Senior Backend Engineer

Job Role: Software Engineer – Backend & Cloud Infrastructure

Company: Appmaker by StarApps

Location: Kochi, Kerala (On-Site)

Experience: 3–6 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

About Appmaker by StarApps

At StarApps, we build high-scale tools like Appmaker(https://appmaker.xyz/) that empower thousands of global e-commerce merchants to turn their web stores into native mobile apps. We focus on low latency, cutting-edge serverless architectures, and building scalable software that handles millions of requests every day.

About the Role

We are looking for a Mid-Senior Backend & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our core team on-site in Kochi. In this role, you will design, scale, and maintain high-throughput backend services and cloud infrastructure capable of supporting large user bases and handling millions of daily requests.

If you thrive in solving complex distributed system design challenges, optimizing cloud infrastructure, and taking ownership of core platform scaling, this role is for you!

Key Responsibilities

• Distributed Backend Systems: Architect, construct, and optimize core backend microservices and serverless applications built on Node.js and TypeScript.
• Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps: Manage, automate, and expand infrastructure across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) using IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• System Scalability & Performance: Design for high availability, implementing caching, load balancing, message queues, and database optimizations.
• Reliability & Observability: Troubleshoot complex production incidents, optimize system latency, enforce security standards, and maintain CI/CD and automated monitoring pipelines.
• Architecture Ownership: Own critical features and system components independently while collaborating on high-level architecture decisions.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience: 3–6 years of hands-on software development experience with a focus on backend software architecture, systems engineering, and infrastructure.
• Tech Stack: Strong mastery of Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and major Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Edge & Serverless: Deep understanding of serverless deployment models (Cloudflare Workers/D1, AWS Lambda, or equivalent).
• System Design & Databases: Advanced knowledge of system design, load balancing, caching strategies, asynchronous message queues, relational database optimization, and high-availability architecture.
• Engineering Standards: Strong experience with production CI/CD, observability tools, automated testing, and production troubleshooting.

Bonus Points

• Hands-on experience with the extended Cloudflare suite (KV, R2, Queues, Workers).
• Prior experience in SaaS product engineering, Shopify app ecosystems, or high-traffic global e-commerce platforms.
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Why Join Us?

• High Scale & Impact: Build software used by thousands of global brands and millions of end consumers.
• Modern Tech Stack: Work with cutting-edge serverless architectures and infrastructure automation platforms.
• Growth & Culture: Great engineering culture, high ownership, competitive growth, and direct technical leadership opportunities in our Kochi office.

Role & Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture, system design, development, and production deployment of scalable, AI-powered applications.
• Architect and develop high-performance backend services using Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, Express.js, and Go.
• Design scalable web applications using React.js and Next.js, and cross-platform mobile applications using Flutter and Dart.
• Design distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and real-time applications capable of handling massive data volumes and high concurrent traffic.
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL/MySQL databases, MongoDB, Redis caching, database indexing, transactions, and query performance.
• Build real-time ride-booking, driver-allocation, location-tracking, and proximity-based matching systems using geospatial technologies such as PostGIS.
• Design and implement REST APIs, WebSockets, secure authentication, authorization, RBAC, and third-party integrations.
• Build and integrate Generative AI applications, LLM-powered chatbots, AI agents, RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector databases, tool calling, and intelligent automation workflows.
• Develop AI and backend services using Python and integrate LLM platforms such as OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini.
• Architect secure payment integrations, transaction workflows, webhook processing, idempotency, and payment reconciliation.
• Design and implement cloud-native infrastructure using AWS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring tools.
• Ensure application security, scalability, reliability, performance, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead technical decision-making, code reviews, debugging, performance optimization, documentation, and mentoring of developers.
• Independently own critical engineering deliverables and drive products from concept and architecture through development, testing, deployment, and production support.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• 710+ years of software development experience, with substantial hands-on experience in technical architecture and production-grade application development.
• Expert-level proficiency in Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, REST APIs, backend architecture, and microservices.
• Strong experience with React.js, Next.js, and modern frontend architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Flutter and Dart for Android and iOS application development.
• Proven experience designing scalable systems, handling large data volumes, concurrent workloads, and performance-critical applications.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, database design, indexing, query optimization, transactions, Redis, and geospatial systems.
• Practical experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications, AI agents, RAG systems, embeddings, vector search, and AI workflow automation.
• Proficiency in Python for AI integrations and backend services; Go language experience is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, application security, payment integrations, and secure API design.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Git, production deployments, logging, and monitoring.
• Familiarity with Kafka/RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, LangChain/LlamaIndex, and event-driven architectures is an advantage.
• Exceptional system-design, analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong ownership, independent execution, technical leadership, communication, and mentoring abilities.
• Experience in startups or building products from scratch is highly desirable.

