Senior Backend Engineer

Role Overview

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.

Work from home

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.

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.

📌 Sr Backend Engineer (Bengaluru)
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