Founding Backend Engineer

6 days ago

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India f0-af2f-47f6-84d2-75d65c93655d Full time ₹ 15,00,000 - ₹ 30,00,000 per year

About the Role

As Founding Backend Engineer, you'll design and operate our core services and data layer—owning APIs, auth/RBAC, reliability, and integrations with LLM services and vector stores—so we can ship fast without breaking things.

Read this first: Startup role; during crunches expect 10–12 hours/day. You'll be a founding team member and rewarded for early contribution (performance bonuses). Onsite only (Ahmedabad).

What You'll Do

  • Build services & APIs (FastAPI / Node+NestJS), auth/RBAC, rate-limiting, billing.
  • Own data: Postgres schema design, migrations, ETL, search/indexing, caching (Redis).
  • Integrate LLM services, vector DBs, and event systems (Kafka/SQS/RabbitMQ).
  • Production excellence: CI/CD, IaC, metrics/tracing (OpenTelemetry), SLOs, on-call playbooks.
  • Define contracts with AI/FE; ship fast with safe rollouts and feature flags.
  • Put in place security basics: secrets mgmt, PII handling, auditing.

What You'll Bring (Requirements)

  • 4–8+ years backend; have designed & operated services in production.
  • Strong SQL/data modeling, API design, and reliability mindset.
  • Comfortable with security, secrets, and compliance basics.
  • Bonus: multi-tenant SaaS, payments, or experience around AI inference paths.
  • Onsite in Ahmedabad; okay with 10–12h launch weeks when needed.

Why Join Us

  • Greenfield architecture — your call on patterns and tools.
  • Build for reliability and speed with founders who ship.
  • Competitive salary + performance bonuses; in-office, focused craft culture.

Tech / Stack

Python (FastAPI), Node/NestJS, Postgres, Redis, Vector DB (pgvector/Milvus/FAISS), Kafka/SQS/RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Grafana/Prometheus, Terraform, CI/CD.

Must-Have Skills

Backend Architecture · APIs · FastAPI/NestJS · Postgres · SQL/Data Modeling · Caching (Redis) · Event Systems (Kafka/SQS) · Observability · SRE/SLOs · Security Basics · CI/CD · IaC

Nice-to-Have Skills

Multi-tenant SaaS · Payments/Billing · Vector Databases · AI Inference Integrations · Feature Flags/Rollouts · SSE/WebSockets · Cost Optimization

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