Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Company: House of EdTech (Goenka Kachave LLP)
Location: Bangalore, Hybrid
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 5+ Years

About the Role

House of EdTech is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to design, develop, and scale high-performance backend services and APIs supporting products used by millions of learners.

You’ll work closely with Product, Frontend, Data, and Engineering teams while taking end-to-end ownership of backend features and contributing to system architecture and technical decisions.

What You'll Do

- Design and develop scalable backend services and REST APIs.
- Build reliable systems capable of handling high traffic and large data volumes.
- Own backend features from design and development through deployment and monitoring.
- Work with microservices, databases, and distributed systems.
- Identify and solve performance, scalability, reliability, and security challenges.
- Participate in system design and architecture discussions.
- Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
- Monitor production systems and troubleshoot incidents.

What We're Looking For

- 5+ years of skilled backend development experience.
- Robust hands-on experience with Java, Python, Scala, C++, or a similar language.
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.




- Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and databases.
- Experience with cloud/infrastructure technologies such as GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including security, reliability, testing, and code quality.
- Experience with system design, architecture, and technical decision-making.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience mentoring engineers is a plus.

Why Join House of EdTech?

- Work on products impacting millions of learners.
- Solve challenging backend and scalability problems.
- Take significant ownership of architecture and engineering decisions.
- Opportunity to grow into technical leadership and architectural ownership.
- Work in a fast-growing technology environment.

Pay: Up to ₹4,000,000.00 per year

Perks:

- Flexible schedule
- Food provided
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Provident Fund
- Work from home

Application Question(s):

- How many years of professional backend development experience do you have?
- Do you know eventual consistency in distributed systems?
- Do you know how infrastructure management work in a cloud environment?
- Have you worked with GCP ?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bengaluru, Karnataka (Bengaluru Urban District)

📌 Senior Software Engineer-Backend (India)
🏢 House Of Edtech
📍 India