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.
Solid 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.

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 at scale by g

📌 Senior Backend Engineer Bengaluru
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