Senior Backend Developer

As a Senior Backend developer, you will play a key role in building a product that will impact the way users experience Yoga and Fitness. Working closely with our 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. We're looking for an engineer who not only writes high-quality backend code but also embodies a forward-thinking, AI-augmented development mindset. You should be someone who embraces AI and automation as a force multiplierleveraging modern AI tools to accelerate delivery, increase code quality, and focus your time on higher-order problems.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Has strong knowledge of AI-assisted development tools, has hands-on experience in reducing boilerplate coding, identifying bugs faster, and optimizing system design.
• Follows the technology roadmap of AI ecosystems development, has a deep understanding of MCP and agentic workflows.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in product development and backend technologies, with a strong understanding of the technology and familiarity with the latest trends in backend technology developments.
• 2+ years of strong experience developing services in the Go language.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ 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.
• Demonstrated ability to boost engineering output through strategic use of AI tools and practicescontributing to a 10x developer mindset focused on outcomes, not just effort.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-leverage environment where embracing automation and AI-first workflows is part of the engineering culture.

Required Skills

• Strong experience in the Go language
• Strong experience in backend technologies and cloud-native environments.
• Proficiency in designing and maintaining large-scale databases.
• Strong problem-solving skills and familiarity with modern software development practices.
• Excellent communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with AI-assisted development tools.
• Knowledge of performance optimization techniques.
• Experience in Agile methodologies.

This job was posted by Swetha Chandran from MyYogaTeacher.