Staff Engineer

Location : Mumbai

Big Picture (The Opportunity) :

Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your Career? & If you are able to maintain a positive attitude even when everything goes wrong, if you are detail oriented and self motivated with a passion to learn and improve your skills and knowledge, we have a perfect job for you !

What do we want from you ? (Our Expectations) :

• Zero to 2 years experience in Linux Operating System.
• Flexible working hours - able to support occasional nights, weekends, and call-ins, able to quickly adapt to a constantly changing faced paced environment. Open to travel to sites.
• An ideal person who is excited and motivated about running and supporting a production - grade critical infrastructure and looks for opportunities to improve processes with automation.

What are you required to do ? (Your Responsibilities) :

• Proactively maintain and develop all linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24*7*365 uptime service.
• Engineering of systems administration-related various solutions for our various SAAS products and projects as well as operational needs.
• Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning.
• Providing technical support to customers for Applications, Operating systems, and networking.
• Will also be the first point of contact for our clients, where installations are placed on a permanent basis, for basic troubleshooting and problem solving.
• Fault finding, analysis and logging information for reporting of performance exceptions.
• Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments.

Skills & Qualification Required (Add Value) :

• Graduate - Preferred to have Bachelor‘s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• He / She should be familiar with the installation and configuration of Linux operating systems and setup and operation of TCP/IP networking on Linux systems also familiar with Internet concepts including SMTP, IMAP, POP, HTTP, DNS, LDAP and related protocols.
• You should possess excellent communication skills .
• Knowledge of Email concepts, Helpdesk Concept , VoIP Concept , Cloud computing will be an added advantage.

We are looking for a Backend Software Development Engineer with 6+ years building scalable, high-availability server-side systems. You'll design and own microservices and REST APIs, model data in SQL, and deploy on AWS, partnering with product and frontend teams end-to-end.

Mandatory skills

• 6+ years of backend development in Java and/or Python

• Strong hands-on experience designing microservices and RESTful APIs

• Solid database design and SQL optimization

• Production experience on AWS (or equivalent cloud)

• Strong CS fundamentals — data structures, concurrency, system design

• Experience owning services from design through production support

We’re seeking a highly skilled, execution-focused Senior Backend Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience to join our team. This role demands hands-on expertise in building and scaling distributed systems, strong proficiency in Java, and deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure. You will be expected to design robust backend services, optimize performance across storage and caching layers, and enable seamless integrations using modern messaging and CI/CD pipelines.

You’ll be working in a high-scale, high-impact environment where reliability, speed, and efficiency are paramount. If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and have a passion for distributed systems, this is the right role for you.

Responsibilities—

• Design, develop, and maintain distributed backend systems at scale.
• Write high-performance, production-grade code in Java.
• Architect and optimize storage systems, ensuring efficient query performance and scalable data models.
• Implement caching strategies to reduce latency and improve system throughput.
• Build and manage services leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop resilient messaging pipelines using Kafka (or equivalent) for real-time data processing.
• Define and streamline CI/CD pipelines, ensuring rapid and reliable deployment cycles.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply proactive fixes.
• Drive best practices in software engineering, testing, and code reviews. 

Requirements—

• 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, with deep hands-on coding experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and familiarity with modern frameworks.
• Proven track record in building scalable distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS).
• Solid understanding of messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Strong grasp of query performance optimization and storage system design.
• Experience with caching solutions (Redis, Memcached, etc.).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive mindset.

Benefits—

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

About us—

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.

Job Role: Software Engineer – Backend & Cloud Infrastructure

Company: Appmaker by StarApps

Location: Kochi, Kerala (On-Site)

Experience: 3–6 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

About Appmaker by StarApps

At StarApps, we build high-scale tools like Appmaker(https://appmaker.xyz/) that empower thousands of global e-commerce merchants to turn their web stores into native mobile apps. We focus on low latency, cutting-edge serverless architectures, and building scalable software that handles millions of requests every day.

About the Role

We are looking for a Mid-Senior Backend & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our core team on-site in Kochi. In this role, you will design, scale, and maintain high-throughput backend services and cloud infrastructure capable of supporting large user bases and handling millions of daily requests.

If you thrive in solving complex distributed system design challenges, optimizing cloud infrastructure, and taking ownership of core platform scaling, this role is for you!

