Senior Full Stack Engineer at Gnanee · Remote only · 5 - 10 years · ₹15L - ₹25L / yr · Bootstrapped · Remote only · Posted 30 Sep 2026

You’ll work on a data-intensive application that uses APIs to collect public data, processes and transforms that data, extracts user signals, and builds user profiles from those signals.
We need someone who has personally built and owned production systems end to end — from architecture and database design to API integrations, background job processing, data pipelines, frontend development, deployment, and production debugging.
You should be comfortable handling asynchronous workloads, designing reliable background jobs, processing large volumes of data, managing failures and retries, and optimizing database queries and application performance.
This is a hands-on engineering role. We’re looking for someone who writes code, solves real technical problems, and takes ownership of features from idea to production. Experience building data-intensive applications and backend processing systems is important.

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About the Role
Unico Connect is an AI-first technology partner that builds custom mobile, web, and AI products for clients across multiple geographies. We are hiring a Backend Engineer for a dedicated client engagement building an AI-powered application builder platform.
The backend is the operational core of the product: it manages user projects and sessions, coordinates long-running AI agent workloads, maintains project state, and serves as the integration layer between the frontend, the AI system, and the underlying infrastructure.
The mandatory requirement is hands-on production experience shipping Node.js services, with end-to-end ownership of API design, data modelling, and at least one production system involving background job processing or event-driven patterns.
Responsibilities
API and service development: Design and build REST APIs in Node.js with TypeScript. Cover authentication, session management, input validation, structured error handling, streaming responses (SSE, WebSockets), and rate limiting. Maintain clean API contracts that the frontend and AI system can rely on.
Database design and management: Own PostgreSQL schema design for product domains including user accounts, projects, file trees, session state, and generated artefacts. Write efficient queries, manage migrations, and optimise for read patterns that serve a real-time editor experience.
Caching strategy: Implement and maintain caching with Redis for session data, project state, and frequently read configuration. Design cache invalidation logic that keeps the editor experience consistent without stale reads.
Queue and background job management: Implement and operate background job infrastructure using BullMQ or equivalent. AI agent runs are long-running and stateful; handle retries, failure states, priority queues, and concurrency limits.
AI system integration: Build the integration layer between the backend and the AI agent system. Manage job dispatch, result handling, streaming output to the frontend, and error propagation.
Multi-tenancy and access control: Implement tenant data isolation, RBAC, and resource ownership enforcement across all API surfaces.
Observability and reliability: Instrument services with structured logging, metrics, and tracing. Write defensive code with sensible timeouts, fallback behaviour, and circuit breaking on external dependencies.
Testing and code quality: Write unit and integration tests for the services you ship. Review the work of peers and contribute to shared engineering conventions.
Requirements
• Hands-on production Node.js experience (mandatory) — must have personally shipped at least one feature area end to end in a production Node.js service, owning API design, data modelling, and testing.
• 3 to 5 years of professional backend engineering experience. Candidates with slightly less time but strong demonstrated ownership are welcome to apply.
• Strong Node.js and TypeScript. Production experience with Express, NestJS, or Fastify. Solid with async patterns, streaming, error handling, and building services that run reliably under sustained load.
• PostgreSQL depth. Schema design, query writing, indexing, and migrations on at least one production system.
• Redis and caching. Production experience using Redis for caching and session management. Understands cache invalidation trade-offs.
• Queue and background job systems. Hands-on with BullMQ, RabbitMQ, SQS, or equivalent. Experience managing retries, dead-letter queues, job priority, and concurrency control.
• AWS working knowledge. Comfortable with EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, and IAM. Familiar with Docker and basic deployment and environment management.
• Strong written and spoken English. Able to communicate clearly with engineers across disciplines and write precise technical documentation.
Nice to Have
Experience integrating with AI or LLM services (streaming responses, structured outputs, retry patterns); WebSocket or SSE implementation for real-time features; multi-tenant SaaS product experience; GraphQL; OpenTelemetry instrumentation; prior work on developer tools or editor-style products.
