Founding Engineer, Backend

4 weeks ago

Pune, India Cenna Full time

As a Founding Backend Engineer at Cenna, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our cutting-edge agentic services platform. You will design, build, and deploy core backend infrastructure and services, driving the technical vision of our AI-powered products from inception to scale.

Responsibilities
  • Architect and develop scalable backend systems and APIs for our agentic services platform in production environments
  • Build robust, secure backend services that power platform functionality at scale
  • Design and optimize database schemas and data pipelines for production workloads
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system architecture and AI-driven solution standards
  • Ensure reliability, performance, and security of production backend systems
  • Conduct code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and promote engineering best practices
  • Partner with product management to translate requirements into impactful production-ready solutions
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for production backend services
Requirements
  • 5+ years of backend development experience with proven track record of building and maintaining production-level systems
  • Expertise in Python and backend frameworks like FastAPI, Django, or Flask deployed in production environments
  • Strong understanding of secure coding practices and application security in production systems
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL database design, optimization, and management at scale
  • Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and operating backend services in production
  • Proficiency in RESTful API design and implementation for production applications
  • Experience with monitoring, debugging, and optimizing production backend systems
  • Knowledge of handling production incidents, system reliability, and performance optimization
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills with ability to troubleshoot production issues under pressure
  • Strong communication and teamwork abilities
Nice to Have
  • Experience building production backend systems for AI/ML technologies or agentic systems
  • Familiarity with cybersecurity tools or frameworks in production environments
  • Proficiency in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) for production deployments
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for production backend services
  • Experience with message queues, caching systems, and distributed systems in production
  • Track record of scaling backend systems and handling high-traffic production workloads
  • Contributions to open-source backend projects used in production
  • Prior experience thriving in a fast-paced startup environment shipping production features rapidly

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