Senior Backend Engineer

Job Summary

A seed-stage startup who appeared on Shark Tank India developing wearable technology that transforms daily conversations and routines into actionable insights for better habits and mental well-being.

Responsibilities

• Lead scalability and performance initiatives with the CTO and engineering team.
• Scale high-throughput ingestion, asynchronous processing and low-latency APIs.
• Use profiling and realistic load tests to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Build dependable processing with retries, idempotency, backpressure and safe recovery.
• Improve database queries, indexing, caching, service performance and cloud costs.
• Lead design and code reviews covering concurrency, correctness, security, observability and testing.
• Own capacity planning, performance metrics, rollout plans and rollback strategies.
• Mentor engineers while remaining hands-on with production systems and coding.
• You ll lead hands-on scalability and performance work with the CTO and engineering team.
• Design, code, profile and safely roll out improvements while coaching engineers and raising review quality.
• This is a technical leadership role, not a coordination-only management position.