Senior Backend Engineer
Node.js, System Design & Production Platforms
📍 Mumbai (On-site) | Full-time | 5+ years
About the Role:
Unico Connect is an AI-first technology partner that builds custom mobile, web, and AI products for clients across multiple geographies.
We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to own the backend architecture of a complex production AI platform on a dedicated client engagement: API design and data modelling, multi-tenancy, orchestration of long-running agent workloads, and the services that manage user projects and generated output.
We are open to full stack engineers whose primary strength and interest is backend. If you have shipped full stack work but the backend is where you do your deepest engineering, you are a fit for this role.
The mandatory requirement for this role is hands-on production experience as a senior backend engineer building complex, scalable systems in Node.js, with end-to-end ownership of architecture, data, and operations on at least one live platform.
The role is hands-on and architectural.
Expect to design system architecture, lead a small group of backend engineers, build the hardest parts yourself, set engineering standards, and partner closely with frontend, AI, and DevOps engineers.
A typical week includes an architecture decision on a new service, hands-on implementation of a critical path, a code review with mid-level engineers, and a working session with the AI engineer on an integration contract.
Responsibilities:
System Architecture
Own the backend architecture across engagements.
Make and document decisions on service boundaries, data models, API contracts, deployment topology, and trade-offs.
Hands-on Backend Delivery
Lead by example on complex modules, performance-critical paths, and high-risk areas using Node.js (Express, NestJS, Fastify) with TypeScript.
Pick up Python (FastAPI) where engagements require it.
Database Design and Performance
Drive PostgreSQL schema design, indexing, query optimisation, migrations, and capacity planning.
Set the data-modelling standard across the pod.
Caching, Queues, and Workflows
Design caching (Redis), event-driven patterns (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, NATS), and long-running workflow orchestration (Temporal, BullMQ, Celery, or equivalent).
Handle retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.
Multi-Tenancy and Platform Patterns
Design and implement multi-tenant data isolation, RBAC, audit logging, and resource quotas appropriate to enterprise-grade products.
API and Integration Design
Set the standard for REST, GraphQL, and gRPC contracts.
Drive versioning, authentication (OAuth, JWT, SSO), security by default, and developer ergonomics.
Observability and Operations
Instrument services with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Define SLOs, lead incident response, and write postmortems.
Code Quality and Mentorship
Run code reviews, define conventions, mentor mid-level engineers, and raise the engineering bar.
AI-Assisted Engineering Discipline
Use Claude, Cursor, and similar tools day to day.
Set the team standard for prompts, patterns, AI-assisted review, and validation of AI-generated backend code.
Client Engagement
Represent Unico Connect in technical conversations with customers.
Defend architectural decisions, communicate trade-offs, and manage scope.
Requirements:
Hands-on Production Experience as a Senior or Lead Backend Engineer in Node.js (Mandatory)
Must have personally built and shipped complex production systems in Node.js, owning architecture, data, and operations on at least one live engagement.
Full stack engineers whose deepest work is on the backend qualify.
POCs and internal tools alone do not qualify.
5+ Years of Professional Backend Engineering Experience
With at least 1 to 2 years in a senior or lead role with direct responsibility for technical decisions and team output.
Deep Node.js and TypeScript Proficiency
Strong with Express, NestJS, or Fastify.
Comfort with async patterns, streams, worker threads, and performance profiling.
Python as a Strong Plus
Hands-on production experience with FastAPI, Django, or Flask is a meaningful advantage.
Willingness and demonstrated ability to pick up Python as engagements demand is required.
PostgreSQL Depth
Schema design, normalisation, indexing, query performance, migrations, and at least one production system where you owned the data model end to end.
Caching and Event-Driven Architecture
Hands-on with Redis (or equivalent) and message queues or event-driven patterns (RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka, NATS).
AWS Depth
Hands-on production experience with EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, ECR, and at least one of EKS, ECS, or Lambda.
Comfort owning deployment, monitoring, and cost.
System Design and End-to-End Ownership
Able to take an ambiguous problem, break it into components, evaluate alternatives, produce an architecture that holds up under review and load, plan execution, and ship with limited supervision.
