Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer – TechOps

Location: Remote

Shift: 3:00 PM – 12:00 AM

Experience: 9–10+ Years

Immediate Joiners Preferred

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer / Backend TechOps Engineer with strong expertise in Python, PostgreSQL, SQL, and AWS.

The ideal candidate will have a strong database background and hands-on experience troubleshooting and supporting production applications across legacy on-premise and modern AWS cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Take ownership of production application continuity, troubleshooting, incident resolution, and root cause analysis.
• Develop, maintain, and debug backend applications using Python, Java, SQL, and PostgreSQL.
• Write, read, optimize, and troubleshoot complex SQL queries, functions, and stored procedures.
• Investigate issues across application, database, infrastructure, and cloud layers.
• Work with PostgreSQL / AWS RDS for database development, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Troubleshoot and maintain legacy Java and Python applications backed by PostgreSQL.
• Work with AWS services including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Kinesis, IAM, and API Gateway.
• Understand and troubleshoot Apache Airflow DAGs, scheduling, orchestration, and pipeline failures.
• Analyze existing on-premise solutions and identify opportunities for cloud migration and modernization.
• Collaborate with Tech Leads and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and define implementation approaches.
• Develop and integrate new features while ensuring minimal impact on existing production systems.
• Perform unit testing, functional testing, integration testing, and production validation.
• Follow defined SDLC, deployment, and production release processes.
• Work with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitHub, AWS CodePipeline, or similar.
• Troubleshoot ETL/data pipelines and production workflows.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of system reliability, performance, and operational processes.

Must-Have Skills

• 9–10+ years of backend/software development experience
• Strong expertise in Python
• Strong expertise in SQL and PostgreSQL / PL/pgSQL
• Hands-on experience with complex queries, stored procedures, functions, debugging, and database troubleshooting
• Strong production troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) experience
• Experience working with AWS cloud services
• Hands-on experience with AWS RDS
• Good understanding of Apache Airflow, DAGs, scheduling, and troubleshooting
• Experience working with Java-based legacy applications
• Experience with Linux / Bash scripting
• Experience with GitLab, GitHub, AWS CodePipeline, or similar CI/CD tools

Good to Have

• Experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• Docker and containerization
• Kubernetes
• Elasticsearch or similar search technologies
• Kinesis
• API Gateway
• AWS IAM
• ETL pipelines and data engineering workflows
• Cloud migration / modernization projects
• Networking and cloud security concepts
• Experience with Agile/Scrum
• AWS certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect
• Experience leading onshore/offshore or cross-functional teams