Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

A Senior Software Backend Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the server-side

logic and infrastructure of web applications or software systems. They typically work closely with frontend

engineers, DevOps teams, and other stakeholders to ensure that the back-end services perform optimally and

meet business requirements. Below is an outline of a typical Senior Backend Developer job profile:

Key Responsibilities:

1. System Architecture & Design:

- Design scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs.

- Participate in the planning, design, and development of new features.

- Ensure that systems are designed with fault tolerance, security, and scalability in mind.

2. Development & Implementation:

- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

- Implement server-side logic, databases, and data storage solutions.

- Work with technologies like REST, GraphQL, and other backend communication methods.

- Design and optimize database schemas, queries, and indexes.

3. Performance Optimization:

- Diagnose and fix performance bottlenecks.

- Optimize backend processes and database queries for speed and efficiency.

- Implement caching strategies and load balancing.

4. Security:

- Ensure the security of the backend systems by implementing secure coding practices.

- Protect against common security threats such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and others.

5. Collaboration & Leadership:

- Collaborate with frontend teams, product managers, and DevOps engineers.

- Mentor junior developers and guide them in best practices.

- Participate in code reviews and ensure that the development team follows consistent coding standards.

6. Testing & Debugging:

- Develop and run unit, integration, and performance tests to ensure code quality.

- Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.

7. Monitoring & Maintenance:

- Monitor system performance and take preventive measures to ensure uptime and reliability.

- Maintain technical documentation for reference and reporting.

- Stay updated on emerging technologies and incorporate them into the backend tech stack.

Required Skills:

1. Programming Languages:

- Expertise in one or more backend programming languages in the list Python, Java, Go, Rust.

2. Database Management:

- Strong understanding of both relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g.,

MongoDB, Redis).

- Knowledge of data modeling, query optimization, and database scaling strategies.

3. API Design & Development:

- Proficiency in designing and implementing RESTful and GraphQL APIs.

- Experience with microservices architecture.

- Good understanding of containers

4. Cloud & DevOps:

- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

- Understanding of DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and orchestration

(Kubernetes).

5. Version Control:

- Proficiency with Git and branching strategies.

6. Testing & Debugging Tools:

- Familiarity with testing frameworks, debugging tools, and performance profiling.

7. Soft Skills:

- Strong problem-solving skills.

- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.

- Leadership and mentorship qualities.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

- 5+ years of experience in backend development or software engineering.

- Proven experience with system design, architecture, and high-scale application development.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing.

- Familiarity with message queues (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka) and caching layers (e.g., Redis, Memcached).

- Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible.

Tools & Technologies:

- Languages: Python, Java, Golang, Rust.

- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra.

- Frameworks: Django, Flask, Spring Boot, Go Micro.

- Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.

- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes.

- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI.

This job profile will vary depending on the company and industry, but the core principles of designing,

developing, and maintaining back-end systems remain the same.

Backend - Software Development Engineer III

Experience - 7+ yrs

About Wekan Enterprise Solutions

Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.

Job Description

We are looking for passionate software engineers eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?

You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customer’s technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.

Location - Chennai or Bangalore

• Relevant experience of 7+ years building high-performance back-end applications with at least 3 or more projects delivered using the required technologies
• Good problem solving skills
• Strong mentoring capabilities
• Good understanding of software development life cycle
• Strong experience in system design and architecture
• Strong focus on quality of work delivered
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Required Technical Skills

• Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance web back-ends using Node.Js and Javascript/Typescript
• Strong experience with Express.Js framework
• Working experience with Python web app development or python scripting
• Implementation experience in monolithic and microservices architecture
• Hands-on experience with data modeling on MongoDB and any other Relational or NoSQL databases
• Experience integrating with any 3rd party services such as cloud SDKs (AWS, Azure) authentication, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ or any similar technologies.
• Exposure into unit testing with frameworks such as Mocha, Chai, Jest or others
• Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation

Good to have skills:

• Experience working with common services in any of the major cloud providers - AWS or GCP or Azure

Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies

Backend Developer (Python)

Company and Founders
Egregore Labs (http://www.egregorelabs.com/">www.egregorelabs.com) is a financial software company founded in 2017 by Prashant Vijay (ISB, Tulane) & Hari Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras) both of whom have spent over a decade each in Financial Services, with a majority of their experience at Goldman Sachs across New York, Hong Kong & Singapore in roles across Trading, Quant & Technology. More about the founders is available here and here

We operate at the intersection of Unstructured Data and Finance. We run multiple products, including Romulus (http://www.romulus.co/">www.romulus.co) and Robana (http://www.robana.ai/">www.robana.ai) - all our products work on the same underlying principles and set of technologies.

Ideal Background

• At least 2 years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers
• Sound understanding of computer science principles
• Exposure to any of the following
• Financial services
• Natural Language Processing
• Robotic Process Automation
• Intelligent Document Processing
• Document Management and Repositories

Opportunity
We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
• Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
• Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (2+ years)
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
• Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms
• A computer science education would be great, but other engineering disciplines are ok as well

Desirables
We are looking for a person who has :

• Resourcefulness- - we're looking for versatile developers who are good at figuring out what they need to use, learn, build, re-purpose to get the job done quickly and efficiently.
• Ownership- - We like to be directive and not prescriptive in our management. We- d love for you to take ownership of what you work on, and tell us what to do, rather than the other way round.
• Work Ethic- - We- ve grown up on Wall Street. We work hard, and have aggressive goals. We want our team-mates to be focused, goal-oriented and consistent high achievers.
• Execution Focus- - Our business is about getting things done, and getting things done right. We want outcome focused colleagues who can multi-task, and execute quickly and elegantly.

Work From Home

Package: 7-12 LPA

Rejolut is among the fastest-growing and award winning Tech companies working on leading technologies namely Blockchain, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Complex mobile & Web Apps, IoT, etc.Rejolut is a venture-backed company with clients in over several countries namely Malaysia Airlines,gba global,my-earth,biomes, Dlg-hub,etc.

We are looking for Tech geeks having hands-on experience and in love with building scalable, distributed and large web/mobile products and tech solutions. He/She must be an excellent problem solver with passion to self-learn and implement web technologies (frontend + backend). He/She would be responsible for the architecture design, code review, and technology build and deployment activities of the product. 

Responsibilities:-

-Work with the team to develop world-class tools through practical development and collaboration with the open source Go community

-Interact with internal and external developers and communities

-Work with the toolchain team and other engineering teams as well as the community on senior-level feature contributions to Golang, related compiler bug fixes, efficiency improvements, and optimisations, and some light packaging work where needed

-Accept, analyze, and respond to bug reports against tools packages in your area of responsibility

-Plan and track development and periodically report progress to team management.

-  Own the product development from scratch.

- Architect scalable, distributed and large-scale web and mobile solutions from scratch.

- Code for fresh development and to troubleshoot and resolve issues.

- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.

- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.

- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.

- Able to learn & implement new technology/framework/library at God Speed.

- Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and be able to multitask.

- Experience and knowledge of open-source tools and frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server side development. 

Desired Candidate Profile:-

- 1+ years of experience in open source compiler or tools development

- 1+ years of experience with the Go language, runtime and tools

- Experience with or exposure to the Linux kernel is helpful

- Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, computer engineering, or a technology-related discipline

The following requirements are a plus:

-Experience with C/C++ toolchains and debuggers

-Advanced knowledge of Go language, compiler, library, runtime, and debug internals

-Practical experience developing Go tools for enterprise use

-Direct experience with Go tools community participation

-Knowledge of and experience with system tools internals (e.g. compilers, debug formats)

-Proficiency in multiple programming languages, both dynamic(Javascript, Python, Ruby, etc.) and strongly typed object-oriented language.

-Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.

-Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoys challenging assignments in a high energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.

-Good communication and interpersonal skills

Rejolut - As a Career Differentiator

 - We are a young and dynamic team who are obsessed with solving futuristic and evolutionary business problems at scale with the next generation technology like blockchain, crypto and machine learning. Focuses on empowering people across the globe to be technically efficient, making advancements in technology and providing new capabilities that were previously thought impossible.

- We provide exposure to higher learning opportunities so that you can work on complex and cutting edge technology like React, React Native, Flutter, NodeJS, Python, Go, Svelte, WebAssembly. Strong expertise in  blockchain and crypto technology and working with the networks like Hedera Hashgraph, Tezos, BlockApps, Algorand, Cardano.

- We maintain high end transparency with clients and employees as Visibility unlocks Efficiency and trust unlocks Visibility.

- Company is backed by two technology Co-founders, well-versed with consumer applications and their work has been downloaded millions of times and have led teams in leadership positions in companies like Samsung, Purplle, Loylty Rewardz.

Benefits :

> Health Insurance

> Work from Home

> Fast growth and more visibility into the company

> Experience to work on the latest technology

> Competitive Learning Environment with supportive co-workers

> Employee friendly HR Policies

> Paid leaves up to certain limits

> Competitive salaries & Bonuses

> Liberal working atmosphere

> Get mentored by the best in the industry

Schedule:

Day Shift/Flexible working hours

Monday to Friday

• Degree in Computer Science (BS/MS), related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of industry experience in product development
• Experience in coaching and mentoring team members
• Must own a specific component of the product. Gathering requirements by working with product management. Working closely with development managers in defining external product interfaces
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Must articulate various design approaches and design decisions clearly - within the team and across the teams.
• Must work with QA engineers to devise proper test constructs - unit testing and integration tests.

We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day. At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.

We've been working on this together since 2016, and have customers like Pixar, Mitsubishi, Figma, Plaid, Match Group, and thousands more on this journey with us. Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.

Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. That means a million people trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep earning trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion. This is where you come in — to help us forge a performant and reliable path forward to the future.

• Write clean, secure, tested, and documented code.
• Design & enhance the Notion platform with new capabilities, as and when the need arises.
• Contribute to monitoring & scaling the architecture of the platform and the infrastructure.
• Write technical documentation, and contribute to determining internal processes.
• Contribute to recruiting of new backend employees

• 6+ years of experience building scalable platforms. 
• Good understanding of database (Relational Or Nosql) internals like transactions, indexes. Experience in schema design.
• 2+ years of experience working on the AWS platform, and acquaintance with technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda, Elastic Load Balancer.
• Good understanding of docker internals.
• Good communication skills, good leadership skills, attention to detail, a sound understanding of algorithms, and object-oriented programming.

• You're proficient with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Memcached, Postgres, Docker, and Elasticsearch.
• You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work.
• You have interests outside of technology, such as in art, history, or social sciences.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Notion.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation made due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.