Back End Developer

About the Role

• Develop scalable product features for our platform serving over 820 million monthly active users globally (Pune-based team).
• Take full ownership of your code, ensuring high quality and clean implementation.
• Design and build systems capable of handling 100K+ requests per second.
• Mentor peers by reviewing code to maintain strict company standards.
• Leverage AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor) for efficient generation, refactoring, and context management.

About You - Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 1–3 years of server-side development on medium to large-scale projects.
• Strong fundamentals: Data structures, algorithmic time complexity, and database design.
• Proficiency in a backend language such as Java, Python, Node.js, or Clojure.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools for productivity enhancement.
• Familiarity with Posix-compliant operating systems (Mac OS X development, GNU/Linux deployment).
• Solid experience writing Unit, Functional, and Regression tests.
• Expertise in Git for distributed version control collaboration.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of functional programming patterns (specifically Clojure) is a plus.
• Experience scaling systems with YugabyteDB, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, or PostgreSQL.
• Skill in benchmarking system performance and failure detection strategies.