Senior Backend Engineer Opportunity in India

CodeRound AI is partnering with a high-growth, VC-backed startup client (which has successfully raised $55M) to find an exceptional Senior Backend Engineer in India. This is an unparalleled opportunity to join a leading product company, working on critical backend systems.

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About the Role: What You'll Do

• Lead the design, development, and ongoing maintenance of highly scalable backend services, primarily utilizing Python.
• Architect, implement, and manage robust event-driven, distributed systems, leveraging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, and other streaming platforms.
• Design and evolve high-performance REST and gRPC APIs capable of handling large-scale production workloads.
• Take full ownership of system architecture, prioritizing fault tolerance, scalability, and overall reliability.
• Drive significant performance improvements through advanced techniques including caching, indexing, asynchronous processing, and sophisticated query optimization.
• Design and implement efficient data models using both SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL solutions (e.g., Cassandra, ScyllaDB).
• Ensure stable and reliable software releases by implementing strong observability practices, including metrics, logs, and traces.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, AI/ML, frontend, and DevOps, to translate business requirements into robust backend systems.
• Mentor junior engineers, conduct thorough code reviews, and actively influence technical and architectural decisions across the team.
• Own backend features end-to-end, from initial system design through to deployment, monitoring, and ongoing optimization.

Who You Are: Required Skills & Experience

• You possess 3+ years of dedicated backend engineering experience.
• You have a proven track record of building and scaling complex backend systems within product-driven environments for extended periods.
• You have deep, hands-on experience designing and operating distributed systems in production environments.
• You are exceptionally strong in asynchronous programming, system design principles, algorithms, and data structures.
• You have practical, hands-on experience with event-driven architectures, including Kafka and RabbitMQ.
• You are comfortable working with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• You have practical experience deploying and running high-scale systems on major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• You are confident in debugging complex production issues and are skilled at improving system reliability at scale.
• You demonstrate strong ownership, can set clear technical direction, and consistently strive to raise the overall engineering bar within your team.

Bonus Points: Desirable Skills

• Experience working with high-scale consumer or fintech systems.
• Exposure to full-stack development, particularly with modern frontend frameworks like React and TypeScript.
• Experience designing or owning CI/CD pipelines.
• Contributions to open-source projects or an active GitHub profile showcasing your work.