
Senior Backend Engineer
at A US based eCommerce growth platform well funded startup.
grow online businesses across multiple channels and global markets. They use data-driven tools to optimize how products are advertised and listed across marketplaces – and handle all associated shipping, logistics, taxes, and compliance.
Their business model is built on aligned incentives with no initial costs. They only makes
money if and when customers’ products sell.
They are expanding their Engineering team to India and building a stellar and diverse team
composed of owners. They are looking for a backend engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence.
As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building out the service layer that powers our frontend applications. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle and software design principles. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for a huge impact at a small start-up with immense growth potential.
What you will do?
Create technical plans of projects assigned to you.
Come up with well-structured solutions to ambiguous problems and implement them.
Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable backend code.
Provide technical direction on our various products and upcoming projects.
Champion reliability and quality by using best practices in software engineering and modular
design.
Ensure all components are scalable, maintainable, and have in-built metrics instrumentation
and monitoring
Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers. Put the customer first and have
quality in mind.
Own the full release cycle from development to deployment.
What you will need?
3+ Years of experience as a software engineer working on backend applications.
Advanced knowledge of Python (preferably, the Django framework) and relational databases.
Experience with agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing.
Experience with building, modifying, and extending API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) for
data retrieval and persistence.
Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements collection,
design, implementation, testing, and operational support.
Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing
skills.
Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
Hustle. Thrives in an evolving, fast paced, ambiguous work environment.
Bonus if you have
Experience working in the eCommerce domain.
Experience with AWS technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, etc.

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JOB DESCRIPTION:
Location: Pune, Mumbai
Mode of Work : 3 days from Office
DSA(Collections, Hash maps, trees, Linkedlist and Arrays, etc), Core Oops concepts(Multithreading, Multi Processing, Polymorphism, Inheritance etc) Annotations in Spring and Spring boot, Java 8 Vital features, database Optimization, Microsevices and Rest API
- Design, develop, and maintain low-latency, high-performance enterprise applications using Core Java (Java 5.0 and above).
- Implement and integrate APIs using Spring Framework and Apache CXF.
- Build microservices-based architecture for scalable and distributed systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams for high/low-level design, development, and deployment of software solutions.
- Optimize performance through efficient multithreading, memory management, and algorithm design.
- Ensure best coding practices, conduct code reviews, and perform unit/integration testing.
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About Gobillion
Gobillion is a YCombinator backed IIM-NIT alumni co-founded social commerce startup headquartered in San Francisco, USA with offices in New Delhi, Bangalore and Guwahati. We are bringing e-commerce 2.0 to the next 400 million online customers across India, through a community and social driven approach. Our co-founding has diversified experience with prestigious organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe and SAP Labs.
Gobillion has been rapidly scaling and is backed by some of the world’s most prestigious investors from US, Europe, SE Asia and India including - YCombinator, Justin Mateen (Founder - Tinder), Pioneer Fund, Soma Capital, Venture Souq, Goodwater Capital, LetsVenture, Vikalp Sahni (Co-Founder- Gobibibo) amongst others.
We have been selected for and globally validated by the world’s leading investors/accelerators including YCombinator, Founder Institute Silicon Valley, NASSCOM 10000 Startups - India and Assam Startup. We have been named as the Top 10 Global startup for YCombinator S21 by Alex Mitchell.
Summary of role: As a Developer, you will be working alongside our product team in the conceptualization, design and development of server side components. You will be doing the following on the job
- Write clean, manageable code and maintain proper documentation
- Create, test and deploy and maintain the applications on production servers
- Continuously discover, analyze, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximize development efficiency
- Lead team in crafting solutions in different areas and ensure timely delivery
- Ensure secure architecture for Servers
Why Join Us?
- You will have a chance to be a leader and have the responsibility to scale Gobillon across India's most fast growing cities
- The opportunity to join one of India’s fastest growing companies at an early stage - We are giving our early team members to benefit from a strong ESOP pool and be part of our growth journey
- Joining an amazing team of Gobillion rockstars from colleges like IIMs, IITs, NITs etc. and from organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe, SAP Labs, Urban Company, Udaan, Amazon, Delivery, Ninjacart, Accenture etc.
