Sr Backend Engineer

JobTitle : Mission Control Software Engineer – Java Backend

Experience : 4+ Years

Location : Bengaluru, Karnataka (On-site)

Employment Type : Full-time

Industry : Space Technology

🧠 Role Overview :

As a Mission Control Software Engineer – Java Backend, you will be a founding member of the Mission Control Software team. You will design and develop the backend core of a distributed, high-reliability system responsible for streaming, processing, and routing satellite data.

This role offers high ownership and the opportunity to directly influence system architecture as it evolves from a single-node deployment to a scalable multi-node system.

🛠️ Tech Stack :

Java 11+, gRPC, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker, Linux, WebSockets, Git, CI/CD

⚙️ Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services in Java (11+) for data ingestion, processing, and control workflows
• Build and enhance gRPC and REST APIs for internal and external system integrations
• Develop modular plugins and middleware for routing, persistence, and automation
• Work with PostgreSQL and other databases for structured and time-series data
• Collaborate with frontend teams to support real-time dashboards via WebSockets/event streaming
• Ensure system scalability, reliability, and observability through logging, metrics, and testing
• Contribute to containerized deployments (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code with strong test coverage

🧩 Required Skills & Experience :

• 4+ years of experience in backend or distributed systems development.
• Strong proficiency in Java (11+), including concurrency and networking concepts.
• Experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Vert.x, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with gRPC and REST API design.
• Strong knowledge of SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and schema design.
• Experience working in Linux environments, with Git and Docker.
• Familiarity with event-driven systems / messaging queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, etc.).
• Ability to design scalable architectures and write automated tests.

⭐ Good to Have :

• Experience with real-time systems, telemetry, IoT, or satellite systems
• Exposure to distributed systems / microservices / high-availability architectures
• Working knowledge of Python for scripting or integrations
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana
• Interest in hardware-software integrated systems

CTC: up to 40 LPA

Mandatory Criteria (Can't be neglected during screening) :

Need candidates from Growing startups or Product based companies only

1. 4–6 years experience in backend engineering

2. Minimum 2+ years hands-on experience with:

• TypeScript
• Express.js / Nest.js

3. Strong experience with MongoDB (or MySQL / PostgreSQL / DynamoDB)

4. Strong understanding of system design & scalable architecture

5. Hands-on experience in:

• Event-driven architecture / Domain-driven design
• MVC / Microservices

6. Strong in automated testing (especially integration tests)

7. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)

8. Experience managing production systems

9. Solid understanding of performance, reliability, observability

10. Cloud experience (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure acceptable)

11. Strong coding standards — Clean Code, code reviews, refactoring

If interested kindly share your updated resume at 82008 31681

We are looking for passionate people who love solving interesting and complex technology challenges, who are enthusiastic about building an industry first innovative product to solve new age real world problems. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence. As a Backend SDE-2, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization's goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and prepare technology roadmaps.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with releational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

Job Requirements:       

·        Bachelor’s degree (minimum) in Computer Science or Engineering.

·        Minimum 5 years of experience working as a senior–level Software Engineer

·        Excellent programming and debugging skills in RoR and Python

·        Experience in web development and automation

·        Experience developing on Windows and Linux systems 

Although not required, the following are a plus: 

·        Experience working with Build scripts, Shell scripts, Makefiles

·        Experience with Jenkins and other CI/CD tools

·        Knowledge of RESTful web services and docker

Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

Role and Responsibilities

1. Helping lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
2. Working with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
3. Proactively identifying engineering bottlenecks and initiating proposals to improve them.
4. Writing high-quality, well-tested code in alignment with industry-wide best practices.
5. Applying a product mindset to back-end systems.
6. 1.  

1. About five years of experience delivering product-quality code in an agile set-up
2. Experience with Golang, REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Elasticsearch, Redis, Docker, or Kubernetes
3. Understanding of the philosophy of cloud and an experience of maintaining cloud-native services.
4. Experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services, and knowledge of composing a service-oriented architecture.
5. Experience of working in a fast-paced, rapidly-growing company (Good to Have).
6. Working knowledge of Node.js (Good to Have).
7. 1.  

1. Passionate about technology and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative and works well in a team.
4. 1.  

Who We Are

Blok is a technology-first, online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business, and we are on our way to revolutionize how millions of people across countries consume groceries. We believe in a world where getting everything you need, when you need it, sustainably, is the new normal. And it takes less than 10 minutes.

We believe we are positioned to lead this revolution. Why? Our founding and early team has held senior positions at Deliveroo, Uber, Glovo, Mercadona, or Unilever. We have done this before, and we believe we can do it again. But this time, even better.

Embark on the journey and help us launch the revolution in one of the highest growth industries of the year. Help us shape the new normal.