What We Expect

We are looking for a highly hands-on technical leader who can independently architect, design, develop, optimize, and deploy complex production systems. The ideal candidate must demonstrate genuine technical depth, strong engineering judgment, and the ability to lead end-to-end product development across backend, web, mobile, cloud, and AI technologies.

About Dino Ventures

Dino Ventures is a Bharat-focused, app-first technology company with 5M+ app downloads across a portfolio of 10+ live applications. Our flagship products—including Samaj Saathi, Samjho, and Stick—serve millions of users across India, solving meaningful problems at scale.

We’re building products that impact everyday lives, and we’re looking for experienced engineers who thrive on ownership, performance, and shipping high-quality software.

What You’ll Do

• Architect, build, and scale high-performance, real-time applications across the entire stack.
• Design robust backend services, APIs, and distributed systems that power millions of users.
• Build fast, responsive, and polished user experiences with a strong focus on performance and usability.
• Optimize databases, caching layers, and application architecture for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead technical design discussions, make architectural decisions, and mentor fellow engineers.
• Drive projects from concept to production with complete ownership.
• Collaborate closely with product and design teams to build impactful user experiences.
• Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) to maximize engineering productivity.

Our Tech Stack

Backend

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Elasticsearch

Frontend

• SvelteKit
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• tRPC
• TanStack Query

(We’re pragmatic about technology—we choose the right tool for the job.)

What We’re Looking For

• 2+ years of experience building and shipping production-grade software.
• Strong expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript across frontend and backend development.
• Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, system design, and scalable architecture.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, indexing strategies, query optimization, and database internals.
• Experience building scalable REST APIs and real-time systems.
• Familiarity with caching, asynchronous processing, networking, and distributed systems.
• Experience using modern AI coding tools to accelerate development workflows.
• Strong attention to engineering quality, including latency, reliability, race conditions, bundle size, and user experience.
• Ability to balance speed with maintainability, making thoughtful engineering trade-offs.
• Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership and a product mindset.

Intent > Experience > Skills

Why Join Dino Ventures?

• Build products that solve real problems for millions of Bharat users.
• Work across multiple products with opportunities to build new systems from scratch.
• High ownership, minimal bureaucracy, and fast decision-making.
• Collaborate with an ambitious, product-first engineering team.
• See your work reach production from Day 1.
• Shape the technical direction of products used at massive scale.

If you enjoy solving challenging engineering problems, care deeply about software craftsmanship, and want your work to make a real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you.

About NonStop io Technologies:

NonStop io Technologies is a value-driven company with a strong focus on process-oriented software engineering. We specialize in Product Development and have a decade's worth of experience in building web and mobile applications across various domains. NonStop io Technologies follows core principles that guide its operations and believes in staying invested in a product's vision for the long term. We are a small but proud group of individuals who believe in the 'givers gain' philosophy and strive to provide value in order to seek value. We are committed to and specialize in building cutting-edge technology products and serving as trusted technology partners for startups and enterprises. We pride ourselves on fostering innovation, learning, and community engagement. Join us to work on impactful projects in a collaborative and vibrant environment. We're seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our team. As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying scalable backends for the products we build at NonStop. This includes APIs, databases, and server-side logic.

Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, and deploy backend systems, including APIs, databases, and server-side logic

● Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code that adheres to industry standards and best practices

● Participate in code reviews and contribute to the improvement of the codebase

● Debug and resolve issues in the existing codebase

● Develop and execute unit tests to ensure high code quality

● Work with DevOps engineers to ensure seamless deployment of software changes

● Monitor application performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize systems for better scalability and efficiency

● Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies; advocate for best practices and new ideas within the team

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize project requirements

Requirements:

● At least 3+ years of experience building scalable and reliable backend systems

● Strong expertise in NodeJS/NestJS, Express, PostgreSQL

● Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems

● Proficiency in database design (SQL and NoSQL)

● Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and CI/CD pipelines

● Deep understanding of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms

● Hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes

● Exceptional communication and leadership skills

● Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns

● Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and methodologies

● Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

● Strong communication skills and ability to effectively lead and maintain a collaborative team environmen

● Ready to be a tech-agnostic engineer and comfortable to shift on any tech stack (Java, Node, Python etc)

● Comfortable working with AI (Claude code, Cursor etc)

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.

About AbleCredit:

AbleCredit is on a mission to solve the Credit Gap of emerging economies. In India alone, the Credit Gap is over USD 5T (Trillion!). This is the single largest contributor to poverty, poor genie index and lack of opportunities.