Key Responsibilities

• Distributed Backend Systems: Architect, construct, and optimize core backend microservices and serverless applications built on Node.js and TypeScript.
• Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps: Manage, automate, and expand infrastructure across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) using IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• System Scalability & Performance: Design for high availability, implementing caching, load balancing, message queues, and database optimizations.
• Reliability & Observability: Troubleshoot complex production incidents, optimize system latency, enforce security standards, and maintain CI/CD and automated monitoring pipelines.
• Architecture Ownership: Own critical features and system components independently while collaborating on high-level architecture decisions.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience: 3–6 years of hands-on software development experience with a focus on backend software architecture, systems engineering, and infrastructure.
• Tech Stack: Strong mastery of Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and major Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Edge & Serverless: Deep understanding of serverless deployment models (Cloudflare Workers/D1, AWS Lambda, or equivalent).
• System Design & Databases: Advanced knowledge of system design, load balancing, caching strategies, asynchronous message queues, relational database optimization, and high-availability architecture.
• Engineering Standards: Strong experience with production CI/CD, observability tools, automated testing, and production troubleshooting.

Bonus Points

• Hands-on experience with the extended Cloudflare suite (KV, R2, Queues, Workers).
• Prior experience in SaaS product engineering, Shopify app ecosystems, or high-traffic global e-commerce platforms.
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Why Join Us?

• High Scale & Impact: Build software used by thousands of global brands and millions of end consumers.
• Modern Tech Stack: Work with cutting-edge serverless architectures and infrastructure automation platforms.
• Growth & Culture: Great engineering culture, high ownership, competitive growth, and direct technical leadership opportunities in our Kochi office.

We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low-latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities—

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code.
• Solving complex technical problems.
• Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
• Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.
• Participating in and driving code reviews.
• Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices.
• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
• Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
• Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog
• Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
• Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
• Architecting & designing the platform.
• Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation.
• Writing documentation & create engineering processes.
• Working as an individual contributor.
• Helping drive KPIs with Product.
• Taking ownership of backend systems.
• Helping with unit tests & QA process.
• Scaling the engineering team.
• System scaling to hundreds of millions of users.
• Working with product managers and designs.

Requirements—

• Overall 5-10 years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional).
• Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD.
• Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux.
• Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments.
• Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix).
• Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ.
• DevOps experience.
• Experience with AWS stack.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment.
• To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
• To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities.
• To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.
• To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional).
• To have contributed to open-source projects.
• To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth.
• Proficiency in English.
• Experience with Web3(optional).

Benefits—

• Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
• Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
• High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.

About us—

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer 

Location: Bengaluru, India (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: 6+ years

About Compnay

It is driving the electric mobility revolution through cutting-edge software, infrastructure, and professional services. Our technology empowers utilities, cities, fleets, transit agencies, and automakers to deploy EV charging infrastructure at scale safely, efficiently, and sustainably. With a global footprint spanning three continents and operations in 13 countries, we are passionate about shaping the future of sustainable transport.

Operating over 70,000 charge points globally, It is driving the transition toward cleaner, smarter, and more efficient mobility. The India team serves as a critical operational hub, supporting global platforms focused on decarbonization, digitalization, and scalable infrastructure growth.

We value purpose-driven individuals who want to make a meaningful impact and help create a cleaner, smarter, and more connected world.

Role Overview

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our growing team. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining system reliability, scalability, and performance across our EV charging platforms. You will collaborate closely with development and operations teams to build resilient, automated, and observable systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of production systems
• Design, implement, and manage scalable infrastructure solutions
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery
• Monitor system health using observability tools and respond to incidents proactively
• Automate operational processes using scripting and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Manage containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve system architecture and resilience
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident management processes
• Continuously optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, performance, and scalability

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field
• 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles
• Strong experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in Linux administration, networking, and system security
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda)
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible)
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, or PowerShell)
• Experience with monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or Zabbix
• Solid understanding of system architecture, microservices, and SaaS/PaaS models
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills   

What We Offer

• Work with some of the brightest minds in the emerging EV industry.
• Make a tangible impact in reducing carbon emissions and enabling sustainable energy.
• Freedom to suggest, implement, and innovate on systems, processes, and technologies.
• Daily ownership in a high-growth, challenging environment.
• Flexible work environment with hybrid schedules and virtualization options.
• Competitive pay and benefits including health coverage, innovative PTO program, and performance bonuses.

