Description
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable, low-latency, and highly reliable backend systems for high-growth B2C products.
The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, system design, performance optimisation, observability, and production reliability. Experience with search, recommendation, ranking, AI-powered product features, or data engineering is an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend services using Java or Go.
- Develop reliable REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs.
- Design distributed systems, microservices, data models, and event-driven architectures.
- Improve system latency, throughput, availability, reliability, and infrastructure efficiency.
- Work with Kafka, Redis/Valkey, Elasticsearch, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
- Own production monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, and reliability improvements.

Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Strong programming skills in Java or Go.




- Experience building high-scale, low-latency production systems.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
- Experience with Kafka, caching systems, Elasticsearch, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Strong system design, debugging, testing, and end-to-end production ownership skills.

Nice to Have
- Experience in AI-powered applications, search and recommendation systems, or data engineering would be an added advantage.

Advantages
- Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
- Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
- Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
- High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used a

📌 Senior Backend Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Proximity Works
📍 Bengaluru