Software Development Engineer

Backend Developer

As Backend developer, you will play a key role in building a product that will impact the way users experience Yoga and Fitness. Working closely with our technical and product leadership you will help solve for securing the performance, experience and scalability of our product. With your erudite experience, you will play a key part in our product and growth roadmap.

We’re looking for an engineer who not only writes high-quality backend code but also embodies a forward-thinking, AI-augmented development mindset.

You should be someone who embraces AI and automation as a force multiplier—leveraging modern AI tools to accelerate delivery, increase code quality, and focus your time on higher-order problems.

Key Responsibilities

• At least 3 years of experience in product development and backend technologies, with strong understanding of the technology and familiarity with latest trends in backend technology developments.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs, ensuring high performance and reliability.
• Lead the architecture and implementation of new features, driving projects from concept to deployment.
• Optimize application performance and ensure high availability across systems.
• Implement robust security and data protection measures to safeguard critical information.
• Contribute to technical decision-making and architectural planning, ensuring long-term scalability and efficiency.
• Create and maintain clear, concise technical documentation for new systems, architectures, and codebases. Lead knowledge-sharing sessions to promote best practices across teams.
• Work closely with product managers, front-end developers, and other stakeholders to define requirements, design systems, and deliver impactful product features within reasonable timelines.
• Continuously identify opportunities for system improvements, automation, and optimizations. Lead efforts to implement new technologies and processes that enhance engineering productivity and product performance.
• Take ownership of critical incidents, performing root cause analysis and implementing long-term solutions to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively at various levels - intra-team, inter-group, spoken skills, and written skills - including email, presentation and articulation skills.
• Has strong knowledge of AI-assisted development tools, has hands-on experience on reducing boilerplate coding, identifying bugs faster, and optimizing system design.
• Follows technology roadmap of AI ecosystems developing, has deep understanding of MCP and agentic workflows.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in backend software engineering with a strong track record of delivering complex backend systems, preferably in cloud-native environments.
• Strong experience with designing and maintaining large-scale databases (SQL and NoSQL) and knowledge of performance optimization techniques.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-native architectures (containers, serverless, microservices) is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, including CI/CD, test automation, and Agile methodologies.
• Proven ability to solve complex engineering problems with innovative solutions and practical thinking.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and influence technical direction across teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to boost engineering output through strategic use of AI tools and practices—contributing to a “10x developer” mindset focused on outcomes, not just effort.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-leverage environment where embracing automation and AI-first workflows is part of the engineering culture.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for career advancement and professional growth.
• A supportive and dynamic team environment where innovation and creativity are encouraged.
• Be part of a future-forward team that embraces AI-native thinking and constantly explores better ways to build, ship, and scale.

About Company:

MyYogaTeacher is a fast-growing health tech startup with a mission to improve the physical and mental well-being of the entire planet. We are the first online marketplace to connect qualified Fitness and Yoga coaches from India with consumers worldwide to provide personalized 1-on-1 sessions via live video conference (app, web). We started in 2019 and have been showing tremendous traction with rave customer reviews.

• Over 200,000 happy customers
• Over 335,000 5 star reviews
• Over 150 Highly qualified coaches on the platform
• 95% of sessions are being completed with 5-star rating

Headquartered in California, with operations based in Bangalore, we are dedicated to providing exceptional service and promoting the benefits of yoga and fitness coaching worldwide. To learn more about us, visit https://myyogateacher.com/aboutus

We put our employees' well-being at the forefront by providing competitive industry salaries and robust benefits packages. We're proud to foster an inclusive workplace and make a positive impact on the community. Additionally, we actively promote internal mobility and professional development at every stage of your career.

Read more on our mission and culture at https://myyogateacher.com/articles/company-mission-culture

• 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.

Architectural:

Design and implement a software architecture

Select a technology stack

Design and configure infrastructure

Select a development toolkit (IDE, etc.)

Design and implement a database design

Improve and optimise the application architecture

Ensure scalability of the application

Ensure scalability of the infrastructure

Explore new technologies and decide whether to implement them

Strategy, planning, and design:

• Take end-to-end ownership of the product, identify technology requirements, define the future product vision, create preliminary design concepts for add-on modules and shape overall technology and product roadmap by collaborating with the founders, business development, and marketing team.
• Ensure user oriented design is the primary approach to product development across multiple screens, based on user behaviour data and direct customer feedback.

Implementation and deployment:

• Manage Product Release, QA cycles, feature implementation and on time delivery through in-house team and vendors.
• Collaborate with team and customers to define use cases.
• Creation of wireframes/prototypes, site maps and user-flows for web and mobile platforms.

Operational management :

• Support marketing by implementing technical requirements for SEO/product analytics.
• Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration & system testing.
• Rigorously monitor key performance metrics and coordinate with various teams to take corrective actions if needed.
• Establish and forecast ROI of features and succinctly articulate competitive advantage.
• Set-up data collection and analysis system in collaboration with CEO to track key performance.

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Strong fundamentals in computer science/engineering and algorithm design.

Practical knowledge of computer software algorithms in machine/deep learning, NLP, Computer Vision etc.

Personal Requirements:

• Min of 7+ years of Hands on experience in Web app development, payment gateways implementation, architecture design, product management, databases and UI/UX in consumer facing applications.
• Experience on projects involving engineering and algorithmic functions, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence is very advantageous.
• Creative self-starter who is comfortable with both taking initiative and working in teams.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and utilise emerging technologies.
• Sincere passion to use disruptive technologies that can be globally significant