Strong Tech Lead / Staff Engineer / Lead Engineer Profiles

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Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have minimum 6+ years of overall Software Engineering/Development experience building production backend systems.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have Tech Lead ownership, with experience setting technical direction, architecture, frameworks, or engineering standards used by other engineers.

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Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have strong hands-on Backend development experience with deep proficiency in at least one backend programming language. (Python, Java, Golang etc)

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Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have strong System design/distributed systems experience, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, failure modes, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have strong CS fundamentals in Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, and Networking, with the ability to apply them to complex backend/system problems

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Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have owned complex, ambiguous, or business-critical engineering problems end-to-end, demonstrating clear technical judgment, trade-offs, problem-solving, and measurable technical/business impact; not limited to feature implementation.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) - Must have formal technical leadership experience, including mentoring Senior Engineers, conducting design/code reviews, driving engineering quality, and leading technical decisions across a team.

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Mandatory (Experience 8) - Must be a hands-on IC + Tech Lead, with approximately 70–80% hands-on coding/engineering involvement, not a pure people-management profile.

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Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies / Startups / B2B SaaS

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Mandatory (Education) - CS degree or equivalent (B.Tech/B.E./B.S.)

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Preferred (Skills) - Experience with Kafka/NATS/RabbitMQ, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security/compliance, multi-tenant systems, and financial/billing platforms.

Job Description:

• Infrastructure Management: Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure using AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Develop and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline the development lifecycle.
• Automation: Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment processes.
• Monitoring and Performance: Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure system health, performance, and reliability.
• Security: Ensure the security of cloud infrastructure and applications, including identity management and compliance with industry standards.
• Collaboration: Work closely with client and development teams to integrate DevOps practices and deliver high-quality software.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure, configurations, and processes.
• Innovation: Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, integrating them into the DevOps strategy as appropriate.

Qualifications: 

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience: 7 - 10 years of overall experience with relevant experience of at least 7 years in DevOps and served as a lead or senior engineer.

Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Company: House of EdTech (Goenka Kachave LLP)

Location: Bangalore, Hybrid

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 5+ Years

About the Role

House of EdTech is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to design, develop, and scale high-performance backend services and APIs supporting products used by millions of learners.

You’ll work closely with Product, Frontend, Data, and Engineering teams while taking end-to-end ownership of backend features and contributing to system architecture and technical decisions.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop scalable backend services and REST APIs.
• Build reliable systems capable of handling high traffic and large data volumes.
• Own backend features from design and development through deployment and monitoring.
• Work with microservices, databases, and distributed systems.
• Identify and solve performance, scalability, reliability, and security challenges.
• Participate in system design and architecture discussions.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
• Monitor production systems and troubleshoot incidents.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Python, Scala, C++, or a similar language.
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and databases.
• Experience with cloud/infrastructure technologies such as GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including security, reliability, testing, and code quality.
• Experience with system design, architecture, and technical decision-making.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers is a plus.

Why Join House of EdTech?

• Work on products impacting millions of learners.
• Solve challenging backend and scalability problems.
• Take significant ownership of architecture and engineering decisions.
• Opportunity to grow into technical leadership and architectural ownership.
• Work in a fast-growing technology environment.

Strong Tech Lead / Staff Engineer / Lead Engineer Profiles

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Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have minimum 6+ years of overall Software Engineering/Development experience building production backend systems.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have Tech Lead ownership, with experience setting technical direction, architecture, frameworks, or engineering standards used by other engineers.

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Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have strong hands-on Backend development experience with deep proficiency in at least one backend programming language. (Python, Java, Golang etc)

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Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have strong System design/distributed systems experience, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, failure modes, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have strong CS fundamentals in Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, and Networking, with the ability to apply them to complex backend/system problems

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Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have owned complex, ambiguous, or business-critical engineering problems end-to-end, demonstrating clear technical judgment, trade-offs, problem-solving, and measurable technical/business impact; not limited to feature implementation.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) - Must have formal technical leadership experience, including mentoring Senior Engineers, conducting design/code reviews, driving engineering quality, and leading technical decisions across a team.

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Mandatory (Experience 8) - Must be a hands-on IC + Tech Lead, with approximately 70–80% hands-on coding/engineering involvement, not a pure people-management profile.

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Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies / Startups / B2B SaaS

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Mandatory (Education) - CS degree or equivalent (B.Tech/B.E./B.S.)

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Preferred (Skills) - Experience with Kafka/NATS/RabbitMQ, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security/compliance, multi-tenant systems, and financial/billing platforms.