Senior Backend Engineer Tier 1 college only Fintech company only

Backend Engineering Intern (Infrastructure Software) – Remote

Position Type: Internship (Full-Time or Part-Time)

Location: Remote

Duration: 12 weeks

Compensation: Unpaid (***3000 INR is just a placeholder***)

About the Role

We are seeking a motivated Backend Developer Intern to join our engineering team and contribute to building scalable, efficient, and secure backend services. This internship offers hands-on experience in API development, database management, and backend architecture, with guidance from experienced developers. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver features that power our applications and improve user experience.

Responsibilities

• Assist in designing, developing, and maintaining backend services, APIs, and integrations.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to support application functionality and data flow.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Support database design, optimization, and query performance improvements.
• Participate in code reviews, debugging, and troubleshooting production issues.
• Assist with unit testing, integration testing, and ensuring system reliability.
• Work with cloud-based environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) to deploy and manage backend systems.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Familiarity with one or more backend languages/frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Python/Django, Java/Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails).
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL.
• Basic knowledge of relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Familiarity with version control (Git/GitHub).
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, collaborative environment.

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have)

• Experience with cloud services (AWS Lambda, S3, EC2, etc.).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Basic understanding of authentication and authorization (OAuth, JWT).
• Interest in backend performance optimization and scalability.

What You’ll Gain

• Hands-on experience building backend systems for real-world applications.
• Exposure to industry-standard tools, workflows, and coding practices.
• Mentorship from experienced backend engineers.
• Opportunity to contribute to live projects impacting end users.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering with specialization in Computer science or related field
• 4-10 years of experience as a software engineer in a product development setting
• Deep experience in Python with demonstrated ability to build modern products
• Experience in designing APIs and integration patterns, implementing secure and sustainable products with a focus on quality and scalability
• Experience in FastAPI, Django, or equivalent
• Experience in data modeling and efficient usage of PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or equivalent
• Experience with modern components like async python, pedantic, sqlalchemy, alembic, celery, google products API integration, etc. is a plus
• Understanding of CI/CD practices including code check-in policies, automated unit tests, automated code deployments, etc.
• Experience in other programming languages is a plus, especially Javascript and/or Typescript
• Experience building feature-rich and scalable web apps is a plus
• Ability to grasp new technologies and use them effectively to create industrial-strength software

bout the Role

We are seeking an experienced Python Data Engineer with a strong foundation in API and basic UI development. This role is essential for advancing our analytics capabilities for AI products, helping us gain deeper insights into product performance and driving data-backed improvements. If you have a background in AI/ML, familiarity with large language models (LLMs), and a solid grasp of Python libraries for AI, we’d like to connect!

Key Responsibilities

•   Develop Analytics Framework: Build a comprehensive analytics framework to evaluate and monitor AI product performance and business value.

•   Define KPIs with Stakeholders: Collaborate with key stakeholders to establish and measure KPIs that gauge AI product maturity and impact.

•   Data Analysis for Actionable Insights: Dive into complex data sets to identify patterns and provide actionable insights to support product improvements.

•   Data Collection & Processing: Lead data collection, cleaning, and processing to ensure high-quality, actionable data for analysis.

•   Clear Reporting of Findings: Present findings to stakeholders in a clear, concise manner, emphasizing actionable insights.

Required Skills

•   Technical Skills:

o   Proficiency in Python, including experience with key AI/ML libraries.

o   Basic knowledge of UI and API development.

o   Understanding of large language models (LLMs) and experience using them effectively.

•   Analytical & Communication Skills:

o   Strong problem-solving skills to address complex, ambiguous challenges.

o   Ability to translate data insights into understandable reports for non-technical stakeholders.

o   Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and frameworks to assess AI product effectiveness.

o   Experience in statistical methods to interpret data and build metrics frameworks.

o   Skilled in quantitative analysis to drive actionable insights.

Basic Qualifications

Candidates for this role must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
• At least three years of experience writing production code of increasing complexity
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, problem solving, and object-oriented analysis and design
• Proficiency in at least one of the following: Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Scala, Python
• Experience refactoring code and evolving architectures
• Experience crafting unit, integration, functional and regression tests

 Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science or a related field
• Experience developing in a Linux environment
• Experience applying service-oriented architecture techniques to production use cases
• Experience in developing secure, multi-platform mobile applications

https://www.alivecor.com/">AliveCor, the pioneer of the smartphone EKG, with millions of EKGs from a large and growing user base, seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Backend). You will be an integral member of our engineering team.

• Software Engineer on the backend team working in the following environment: Go, Ruby on Rails, TDD/BDD with RSpec, PostgreSQL, Heroku, AWS. 
• Responsible for developing industry-leading applications transforming the healthcare industry and consumers use.
• Work with our mobile and front-end teams to build new functionality in our consumer and clinician-facing applications.
• Work with our Data Science and AI team to improve functionality of our cloud algorithms and services.
• Create and maintain tools used by internal teams for customer service, monitoring, and R&D.
• Maintain and continuously improve our backend infrastructure to remedy technical limitations before they become an issue.

• Senior Software Engineer ready to build highly visible apps
• Engineers who can raise the skill level of their teammates
• Experience working with Go and Rails
• Experience implementing Service Oriented Architecture or Microservices
• Good intuition for weighing trade-offs
• Product instincts, work with our product and design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch frequently
• Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies
• Experience with build process automation and CI/CD
• Ability to work independently on projects and communicate with cross functional teams to deliver products on time

AliveCor is on a mission to define modern healthcare through data, design and disruption. We’ve pioneered the creation of FDA-cleared machine-learning techniques, transformed wearable medtech to put proactive heart care at everyone’s fingertips. Kardia is the most clinically validated mobile EKG technology. AliveCor was named as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Health for 2017 by Fast Company as part of the publication’s annual ranking of the world’s Most Innovative Companies. AliveCor was awarded the 2015 Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and one of the 50 Smartest Companies in 2015 by the MIT Technology Review. AliveCor recently announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic that will result in new machine learning capabilities to unlock previously hidden health indicators in EKG data, potentially improving heart health as well as overall health care for a variety of conditions. AliveCor is a privately held company headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

AliveCor is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, colour, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Watch the following video demonstrating our product.