
Job Description
This is a remote position.
Requirements
- You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
- Should have excellent command over designing systems with a minimum experience of 4 years.
- Should have experience with various database flavors and writing complex queries. We work with Postgres, Redshift, ElasticSearch, TimescaleDB, and Redis.
- Additional knowledge in Golang will be an advantage
- Strong Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge
- Should have created APIs from scratch which is being used in Production
- Should be comfortable with creating systems handling up to 100k requests per minute, and have a mindset that understands scale
- Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
- Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
- Ability to pick and work on adjacent technologies if and when required (Eg: If the best performance monitoring solution needs a basic firebase setup, that should not be a blocker for you to go ahead and do so)
- Knowledge of how to set up relevant test cases
- You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Good internet connection and availability on phone is required)
- App Development experience
- Experience in Test Driven Development
- Ability to tell Product what creates better User Experience, ability to tell frontend what API responses will help the user get a faster load time
- Inquisitiveness to understand the system as a whole, and not only be stuck to your domain of expertise (Eg: Figure out why excessive APIs calls are being made, brainstorm with Product and Frontend team to reduce the same without harming the UX )
- Experience in working on a Social Media Product
- Good knowledge of Graphs, and their applications
- Data-Driven Approach to monitoring
Benefits
- Work timings - You are the master of your time. However, with great freedom comes great responsibility. If you have committed something to the team, we expect that you will give it your best to make sure that commitment is done and is done on time.
- Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. You don't need to explain yourself to us
- Health insurance for you and your family

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Key Responsibilities:
Backend Ownership
- Own the design, evolution, and reliability of mission-critical backend systems.
- Ensure scalability, performance, maintainability, and overall system health.
- Lead technical initiatives to address scaling challenges, technical debt, and architectural improvements.
System Design & Architecture
- Drive both High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD).
- Design scalable APIs, data models, service boundaries, and asynchronous workflows.
- Make sound engineering trade-offs balancing delivery speed with long-term system health.
Code Quality & Engineering Excellence
- Improve backend code quality through architecture reviews, code reviews, and refactoring.
- Simplify complex codebases and establish maintainable engineering patterns.
- Introduce best practices and guardrails to improve long-term maintainability.
Database & Performance Optimization
- Optimize PostgreSQL performance through schema design, indexing, query optimization, and tuning.
- Improve application performance using caching strategies and asynchronous processing.
- Design and operate analytics pipelines using ClickHouse or similar large-scale data systems.
- Work with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or equivalent.
Technical Leadership
- Mentor backend engineers on architecture, debugging, and engineering best practices.
- Influence technical direction through thoughtful design discussions and strong technical reasoning.
- Raise overall engineering standards across teams.
Production Ownership
- Own production stability, incident management, and root cause analysis.
- Improve observability, monitoring, debugging, and operational excellence.
- Drive long-term reduction in production incidents and operational overhead.
Required Skills & Experience
Must Have
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Strong expertise in Node.js.
- Deep experience with PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and optimization.
- Experience designing and operating distributed backend systems.
- Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and microservices architecture.
- Experience owning backend services end-to-end—from architecture to production support.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Experience improving code quality, maintainability, and engineering standards.
Good to Have
- Experience with RabbitMQ or similar messaging systems.
- Experience with ClickHouse or large-scale analytics platforms.
- Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS.
- Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, and production reliability.
What We're Looking For
Engineering Mindset
- Passion for improving existing systems rather than simply building new ones.
- Ability to simplify complex architectures and create maintainable solutions.
- Strong focus on writing clean, readable, and scalable code.
- Testing mindset with emphasis on reliability and long-term quality.
- Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and design for future scalability.
Leadership Without Authority
- Influence technical decisions through expertise and clear reasoning.
- Challenge scope or timelines when necessary to protect system health.
- Mentor engineers and elevate overall engineering standards.
- Lead by example through hands-on technical excellence.
Why Join Vahan?
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Comprehensive Medical Insurance
- Monthly Wellness Leaves
- Competitive Compensation
- Opportunity to solve large-scale engineering challenges impacting millions of users
- Ownership-driven engineering culture with significant technical autonomy
- Work alongside exceptional engineers building products that create meaningful social impact
Role Overview
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Key Responsibilities
· 3-5 years of experience with SharePoint Online and/or enterprise CMS platforms.
· Familiarity with Contentful or other headless CMS solutions is a strong plus.
· Hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).
· Exposure to Kafka, Elasticsearch, or similar distributed technologies is desirable.
· Solid problem-solving and communication skills with an eagerness to learn.
