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.

Required Experience

5+ years of backend engineering experience.

Strong programming skills in Java or Go.

Experience building high-scale, low-latency production systems.

Solid 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.

📌 Backend engineer (India)
🏢 IonIdea
📍 India