Ablecredit is a rare startup because we are probably the only revenue generating GenAI startup in India.

Key Responsibilities:

● Solving highly complex technical challenges and driving large-scale projects; developing robust and scalable web applications using Node.js, MongoDB

● Participate in system design, architecture, and help build scalable, high-performance systems

● Mentor junior engineers (SDEs and SDE-2s), driving technical decisions, and leading entire projects or initiatives

● Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.

● Architect efficient and reusable back-end systems and optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.

● Implement security and data protection measures.

● Stay updated on emerging technologies and best practices in web development.

Qualifications:

● Bachelor' s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

● Minimum of 5 years of experience in backend web development.

● Proficiency in Node.js and typescript along with their core principles.

● Experience with server-side frameworks such as Express.js.

● Familiarity with database systems such as MongoDB, or PostgreSQL.

● Knowledge of RESTful APIs and asynchronous request handling.

● Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

● Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.

● Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate with stakeholders.

● Bonus: can whip up a front end or UI with AI agents or all by yourself.

Key Responsibilities • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Node.js, TypeScript, and Express.js. • Build and maintain microservices-based applications and APIs. • Work with MongoDB and at least one SQL database. • Implement Redis caching to improve application performance and scalability. • Work with AWS cloud services and support cloud-based application deployment. • Apply good understanding of network and infrastructure concepts while developing and troubleshooting applications. • Build and maintain CIICD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment. • use Git effectively for source control and collaborative development. • Containerize and deploy applications using Docker. • Write and maintain unit test cases using appropriate testing tools/frameworks. • Troubleshoot performance, scalability, and production issues and implement effective solutions. • Take end-to-end ownership of assigned modules and deliverables. • Work independently with minimal supervision and proactively resolve technical challenges.

Must-Have Skills • Node.js • TypeScript • Express.js • MongoDB • SQL — any one SQL database • Redis/ Redis Caching • AWSCloud • Network & Infrastructure fundamentals • Microservices Architecture • Docker • CI/CD Git • unit Testing / Test Automation • Abilityto work independently and take ownership Good to Have • Microsoft Azure knowledge • Experience working With Code Bots / Al-assisted development tools Lead N s Developer Pune • Domain experience in FinTech, Travel, ERP, or IoT Experience &

Other Requirements • 5—7 years Of relevant software development experience. • Strong hands-on experience in backend development using Node.js and TypeScript. • Good understanding Of scalable and distributed system design. • Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills. • Ability to independently manage tasks and deliver production-ready solutions. • Immediate joiners or candidates With a short notice period are preferred

Apply and complete the screening questions on Just Interview:

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Company: Lucid Growth Media

Website: https://lucidgrowthmedia.com/

Department: Engineering

Employment type: Full-time

Work mode: On-site

Job location: Shyamnagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan

Minimum experience: 4 years of professional experience

Maximum experience: 6 years of professional experience

Prior on-site development-team experience: At least 2 years

Monthly take-home salary: ₹60,000–₹80,000 — up to ₹80,000, based on demonstrated capability and relevant experience. The offer will include a salary breakdown.

Working schedule: Monday to Saturday; second and fourth Saturdays off. Sundays off.

Shift timing: 9:00 AM–6:00 PM (9-hour shift)

Application deadline: 30 September 2026

Skills: Node.js, TypeScript, Rust, asynchronous processing, REST APIs, database design, performance debugging, Git review and application security.

Job description

Join a small engineering team improving existing software and building new capabilities. You will own backend reliability, data correctness and asynchronous processing, and guide technical decisions across application and automation engineers.

This is a hands-on position involving production debugging, measured performance improvements, safe changes to existing code and release ownership. Company-provided AI coding tools support the work; you remain responsible for understanding and verifying what ships.

Responsibilities

- Develop and improve TypeScript/Node.js APIs and Rust services, including concurrency, failure handling and durable processing.

- Diagnose slow queries and API paths; improve schemas, indexes, caching and background jobs based on evidence.

- Define reliable service contracts, event identities, retries and reconciliation across connected components.

- Protect data access, credentials and permissions; plan migrations, staged releases and recovery.

- Review changes, document decisions and help engineers resolve technical blockers.

- Break work into tracked tasks with acceptance criteria, obtain the required approval and provide test/release evidence at completion.

Required skills and experience

- Substantial production Node.js/TypeScript experience and Rust experience you can explain through systems you personally changed or operated.

- Practical asynchronous Rust, ownership/error handling, network integration, persistence and debugging skills.

- Strong database fundamentals, including query analysis, transactions or consistency trade-offs, and safe migration practices.

- Experience with API authentication, automated tests, Git review, logging and controlled deployment.

