

Senior Software Engineer - Backend
About this job
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) with 5+ years of experience in backend technologies and at least 2+ years in GoLang. You will be working with a team of problem solvers working collaboratively to build custom solutions for Appointy’s enterprise clients. If you are excited to learn new things and thrive in a team-based culture, and if you are looking for hyper-growth in your career then Appointy could be a place for you!
Why Appointy?
Appointy is a platform software company with offices in India, Singapore and US. Our low code platform, SaaStack, is being used globally by multiple fortune 500 companies. In the last 4 years, the company has shown 300% growth in terms of employee’s growth. Our dynamic and diversified engineering team, work on a remote-first hybrid work model. With quarterly meetups, annual international offsites, state-of-the-art offices and facilities we ensure you have the best experience of working at a hyper-growth startup.
What will you do
- Write code that meets standard and delivery guidelines.
- Mentor other engineers on the team to develop high-quality software and perform code reviews.
- Work with the team to break user stories into tasks and delegate them to the team members.
- Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient microservices distributed architecture.
- Analyze solutions and help implement engineering best practices.
- Work with Project Managers for timely delivery and forecast.
- Lead and mentor junior engineers on technical issues. Perform blameless RCAs when issues occur and take ownership to resolve issues.
Additionally, you’ll get opportunities to:
- Work with the Product owner to write and brainstorm user stories.
- Interact directly with the clients and understand their requirements by working closely with the sales and customer support team.
- Consistently align teams with organization goals and product roadmap.
What you bring in:
- Strong experience with backend programming languages and technologies like
- Golang (minimum 1-year experience)
- Protobuf and gRPC
- RESTful APIs
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Medium level experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL database concepts.
- Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean code.
- Proven ability to work with multiple teams, multitasking and prioritizing.
- Experience with Git, JIRA and Agile working methodology.
- Experience with design patterns, Event-Driven architecture and Domain Driven Designs.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- A chance to work and contribute to SaaStack, Appointy’s low code platform.
- Merit-Based career opportunities and to grow your career with an organization that’s scaling rapidly.
- Paid paternity and maternity leave
- Hospitalization, health life insurance, and accident coverage
- Flexible hours and remote working flexibility
- Transparency and visibility throughout a fast-paced, successful growth organization
- Access to Appointy’s state of the art 4-acre office campus with facilities like go-Karting swimming pool, unlimited food and snacks gym and much more!
Interested? … Apply now! Our recruitment team will screen your application and contact you.

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