About the role
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and microservices.
- Build secure, reliable, and high-performance server-side applications.
- Work on database design, query optimization, indexing, and data modeling.
- Integrate internal and external systems through APIs.
- Troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term fixes.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Frontend, QA, DevOps, and business teams.
- Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
- Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance optimization.
Requirements:
- 5-7 years of hands-on backend development experience.
- Strong programming experience in Node.js, Python, Java, Go, PHP, or similar technologies.
- Solid understanding of REST APIs, microservices architecture, queues, caching, and distributed systems.
- Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, or similar technologies.
- Strong knowledge of system design, data structures, security principles, and performance optimization.
- Experience with Git and standard software development workflows.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.
- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience working in product-based, fintech, or fast-paced startup environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Ability to take ownership and drive projects independently.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.