Senior Software Engineer - Backend at an Indian video-sharing social networking service. · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 5 - 12 years · ₹20L - ₹55L / yr · Posted 17 Dec 2021

Senior Software Engineer - Backend
at an Indian video-sharing social networking service.

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We are looking for a Backend Software Development Engineer with 6+ years building scalable, high-availability server-side systems. You'll design and own microservices and REST APIs, model data in SQL, and deploy on AWS, partnering with product and frontend teams end-to-end.
Mandatory skills
• 6+ years of backend development in Java and/or Python
• Strong hands-on experience designing microservices and RESTful APIs
• Solid database design and SQL optimization
• Production experience on AWS (or equivalent cloud)
• Strong CS fundamentals — data structures, concurrency, system design
• Experience owning services from design through production support
Senior Software Engineer – Backend
Company: House of EdTech (Goenka Kachave LLP)
Location: Bangalore, Hybrid
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 5+ Years
About the Role
House of EdTech is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to design, develop, and scale high-performance backend services and APIs supporting products used by millions of learners.
You’ll work closely with Product, Frontend, Data, and Engineering teams while taking end-to-end ownership of backend features and contributing to system architecture and technical decisions.
What You'll Do
- Design and develop scalable backend services and REST APIs.
- Build reliable systems capable of handling high traffic and large data volumes.
- Own backend features from design and development through deployment and monitoring.
- Work with microservices, databases, and distributed systems.
- Identify and solve performance, scalability, reliability, and security challenges.
- Participate in system design and architecture discussions.
- Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
- Monitor production systems and troubleshoot incidents.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of professional backend development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java, Python, Scala, C++, or a similar language.
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and databases.
- Experience with cloud/infrastructure technologies such as GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including security, reliability, testing, and code quality.
- Experience with system design, architecture, and technical decision-making.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience mentoring engineers is a plus.
Why Join House of EdTech?
- Work on products impacting millions of learners.
- Solve challenging backend and scalability problems.
- Take significant ownership of architecture and engineering decisions.
- Opportunity to grow into technical leadership and architectural ownership.
- Work in a fast-growing technology environment.
Eligibility:
- Only IIT / NIT graduates
- Immediate joiners preferred
Mandatory Skills:
- Strong experience in Core Java
- Spring Boot & Microservices
- REST APIs
- SQL / Relational Databases
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Experience in designing scalable backend applications
Good to Have:
- Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Kafka / Messaging Systems
- Docker & Kubernetes
Interested candidates who meet the above criteria can share their updated resume along with:
- Total Experience
- Current CTC
- Expected CTC
- Notice Period
- Current Location
Strong Tech Lead / Staff Engineer / Lead Engineer Profiles
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Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have minimum 6+ years of overall Software Engineering/Development experience building production backend systems.
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Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have Tech Lead ownership, with experience setting technical direction, architecture, frameworks, or engineering standards used by other engineers.
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Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have strong hands-on Backend development experience with deep proficiency in at least one backend programming language. (Python, Java, Golang etc)
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Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have strong System design/distributed systems experience, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, failure modes, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
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Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have strong CS fundamentals in Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, and Networking, with the ability to apply them to complex backend/system problems
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Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have owned complex, ambiguous, or business-critical engineering problems end-to-end, demonstrating clear technical judgment, trade-offs, problem-solving, and measurable technical/business impact; not limited to feature implementation.
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Mandatory (Experience 7) - Must have formal technical leadership experience, including mentoring Senior Engineers, conducting design/code reviews, driving engineering quality, and leading technical decisions across a team.
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Mandatory (Experience 8) - Must be a hands-on IC + Tech Lead, with approximately 70–80% hands-on coding/engineering involvement, not a pure people-management profile.
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Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies / Startups / B2B SaaS
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Mandatory (Education) - CS degree or equivalent (B.Tech/B.E./B.S.)
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Preferred (Skills) - Experience with Kafka/NATS/RabbitMQ, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security/compliance, multi-tenant systems, and financial/billing platforms.
We are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer to drive the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable B2B products from our Bangalore office. This role requires a strong hands-on technologist who can lead a team of engineers, make sound architectural decisions, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, DevOps, and Customer Success teams.
As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of our platform, ensuring high-quality engineering practices, and delivering enterprise-grade solutions to our customers. This job can quickly grow into a Technical Lead position.
**Key Responsibilities**
🔹 Technical Leadership
Own end-to-end technical architecture and system design for core product modules.
Drive scalable, secure, and high-performance backend and frontend solutions.
Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and ensure adherence to engineering best practices.
Evaluate and introduce new technologies where appropriate.
🔹 Team Management
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5–6 engineers.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation.
Support hiring, onboarding, and mentoring.
🔹 Product Delivery
Collaborate closely with mangement to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Drive sprint planning, estimations, and delivery timelines.
Ensure predictable, high-quality releases aligned with business goals.
🔹 Quality & DevOps
Champion CI/CD practices, automated testing, and DevOps processes.
Ensure system reliability, uptime, security, and performance monitoring.
Participate in incident management and root cause analysis.
🔹 Stakeholder Collaboration
Work cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, and Support teams for enterprise deployments.
Communicate technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
**Required Qualifications**
4+ years of software development experience in product-based companies.
Strong experience with modern backend technologies (e.g., Java, Node.js, Python, or similar technologies).
Experience with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or similar).
Solid understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful APIs.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL).
Experience building scalable B2B SaaS products.
**Preferred Qualifications**
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture.
Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SSO, APIs, third-party systems).
Experience handling high-scale systems with large enterprise clients.
Exposure to security and compliance standards (ISO, SOC2, GDPR).
**Key Competencies**
Strong problem-solving and system design skills.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to balance hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities.
Strong ownership mindset with attention to detail.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
**What We Offer**
Competitive compensation and performance bonuses.
Opportunity to work on cutting-edge B2B products.
Collaborative and growth-oriented culture.
Health insurance and wellness benefits.
If you are passionate about building scalable B2B platforms and leading high-performing engineering teams, we would love to hear from you.
🚀 Job Title : Backend Engineer (Go / Python / Java)
Experience : 3+ Years
Location : Bangalore (Client Location – Work From Office)
Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days
Open Positions : 4
Working Days : 6 Days a Week
🧠 Job Summary :
We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Engineer to build scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems in a fast-paced product environment.
You will own large features end-to-end — from design and development to deployment and monitoring — while collaborating closely with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams.
This role requires strong backend fundamentals, distributed systems exposure, and a mindset of operational ownership.
⭐ Mandatory Skills :
Strong backend development experience in Go / Python (FastAPI) / Java (Spring Boot) with hands-on expertise in Microservices, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka/SQS, AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and strong DSA & System Design fundamentals.
🔧 Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, test, and deploy backend services end-to-end.
- Build scalable, modular, and production-grade microservices.
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs.
- Architect reliable distributed systems with performance and fault tolerance in mind.
- Debug complex cross-system production issues.
- Implement secure development practices (authentication, authorization, data integrity).
- Work with monitoring dashboards, alerts, and performance metrics.
- Participate in code reviews and enforce engineering best practices.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams.
✅ Required Skills :
- Strong proficiency in Go OR Python (FastAPI) OR Java (Spring Boot).
- Hands-on experience building Microservices-based architectures.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs & distributed systems.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis.
- Exposure to Kafka / SQS or other messaging systems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of Data Structures & System Design.
- Ability to independently own features and solve ambiguous engineering problems.
⭐ Preferred Background :
- Experience in product-based companies.
- Exposure to high-throughput or event-driven systems.
- Strong focus on code quality, observability, and reliability.
- Comfortable working in high-growth, fast-paced environments.
🧑💻 Interview Process :
- 1 Internal Screening Round
- HR Discussion (Project & Communication Evaluation)
- 3 Technical Rounds with Client
This is a fresh requirement, and interviews will be scheduled immediately.
Join our product development team at Planview as a Senior Software Engineer I and become a pivotal force on the Viz Core Team. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape and lead the development of data-processing pipelines and APIs that are at the heart of our software solutions. These solutions are designed to streamline and enhance the efficiency of software delivery, resonating deeply with software engineers who strive to build better and faster.
