Senior Software Engineer

Job Details

- Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

- Industry: SAAS

- Function – Information Technology

- Experience Required: 5-8 years

- Working Days: 6 days a week, (5 days-in-office, Saturdays WFH)

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bangalore

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Preferred Skills: AWS, NodeJS, RESTful APIs, NoSQL

Criteria

· Minimum 5+ years in backend engineering with strong system design expertise

· Experience building scalable systems from scratch

· Expert-level proficiency in Node.js

· Deep understanding of distributed systems

· Strong NoSQL design skills

· Hands-on AWS cloud experience

· Proven leadership and mentoring capability

· Preferred candidates from SAAS/Software/IT Services based startups or scaleup companies

Job Description

The Role:

What You’ll Build:

1. System Architecture & Design

● Architect highly scalable backend systems from the ground up

● Define technology choices: frameworks, databases, queues, caching layers

● Evaluate microservices vs monoliths based on product stage

● Design REST, GraphQL, and real-time WebSocket APIs

● Build event-driven systems for asynchronous processing

● Architect multi-tenant systems with strict data isolation

● Maintain architectural documentation and technical specs

2. Core Backend Services

● Build high-performance APIs for 3D content, XR experiences, analytics, and user interactions

● Create 3D asset processing pipelines for uploads, conversions, and optimization

● Develop distributed job workers for CPU/GPU-intensive tasks

● Build authentication/authorization systems (RBAC)

● Implement billing, subscription, and usage metering

● Build secure webhook systems and third-party integration APIs

● Create real-time collaboration features via WebSockets/SSE

3. Data Architecture & Databases

● Design scalable schemas for 3D metadata, XR sessions, and analytics

● Model complex product catalogs with variants and hierarchies

● Implement Redis-based caching strategies

● Build search and indexing systems (Elasticsearch/Algolia)

● Architect ETL pipelines and data warehouses

● Implement sharding, partitioning, and replication strategies

● Design backup, restore, and disaster recovery workflows

4. Scalability & Performance

● Build systems designed for 10x–100x traffic growth

● Implement load balancing, autoscaling, and distributed processing

● Optimize API response times and database performance

● Implement global CDN delivery for heavy 3D assets

● Build rate limiting, throttling, and backpressure mechanisms

● Optimize storage and retrieval of large 3D files

● Profile and improve CPU, memory, and network performance

5. Infrastructure & DevOps

● Architect AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache)

● Build CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and rollbacks

● Use IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation) for infra provisioning

● Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting systems

● Use Docker + Kubernetes for container orchestration

● Implement security best practices for data, networks, and secrets

● Define disaster recovery and business continuity plans

6. Integration & APIs

● Build integrations with Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento

● Design webhook systems for real-time events

● Build SDKs, client libraries, and developer tools

● Integrate payment gateways (Stripe, Razorpay)

● Implement SSO and OAuth for enterprise customers

● Define API versioning and lifecycle/deprecation strategies

7. Data Processing & Analytics

● Build analytics pipelines for engagement, conversions, and XR performance

● Process high-volume event streams at scale

● Build data warehouses for BI and reporting

● Develop real-time dashboards and insights systems

● Implement analytics export pipelines and platform integrations

● Enable A/B testing and experimentation frameworks

● Build personalization and recommendation systems

Technical Stack:

1. Backend Languages & Frameworks 

●  Primary: Node.js (Express, NestJS), Python (FastAPI, Django)

●  Secondary: Go, Java/Kotlin (Spring)

●  APIs: REST, GraphQL, gRPC

2. Databases & Storage

● SQL: PostgreSQL, MySQL

● NoSQL: MongoDB, DynamoDB

● Caching: Redis, Memcached

● Search: Elasticsearch, Algolia

● Storage/CDN: AWS S3, CloudFront

● Queues: Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS

3. Cloud & Infrastructure: 

● Cloud: AWS (primary), GCP/Azure (nice to have)

● Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS

● Infrastructure: Terraform, CloudFormation

● CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI

● Containers: Docker, Kubernetes

4. Monitoring & Operations 

● Monitoring: Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch

● Logging: ELK Stack, CloudWatch Logs

● Error Tracking: Sentry, Rollbar

● APM tools

5. Security & Auth

● Auth: JWT, OAuth 2.0, SAML

● Secrets: AWS Secrets Manager, Vault

● Security: Encryption (at rest/in transit), TLS/SSL, IAM

What We’re Looking For:

1. Must-Haves

● 5+ years in backend engineering with strong system design expertise

● Experience building scalable systems from scratch

● Expert-level proficiency in at least one backend stack (Node, Python, Go, Java)

● Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices

● Strong SQL/NoSQL design skills with performance optimization

● Hands-on AWS cloud experience

● Ability to write high-quality production code daily

● Experience building and scaling RESTful APIs

● Strong understanding of caching, sharding, horizontal scaling

● Solid security and best-practice implementation experience

● Proven leadership and mentoring capability

2. Highly Desirable

● Experience with large file processing (3D, video, images)

