Senior Backend Engineer (Remote Opportunity)

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About the firm:

Sustainability lies at the core of Stantech AI. Our vision is to empower organizations to derive actionable insights—effectuating a smarter way of working. We operate on the premise that each client is unique and as such requires their own idiosyncratic solutions. Putting this principle into practice, we deliver tailor-made solutions to digitalize, optimize, and strategize fundamental processes underpinning client organizations. For more information, please refer to our website: www.stantech.ai

Job Description:

As a Senior Software Engineer at Stantech AI, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise-grade backend services and APIs that cater to the unique needs of our clients. You will be a key member of our engineering team and will contribute to the success of projects by leveraging your expertise in Python, SQL, and modern DevOps practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend applications and RESTful APIs using Python FastAPI framework.
• Optimize and maintain relational databases with SQL (data modeling, query optimization, and sharding) to ensure data integrity and scalability.
• Create, configure, and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI for automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (data scientists, frontend engineers, DevOps) to gather requirements and deliver robust, scalable, and user-friendly solutions.
• Participate in architectural and technical decisions to drive innovation, ensure reliability, and improve system performance.
• Conduct code reviews, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers.
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve production issues in a timely manner.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices.
• Bonus: Hands-on experience with server-level configuration and infrastructure—setting up load balancers, API gateways, and reverse proxies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in backend development, with strong expertise in Python and SQL.
• Proven track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies: Docker, Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, design patterns, and version control (Git).
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Plus: Experience with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
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Financial Package:

Competitive salary in line with experience: ₹10–20 Lakhs per annum, contingent on qualifications and experience.

About the Role-

Thinking big and executing beyond what is expected. The challenges cut across algorithmic problem solving, systems engineering, machine learning and infrastructure at a massive scale.

Reason to Join-

An opportunity for innovators, problem solvers & learners.  Working will be Innovative, empowering, rewarding & fun. Amazing Office, competitive pay along with excellent benefits package.

Requiremets and Responsibilities- (please read carefully before applying)

• The overall experience of 3-6 years in Java/Python Framework and Machine Learning.
• Develop Web Services, REST, XSD, XML technologies, Java, Python, AWS, API.
• Experience on Elastic Search or SOLR or Lucene -Search Engine, Text Mining, Indexing.
• Experience in highly scalable tools like Kafka, Spark, Aerospike, etc.
• Hands on experience in Design, Architecture, Implementation, Performance & Scalability, and Distributed Systems.
• Design, implement, and deploy highly scalable and reliable systems.
• Troubleshoot Solr indexing process and querying engine.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science from Tier 1 Institutions

Required Technologies:

o Excellent understanding of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, CSS3

o Able to communicate well with others on technologies bases

o Working knowledge with Rspec is good to have.

o Have previous experience building features in production applications.

o Good Knowledge of SQL

Good To Have

o Basics of GIT and GIT LAB

o PostgreSQL

Able to understand frontend JS frameworks

Database Administrator Lead - PostgreSQL

ABOUT Ashnik

Established in 2009, Ashnik is a leading open-source solutions and consulting company in South East Asia and India, headquartered in Singapore. We enable digital transformation for large enterprises through our design, architecting, and solution skills. Over 100 large enterprises in the region have acknowledged our expertise in delivering solutions using key open-source technologies. Our offerings form critical part of Digital transformation, Big Data platform, Cloud and Web acceleration and IT modernization. We represent EDB, Pentaho, Docker, Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic, NGINX, Sysdig, Redis Labs, Confluent, and HashiCorp as their key partners in the region. Our team members bring decades of experience in delivering confidence to enterprises in adopting open source software and are known for their thought leadership.

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for talented and passionate people to be part of the team for an upcoming project at client location.

RESPONSIBILITIES

· Monitoring database performance

· Optimizing Queries and handle escalations

· Analyse and assess the impact and risk of low to medium risk changes on high profile production databases

· Implement security features

· DR implementation and switch over

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

· Preferably have a working experience of 4 Years and more , on production PostgreSQL DBs.

· Experience of working in a production support environment

· Engineering or Equivalent degree

· Passion for open-source technologies is desired

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

· Install & Configure PostgreSQL, Enterprise DB

· Technical capabilities PostgreSQL 9.x, 10.x, 11.x

· Server tuning

· Troubleshooting of Database issues

· Linux Shell Scripting

· Install, Configure and maintain Fail Over mechanism

· Backup - Restoration, Point in time database recovery

· A demonstrable ability to articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software and technologies.

· A real passion for being curious and a continuous learner. You are someone that invests in yourself as much as you invest in your professional relationships.

LOCATION: Bangalore & Mumbai

Experience: 7 yrs plus

Package: upto 20 LPA

Desired Candidate Profile

*Performs analysis of functional and business requirements

*Applies in-depth or broad technical knowledge to maintain data engineering functions performs solution design.