AI-Assisted Engineering Experience
Daily use of Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent.
Strong discipline for reviewing and validating AI-generated backend code.
Excellent Written and Spoken English
Experience working directly with international clients.
Confident defending architectural choices in writing and in review.
Nice to Have:
- Workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow)
- GraphQL (Apollo, gRPC)
- Sandboxed execution environments
- Multi-tenant SaaS experience
- OpenTelemetry instrumentation
- Prior agency or consulting experience
Job Title : Senior Backend Engineer – Node.js & TypeScript
Experience : 4+ Years
Employment Type : Contract – 3 Months
Location : Pune
Work Mode : On-site
Working Hours : 03:00 PM to 11:00 PM OR 03:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Time Zone : Minimum 4-hour overlap with Eastern Time (ET)
About the Role :
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, and scale an AI-led digital platform. The role involves working closely with the Founder/CEO and technical team on architecture, product development, innovation, and end-to-end feature ownership.
Mandatory Skills :
Node.js, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, SQL, Prisma / TypeORM / Sequelize, AWS (ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda), Airbyte / dbt / Airflow / AWS Glue, Data Warehousing, Event-Driven Architecture, Message Queues, CI/CD, Automated Testing, Backend Architecture, Scalability & Performance.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design and develop scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
- Build and optimize REST and GraphQL APIs.
- Work with PostgreSQL, SQL, and ORMs such as Prisma / TypeORM / Sequelize.
- Design data pipelines using Airbyte, dbt, Airflow, or AWS Glue.
- Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure including ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda.
- Implement CI/CD, automated testing, event-driven architectures, and message queues.
- Optimize API performance, scalability, reliability, and data warehouse solutions.
- Own features end-to-end from design to production.
- Participate in code reviews, on-call support, and production troubleshooting.
- Collaborate with Product, QA, and Engineering teams and mentor junior developers.
- Work closely with the Founder / CEO on technical solutioning and product innovation.
Requirements :
- 4+ years of hands-on Node.js & TypeScript backend development.
- Strong experience with AWS, PostgreSQL, SQL, APIs, and backend architecture.
- Hands-on experience with data pipelines and data warehousing.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, event-driven systems, and message queues.
- Strong problem-solving skills and end-to-end ownership mindset.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Good communication and collaboration skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
Preferred :
- Terraform / CloudFormation and Infrastructure as Code.
- Docker / Kubernetes and strong DevOps exposure.
- AWS backup / disaster recovery experience.
- Exposure to GCP / Azure.
- Startup / early-stage product development experience.
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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 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.
Founding Full-Stack Engineer / Technical Lead — X.re
We are building X.re — an AI-first CRM built specifically for real estate companies.
X.re is not another generic CRM. It is being designed around the real estate sales funnel, with AI-powered WhatsApp conversations, AI voice, lead scoring, workflow automation and advertising intelligence built into the system.
The product is already being built and is currently being tested with a real estate pilot client.
We are now looking for a senior engineer who can take ownership of the existing codebase and help take it from AI-assisted development into a robust, production-ready SaaS product.
What you'll be doing
- Take ownership of an existing Next.js + TypeScript codebase.
- Understand the existing architecture, database structure, APIs and application flows.
- Conduct a thorough engineering review and identify production, security, scalability and reliability risks.
- Refactor and improve the code where required rather than blindly rewriting the system.
- Build and maintain production-quality frontend and backend features.
- Design and maintain APIs, database models and integrations.
- Work on a multi-tenant SaaS architecture where each real estate brand has its own workspace and data isolation.
- Work closely with AI/LLM-powered features including chat, voice and lead intelligence.
- Work on WhatsApp Business API integrations, webhooks and messaging infrastructure.
- Build reliable automation and workflow functionality.
- Implement proper authentication, authorization, data isolation, logging, monitoring and error handling.
- Help establish engineering standards, testing and deployment practices.
- Eventually build and lead the engineering team as X.re scales.