● Background in SaaS, multi-tenancy, or e-commerce

● Experience with real-time systems (WebSockets, streams)

● Knowledge of ML/AI infrastructure

● Experience with HA systems, DR planning

● Familiarity with GraphQL, gRPC, event-driven systems

● DevOps/infrastructure engineering background

● Experience with XR/AR/VR backend systems

● Open-source contributions or technical writing

● Prior senior technical leadership experience

Technical Challenges You’ll Solve:

● Designing large-scale 3D asset processing pipelines

● Serving XR content globally with ultra-low latency

● Scaling from thousands to millions of daily requests

● Efficiently handling CPU/GPU-heavy workloads

● Architecting multi-tenancy with complete data isolation

● Managing billions of analytics events at scale

● Building future-proof APIs with backward compatibility

Why company:

● Architectural Ownership: Build foundational systems from scratch

● Deep Technical Work: Solve distributed systems and scaling challenges

● Hands-On Impact: Design and code mission-critical infrastructure

● Diverse Problems: APIs, infra, data, ML, XR, asset processing

● Massive Scale Opportunity: Build systems for exponential growth

● Modern Stack and best practices

● Product Impact: Your architecture directly powers millions of users

● Leadership Opportunity: Shape engineering culture and direction

● Learning Environment: Stay at the forefront of backend engineering

● Backed by AWS, Microsoft, Google

Location & Work Culture:

● Location: Bengaluru

● Schedule: 6 days a week, (5 days-in-office, Saturdays WFH)

● Culture: Builder mindset, strong ownership, technical excellence

● Team: Small, highly skilled backend and infra team

● Resources: AWS credits, latest tooling, learning budget

Detailed JD: 

Responsibilities:

- Interface with product owners and software architects to review and finalize requirements

- Participate in the full SDLC including analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and support

of new features and applications

- Actively lead and participate in agile ceremonies (Standups, Refinements, Retrospectives, Planning,

and Requirement discussions)

- Communicate effectively, clearly, and thoroughly with the Scrum Team and Stakeholders

- Provide innovative solutions to complex problems

- Design, develop and modify software applications/systems according to specifications

- Develop technical documentation including services, object, and data model

- Create high quality code and perform code reviews

- Create unit and integration tests to ensure the code quality and functionality

- Proactively learn and share knowledge of technology and compare advantages and disadvantages of

alternative solutions/technologies

- Identify areas needing process improvements and see them through to resolution

- Support and coach other Developers, provide technical guidance

- Help onboard new team members

Tech Stack:

C#, .NET Core, XUnit, Entity Framework Core, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Git, JIRA, Web API

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• 5-8 years of experience with software development, preferably in Agile environment.
• Advanced knowledge of in software development tools, programming languages, databases, and environments, including but not limited to:
  • Python 3.x, Django, functional Python, procedural Python, object oriented Python, Asynchronous Design, Micro Services, memcache, REDIS, Celery, ElastiSearch, RESTful web services, Relational (Oracle & MySQL) and Non-Relational (NOSQL & DynamoDB) databases, AWS.

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Senior Backend Engineer (Platform) Full Time Bangalore (Potentially Remote)

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and develop core systems that will be power teams to build services and apps
• Ensure and constantly improve reliability, scalability, security and performance of core apis and infrastructure
• Be proactive in technical decision making and a sound influence in technical discussions
• Work with the product teams to help shape product direction by communicating limitations and possibilities
• Adopt and advocate best practices and guidelines in architecture, code conventions, development practice

Who we are looking for:

• 5+ years of experience building web services in Python/Go/Java, preferably in Python with excellent debugging and analytical skills
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, computer science fundamentals - data structures, algorithms and operating systems
• Proven experience in building, deploying and maintaining highly scalable RESTful web services
• Excellent written and oral communication ability in both technical and non tech. aspects
• Good understanding of benchmarking and performance monitoring - concurrency, multi-threading, logging, database optimisations
• Decent knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with shipping code quickly and reliably.

What we offer:

• Ownership of the platform core with a clear roadmap.
• A small cool meritocratic team that's driven by passion.
• An inspiring culture that balances creative exploration & heads down execution.
• Cash compensation upto 20L and negotiable stock in a gold mine.

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player. You will be a senior developer responsible for the development of new software products and enhancements to existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities:

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
• Coordinate cross-functionally to insure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
• Support test and deployment of new products and features
• Participate in code reviews

Requirements:

• B.Tech from Tier 1 College.
• 3+ yrs of experience, at least 2 yrs of experience with Python and Django.
• Expertise in Object Oriented Design, Database Design, and XML Schema
• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
• Ability to multi-task, organise, and prioritise work