About the role
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable backend systems from the ground up.
- Own backend architecture, technical design, development, testing, and deployment.
- Build robust APIs, services, and core platform components.
- Work closely with founders and product teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Make key decisions around system architecture, technology selection, scalability, and performance.
- Develop solutions for complex problems involving data, distributed systems, and AI-powered applications.
- Build and integrate backend services that support AI/ML and Generative AI use cases.
- Establish engineering best practices around code quality, testing, observability, deployment, and reliability.
- Take end-to-end ownership of projects from design and development through production.
- Contribute to building the engineering culture, technical standards, and foundation of the organization.
Requirements:
- 4-6 years of professional experience in backend/software engineering.
- Strong programming experience in one or more backend languages such as Python, Java, Go, or Node.js .
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and software engineering fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience designing and developing REST APIs and backend services.
- Strong understanding of database concepts and SQL.
- Experience with microservices, distributed systems, or scalable backend architectures.
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Good understanding of software development practices, including Git, testing, CI/CD, and deployment.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment.