
- Understands detailed requirements and demonstrates excellent problem solving skills
- Deep understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
- Excellent programming skills in ROR, Golang, NodeJS, Python or Java
- Strong communication skills
- Strong sense of ownership, drive and ability to deliver results
- 2+ years of experience in product driven organization

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Role overview
- Overall 5 to 7 years of experience. Node.js experience is must.
- At least 3+ years of experience or couple of large-scale products delivered on microservices.
- Strong design skills on microservices and AWS platform infrastructure.
- Excellent programming skill in Python, Node.js and Java.
- Hands on development in rest API’s.
- Good understanding of nuances of distributed systems, scalability, and availability.
What would you do here
- To Work as a Backend Developer in developing Cloud Web Applications
- To be part of the team working on various types of web applications related to Mortgage Finance.
- Experience in solving a real-world problem of Implementing, Designing and helping develop a new Enterprise-class Product from ground-up.
- You have expertise in the AWS Cloud Infrastructure and Micro-services architecture around the AWS Service stack like Lambdas, SQS, SNS, MySQL Databases along with Dockers and containerized solutions/applications.
- Experienced in Relational and No-SQL databases and scalable design.
- Experience in solving challenging problems by developing elegant, maintainable code.
- Delivered rapid iterations of software based on user feedback and metrics.
- Help the team make key decisions on our product and technology direction.
- You actively contribute to the adoption of frameworks, standards, and new technologies.
Role: Principal Backend Engineer
Primary Tech: Golang, Microservices, Distributed Systems
Work Mode: Hybrid (flexibility + collaboration)
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has deep experience in Golang and backend architecture
- Understands system design, scalability, and distributed systems
- Enjoys solving complex technical challenges in a high-impact environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer / Information Science (BE / BTech) or Master’s in Computer Applications (MCA) Experience:
- Two to five years general software engineering experience
- Experience in web development using the Ruby on Rails web application framework
- At least two years of Ruby on Rails programming experience
- Thorough understanding of the philosophy and design of Ruby on Rails
- Desktop publishing skills: HTML5, xHTML, CSS
Knowledge of:
- JavaScript and JavaScript libraries: jQuery, Plugins etc.
- Unix and Linux systems
- Relational databases: SQL, etc.
- Frameworks: Active record, etc.
- Servers: Nginx, Mongrel, Webrick
- Performance management using New Relic, Web Page Test tools
- SEO rules, minification, rails asset pipelines
- REST APIs and their usage
Highly preferred experience:
- Ability to work with the Amazon EC2, S3, and EBS services
- NoSQL databases: MongoDB, Memcached, CouchDB
- Git, SVN
- Proactive and resourceful person who achieves tasks with minimal oversight
- Team player with the ability and desire to become an integral part of a fast-paced team
- Ability to handle multiple tasks in parallel
EmptyCup is an interior design platform. Our goal is to make good interior design accessible.
To know more about our vision, checkout this https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_PBkSaHLep-QsZzRWdKMI3amc-KFe99z/view">intro presentation.
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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.
As an experienced engineer we know that you have built software to solve various business problems at your previous workplaces. You may have also explored technologies on your own for your learning or hobby projects.
- You will be building APIs for the Synup platform and also UI to make our platform capabilities available to our customers.
- You and the team that you are a part of will be collectively responsible building performant software and customer experiences that scale to our next million customers.
- You will be responsible for writing technical specs and contributing to it's implementation. We expect that you would have done the same in your previous workplaces.
- Other folks on our team are looking forward to learn from your experiences.
For engineers that join our team
- We expect you to be good with Ruby or Python to build APIs.
- You will be contributing to our UI that is built with React and GraphQL.
- We hope our team members have a strong grasp of software design patterns and know when to put them to good use.
- Experience with an SQL datastore would help a lot. PostgreSQL is our primary datastore.
- We optimize our search functionality and rollup reports by using ElasticSearch
- We expect that you have used Redis. Redis is our swiss army knife to solve a lot of problems apart from just caching.
● Has worked extensively on caching technologies such as Redis, Memcached
● Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
● Strong understanding of end-to-end architectures and development frameworks; knowledge across tiers in a multi-tier cloud environment including load balancers, web servers, application containers, data stores, and distributed cache
● Should be strong with Data Structures, Algorithms & OOPs concepts
● Should have a good understanding of database load balancing.
● Can clearly demonstrate an understanding of the Application layer from the OSI model and Presentation layer from the OSI Model.
● Worked on NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
● Designed and developed highly scalable multi-threaded large scale distributed systems
● Well versed with services and microservices architecture
● Usage of containers, virtual machine systems, cloud computing
● Knowledge on Socket would be a big advantage
● Should have a good understanding of how load-balancing works
● Should have an understanding of how CDN works.