- Clear written English for task plans, technical decisions, incident notes and constructive review discussions.

- Evidence of taking responsibility for a problem, responding to feedback and verifying the corrected result.

Experience with MCP/tool integrations, containerised services or performance profiling is useful. Depth in the core responsibilities matters more than a long list of frameworks.

How we work and hire

Work follows documented tasks, approval, implementation, review and verification. We value early escalation of blockers and honest reporting of results.

Selection includes a short AI-assisted initial interview, an approximately 60–90-minute practical using synthetic material, and an on-site technical discussion. Final hiring decisions include human review.

About VerbaFlo.ai

VerbaFlo.ai is a fast-growing AI SaaS startup revolutionizing how businesses leverage AI-powered solutions. As a part of our dynamic team, you’ll work alongside industry leaders and visionaries to drive innovation and execution across multiple functions.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design and develop user-friendly, scalable, and high-performance web applications. This role requires deep expertise in backend technologies, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and AI teams to deliver cohesive features and seamless user experiences.
• Ensure the reliability, security, and performance of backend systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code using modern backend practices.
• Implement automated testing, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure as code (where applicable).
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of backend features, from architecture to deployment.
• Monitor production systems and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help evolve our engineering best practices.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of experience in backend development in startups, preferably in SaaS or AI-driven products.
• Proficiency in Node.js, Python, or Go
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design.
• Strong experience with databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch.
• Exposure to message queues, job schedulers, or event-driven architectures (e.g., SQS, Celery, etc).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with Git, CI/CD tools, and writing unit/integration tests.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a mindset geared toward performance and security.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Why Join Us?

• Work directly with top leadership in a high-impact role.
• Be part of an innovative and fast-growing AI startup.
• Opportunity to take ownership of key projects and drive efficiency.
• A collaborative, ambitious, and fast-paced work environment.
• Perks & Benefits: gym membership benefit, workation policy, and company-sponsored lunch.

If you’re looking for an exciting role that combines strategy, execution, and leadership exposure, we’d love to hear from you!

About Byldd:

Byldd is a Startup Studio that helps founders launch and scale software companies. We work closely with founders to refine ideas, identify core pain points, build scalable software products, acquire initial customers, and support growth.

At Byldd, engineers get the opportunity to work on diverse and challenging projects across industries like fintech, healthcare, AI, operations, and enterprise software. Since we work with multiple startups at different stages, the problems are rarely repetitive — one week you may be building an AI-assisted workflow tool, and the next you may be architecting a scalable SaaS platform.

Our engineering culture is strongly focused on ownership, fast execution, and leveraging modern development workflows — including AI-assisted development using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other AI tooling to improve speed, quality, and problem-solving.

We primarily work with technologies such as React/Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, and modern cloud infrastructure.

About the role:

We’re looking for experienced Full-Stack Engineers with a strong backend inclination to join us on core business projects.

Your role will involve understanding business requirements, product flows, and mockups. We’ll provide the “what” and the “why” behind the product decisions, and you’ll take ownership of translating them into scalable technical solutions.

While this is a full-stack role, the expectation is backend-heavy ownership — including system design, APIs, database architecture, integrations, scalability, and performance optimization. You’ll collaborate with founders and senior engineers to architect and build products end-to-end.

Since we move fast, we highly value engineers who can independently figure things out, use AI effectively in their workflows, and ship high-quality products with speed.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining strong backend engineering fundamentals with modern AI-assisted development practices.

What You’ll Do

• Build and ship scalable full-stack applications from scratch
• Design and develop robust backend systems, APIs, and database architectures
• Work closely with founders, designers, and product teams
• Architect systems with scalability, maintainability, and performance in mind
• Use AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, Copilot, etc.) to improve development speed and productivity
• Review, debug, and optimize production systems
• Think through edge cases, reliability, and long-term scalability

Who you are: 

• You have 2+ years of non-internship experience as a full-stack developer with strong backend expertise
• You enjoy building products from 0 → 1
• You think beyond tasks and understand business objectives
• You are comfortable taking ownership and contribute towards making technical decisions
• You actively use or are excited to use AI tools in your engineering workflow
• You are strong in problem-solving and figuring things out independently
• You care deeply about writing clean, maintainable, scalable code
• You enjoy working in fast-paced startup environments
• You’re comfortable contributing across the stack while being particularly strong on the backend side
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Preferred Tech Stack

(Experience in some or most of the following is preferred)

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• MongoDB
• Express.js
• React / Next.js
• REST APIs
• Cloud deployment & modern dev tooling

Experience with AI-assisted coding tools and workflows is a strong plus.

Location: Remote