Senior Backend Developer

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our team. As a Backend Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing and implementing scalable, high-performance systems that empower cross-functional teams through reliable backend services.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives on building scalable solutions, optimizing cloud infrastructure, and ensuring system security, resilience, and growth readiness. If you are passionate about working with modern programming languages, open-source frameworks, and cloud platforms, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technology Strategy: Shape the backend architecture and technical direction supporting our Product vision, implementing business rules and domain models, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.
• Backend Service Development: Build and maintain core services for Product Catalogue, user Profiles, and Asset Management.
• API Design & Development: Create robust, well-documented APIs for internal and external use, with comprehensive contract testing and verification.
• Build, Deployment & Release Management: Ensure reproducible builds, provisioning, deployment, and releases by leveraging modern techniques such as Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and other automated deployment methodologies.
• Observability, High Availability & Scalability: Ensure high system reliability and performance by implementing strong observability practices, including comprehensive metrics collection, structured logging, actionable dashboards, and proactive alerting. Design fault-tolerant systems ready for growth, implementing stress testing and disaster recovery.
• Security & Access Management: Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms while maintaining security compliance and data protection across all systems.

Desirable Experience:

• Scalable Backend Development: Designing and implementing scalable backend services using modern programming languages such as Kotlin, Python, Go, or Java with open-source frameworks like Ktor, Quarkus, FastAPI or Gin.
• Cloud Computing: Experience with AWS services such as ECS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudFront, or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Database Management: Working with SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases, including query optimization and indexing strategies.
• Microservices & Distributed Systems: Implementing service communication, discovery, load balancing, and resilience using tools such as gRPC, Kafka, Envoy, Istio, or Consul.
• API Development: Developing public APIs optimized for various use cases, including RESTful, GraphQL, WebSockets, and gRPC-web.
• Infrastructure & Automation: Managing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation for automated provisioning and deployment.
• Authentication & Security: Implementing authentication and authorization protocols such as OAuth, JWT, and OpenID Connect.
• Observability & Logging: Experience with observability tools and logging collection strategies using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack, or Datadog.
• Performance Optimization & Resilience: Applying performance tuning, caching strategies, circuit breakers, and fault tolerance techniques to ensure reliability and efficiency.
• Supporting Data Teams: Collaborating with data science, ETL, and web scraping teams by providing scalable and efficient backend solutions.

What We Offer:

• A competitive salary range of 20-25 lakhs per annum.
• A fully remote work arrangement.
• A laptop provided for work purposes.
• Ongoing support and training opportunities.
• The chance to be part of a friendly and transparent culture that encourages suggestions for improvement.