningful coding responsibilities.
- Work with emerging technologies: Collaborate with AI/ML engineers and contribute to evolving platform capabilities.
- Lead and grow a team: Mentor engineers and help build a strong engineering culture as the technology function scales.
- Make a measurable impact: Build systems that improve operational efficiency and support business growth.
We’re on the hunt for a Principal Engineer who loves solving tough problems, mentoring others, and shaping the future of our platform. In this role, you’ll be leading the design and build of scalable systems and integrations across major cybersecurity platforms. Sometimes you’ll be deep in the code, other times you’ll be guiding teams and customers to the right solutions. If you enjoy balancing hands-on work with big-picture thinking, this could be your spot.
About Us
At Metron Security, we help top cybersecurity companies supercharge their tools through automation and integrations. Our engineers connect and extend platforms like Splunk, IBM QRadar, ServiceNow, CrowdStrike, Cybereason, and many more. We believe in a developer-first culture where creativity, ownership, and continuous learning drive everything we do.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- A true developer-first environment where your ideas and technical chops matter.
- Hands-on exposure to 250+ security platforms (yep, really).
- Direct contact with customers so you can see the impact of your work right away.
- A fast-paced, growth-focused culture—but we also respect work-life balance. No weekends, and only occasional evening calls.
What We’re Looking For
We’re hoping to meet someone who has both deep technical expertise and natural leadership instincts. You think holistically about systems, enjoy digging into tricky problems, and can guide both teammates and customers to success.
Must-Have Skills
- Solid programming experience across multiple languages (Python, TypeScript, Java, Node.js, Angular, React, C#, C++… we’re language-agnostic and use the best tool for the job).
- Quick at learning new security platforms.
- Proven ability to design and build scalable systems, APIs, and integrations.
- Experience mentoring and leading engineering teams.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in complex environments.
- Organized, reliable, and able to set and meet clear timelines.
- Comfortable working directly with customers to understand needs and design solutions.
- Familiar with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and security best practices.
Bonus Points If You
- Have experience building or leading integrations with enterprise security tools.
- Like approaching challenges with a “hacker mindset.”
- Know your way around Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud deployments.
- Contribute to open source or share technical insights publicly.
What You’ll Do
- Be the face of Metron Security with our customers—collaborating on solutions and keeping communication clear.
- Bridge the gap between customers and our dev team, ensuring the right info flows both ways.
- Mentor and train junior developers, helping them level up.
- Step in to tackle tough technical problems when the team needs backup.
- Build and document knowledge about security platforms.
- Spot potential roadblocks early and help keep projects on track.
Who You Are
- Strategic thinker who isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves.
- Clear communicator who collaborates openly.
- Proud of building strong, maintainable solutions that exceed expectations.
- Curious, quick learner, and always exploring new technologies.
- Positive, “let’s figure it out” teammate who lifts others up.
At Metron Security, we’re all about helping security teams work smarter. If you’re excited to take on big engineering challenges, mentor others, and drive technical vision in a growing company, we’d love to talk.
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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.
About the role
You'll take technical ownership of our Backend, Data & ML team and lead the backend development team. You'll design and scale our backend services, APIs and data systems, and bring data science and ML models into production. You'll also be the main technical link to the React Native and Next.js teams.
What you'll do
- Own backend architecture, API design, databases and data infrastructure.
- Design and build data pipelines and data models for analytics and ML.
- Lead the implementation, deployment and monitoring of ML models and data science algorithms in production.
- Work closely with the React Native and Next.js teams on API contracts, data flows and ML/DS integrations.
- Mentor the backend and data team, review code, and set engineering standards along with the TPM.
- Ensure system reliability, security, scalability and observability.
- Take part in the senior on-call rotation, including international paging.
What we're looking for
- 6+ years of backend development, with significant experience in data engineering.
- Strong expertise in Django, relational databases, and API design (REST/GraphQL).
- Hands-on experience building data pipelines.
- Some practical experience deploying ML models to production, including serving, versioning, monitoring and retraining (MLOps).
- Some understanding of common data science algorithms and ML techniques.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP or Azure), containers and CI/CD.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers.
- Excellent communication skills. You should be able to explain backend and data decisions clearly to mobile and web teams.
Note: Full-stack experience is valuable but not mandatory. A strong backend and data specialist who works well with the frontend and mobile teams is a great fit.
Nice to have
- Python ML ecosystem experience (for example scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow or pandas).
- Experience with LLMs, recommendation systems or real-time data processing.
- Experience with unstructured data
- Familiarity with Next.js or React Native.
- Familiarity with US data protection requirements and compliance laws, such as FERPA or COPPA

About the client
The client is building a suite of SaaS products for websites—products with clear product-market fit, strong customer pull, and the potential to become $100M+ businesses.
As they grow, they need engineers who go beyond feature delivery. They are looking for backend developers who want to build enduring systems, make practical decisions, and help us ship great products with high velocity.
What You’ll Do
- Work with product, design, and support teams to turn real customer problems into thoughtful, scalable solutions.
- Design and build robust backend systems, services, and APIs that prioritize long-term maintainability and performance.
- Use AI-assisted tooling (where appropriate) to explore solution trees, accelerate development, and reduce toil.