*Applies the company, open source, and 3rd party technologies to highly complex infrastructure and software solutions.

*Introduce new product features and enhance the platform

*Ability to translate business reporting requirements into a production report.

Main Street is hiring a Full Stack Engineer who will help design our technical architecture and build solutions that help business owners become entrepreneurs. Apply if you are excited about creating a platform for true entrepreneurship. 

As an early hire on the core team, you’ll work on shaping projects, big and small, over short three week sprints. We’re a small team, but we get a lot of features shipped. You would be responsible for driving full-stack projects from prototype to finished stage with a lot of autonomy and creativity. This is an exciting time to join the team. We've found solid early traction, have strong basic foundations and are pushing aggressively into some incredible new feature builds. We have a small team, so you can make an incredible impact on our product very quickly. 

Responsibilities:

• Own the design of the overall architecture of the web application
• Implement a robust set of services and effective APIs to power the web application
• Build reusable and manageable code and libraries for future use
• Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Translate UI/UX wireframes to visual elements
• Develop and handle well-functioning databases and applications
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency 
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software

Experience:

• Proven expertise in shipping features in Ruby on Rails. Strong background in Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Strong experience in driving thought leadership and technical architecture
• Experience with mentoring juniors in the team

You are a fit if :

• You are a skilled coder. We need candidates with a strong history of shipping features in Rails with clean maintainable code. 
• You are a good communicator and a really good writer. Since we are async and remote most of our work is written. You'll need to be able to proactively communicate in concise, clear, simple writing.
• You are an expert project manager. You need to be able to break down a large, complex business deliverable into executable pieces that can be managed as individual user stories. You need to be able to keep a project on track, and cut scope when needed.
• You don't need babysitting and are a Manager of One. We love people who have started companies or have freelanced in the past. You take ownership and take things across the finish line. Especially in our remote async approach, you'll need to be intrinsically motivated and keep your  projects on track.
• You have strong business and product acumen. This job isn't just writing code, we solve real business problems for real people. That means you need to be able to look beyond the user story, have empathy for our end users and solve real problems for them.

About Main Street:

We're solving a problem that 62% of Americans have

62% of Americans last year thought about starting a business. The #1 reason they didn’t was because they didn’t know where to start. Currents options are:

1. Going independent which is risky: no support or direction
2. Paying a franchise which is expensive:  franchises charge $100K+ fees to get started, take 10% of topline revenue, don't provide marketing support or technology

The market we're going after is bigger than e-Commerce

We’re disrupting the $2.3T franchise industry by removing the franchise fee and offering a tech-enabled franchise like product.

We’re starting with home painting where our biggest competitor is https://certapro.com/">CertaPro a $550M revenue franchise (1% market share) before quickly taking on https://www.neighborlybrands.com/our-brands/">Neighborly Brands as we expand categories (pest control, lawn care, etc.).

As we expand categories, our customer does not change

Our customer is an aspiring business owner, like https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicklaforest">Nick or https://www.linkedin.com/in/hardin-h-hawes-9ba6a72/">Hardin who doesn't care what type of business they start, as long as it is profitable. Our customers are not actually the one painting houses or completing roofing jobs, rather they are the one that hires people to do the job. Our customer has years of experience in sales and general management, which makes them suitable for any type of business — which is why as we expand to 100 categories, our customer does not change.

Our solution is an end to end platform to help you start, grow and run a business

Main Street is a combination of well known technology platforms that provides an Uber like simple experience to starting a business

• https://stripe.com/atlas">Stripe Atlas: Helping you incorporate and set up legal logistics for your business
• https://www.duolingo.com/">Duolingo: Learn a new skill (in our case it is about a specific type of a business)
• https://www.shopify.com/online/ecommerce-solutions">Shopify: The operating tools to run your business
• https://www.womply.com/">Womply: A marketing stack to drive you customer

Take a look Main Street's Product walk through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teajumhL5DI&;feature=emb_title">here.

We're backed by top investors and built a world class team

We're a seed-stage startup and have raised $10M+ from top investors including Greylock and Khosla. Our team previously worked at places like DoorDash, OpenDoor, Amazon and OYO.

• Design and develop cloud native enterprise applications 
• Define and establish conventions, standards and best practices for the SDLC process and ensure that quality control is of paramount importance at each step of the development life cycle
• Develop reusable frameworks and libraries that can drastically accelerate new application development in the future
• Participate in the requirement analysis and gathering process and also perform sit-withs with business teams to ensure there is full clarity of the problem statement
• Actively engage wih infrastructure team and take ownership of DevOps processes to ensure that build and deployment processes are efficient and optimal.
• Actively engage with project stakeholders to ensure all are in sync with the progress, risks and issues
• Quickly learn and adopt cutting edge technologies to help keep the org ahead of the curve