Backend API Developer | Chennai

Job Details

- Job Title: Backend API Developer
- Location: Chennai
- Experience: 5+ years dedicated experience
- Employment Type: Full-Time

Company Overview:

CashKaro is India's largest cashback app, helping users earn real cashback on purchases across 1,500+ e-commerce brands like Amazon, Flipkart, and Myntra. Cashback is paid on top of all existing discounts and can be transferred directly to a bank account, making CashKaro the smartest way to shop online.

We are the #1 performance marketing partner for e-commerce in India, driving ₹10,000 Cr in annual GMV for our brand partners. Founded in 2013 by Rohan and Swati Bhargava, CashKaro has raised over ₹250 Cr in funding from marquee investors including the late Mr. Ratan Tata, and has scaled to ₹600 Cr in revenues — growing over 70% in FY26.

Our sister platform, EarnKaro, is India's #1 affiliate marketing platform. It empowers content creators, homemakers, students, and micro-influencers to monetise their reach by sharing affiliate links from Amazon, Flipkart, and 250+ brands. Top creators on EarnKaro earn up to ₹40 lakhs a month. With 80% market share on Telegram, EarnKaro is one of the largest affiliate traffic drivers for e-commerce in the country.

The group also operates BankKaro, enabling users to compare and apply for credit cards, loans, and other financial products — making smarter financial decisions accessible to all.

Together, the CashKaro Group is building the future of smart shopping, performance marketing, and influencer-led commerce in India — while enabling income generation at scale.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Backend API Developer to join our tech team in Chennai. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in backend development, with hands-on experience building, maintaining, and scaling high-performance microservices and APIs that are secure, reliable, and optimized for performance.

You will be responsible for developing RESTful APIs and microservices that power various services across CashKaro's platform, ensuring seamless integration and data flow across systems.

We are open on language — Java, Go, Python, or Node.js — what matters most is strong, demonstrated microservices experience, along with hands-on work on AWS API Gateway and MySQL.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and Develop Microservices and APIs

- Develop and maintain high-quality RESTful APIs and microservices, focusing on performance, scalability, and security.




- Collaborate with frontend and backend teams to integrate APIs with user-facing applications and backend services.

2. Build and Maintain Backend Services
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code across your chosen stack (Java, Go, Python, or Node.js).
- Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.

3. Optimize API Performance
- Ensure APIs are optimized for speed and efficiency, capable of handling high traffic volumes with low latency.
- Implement caching strategies and query optimization to improve response times.

4. Manage APIs via AWS API Gateway
- Configure and manage routing, authentication, and rate limiting through AWS API Gateway.
- Ensure gateway-level security and observability across all exposed services.

5. Ensure API Security
- Implement robust security measures such as OAuth, JWT, and proper authentication and authorization protocols to protect sensitive data.
- Regularly audit APIs for potential security vulnerabilities and address them proactively.

6. Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams
- Work closely with product managers, frontend developers, and other stakeholders to deliver new features and improvements.
- Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging processes to maintain high code quality.

7. Monitor, Debug, and Troubleshoot
- Use monitoring tools to track API and service performance and health, identifying and resolving issues promptly.
- Debug and troubleshoot production issues to maintain smooth operations.
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs in the application layer and devise effective solutions.

Must-Have Skills

- Robust, Demonstrated Microservices Experience

- Should have been building and running production microservices for the last 5 years minimum.
- Should be able to showcase strong microservices-driven projects in Java, Go, Python, or Node.js.

2. Hands-On Experience with AWS API Gateway
- Should have configured and managed APIs through AWS API Gateway in production.
- Should understand routing, authentication, and rate limiting at the gateway level.

3.



API Security Best Practices
- Should have a strong understanding of OAuth2 and JWT and how to implement the same when building APIs.
- Should be able to talk about role-based access control.
- Should have a strong understanding of input validation to prevent SQL injection, XSS, etc.
- Rate limiting and throttling — should be able to demonstrate these in their current work.

4. Proficiency in MySQL and SQL Performance Optimization
- Must be extremely solid in MySQL and SQL.
- Must be extremely strong in query optimization, building for scale, and managing data integrity.

5. Experience with CI/CD
- Hands-on experience with continuous integration and deployment pipelines.

6. Strict Adherence to Coding Standards
- Should have a strong process for adherence to coding standards.

7. Commitment to Continuous Learning
- Should be constantly learning and keeping up with new technologies.

Why Join CashKaro?

We've built CashKaro on a simple belief: great work happens when great people feel genuinely valued. Here's what that looks like in practice:

- Real Ownership, Real Impact – You're not a cog in a machine. At CashKaro, you work directly on products and decisions that move the needle for a platform used by millions of Indians every day.
- Innovation Driven Culture – No unnecessary layers, no committee lags. We move fast, back good ideas, and give people the space to build, experiment, and grow.
- Learning & Development – Structured L&D; programs, cross-functional exposure, and a team that believes your growth is the company's growth.
- Wealth Creation – ESOPs awarded to many team members, because when CashKaro wins, the people who built it should win too.
- Food, Sorted – Daily lunch and snacks in office. One less thing to worry about.
- Benefits That Actually Matter – Comprehensive medical insurance, Flexible Benefits Plan with tax benefits, wellness initiatives, and a workplace designed to support you — professionally and personally.
- We Celebrate Everything – Festivals, birthdays, work anniversaries, life milestones. If it matters to you, it matters to us.
- Community, Not Just Colleagues – Team events, outings, dinner meetups, and the kind of in-office culture where people actually like showing up.
- Diverse by Design – We believe the best ideas come from the most varied rooms. Different backgrounds, different perspectives — that's not a policy, it's how we operate.

📌 Back End Developer (Chennai)
🏢 CashKaro.com
📍 Chennai