About the role
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and scale backend services powering products used by millions of SMBs.
- Build high-performance APIs, distributed systems, and data models with a focus on reliability, scalability, and low latency.
- Optimise databases, system performance, and backend architecture to support high-throughput production workloads.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, customer-centric features while leveraging AI-assisted development to ship faster.
Requirements:
- 3-5 years of backend software engineering experience.
- Graduates from top-tier engineering institutes preferred.
- Candidates should have started their careers as backend engineers. We are not looking for candidates whose early experience was primarily frontend-focused.
- Strong proficiency in Java and/or Python. Prior Ruby on Rails experience is a plus, but not mandatory.
- Experience building large-scale, high-traffic backend products with a significant user base.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms (DSA).
- Hands-on experience with database design, query optimisation, distributed systems, concurrency, and high RPS/RPM services.
- Engineers who effectively use AI development tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, etc. ) to improve engineering productivity and accelerate delivery.