- Improve velocity across the team by building reusable tools, abstractions, and internal workflows—not just shipping isolated features.
- Dig into problems deeply—whether it's debugging a performance issue, streamlining a process, or questioning a product assumption.
- Document your decisions clearly and communicate trade-offs with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
What Makes You a Strong Fit
- You’ve built and maintained real-world software systems, ideally at meaningful scale or complexity.
- You think in systems and second-order effects—not just in ticket-by-ticket outputs.
- You prefer well-reasoned defaults over overengineering.
- You take ownership—not just of code, but of the outcomes it enables.
- You work cleanly, write clear code, and make life easier for those who come after you.
- You’re curious about the why, not just the what—and you’re comfortable contributing to product discussions
Bonus if You Have Experience With
- Building tools or workflows that accelerate other developers.
- Working with AI coding tools and integrating them meaningfully into your workflow.
- Building for SaaS products, especially those with large user bases or self-serve motions.
- Working in small, fast-moving product teams with a high bar for ownership.
How’s the team?
- Open and flat hierarchy
- High-agency work with a get-stuff-done attitude
- Teams that focus on creating wins - for the org, the team and yourself - all fuelled by mentorship and empowerment
Our Culture
Some values we’ve lived by over these last 14 years:
We think like inventors.
>Invent the answer you wish existed. If it already exists, ask how it could exist better.<
We build for the love of it. And we build the best.
We don’t just copy and paste. We start from first principles—frame the problem, question the default, ship, improve, repeat—until it’s world-class.
Every version and experiment is a chance to push past our comfort zone and hone our craft. It isn’t easy—it takes patience and persistence—but it ends in work we’re proud of.
Ownership builds a rocket ship.
>It’s not the hours you put in your work that count; it’s the work you put in the hours.<
We’re here to build the business. When we see a problem, we own it end‑to‑end. We pull in the right people, ask for help early, track just enough to finish, and close the loop. We focus on what moves the needle, cut low‑impact work, and push hard when it counts—then recover.
That focus builds subject mastery. It helps get in the flow. It fuels passion and can spark healthy friction—and that’s all part of the game. We make a fuss when it matters, and once a call is made, we commit to it fully—whether we all agree or disagree.
Step up to stand tall.
>Greatness is a moving target.<
Chase excellence in your craft and take on bigger problems. Grow into a full-stack problem-solver and leader—whatever your domain. Improve with intent, work with people who push you, and never get too comfortable. That’s how we level up.
Benefits
- Relocation benefits - we’ll book your domestic travel if you are not in Bangalore and help you with 2 weeks of accommodation
- Homemade lunch at the office and a pantry with snacks, fresh coffee & tea
- All the IT essentials and tools you’ll need to be successful in your role, everyone at the office gets an external monitor, ergonomic seating and a mechanical keyboard
- Frequent outings, company-sponsored outdoor events, celebrations for milestones, trips for the entire team and sponsorships to participate at international company events at exotic destinations
- Profit-sharing bonuses based on company growth, tenure and performance
- Paid time off - maternity, paternity, and marriage leave
- Insurance for the whole family
Job Summary:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of core systems that drive JioStar's lifecycle engagement, personalized marketing automation (Martech), and strategic partnership integrations. You'll own large-scale, high-concurrency systems end-to-end—from real-time event tracking and reward engines to partner sync pipelines—operating with autonomy and shaping the technical architecture of our ecosystem. This role is ideal for engineers who excel at solving complex distributed data problems, building scalable backend services, and mentoring others toward engineering excellence.
About the Team
Our team sits at the intersection of user retention, growth, and ecosystem monetization. We build and scale the platforms that power automated engagement campaigns, and seamless integrations with external partners and brands.
Whether we are processing high-throughput event streams for real-time personalization, orchestrating complex cross-channel martech workflows, or managing high-availability transactional data stores, our engineering focus is on resilience, speed, and clean architecture. If you are passionate about building systems that directly impact millions of users' retention and engagement journeys, we'd love to talk.
Key responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, resilient microservices that power engagement triggers, and partner integrations.
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex backend projects, from technical design to deployment and monitoring
- Write high-quality, maintainable code, and ensure rigorous testing and fault tolerance
- Drive architectural decisions and influence long-term engineering strategy for the team
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into tech solutions
- Take ownership of operational excellence, including performance tuning, incident response, and root cause analysis
- Mentor junior engineers, conduct technical deep dives and code reviews, and foster a culture of knowledge sharing
Skills and attributes for success:
- Proficiency in Java, Golang, or Python
- Experience designing and building distributed systems at scale
- Strong understanding of storage systems, query performance, and caching strategies
- specifically experience with Amazon DynamoDB (single-platform design, partition keys, GSIs) and relational stores.
- experience with distributed caching strategies and tools
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), messaging systems (Kafka), CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions and Docker)
- Proven ability to work autonomously, prioritize tasks, and manage delivery timelines in fast-paced environments
- You are passionate about growing engineers and leading by example
Preferred education and experience:
Bachelors/Master's in computer science or a related field with 4–6 years of experience in backend development.





