What we're looking for
We are looking for someone who has strong engineering judgment, not someone who simply knows a list of technologies.
You should be able to:
- Enter an unfamiliar codebase and understand it quickly.
- Identify what is well designed and what is technically risky.
- Take an MVP and turn it into production-grade software.
- Make pragmatic architectural decisions.
- Think about security, scalability, reliability and maintainability.
- Work independently and take ownership.
- Read and review code generated or assisted by AI.
- Know when AI-generated code is acceptable and when it needs to be redesigned.
- Build rather than just manage developers.
Technical requirements
Strong experience with:
- TypeScript
- Next.js / React
- Node.js
- REST APIs
- PostgreSQL / SQL
- Modern SaaS application architecture
- Cloud deployment
- Git and production development workflows
Experience with the following is a strong advantage:
- AI/LLM applications
- WhatsApp Business API
- Webhooks
- Multi-tenant SaaS
- API integrations
- Docker
- AWS or similar cloud platforms
- CI/CD
- Observability and production monitoring
One important thing
This is not a greenfield project.
The existing product has been built significantly with AI-assisted development.
We are specifically looking for an engineer who is comfortable inheriting an existing codebase, understanding it deeply, challenging its assumptions, fixing what needs fixing, and taking responsibility for making it production-ready.
You will not be expected to rewrite everything just because it wasn't originally written by you.
Why this role is different
You won't just be implementing tickets.
You'll have significant influence over:
- Engineering architecture
- Production readiness
- Technical standards
- Infrastructure
- AI integration strategy
- Product engineering decisions
- Future engineering team structure
If things go well, this role can grow into Head of Engineering / CTO-level ownership as X.re scales.
Location
Hyderabad preferred. Remote candidates across India may be considered for the right candidate.
Compensation
₹20–35 LPA + ESOP
Compensation will depend on experience and level of ownership.
Why This Role Matters
Our backend is what keeps checkout, RTO, and payments fast and reliable at ~$2B GMV across 15,000+ merchants. As an SDE 2 you own services end to end, make the architecture calls that keep them performant, and set the technical bar for the engineers around you. The trade-offs you pick show up directly in merchant conversions and platform reliability - this is a builder's seat with real ownership.
What You'll Own
- Design and build backend services primarily in Node.js/NestJS, with Go for select services, backed by Postgres, Mongo, and Redis.
- Own event-driven flows on Kafka - throughput, ordering, and failure handling.
- Make and document the architecture and trade-off decisions for systems you lead.
- Ship features end to end, dropping into the frontend (React/Svelte) when it's the fastest path.
- Strengthen CI/CD, observability, and deployments on AWS.
- Review code, mentor SDE 1s and AEs, and raise the quality bar on the team.
- Take ambiguous problems and drive them to delivery with minimal hand-holding.
Who You Are
- Strong backend engineer in JavaScript/TypeScript on Node.js/NestJS (our primary stack); working knowledge of Go, or ready to pick it up.
- Solid at data modelling across Postgres and Mongo, and knows when Redis earns its place.
- Has built and scaled event-driven systems (Kafka or equivalent).
- At home on the backend but happy to work across the stack in React/Svelte.
- Thinks in systems - scalability, reliability, maintainability - not just features.
- Has mentored engineers and owns code quality and delivery, not just their own tickets.
- Communicates clearly and does well with ambiguity in a fast-moving team.
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.
Brief Description
We're seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer/Tech Lead 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. Also, guiding the mentoring the junior team members
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
- Code Quality: Ensure code quality through code reviews, adherence to best practices, and continuous improvement
- Mentorship: Guide and mentor team members, fostering growth and innovation
- Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders to align technical goals with business objectives
- Problem-Solving: Analyze and resolve technical challenges promptly
- Innovation: Stay updated with the latest technology trends and integrate them into solutions
Requirements
- At least 5+ 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
- Familiarity with Frontend Development Technologies (React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
- 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 environment
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to work on a cutting-edge healthcare product
- A collaborative and learning-driven environment
- Exposure to AI and software engineering innovations
- Excellent work ethic and culture
If you're passionate about technology and want to work on impactful projects, we'd love to hear from you!
