This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 5000000 - Rs 18000000 (ie INR 50 - 180 LPA)
Min Experience: 1+ years
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
JobType: full-time
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with 1–7 years of experience to design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend systems. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in backend development, API design, databases, server-side programming, and building robust services that support business-critical applications.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and microservices.
- Build secure, reliable, and high-performance server-side applications using appropriate backend technologies.
- Develop and integrate RESTful APIs and other service interfaces for web and mobile applications.
- Work with relational and NoSQL databases to design schemas, write optimized queries, and improve database performance.
- Write clean, maintainable, modular, and well-tested code following software engineering best practices.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, production issues, bugs, and system reliability challenges.
- Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, QA engineers, DevOps teams, and other stakeholders to deliver end-to-end features.
- Participate in architecture and technical design discussions and contribute to decisions around scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Implement appropriate authentication, authorization, validation, logging, monitoring, and error-handling mechanisms.
- Develop automated unit and integration tests to ensure application quality and reliability.
- Review code written by peers and contribute to improving coding standards and development practices.
- Monitor backend services and proactively identify opportunities for optimization and improvement.
- Stay updated with emerging backend technologies, frameworks, development practices, and industry trends.
Must-Have Skills
- Strong hands-on experience in Backend Development.
- Proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Python, Java, Node.js, Go, C#, or similar.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, HTTP protocols, API integration, and backend architecture.
- Experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
- Good understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and software design principles.
- Experience building scalable and production-ready backend applications.
- Familiarity with Git and modern software development workflows.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, and secure coding practices.
- Ability to write clean, efficient, reusable, and maintainable code.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
- Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
- Experience with caching technologies such as Redis.
- Familiarity with message queues or event-driven systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
- Contributions to system architecture, technical documentation, or open-source projects.