Senior Backend Engineer

🚀Job Title : Senior Backend Engineer (Java / Golang) SDE 3

Experience : 5 to 12 Years

Positions : 4

Employment Type : C2H (Contract to Hire)

Contract Duration : 3 Months

Location : Remote during contract → Pune after conversion

Work Mode After Conversion : 5 Days WFO

Notice Period : Immediate / Serving Notice / Up to 15 Days preferred

Mandatory Skills : Golang (1+ year mandatory), 5+ years Backend Development, System Design, Distributed Systems, Microservices, REST / GraphQL APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, SQL & NoSQL Databases, AWS / GCP / Azure, Strong Problem-Solving & Communication Skills.

About the Role :

We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer / SDE 3 with strong expertise in Java / Golang to design and build scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services and APIs.

The role involves hands-on coding, system design, microservices, distributed systems, and collaboration with engineering and infrastructure teams.

Must-Have Skills :

• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Golang.
• Minimum 1+ year of Golang experience is mandatory.
• Strong understanding of System Design & Distributed Systems.
• Experience with REST / GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with Microservices and Event-Driven Architecture.
• Experience with Event Queues / Asynchronous Processing.
• Strong knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Important Note for Java Candidates :

Java candidates can be considered only if they have at least 1+ year of hands-on Golang experience and are willing to work in Golang.

Candidates with less than 1 year of Golang experience will not be considered.

Good to Have :

• Experience in Fintech / Payments / Transaction-heavy systems
• Docker & Kubernetes
• Datadog / Prometheus / Grafana
• CI/CD experience
• Exposure to Java or Ruby

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Golang.
• Build reliable, secure, and high-performance microservices and APIs.
• Implement event-driven and asynchronous processing systems.
• Work on system architecture, scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Participate in system design, code reviews, and technical discussions.
• Collaborate with mobile, web, and infrastructure teams.
• Develop unit, integration, and performance tests.
• Contribute to CI/CD, observability, documentation, and engineering best practices.

Interview Process :

Round 1 : Take-Home Coding Assessment – Submission within 48 hours

Round 2 : Code Pairing – Problem Extension

Round 3 : Culture Fitment

NodeJS DeveloperResponsibilities:

• Develop high quality Javascript (ES6) code for our Node.js applications.

• Coordinate with the engineering team to accomplish tasks on agile processes.

• Optimize application for maximum speed and compatibility.

• Multitask seamlessly, always maintaining a positive attitude and a client-first mentality.

• Incorporate engineering best practices, methodologies & standards in all deliverables.

• Build customer facing technology products for global customers.

• Work with a performance oriented team driven by ownership and open to experiments.

• Develop a deep understanding of the start-up ecosystem.

Requirement:

• Must have 1+ years of experience in web application development

• Excellent working knowledge of JavaScript including depth understanding of Node.JS,

Express.JS.

• Demonstrated experiences in Node.js end to end development.

• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum one-year experience

with MEAN Full stack paradigm.

• Hands-on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side.

• Comprehensive knowledge of best practices and design patterns for SaaS.

• Good Experience working on Web development, Web Services and Micro services

architecture.

• Work experience in Mongodb / Mysql / No sql db / Any transactional DB.

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.

• Experience with version control tools (Git)

• Deep understanding of data structures, data flow, Ajax and CRUD.

• Excellent spoken and written English.

You will be responsible for developing features on the application and integrations end to end. You will be working closely with the Technical Team to come up with high-quality, resilient, and highly performant applications.‍

• Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices architecture.
• Work on the core backend and ensure it meets the performance benchmarks.
• API and Integrations
• Designing and developing APIs for the front end to consume.
• Constantly improve the architecture of the application by clearing the technical backlog.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.
• Work on the front end with ReactJS is a plus point.

An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.

• Education - BE/MCA or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience
• Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks
• OAuth, API Integrations.
• Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks.
• Worked on open source technologies – NodeJS, ReactJS, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, DynamoDB, Clickhouse, Kafka
• Backend exposure – good knowledge of building and integrating APIs
• Efficient in building microservices in combining server & front-end.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding skills on oAuth.
• Should have sound working experience with relational and columnar DB.
• Should be innovative and communicative in approach.
• Will be responsible for functional/technical track of a project.