- Wear the Gobillion badge with pride - We are looking for owners with a founder’s mindset - not just employees. If you are passionate about our mission about making e-commerce social for the next 400M customers in India and serve as culture carriers - we are the right place for you!
Key Responsibilities of this Role:
- Experience with DevOps and writing REST APIs & Micro services architecture
- Strong programming expertise in Node js, Nest Js
- Good understanding of Mongo databases and other NoSql Databases and SQL Database
- Solid hold on Data structures and Algorithm
- Good understanding of System Design
- Development expertise in AWS services like Lambda, SQS, SNS
- Good understanding of DevOps and Server security
- Exposure to Cloud Platforms like AWS (preferred), Azure or Google Cloud
- Unix command line experience
- Well-versed with Software Development Life Cycle
- Demonstrate the ability to be a self-starter and learn quickly
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Passion for learning and implementing new technologies
- Excellent understanding of software Architectures
Our mission is to make e-commerce easy and accessible for everyone. We believe that all businesses should have the equal playing field in terms of resources to build and grow their online business. With our eCommerce tools and comprehensive platform, business owners can better understand, analyze and grow their business. Starting a business and making products is hard enough; selling products and growing the business shouldn’t be.
We’re a small team looking for passionate, execution-focused, self-starters to help us build the next generation eCommerce platform and equal the playing field for all. Our success depends on building teams who can challenge each other's assumptions with fresh perspectives. To that end, we don’t just accept differences – we celebrate them. If that sounds exciting to you, let’s talk!
We are expanding our Engineering team to India and building a stellar and diverse team composed of owners. We are looking for a backend engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence. As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building out the service layer that powers our frontend applications. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle and software design principles. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for a huge impact at a small start-up with immense growth potential
What you will do?
Create technical plans of projects assigned to you.
Come up with well-structured solutions to ambiguous problems and implement them.
Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable backend code.
Provide technical direction on our various products and upcoming projects.
Champion reliability and quality by using best practices in software engineering and modular design.
Ensure all components are scalable, maintainable, and have in-built metrics instrumentation and monitoring
Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers. Put the customer first and have quality in mind.
Own the full release cycle from development to deployment
What you will need?
3+ Years of experience as a software engineer working on backend applications.
Advanced knowledge of Python (preferably, the Django framework) and relational databases.
Experience with agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing.
Experience with building, modifying, and extending API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) for data retrieval and persistence.
Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements collection, design, implementation, testing, and operational support.
Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing skills.
Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
Hustle. Thrives in an evolving, fast paced, ambiguous work environment
Bonus if you have
Experience working in the eCommerce domain.
Experience with AWS technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, etc.
- Building customer products that operate at a scale
- Working on a back-end system using Python and Java
- Working on MySQL, NoSQL, Solr, Thrift, Flask, RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
- Working on analytics and data science
- Working on server management (Google Cloud)
- Explore different functions of building a tech product/company early in your career.
- Learn to Prioritize Work and learn the ability to decide some technical decisions vs others ata very early stage of your career
- Be instilled with the value of hard work, ownership, and self-sustainability.
- Be more actively involved in the decision-making and functioning of the company.
- Understand the great importance of personal ownership and the liberty needed to pursue that ownership
- Hungry for Growth & Learning
- Willing to go all out for an accelerated career in software engineering
- Ready to experiment things never done before – Conquer uncharted waters
- Think Out-of-the-Box – Innovative and effective solutions
- Top Gun command over technologies (Mentioned above)
- You'll learn how to target efficiency rather than perfection.
- This empowerment will help you become a better leader at a very early stage of your career.
- Join the Core team – Get real insights into building a Product and Business ground up
- Enjoy the freedom, that comes with a lot of ownership
- Challenging and fun work environment
- Flexible Work Culture – We are a target driven organization. We like hard-workers, but we adore smart-workers more!
- Unlimited Vacation policy - Work hard, and take a break when you need
- Deep understanding of Django and DRF
- Write effective, scalable code
- Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
- Integrate user-facing elements into applications
- Test and debug programs
- Improve functionality of existing systems
- Implement security and data protection solutions
- Assess and prioritize feature requests
- Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions
- Participate in brainstorming and technical ideation for projects with product, growth, and engineering
- You will design Scalable and Fault-Tolerant systems
- You will help Maintain critical and auxiliary systems (databases, cache ...)