This is a backend role. You won't build screens, and you don't need frontend experience. The mobile team will add a language picker and pass a locale to the backend. Everything behind that is yours: the data model, content pipelines, LLM generation, retrieval, audio, notifications, and making sure all of it holds up in production.
What you'll build
1. The language data model
- Design how language lives in the database: user language preference, per-story translations, fallback chains (e.g. pt-BR → pt → en), and versioning so a translation is marked stale when its English source changes.
- stories.translations (jsonb) already exists and nothing reads it yet. Decide whether it stays, or whether we move to a dedicated story_translations table, and write down why.
- Everything ships as new, reversible migrations. We never edit an existing migration.
2. The content translation pipeline
- Our library has already been translated into several languages using the Anthropic Batch API, with a two-pass generate-then-review process. Move this into the repo so it's idempotent, re-runnable and cheap, and so it handles only the stories that changed.
- Build a glossary and style layer: Hebrew terms, names of sages and sources, and terms that must never be translated. Add automated QA checks (completeness, glossary adherence, length drift, broken formatting) plus a sampling workflow for native-speaker review.
3. Generation in the user's language
- Reflections, bridge text, the three practices (Echo, Naming, Walking) and Path arcs are generated by Claude through shared prompt modules in our Supabase edge functions. Make them produce native, natural output in the target language. That means writing in the language directly, not translating English after the fact. Our existing rules must still hold, e.g. each practice carries a Hebrew term with its meaning explained, now explained in the user's language.
- Build a per-language evaluation harness so we can check quality before a language goes live and catch regressions when prompts change.
4. Multilingual matching
- Today, language-validation detects the language of the user's input and blocks anything that isn't English. Replace that gate with detection and routing.
- Story matching uses OpenAI text-embedding-3-large over pgvector. Measure how well non-English input retrieves the right English-indexed stories. Then decide between cross-lingual matching, per-language embeddings, or a hybrid, and back the decision with numbers.
5. Audio
- Stories and reflections are read aloud by ElevenLabs voices. Audio is currently stored per voice (audio_urls), so it has to become per voice and per language. Pick voices for each language, and plan batch pre-rendering, storage, cost and backfill.
6. Server-side copy
- Move push notification copy (including our Shabbat-aware scheduling), transactional and lifecycle emails, and database-driven home-screen messages out of the code and into a locale-aware string system with proper plurals and date formats.
7. Safe rollout
- Several app versions are live at the same time, and older builds can't be changed. Every change you make must stay backward compatible: English stays the default, current RPC signatures stay the same, and each language can be switched on independently behind a flag.
- Track cost and quality for each language: tokens, TTS credits, fallback rate and generation failures.
Our stack
- Backend: Supabase: Postgres (RLS, RPCs, pgvector, jsonb, pg_cron) and 50+ Deno/TypeScript edge functions
- AI: Anthropic Claude (Messages and Batch APIs, prompt caching), OpenAI embeddings, ElevenLabs TTS
- Data/scripts: Python and Node
- Other: RevenueCat, Resend, Expo Push/FCM. The app is Expo/React Native, but you won't need to work in it.
You'll be a fit if you have
- 5+ years of backend engineering, with strong PostgreSQL: schema design, migrations on live data, RLS, stored functions, and performance tuning.
- Production TypeScript (Deno or Node) and solid Python for data pipelines.
- Shipped LLM features to production, beyond prototypes: prompt design, structured output, batch processing, cost control, and above all evaluation. You know how to tell whether output in a language you don't speak is good.
- Built backend internationalization before: locale negotiation, fallback chains, ICU/CLDR plurals and dates, and translation workflows with versioning.
- Worked with embeddings and vector search, and can design a retrieval evaluation.
- Care about keeping production running: backward compatibility, feature flags, and rollouts that can be undone.
- Write clearly. Decisions here get written down before they get built.
Nice to have
- Experience with ElevenLabs or other TTS pipelines.
- Supabase-specific experience.
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.
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.






