Backed Engineer

Role Overview:.

• We are looking for a Backend Engineer who can architect and build scalable, performant, and secure APIs and services.
• Youll work closely with frontend, DevOps, and product teams to deliver high-impact backend systems that power critical features across our platform.
• The ideal candidate has deep experience with backend frameworks, databases, API design, and cloud infrastructure " and knows how to build reliable systems that scale.
  

Responsibilities:.

• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
• Architect systems with clear data models and clean separation of concerns.
• Optimize database performance through effective indexing, query tuning, and caching strategies.
• Implement security best practices including authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and input validation.
• Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure system correctness and reliability.
• Deploy, monitor, and maintain services in staging and production environments using CI/CD pipelines and observability tools.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including frontend, DevOps, and product to ship high-quality features fast.
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, and outages in production environments.

Required Skills:  

• Proficiency in one or more backend languagesNode.js (JavaScript/TypeScript), Python, Java, or Go.
• Experience with backend frameworks like Express/NestJS, Django/FastAPI, Spring Boot, or Gin/Fiber.
• Strong understanding of relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis) databases.
• Expertise in API design, including REST, GraphQL, pagination, versioning, and error handling.
• Familiarity with authentication protocolsJWT, OAuth2, session handling.
• Solid grasp of security principlesXSS, CSRF, SQL Injection, secure password handling.
• Experience with Docker for containerization and deploying microservices.
• Understanding of caching (Redis, CDN), background processing (e.g., BullMQ, Celery), and job queues.
• Working knowledge of Git workflows and code review practices.
• Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.

Nice to Have:.

• Experience with cloud platformsAWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda), GCP, or Azure.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration for service scaling.
• Hands-on with monitoring/logging toolsPrometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, Sentry.
• Experience building event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or pub-sub systems.
• Exposure to real-time systems using WebSockets, Socket.io, or Server-Sent Events.
• Prior work on serverless architectures using AWS Lambda or GCP Functions.
• Basic experience working with ETL pipelines or streaming data.
• Integration experience with GenAI/ML inference layers is a plus.
• Educational Qualifications:.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Equivalent practical experience or contributions to open-source backend projects are also considered.