Software Engineer

Hoichoi is looking for backend-heavy, AI-Native engineers to join our tech team based onsite in Kolkata. This role sits at the core of revenue infrastructure — covering payment orchestration, subscription lifecycle, and high-scale backend systems.

You won't maintain legacy systems; you'll design, ship, and scale them from scratch. Every deployment impacts millions of users and real revenue for India's leading Bengali streaming platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end technical decisions — API contracts, data models, service boundaries, and integration patterns — across a live, high-traffic streaming platform serving 250M+ potential viewers.
• Think architecturally first: identify the right abstraction, lead trade-off conversations, and document decisions that enable scalable growth.
• Use AI-native development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as your default workflow to act as force multipliers on complex features.
• Lead technical design reviews for new capabilities, surfacing risks, edge cases, and cross-system dependencies before implementation.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues across backend systems — trace root causes, write clean fixes, and prevent recurrence through deliberate design choices.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party services, LLM APIs, and external tools — making deliberate build-vs-buy-vs-compose decisions with clear justifications.

Required Qualifications:

• 2–4+ years of backend engineering experience with production ownership.
• Strong fundamentals in at least one backend language and comfort reasoning about system design, data modelling, and API contracts.
• Ability to read a complex system, understand its constraints, and make architectural recommendations independently.
• Experience working in a fast-moving product team where requirements change mid-sprint without warning.
• Default user of AI coding tools with concrete examples of generated code that was evaluated, debugged, or overridden.