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As a Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer, you will take ownership of backend systems and cloud infrastructure. You’ll work closely with our CTO and cross-functional teams (hardware, AI, frontend) to design scalable, fault- tolerant architectures and ensure reliable deployment pipelines.
- What You’ll Do :
- Backend Development: Maintain and evolve our Node.js (TypeScript) and Python backend services with a focus on performance and scalability.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Manage our infrastructure on GCP and Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Storage, Functions, AppEngine, PubSub, Cloud Tasks).
- Database Management: Handle Firestore and other NoSQL DBs. Lead database schema design and migration strategies.
- Pipelines & Automation: Build robust real-time and batch data pipelines. Automate CI/CD and testing for backend and frontend services.
- Monitoring & Uptime: Deploy tools for observability (logging, alerts, debugging). Ensure 99.9% uptime of critical services.
- Dev Environments: Set up and manage developer and staging environments across teams.
- Quality & Security: Drive code reviews, implement backend best practices, and enforce security standards.
- Collaboration: Partner with other engineers (AI, frontend, hardware) to integrate backend capabilities seamlessly into our global system.
Must-Haves :
- 5+ years of experience in backend development and cloud infrastructure.
- Strong expertise in Node.js (TypeScript) and/or Python.
- Advanced skills in NoSQL databases (Firestore, MongoDB, DynamoDB...).
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms, preferably GCP and Firebase.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, DevOps tools, and automation.
- Solid knowledge of distributed systems and performance tuning.
- Experience setting up and managing development & staging environments.
• Proficiency in English and remote communication.
Good to have :
- Event-driven architecture experience (e.g., Pub/Sub, MQTT).
- Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Google Monitoring).
- Previous work on large-scale SaaS products.
- Knowledge of telecommunication protocols (MQTT, WebSockets, SNMP).
- Experience with edge computing on Nvidia Jetson devices.
What We Offer :
- Competitive salary for the Indian market (depending on experience).
- Remote-first culture with async-friendly communication.
- Autonomy and responsibility from day one.
- A modern stack and a fast-moving team working on cutting-edge AI and cloud infrastructure.
- A mission-driven company tackling real-world environmental challenges.
Job Responsibilities
- Expert knowledge of Web Application Development using PHP6 onwards.
- Excellent knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
- Must know at least two PHP frameworks out of Laravel, Cakephp, CodeIgniter and YII.
- Knowledge of CMS platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc. will be an added advantage.
- Knowledge of eCommerce frameworks like WooCommerce, Magento, OpenCart etc. will be an added advantage.
- Good knowledge of Object-Oriented Concepts & a strong passion for Software Development.
- Strong Interaction and Design Sense
- Familiarity with LAMP stack (Apache, MySQL and phpMyAdmin)
- Comfortable with Linux / Unix based operating system, SQL and Script Programming.
- Experience in Designing & Developing Database in MySQL is a MUST.
- Setting up server, Pipelines and deployment knowledge will be a plus
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Required Skills
- Willingness to learn, highly motivated.
- Fully comfortable in using English. Both in writing and speaking.
- Not afraid to learn new tech stack.
Desired Skills
- 1-6 years of experience in Web Development.
- Candidates with a Lesser Notice period would be preferred.
Candidates who can join immediately would be preferred.
Note: If you are willing to apply on the above post kindly add web links of your work in the resume.
- You will be having 3+ years of experience of writing optimized Code in Javascript/Typescript and working with Advanced NodeJs frameworks targeting Latest NodeJs version.
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable codes by setting expectations and features priorities throughout the development life cycle.
- Understanding of basic RDBMS using relational databases like PostgresSQL, MySQL, or MSSQL
- API development (Rest/GraphQL)
- You will participate in regular design sessions, code reviews and agile ceremonies.
- You will work closely with the Product Owner and scrum team to help deliver high quality features inside of agreed timescales
- You will Provide technical mentorship and upskilling to scrum team members and across functional boundaries where appropriate
- You will Identify areas for modification or refactoring inside our code-base and champion their improvement.
- You will lead by example, contributing to a culture of high quality, personal ownership and customer focused execution
Tagalys provides intelligent merchandising solutions to mid-sized e-commerce brands around the world, like LEGO, Fila, Crocs, Tink, Ana Luisa, Ritu Kumar, EQVVS, Lack of Color, and Apollo 247. Our products include category merchandising tools, search, recommendations, and a full analytics suite. Over the last three years, we have scaled from a two-person founding team to over 15 people. During this time, we’ve received amazing customer reviews on the quality of the product, and our customer support & success.
About the role
We are looking for a backend developer to help us execute our product roadmap faster. You will design, spec, develop, test, and deploy new features that can scale.
Your work could be related to:
- Defining new merchandising or reporting functionality
- Adding more advanced search capabilities
- Improving scoring/recommendation models
- eCommerce platform integrations/API implementations
- Load testing/scaling features as we continuously grow
- Something new. There are always interesting new challenges that come our way. Here are a couple of things we’ve worked on recently:
- Managing background jobs with competing performance goals like quick turnaround while staying within platform API limits
- Embedding and dynamically changing products in an email even after sending it
- Managing and coordinating multi data-center processes
Requirements
- 1-3 years of experience in Ruby On Rails (or a similar MVC framework like Express or Django). You are comfortable with Routes, Migrations, Models, Callbacks, Validations, and so on.
- Ability to design clean, scalable data structures for new features.
- A good understanding of design patterns so that complex processes are written in a maintainable way.
- Knowledge of managing source code with Git.
- Comfortable in a Linux OS.
- Good communication skills, and ability to clearly plan and describe features before building.
Benefits
- Challenging, exciting work, at scale
You get to understand the challenges our customers face first-hand, and collaboratively design and build amazing solutions that will be used by millions of shoppers through billions of API requests. There’s always something new and exciting to build. - Have a direct impact
Seven engineers currently build, refine, and scale the entire product. Working in a small team means you will have a say in the way the product is built, and your performance will have a direct impact on the company’s outcome. - Culture
Tagalys is a place for you to be yourself, enjoy your work, and achieve your potential. We love the energy that comes from working with smart people in a simple and welcoming environment. We design our workflow to make sure you are also able to focus on everything else in life that is important: family, friends, and health. - Benefits
You get great pay, coupled with flexible hours, a hybrid work model, and comprehensive insurance for your and your dependents. For the people contributing significantly, we also offer ESOPs so there is an opportunity to build wealth as you help the company grow.
Must Haves:
- .Net Core/ MVC
- C#
- SQL
- Web API
- Bootstrap, CSS3, JavaScript
Requirements:
- 5 + Years – 6+ Years of Coding & Development Expertise in ASP.Net / .Net Core & C#.
- Should be able to interpret the FSD and translate into Coding Logic.
- Should have good exposure to using web-based technologies (ASP.NET, JavaScript, CSS3, Web API, Bootstrap).
- Hands on Experience on Relational database like SQL is a must knowledge on Database Linking is very important including understanding Processing Logic.
- Experience in developing enterprise grade software with MVC, MVVM or MVP would be a Plus.
Vah Vah! is an ed-tech company that offers online makeup courses in micro-batches to students across India to learn from the leading teachers in top cities. We provide holistic education with lots of practical training that makes our students job-ready with not just the base skills but also the soft skills for great customer service. Our teachers have more than 15+ years of experience in training makeup and have certified more than 1000+ students. Vah Vah! is founded by executives with extensive experience running consumer business and mobile games at scale (over 100 million players) at Zynga. Vah Vah! is backed by a leading investment firm.
Website Link: https://vahvah.com/
The Mission
Vah Vah teaches professional makeup to budding makeup artists and influencers through live online classes. We have students from Srinagar, all the way to the Andamans. And experienced teachers who have worked in Bridal Makeup, Ramp Shoots, Film and more. We empower our students to join the workforce as fully trained makeup artists. This is the future of vocational education, and you can help build it.
Our Culture
- Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
- We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
- You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
- See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
- Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
- Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
- Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
- Immense exposure to new technologies
Responsibilities:
- Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
- Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members. Taking lead on projects, as needed.
Requirements:
- Overall experience of 2-5 years in building backend services using languages like NodeJs, Java etc
- Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, Node.Js, Python, and operating systems may be required.
- Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
- Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
- Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently or with a group.
- Sound knowledge on source control and DevOps
What you get:
- Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
- Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
- Immense exposure to new technologies
● Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP SAAS applications on portal plus
premium service platforms.
● Should be individual contributor and able to handle frontend and backend.
● Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team,
testing teams.
● Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, JQuery and Microservices
● Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
● Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API
● Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post
launch support
● Good knowledge of GIT, Digital Ocean or AWS servers
● Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical
and process issues.
● Document the development process, architecture, and standard comp