You will work with a top-notch tech team, working closely with the architect and engineering head. 

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Compass.

We at Compass strive to make selling fun with our SaaS incentive gamification product.  Compass is the #1 gamification software that automates and digitizes Sales Contests and Commission Programs. With game-like elements, rewards, recognitions, and complete access to relevant information, Compass turbocharges an entire salesforce. Compass also empowers Sales Managers with easy-to-publish game templates, leaderboards, and analytics to help accelerate performances and sustain growth.

We are a fun and high-energy team, with people from diverse backgrounds - united under the passion of getting things done. Rest assured that you shall get complete autonomy in your tasks and ample opportunities to develop your strengths.

If you find this role exciting and want to join us in Bangalore, India, then apply by clicking below. Provide your details and upload your resume. All received resumes will be screened, shortlisted candidates will be requested to join for a discussion and on mutual alignment and agreement, we will proceed with hiring.

Job Description

We are looking for a candidate who is a creative problem solver, will work in coordination with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain our next-generation websites and web tools. It is a technological position where excellent knowledge of the software development life cycle is a must to develop new projects and support the existing ones.

Skills:

• At least 2 years experience as a Node.JS developer
• Extensive knowledge of Javascript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum
• Knowledge of Node.js frameworks available for it such as Express, Loopback, Nest.JS)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Knowledge of typescript.

Responsibilities:

• Develop quality software and web applications
• Analyze and maintain existing software applications
• Design highly scalable, testable code
• Discover and fix programming bugs.
• Will be working with MongoDB, Typescript, Node.js, React
• Architect and build the backend for corresponding web services (Node.JS and related framework)

Technology is at the heart of our organization. We have a strong engineering team and we're looking for an experienced engineer to lead our backend engineering team. As part of the tech team, you will Understand product requirements and brainstorm ways to address them

• Lead large initiatives and be responsible for it
• Mentor teammates
• Set and enforce standards for writing and maintaining efficient code
• Influence team decisions in the overall architecture and practices of the company
• Contribute to company growth by participating in hiring activities

Must-haves

1. At least 4 years experience in a product based company
2. Experience working with distributed environments at scale
3. Strong command on at least one Object Oriented Programming language
4. Experience leading developers for large scale products
5. Demonstrated capability to design and architect products built for scale
6. Deep knowledge of multiple AWS services
7. Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Good to have

1. Experience with at least one among C++, Java
2. Experience with Linux file systems
3. Familiarity with agile development methodologies

We're hiring a set of highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate people who thrive in a high-growth environment. We believe the best way to grow is to give everyone the opportunity to pursue their interests. At Lucidity, you have complete freedom to work on projects that interest you. Plus, with benefits like flexible hours, company offsites, unlimited leaves, we ensure you enjoy the journey as much as we do. We are also offering healthy founding team ESOP's.

• A Golang developer role is to build optimized, scalable, and modular software using required technologies. You are tasked with developing and coding back-end components and connecting applications to other web services.

• Research and test new technologies
• Collaborating with others to build and develop a quality
• Monitoring and Oversee company’s data
• Managing users and user roles
• Detecting, announcing, and correcting errors
• Proposing alternative solutions

• To cooperate with other stakeholder to design, develop, test, release and improve services
• Maintain development standards, practices & principles
• Build scalable and maintainable software
• Analytical approach on what and how

• At least 4 years of experience with Golang.
• Have expertise in implementing micro services (using tools and technologies for messaging, RPC, containerization, etc.)
• Experience working with SQL/NoSQL databases, ability to write complex queries and optimize them
• Understanding of containerization technologies (Docker, RKT, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Basic experience with CI/CD systems (Jenkins, TeamCity, GoCD, Concourse, etc.)
• Basic experience working with AWS/Google Cloud

Node.js and frameworks available for it - Express, StrongLoop, etc
Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers

front-end technologies - HTML5, and CSS3
Writing scalable, reusable, testable, and efficient code