Senior Backend Engineer - III

Location: Pune/Bengaluru

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will tackle a highly challenging role within our Cyber Security Engineering integration development team. You will be responsible for the End-to-End (E2E) delivery of projects from gathering customer requirements to deploying high-performance data exchange solutions on-prem or in the cloud. We are looking for a Systems-Level Thinker who can seamlessly transition between building complex integrations and architecting high-throughput, low-latency backends. Because each integration may require a different technical approach, we value engineers who love reskilling, following agile best practices, and maintaining an evolving mindset.

Core Responsibilities

Technical Leadership and Architecture

● Systems Engineering: Design, build, and optimize high-throughput, low-latency backend systems and data-exchange layers.

● Architecture and Integration: Participate in planning, defining, and exploring solution alternatives. Architect and estimate deep technical custom solutions and integrations across diverse enterprise tech stacks. ● Stream Processing: Implement event-driven architectures, manage backpressure, and handle real-time state management across security platforms.

● Delivery Ownership: Own projects end-to-end, defining and implementing enablers to evolve solution intent directly alongside our Agile teams.

Team Leadership and Quality

● Mentorship: Actively lead, coach, and mentor junior developers, providing technical guidance to foster professional development.

● Engineering Excellence: Oversee code reviews, build robust CI/CD pipelines, enforce strict quality checks, and ensure rigorous adherence to coding standards.

● Agile Execution: Actively participate in Agile development, including writing, breaking down, and estimating User Stories.

Customer and Stakeholder Collaboration

● Customer Delight: Maintain a strong customer-first attitude while designing, building, and deploying products.

● Technical Communication: Articulate complex technical trade-offs clearly to both business stakeholders and engineering teams.

● Pipeline Management: Manage customer relationships effectively to ensure a continuous flow of project scope, maintaining clear team backlogs.

Job Requirements

● Experience: 5+ years of proven software engineering experience, with a track record of leading small engineering teams or mentoring junior devs.

● High-Throughput Backend Focus: 5+ years of experience engineering robust, real-time backends specifically using Go (Golang) or Java.

● Polyglot and Integration Capability: Deep expertise in at least one or two additional languages/frameworks from our ecosystem: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, React.js, Angular, C#, or C++.

● Computer Science Fundamentals: Excellent knowledge of complex Data Structures, algorithms, and their correct situational usage.

● Adaptability: A passionate programmer who is genuinely open and excited to learn new software development skills as required by changing project demands.

Bonus / Added Advantages

● AI & Intelligent Automation: Hands-on knowledge of AI concepts, Large Language Models (LLMs), and experience building or integrating AI agents to automate complex workflows or security processes.

● Cybersecurity Domain: Experience in the cybersecurity space (SIEM, SOAR, or platform security).

● Modern Web Tech: Strong experience in developing software using modern web technologies.

● E2E Lifecycle: Proven background handling a project completely from discovery to cloud/on-prem deployment.

● Open Source: Active contributions to the Open Source community. (Please share your GitHub/GitLab links in your application!)

• 6+ years of experience in building web applications using ASP.net, web API, SQL Server, and Testable code.
• C# with Strong in OOPS,
• Hands on experience in React JS or Node JS,
•Experience of architecting and designing web applications and services
• Must have at least 1+ year experience using React or Node JS.
• Passion for building and delivering great software with a strong sense of ownership, while working closely with junior team members.
• Conceptual knowledge of middleware architecture.
• Strong experience with Agile processes.
• Exposure to tools to optimize web application performance-MH
• Understanding and experience of working with Product Management, Design and DevOps teams

• Experience in building applications on .NET Core, is a great plus
• Experience working with CRM Products 

Company Profile:

Livello India Private Limited is a start up company with its parent company based in Germany in the city of Dusseldorf. We started in the year 2016 with a vision to create revolution in the domain of retail technology to automate and simplify the shopping experience of our customers. We have started our R&D division in India with a vision to strengthen and expand our R&D team to come up with the products that will make the shopping experience of our customers fast and hassle free. Our expertise consists of fullstack, IoT,cloud, data science, computer vision, embedded systems, test automation, electronics and mechanical engineering.

For more information, please visit our website https://www.livello.com/technologies?lang=en

Tasks:

· You will take part in the design of the architecture and the development of modern software-based applications in the back-end (Node.JS &TypeScript)

· You support the technological conception, programming and implementation of new features

· You help manage IoT-to-Cloud services, Microservices and GCP

· Experience of working with MongoDB

Mandatory Requirements:

· Bachelor or Master student in an IT-related field of study

· 3-4 Years of Experience in Backend along with Software Deployment

· Ability to holistically conceive applications in multiple technologies in the backend

· Experience with Node.JS, TypeScript and Mongo DB.

· Hands on exposure to cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Nice to Have:

· Experience with GraphQL, Nest.JS, Docker and Kubernetes

· Understanding of IoT device management and message brokers like AMQP or MQTT

· Good to have DevOps experience

· Exposure to Agile Scrum Framework

Benefits:

· A responsible position in a fast-growing and highly innovative start-up

· An agile and diverse team with colleagues from all over the world

· English speaking open work environment, with flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths

· Advanced technology stack leveraging cutting-edge IoT hardware and software

· Creative freedom for own ideas, projects and personal development

· Team building, learning and start-up events

· Opportunity for diversifying your technical learning.

Desired Experience

3+ years

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Design financial systems for scale. Measure, plan, iterate.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Setup and own the engineering architectures built around event sourcing, application sharding, database sharding, service communication mesh, etc.
• The tech: Go, Google Cloud Spanner, Kafka, Redis

What you bring to the table

• 3+ years of experience. Relevant experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of 2 common programming languages - Java & Node / Rust /Python & Go
• Comfortable in linux command line, AWS or GCP
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Great communication skills

Bonus if you have…

• Love building great products and engineering systems from scratch
• Are a Self-starter, Hustler and Curious to Learn
• Have an understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Thrive in an early-stage startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
• Have an interest in financial products and/or cryptocurrency

• Strong programming skills in Javascript/TypeScript, Python or Go.
• Hands-on experience in API development and frameworks such Express, Loopback, Hapi.
• Good Understanding of SQL and NoSQL database.
• Experience in test driven development. (writing unit test and API test).
• Understanding of basic cloud computing concepts and experience in using any of the major cloud service providers(AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Ability to build and deploy the application in a containerized environment.
• Understanding of application logging and monitoring systems like Prometheus or Kibana.

Qualification: 

• B.E/B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech/M.S. from a reputed university with a good academic record.
• Curiosity to explore the cutting edge technologies and bake them in the products.
• Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.