Founding Backend Engineer

21 hours ago

Remote, India SmartCoders Consulting Full time ₹ 8,00,000 - ₹ 18,00,000 per year

Job Title: Founding Backend Engineer

Location: Remote

Type: Full-time

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.

  • Location: Remote-first (India preferred)

  • Impact: Build something that helps millions understand the policies that shape their lives

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹800, ₹1,800,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Internet reimbursement
  • Provident Fund
  • Work from home

Education:

  • Master's (Preferred)

Experience:

  • 8years: 3 years (Required)

Shift availability:

  • Night Shift (Required)
  • Overnight Shift (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote

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