About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join a fast-growing, well-funded Silicon Valley–based startup. This role offers a high level of ownership, autonomy, and the opportunity to work in a collaborative, high-performance environment with competitive compensation.

Key Responsibilities
• Design, develop and deploy backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability
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• Architect Distributed Systems: Design and implement robust microservices using Golang and Django that can handle concurrent processing of high-volume research data (e.g., video, audio, and large-scale text datasets).
• Optimize AI Workflows: Build and refine asynchronous task queues (using tools like Celery or Redis) to manage long-running AI inference tasks without impacting the responsiveness of the user-facing API.
• Database Performance: Design and maintain effective schemas for both relational databases (PostgreSQL) and specialized storage (Vector databases for AI search), ensuring millisecond-level query performance as data scales into the millions of records.
• Load Management: Implement caching strategies and rate-limiting to protect service integrity during traffic spikes from global enterprise customers.
• Build and operate infrastructure, toolset and deployment pipelines
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• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Own and automate the provisioning of cloud resources on AWS (using Terraform or CloudFormation) to ensure environments are reproducible and scalable.
• CI/CD Optimization: Streamline the path from "code commit" to "production" by building automated testing and deployment pipelines that allow the team to ship multiple times a day with high confidence.
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement comprehensive logging, tracing, and alerting (e.g.,



Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog) to proactively identify performance bottlenecks and system health issues before they affect users.
• Developer

Experience:
Create internal CLI tools or scripts to simplify the local development environment and improve the velocity of the entire engineering team.
• Collaborate with other engineers to create beautiful products
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• API Stewardship: Design clean, well-documented, and intuitive RESTful or GraphQL APIs that enable frontend teams to build seamless and high-performance user interfaces.
• Full-Stack Synergy: Work closely with product designers and frontend engineers to understand the "Jobs to be Done," ensuring that backend logic perfectly supports complex research workflows.
• Technical Mentorship: Participate in rigorous code reviews and architectural whiteboarding sessions, fostering a culture of high-quality code and continuous learning.
• Rapid Prototyping: Transition quickly from experimental AI features to production-ready services, balancing speed-to-market with long-term code maintainability.
• Handling and owning security and compliance aspects for the software that the team produces.
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• Enterprise-Grade Compliance: Build and enforce the technical controls necessary to maintain SOC2, GDPR, or HIPAA compliance, ensuring customer data is treated with the highest level of privacy.
• Data Isolation:



Implement strict multi-tenant architecture patterns to ensure that sensitive research insights from one organization (e.g., Microsoft) are never accessible or leaked to another (e.g., 7-11).
• Proactive Security: Conduct regular vulnerability scanning, dependency audits, and security reviews of the codebase to defend against OWASP Top 10 threats.
• IAM & Encryption: Manage complex Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and ensure all sensitive data is encrypted both at rest and in transit.

Qualifications:
• 4-6 years of experience in backend engineering
• Strong skills in:
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• Python (Django)
• Golang
• Problem-solving and debugging
• API development and database management Good to have:
• Familiarity with DevOps practices (Docker, AWS, CI/CD)
• Experience building scalable and distributed systems
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to work independently
• Practical, solution-oriented thinker comfortable in fast-paced, low-process environments Why Join Us? Joining HeyMarvin as a Senior Software Engineer means being part of a high-growth, transparent, and empowering environment where your work has direct impact. You’ll collaborate with talented teammates, work with modern technologies, and help build a world-class product at the intersection of AI, research, and enterprise software-while having the autonomy to shape both your role and the company’s future. About the Team You’ll be joining a lean, high-performing team that values ownership, speed, and thoughtful execution. The team operates with minimal bureaucracy and emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and delivering meaningful outcomes. Compensation ₹30LPA, plus benefits.

📌 Senior Backend Engineer 2 (India)
🏢 Marvin
📍 India