Karya is building the data infrastructure for the next generation of AI. We work across languages and real-world contexts to create high-quality datasets and evaluations, while creating meaningful digital work for underserved communities.

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to take ownership of important parts of our platform and help shape the next generation of Karya’s engineering infrastructure.

This is a role for someone who enjoys being given a difficult problem and figuring out how to solve it. You’ll work closely with the Head of Engineering and have significant autonomy over the systems you own, from architecture and implementation through production and iteration.

What You'll Do

Much of the infrastructure we build has constraints that are uncommon in conventional software systems.

Karya operates across multiple geographies, with different requirements, environments, and network conditions. Our systems need to work reliably even when connectivity is limited or intermittent,



while still supporting a centralized platform that can scale across countries without becoming a collection of country-specific systems.

You’ll work on problems such as:

• Building backend infrastructure that can operate reliably across very different environments and geographies.

• Designing systems that cannot always assume a reliable network, including resilient data transfer and eventual synchronization.

• Evolving our existing architecture as the platform grows, making the right trade-offs between simplicity, performance, reliability, and scale.

• Building infrastructure and developer tooling that increases the leverage of the engineering team.

• Solving problems across APIs, data systems, distributed systems, integrations, performance, security, and reliability.

The interesting part is that there often isn't an established pattern to follow. You’ll need to understand the constraints, make valuable technical decisions, and build pragmatic solutions.

What You'll own

📌 Senior Backend Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Karya
📍 Bengaluru