Founding Backend Engineer

2 days ago

Gurgaon, Haryana, India Smartcoders Consulting Full time ₹ 12,00,000 - ₹ 36,00,000 per year

Job Title: Founding Backend Engineer

Location: Remote

Type: Full-time | Founding Team |

Schedule:

  • Evening Shift
  • Regular Shift

Why Join Now?

This is a rare opportunity to:

  • Join as a founding engineer and shape the architecture, product, and engineering culture from day one.
  • Work on meaningful, high-impact problems that affect millions of people.
  • Help build a modern backend from scratch with clarity, scale, and resilience in mind.
  • Be part of a mission-driven team operating at the intersection of technology, finance, and public policy.

What You'll Do

As the Founding Backend Engineer, you will:

  • Own and build core backend services and APIs design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable endpoints.
  • Model data systems using Postgres and DynamoDB, choosing the right tools and schemas for the task.
  • Build on AWS Serverless infrastructure (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, EventBridge, SQS/Kinesis).
  • Optimize backend performance through query tuning, caching strategies, and efficient pagination.
  • Ingest and normalize policy and financial data from external sources using both batch and streaming data pipelines.
  • Integrate AI/ML services via AWS Bedrock (LLMs, embeddings, retrieval systems, guardrails).
  • Implement observability best practices: structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting.
  • Uphold security and compliance: authentication, authorization, IAM roles, secret management, input validation.
  • Ensure code quality and deployment hygiene with testing, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and zero-downtime deployments.
  • Help define the overall architecture, with long-term scalability, maintainability, and performance in mind.

Who You Are

  • Backend engineer with 4+ years of experience in production environments (or equivalent project depth).
  • Proficient with AWS Serverless stack (Lambda, S3, API Gateway) and databases (Postgres, DynamoDB).
  • API-first mindset: You care about clean contracts, versioning, idempotency, and developer experience.
  • Obsessed with performance: You reduce latency, optimize SQL queries, and minimize cold starts.
  • Security-conscious: You design systems with clear boundaries, minimal blast radius, and strong safeguards.
  • Comfortable in startup environments you move fast, adapt quickly, and thrive in ambiguity.
  • Mission-aligned: You believe technology can make policy more transparent and accessible.

Nice to Have

  • Python scripting for data processing, ETL, or third-party API integrations.
  • Experience working with LLMs or integrating with AWS Bedrock.
  • Familiarity with financial APIs (like Setu, Perfios, or RBI datasets) or government open data platforms.
  • Previous experience as a founding engineer or early-stage team member.

Tech Stack

  • Backend: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, EventBridge, SQS, Kinesis
  • Data: Postgres, DynamoDB
  • AI/ML: AWS Bedrock (LLMs, embeddings, retrieval)
  • Language: Python (nice to have)

Compensation & Benefits

  • Role: Founding Backend Engineer
  • Compensation: Competitive salary
  • Benefits: Remote-friendly, flexible hours
  • Location: Remote-first (India preferred)
  • Impact: Build something that helps millions understand the policies that shape their lives

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