Job Description

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Snapmint is looking for a highly hands-on Senior Backend Engineer (SDE III) who enjoys writing production code while driving the architecture of complex backend systems.

This role is suited for engineers who thrive in solving non-trivial technical challenges, designing scalable systems, and building high-performance services that power a rapidly growing fintech platform.

You will influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and take ownership of critical backend components.

What We’re Looking For:

- 6–10 years of backend development experience
- Strong programming expertise in Node.js (preferred) or another contemporary backend language
- Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems
- Experience building event-driven or asynchronous architectures
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience building systems on cloud infrastructure
- Strong experience with microservices architecture and API design

Preferred Qualifications:





- Strong knowledge of performance optimization and scalability patterns
- Experience designing low-latency or high-throughput services
- Prior experience in a high-growth product company
- Contributions to open-source projects are a plus

Skills Required

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Backend Development,System Design

Role

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- Design and build large-scale backend systems and distributed services
- Drive architecture decisions that impact multiple engineering teams
- Write high-quality production code and actively contribute to core backend components
- Design fault-tolerant, scalable, and high-throughput services
- Lead system design reviews and enforce engineering best practices
- Identify technical debt and drive long-term platform improvements
- Mentor engineers and elevate the overall engineering quality of the team
- Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and data teams to build scalable systems

Location

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Years Of Exp

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6 to 10 years

Posted On

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27-Mar-2026

📌 Backend SDE 3 (India)
🏢 Snapmint
📍 India