Backend Engineer

Role Overview

A high-growth, VC-backed SaaS company is hiring its founding India team. As a Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the services and APIs that sit behind the product, with a strong focus on correctness, performance, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design and build REST or GraphQL APIs consumed by web and mobile clients
• Model data and write efficient queries against relational and NoSQL stores
• Write integration and unit tests that catch regressions before they ship
• Profile and optimise slow endpoints and background jobs
• Instrument services with logging, metrics, and alerts
• Participate in an on-call rotation and resolve production incidents

Requirements

• 2 to 6 years building backend services in a language such as Java, Python, Go, or Node.js
• Strong understanding of relational databases, indexing, and query performance
• Experience designing and versioning APIs used by multiple client applications
• Clear written and spoken English and a reliable remote-work setup

Nice to Have

• Exposure to message queues or event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS)
• Experience with containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• A degree in computer science or a related field

Skills

• Node.js
• Python
• Go
• Docker
• Kubernetes