Software Engineer II- Backend

Role & Responsibilities

As a Founding Engineer, you'll join the engineering team during an exciting growth phase, contributing to a platform that handles complex financial operations for B2B companies. You'll work on building scalable systems that automate billing, usage metering, revenue recognition, and financial reporting—directly impacting how businesses manage their revenue operations.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic startup environment where requirements evolve quickly and problems require creative solutions. You'll work on diverse technical challenges, from API development to external integrations, while collaborating with senior engineers, product managers, and customer success teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Build core platform features: Develop robust APIs, services, and integrations that power billing automation and revenue recognition capabilities.
• Work across the full stack: Contribute to backend services and frontend interfaces to ensure seamless user experiences.
• Implement critical integrations: Connect the platform with external systems including CRMs, data warehouses, ERPs, and payment processors.
• Optimize for scale: Design systems that handle complex pricing models, high-volume usage data, and real-time financial calculations.
• Drive quality and best practices: Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews and architectural discussions.
• Solve complex problems: Debug issues across the stack and collaborate with cross-functional teams to address evolving client needs.

The Impact You'll Make

• Power business growth: Enable fast-growing B2B companies to scale billing and revenue operations efficiently.
• Build critical financial infrastructure: Contribute to systems handling high-value transactions with accuracy and compliance.
• Shape product direction: Join during a scaling phase where your contributions directly impact product evolution and customer success.
• Accelerate your expertise: Gain deep exposure to financial systems, B2B SaaS operations, and enterprise-grade software development.
• Drive the future of B2B commerce: Help build infrastructure supporting next-generation pricing models, from usage-based to value-based billing.

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems.
• Strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks: FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), or Express (Node.js).
• Deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework.
• Strong experience with databases (SQL & NoSQL), including efficient data modeling and performance optimization.
• Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems with solid system design and clean code practices.

Domain

• Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred.

Company Background

• Experience working in product companies or startups (preferably Series A to Series D).

Education

• Candidates from Tier 1 engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, etc.) are highly preferred.

Mandatory skills

1. Develop, maintain, and enhance robust backend systems using Python3 and frameworks like Django (mandatory), Flask, and FastAPI (good to have).
2. Design, implement, and maintain highly efficient and automated continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes using Jenkins and configuration management with Ansible.
3. Elevate our testing culture by architecting and implementing innovative testing strategies, focusing on both unit and integration testing to ensure exceptional code quality and extensive coverage.
4. Follow peer-to-peer code reviews and cross-team collaboration to build scalable and reliable solutions.
5. Proficiently work with at least one cloud technology, preferably AWS, to deploy and manage applications in the cloud environment.
6. Possess knowledge of Nginx, load balancing, and scalability to optimize system performance and reliability.
7. Good experience working in distributed micro-service architecture and driving them with crucial requirements like request tracing, debugging critical issues, logging, monitoring, and alerting. 
8. Work in containerized environments using Docker and Docker Compose, and have experience with AWS ECS for container orchestration.
9. Prioritize maintainability and reliability in developing and maintaining software systems, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in our product ecosystem.
10. Collaborate effectively within a team, taking initiatives and driving projects forward with minimal micro-management.
11. Pave the way for maintainable and reliable codebases by introducing novel approaches and best practices in software development.

Requirements

1. Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science.
2. Strong teamwork and communication skills, with a proactive approach to project management and task ownership.
3. Proven track record as an innovative Python developer with a focus on product engineering.
4. Visionary mindset to work in an agile environment, participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Benefits

100% Remote

Insurance

We are looking for a highly motivated senior developer with at least 3+ years of strong hands-on experience in Java to join our startup. You would be playing pivotal role in contributing to the initial tech stack. You would be further responsible for designing and implementing product requirements that are highly usable, scalable, extensible and maintainable. You should be comfortable on working across different technologies/frameworks that we work on - Microservices, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, MySQL, Kubernetes, AWS.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Design and build scalable REST APIs on Spring Boot
• Develop, test, tune for performance and deploy microservices
• Collaborate with the team, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture
• Maintain high standards of quality for code, documentation and other deliverables
• Active cross-team coordination would be expected
• Architecture and tech stack discussions to optimize for increasing server load
• DevOps tasks along with AWS features exploration

What are we looking for?

• Strong 3+ year experience in Core Java & backend technologies
• Good working knowledge of design patterns & OOAD
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• The skills that we consider: Java, MySQL/RDS, Spring/ Play, Maven, Redis, Kafka/SQS, Elasticsearch, AWS
• Experience with designing, implementing and deploying microservices
• Previously worked in a startup