What would you do here
SharePoint to Contentful Migration | Backend + CMS Integration
· Assist in maintaining and enhancing SharePoint Online content and features during the transition period.
· Support the migration of pages, documents, and metadata from SharePoint to Contentful.
· Contribute to the design and development of backend services that integrate with Contentful using Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs.
· Write reusable services for content delivery, search indexing (via Elasticsearch), and event processing (via Kafka).
· Help develop APIs for CMS-based applications that interact with PostgreSQL databases.
· Troubleshoot CMS-related issues and support testing efforts during platform migration.
10+ years of experience in web application design and development
• 10+ years experience with Ruby on Rails
• 5+ years of experience in Jenkins and must have an understanding of CI/CD pipelines
• Analyze, design, develop, and maintain scalable solutions.
• Participate in code review.
• Collaborate with design team to create customer friendly solutions.
• Work with the support team to fix any bugs that arise in code.
• Perform debugging and troubleshooting of existing code base. • Good knowledge of Dockers containers. • Experience with Git/GitHub/AWS DevOps. • Work within a wide range of new and legacy code and technologies in a mature codebase o Experience with React-o Experience with AWS Lambda
Nice to have: Experience with building integrations with 3rd party services/tools such as:o Experience with Sinatra Experience with WordPress, Drupal, Sitecore Experience with MongoDB
You will be working on:
- As a senior backend engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
- Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
- Play a key role in technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
- Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically
- Proactively participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions
- Mentoring junior engineers and setting best practices for coding, code reviews, etc.
- Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives and evangelizing about contributions, accomplishments, and victories
We are looking for:
- Strong and self-motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
- Solid experience in building web-based products
- Overall of 4+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails
- Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries
- Expertise in all common Cloud technologies, preferably AWS. Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
- Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
- Willingness to play and explore with new technologies and be a Subject Matter Expert and support them
- Someone who believes in small incremental improvements and is passionate about refactoring
- A keen eye for quality with regards to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage
- Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders
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Dukaan is currently powering over 5M ecommerce stores built by indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team who will be part of our new innovations team.
Requirements:
- Strong knowledge of Django, Django Rest Framework and their design principles.
- Strong knowledge of Django ORM, should be able to leverage it to write complex and optimized queries (E.x Q queries, Case, When, Select related, prefetch related, Subqueries, Annotations, Aggregations, Filtering, etc.) .
- Should be able to override DRF serializers, filters and viewsets completely according to needs.
- Should have good experience in Class Based Views to write the backend API’s.
- Sound knowledge of database design patterns and modelling them to Django models.
- Sound knowledge of how to write test cases for the APIs.
- Should be able to write optimized pythonic code adhering to python PEP standards.
- Strong knowledge of python packaging and how to architect a code base that should be easily scalable and not get cluttered.
- Strong knowledge of REST API design patterns.
- Ability to write RAW sql queries and further database level coding will be a plus.
- Good Understanding of python’s asyncio, threading and multiprocessing library, their benefits and limitations along with their appropriate use cases.
- Hands on knowledge of celery and its corresponding message broker such as RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
- Experience with building a CDC(Change Data Capture) pipeline will be a plus.
- Experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka connect and Debezium will be a plus.
- Experience with open source will be a plus.
- Good knowledge of Algorithms and data structures.
Responsibilities:
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- Write clean, stable and scalable code.
- Write unit test cases for the APIs.
- Do whitebox and blackbox testing for your own code and as well as others if required.
- Understand and implement fast prototype solutions for the business needs.
Role
As one of the senior members of the backend development team you will be
responsible for architecting and setting the standards for building our core
backend/microservices. Also, you will be responsible for shaping up the entire system for scale
and collaborating extensively with the frontend and design teams to create the best consumer
experiences.
Responsibilities
● Develop microservices that will be used by the frontend through API endpoints.
● Translate business requirements into high quality code.
● Ensure that the code is deployed in a secure and scalable fashion.
● Focus on code maintainability and performance of application.
● Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems.
● Enhance Analytics and overall backend architecture for better performance.
Requirements
● 4+ years of backend/full-stack development experience
● 1+ years of experience on NodeJS
● 1+ years experience in building APIs in a microservice architecture
● Has experience managing other developers, recruiting and training.
● Experience in PHP is a plus
● Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFront
● Has experience in code reviewing/being the gatekeeper for an entire project
● Experience with RabbitMQ or similar queuing system
● Experience with Redis/ElasticSearch is a plus
● Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins
● Good knowledge of working with Git
● A knack for benchmarking and optimization
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- Strong Database fundamentals.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
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Location:- Mumbai/Pune/Ahmedabad/Noida/Indore