- You will build Experiments that help validate hypotheses for the product
Experience:
2+yrs In your first 3 months, you will…
- Successfully onboard and create strong bonds with the current team
- Participate in brainstorming and technical ideation for projects with product, growth, and engineering
- Contribute to existing product features and experimentation
In your first 6 months, you will…
- Develop prototypes of new features or products using rapid iteration and experimentation as we explore new ideas
- Partner across the engineering team to ship features
In your first year, you will...
- Champion best-in-class engineering practices and systems for an emerging engineer team
- Help build a suite of features for the product
Our Ideal Hire:
- Learned best practices and has experienced the challenges and joys working at a startup
- Managed and maintained production code at increasing scales
- Feels strongly motivated by our mission
- Communicates complex problems and proposes solutions, in writing and in conversation
Expertise:
- Proficiency in any one language (ex: NodeJS / Go / Python)
- MySQL (design / indices / optimizing queries)
- Redis (types/ functionality/ use cases)
Hands-on experience:
- Handled scaling issue
- Good at debugging
Good to have:
- Kafka (or other stream-processing software)
- AWS
Do not apply if you are not:
- Ownership driven
- Curious in general
- Able to explain things in simple terms
- Self-motivated
- Use to work in the chaotic environment
- Highly proactive
- Willing to Mentor and humble to ask for collaboration
- Most important, Learn & Grow yourself!
- Hungry to grow anymore
You will:
- Build services that serve millions of users
- Build for performance, reliability, and scalability
- Design easy-to-use APIs, systems, and tools
- Work with small teams of engineers, product, design, operation and other teams
- Lead projects, achieve goals, celebrate success with your teams
What you bring:
- 5+ years as individual contributor
- Strong background in Computer Science
- Strong technical expertise in robust and scalable server platform
- Helpful experiences include Java, Python, AWS, GCP, DevOps
- Leadership at bijnis is a service - you must be influential, patient, compassionate, able to prioritize, and able to inspire
- Ability to collaborate across multiple and cross functional teams
- Strategic mindset combined with pragmatic execution, and bias for action
Work Ex 3 - 6 yrs
Qualifications Graduation (BE / B Tech / BCA/MCA/BSC) with specialisation in Computer Science is Preferred or B.E / B Tech
Notice Period - Immediate or max 20 days or candidates with BUY OUT OPTION
Targetted Sector / Industry - IT, Ecommerce / Product startups, Edu Tech companies
Location : Kurla Mumbai, willing to relocate (if your not from Mumbai)
Should have a high performance Laptop + Internet Connection(Currently to start working remotely)
About the Company uFaber is a well-funded EduTech startup, founded by serial entrepreneurs from IIT Bombay. Technology has changed almost every aspect of our life but the way we learn is still the same. We know that we have chosen a very complex and difficult problem to solve but if problem is not challenging, what's the fun! We are building a team of super smart and high IQ people
Skills Required :
1) Hands on experience in python - django / flask / django restful API frameworks
- Having worked as an individual contributor - developing the project / product end to end from scratch
- Having worked as a backed/fullstack developer
- Having worked on high user base products / apps(min 10 - 20k) users
- Having solved or worked on production issues after the product release
- Having lead a team of 2-4 developers(DESIRED, not mandatory)
2) Good understanding of HTML / CSS | SCSS / Javascript / jQuery, responsive web design using bootstrap
3) Basic understanding of MVC, JavaScript development (Angular is a big bonus)
4) Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
5) Management of hosting environment, including database administration (preferebly relational databases MySQL, Postgres, etc)
6) Strong theoritical and practical knowledge of the work - the fundamentals must be clear.
7) Smart, confident and good communication skills.
What you are suppose to do :
1. Plan and execute the long term development roadmap.
2. Code high quality web and mobile apps in django and angular.
Max CTC - 15 Lacs fixed
Work Ex 3 - 6 yrs
Qualifications Graduation (BE / B Tech / BCA/MCA/BSC) with specialisation in Computer Science is Preferred or B.E / B Tech
Notice Period - Immediate or max 20 days or candidates with BUY OUT OPTION
Targetted Sector / Industry - IT, Ecommerce / Product startups, Edu Tech companies
Location : Mumbai, willing to relocate