At Planview Viz, which is powered by the innovative “Flow Framework,” you will tackle complex data challenges and develop scalable solutions within an AWS cloud environment. Your efforts will be crucial in revolutionizing how businesses harness and interpret vast amounts of workflow data, transforming it into actionable insights that propel organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
Responsibilities (What you'll do)
- Create and refine powerful data-processing architectures that integrate seamlessly with a diverse array of external tools, enhancing the way software is delivered across industries.
- Drive operational excellence by critically analyzing problems, defining requirements, and devising robust solutions that push the boundaries of technology.
- Lead and inspire a team of talented engineers, promoting a culture of ownership, meticulous attention to quality, and proactive problem-solving.
- Stay at the cutting edge of technology by updating and expanding your team’s knowledge of cloud architectures, data processing, and advanced analytics, ensuring that you and your team remain leaders in technological innovation.
- Make a direct impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of software delivery worldwide through innovation and leadership.
Qualifications (What you'll bring)
Who We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate is a seasoned professional in cloud software development with a strong foundation in data processing and scalable software systems. You thrive in collaborative environments and are passionate about advancing cloud technology and data architecture to new heights. You are a leader who enjoys mentoring, guiding, and inspiring others.
Preferred Qualifications
Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 6+ years of experience with a modern programming language, with a focus on back-end systems and cloud-based technologies.
- Strong capability in architecting and designing robust, scalable software systems.
- Proficiency in AWS or another popular cloud platform.
Additional Qualifications
- Experience with big-data technologies such as Spark and Apache Kafka.
- Experience with Java (version 17), Scala, or other JVM programming languages.
- Experience with tools such as Amazon Redshift and MongoDB.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Travis CI, or similar platforms.
- Proficiency in test-driven development.
- Experience with containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
- Experience working on remote or distributed teams and projects.
Total Experience: 2+ years
Mode Of Hire: Permanent
Required Skills Set (Mandatory): Object Oriented Programming, data structures, algorithms, software design, and database systems.
Desired Skills (Good if you have): Springboot, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Crawling/ Web Scraping, Programming languages(Java, Python, C, C++)
Job Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Managers and other Engineers to help define, scope, and implement high-quality features that solve critical user needs.
- Break down requirements into architecture and deliver code, while keeping operational issues in mind.
- The ability to own end-to-end responsibility right from the requirement to release.
- Write clear documentation so that other engineers can jump in and get things done.
- Actively participate in design and code reviews.
- Help take Tracxn to the next level as a world-class engineering team
Job Requirements
- Experience with building backend services. Strong algorithm and CS skills.
- Experience designing and implementing large‐scale distributed systems.
- Experience with multiple programming languages (Java, Python) and data stores (MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, etc)
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, agile, and in ownership, and results-oriented culture.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Culture
- Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
- Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
- No strict deadlines focus on delivering quality work.
- Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
- Very high visibility regarding which startups and markets are exciting globally.
About Tracxn
Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem. We are a team of 800+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.
Founders
- Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
- Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)
About Technology Team
Tracxn's Technology team is 50+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each of which owns one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team as compared to an individual.
We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to Spring, Elastic Stack, Kafka, Mongo, MySQL, Redis, ReactJS, Next.js, Node, AWS Lambda, Ansible, etc.
We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.
Design, develop, and maintain scalable enterprise applications using Node.js, Java Spring Boot, Microservices, React JS, and RESTful APIs, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
Lead end-to-end full-stack development activities, including solution design, backend services, front-end development, API integrations, and database design across complex business applications.
Develop responsive and intuitive user interfaces using React JS, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Redux, and modern UI component libraries.
Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, unit testing, CI/CD implementation, DevOps practices, performance tuning, and adherence to coding and security standards.
Collaborate with architects, product owners, and cross-functional teams in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Lead Developer – Java, React, Node.js & AI/ML
Location: Mumbai
Experience: 8–10 Years
Job Type: Full-time
Job Description
We are looking for a Lead Developer with 8–10 years of experience in software development, with strong expertise in Java, React, and Node.js. The candidate should have at least 1 year of hands-on professional experience in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and experience in building modern, scalable technology solutions.
Key Skills
Java, React, Node.js, AI/ML, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Key-Value Caching, Vector Databases, ChromaDB, pgvector
Candidate should have strong software development experience along with good knowledge of modern databases, caching technologies, and vector search solutions.







