

As Staff Engineer Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in building a product that will impact the way users experience Yoga and Fitness. Working closely with our CTO, head of engineering and our wider 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.
Key Responsibilities
- At least 6 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.
- Provide technical leadership to a team of engineers, guiding them through complex problem-solving, architectural decisions, and best practices. Mentor junior engineers and lead code reviews to ensure high standards of code quality.
- 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.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
- 6+ 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.
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.
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. Were 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

About MyYogaTeacher
About
MyYogaTeacher is a well funded Silicon Valley startup with headquarters based in California, USA and Bangalore, India. At MyYogaTeacher we are building a marketplace for Yoga & fitness coaching with a goal of making the world a healthier and happier place. Checkout myyogateacher.com/aboutus for more details.
We have a team of 60+ people across various functions – Marketing, Product, Engineering, SDET, Customer Support, Design, Operations, Data Science and Executive Leadership. We hire extremely skilled, smart, trustworthy, kind, supportive, and caring people. You will be working in a stimulating environment.
Being a seed funded company, there is a tremendous scope for growth for people joining at this stage. You could potentially catapult 5-10 years of your career by working in a team like our’s! You will be working closely with the executive leadership.
The CEO is Jitendra Gupta, and this is his 3rd business. His previous venture (Punchh) was acquired for $500 Million in 2021. He has hand picked everyone on the team.
We are looking for passionate people like you to join us in this journey!
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Minimum Requirements
- 8+ years development experience
- Solid Experience and knowledge of
- Coding and debugging using Object Oriented languages like Java, C++, Go or similar languages.
- Database design, Query optimizations, pitfalls (both SQL, NoSQL)
- Developing Scalable, distributed systems and patterns
- Developing REST and/or GraphQL based APIs
- Writing and driving Clean code in a team (via SOLID principles).
- Knowledge of writing unit tests
- NodeJS
Good to have
- Experience with GoLang/Python
- Experience with Microservices, designs and patterns
- Experience with Dockers/Kubernetes and orchestration
- Familiarity with Reactive programming and patterns like RxJs/RxJava, CQRS, Eventing systems
- Experience with automating DevOps lifecycle
- Proficiency with
Responsibilities
- Work with Product team and Drive design, development and deployment of the overall architecture and individual modules to support our Apps , website and internal tools
- Ensure the entire stack is designed and built for availability, speed, scalability, testability, debugging
- Design and development of our REST and GraphQL API
- implement and improve continuous integration and deployment
- Serve as a technical lead for the team
- Mentor team members
Experience: 6 to 10 Years
Must have:
- Experience in leading teams and handling communication among engineers and product managers,and have worked with mobile teams and product teams.
- Experience working on RFC documentation.
- Experience in architecting the software, estimating tasks, breaking down into subtasks, prioritizing tasks as per need, and timely delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and developing mobile-first applications.
- Creating and maintaining clean and clear front-end code and backend APIs for our web and mobile applications.
- Automation and Deployments of builds - Frontend and Backend.
- Application Performance And Error Monitoring and Automation
- Maintaining excellent test coverage for our code base.
- Follow best practices while reviewing pull requests
- Working with our shared services and field teams to identify application bottlenecks and make relevant architectural decisions.
- Working with our front-end application developers to optimize performance across our system.
- Designing administrative tools for our shared services and business development teams
- Constantly optimizing our code bases with an eye for modularity and legibility.
- Writing documentation for our external and internal APIs.
Requirements:
- Strong understanding of RESTful JSON web API design principles.
- Demonstrable experience with NodeJS, Express. JS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- Familiarity with popular NodeJS packages (e. g. express, socket-io).
- Must have experience with test driven development(TDD).
- Experience in JavaScript development.
- Experience in backend web development.
- Containerisation experience working with Docker/ Kubernetes/ Docker Swarm
- Familiarity with multiple additional programming languages/stacks.
- Experience with NoSQL databases, ideally MongoDB.
- Experience with RDBMS databases like MySQL/PostgreSQL.
- An excellent understanding of distributed systems and their tradeoffs.
- Excellent documentation skills.
- Ability to clearly articulate technical problems, design and implementation choices to a broad range of stakeholders (e. g. sales team, users, security experts).
- Experience working with web sockets.
- Familiarity with the AWS stack.
- Experience in application security testing.
- Familiarity with client-side JavaScript frameworks and best practices.
- Familiarity with CI/CD Pipeline.
- Contributions to open source communities.
Perks and Benefits
- Work from anywhere
- Competitive salary and bonus program
- Annual company retreats to fantastic places
- Unlimited Vacation Policy
- Great healthcare coverage
- Professional development allowance
- Internet Allowance
- Customised CMMversary rewards on your 1,3,5,7 and 10-year work anniversaries
- Career Enablement – We meld your upskilling initiatives with organization’s strategic planning
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6. Storage : Working experience in any one of these storage technologies - S3, Blob or any cloud storages
7. DevOps : JIRA, Jenkins, ELK, CI/CD, Git, AWS or Azure cloud compute




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