SDE III — Backend Engineer

Bengaluru

We’re looking for a backend engineer who has run real production systems at scale — especially content-heavy, media-driven products — and wants ownership beyond a single service. You’ll work directly with the founders on live products, designing and owning backend systems and infrastructure end to end, and helping the rest of the team make better technical decisions.
What we need

Strong TypeScript / Node.js in production
Strong system design and architecture fundamentals you’ve made real architectural decisions on production systems and can reason about trade-offs, scalability, and failure modes
Solid PostgreSQL, Redis, and queue/background-processing experience
Hands-on AWS, Docker, and Linux
Experience with CDN and media delivery serving images/video at scale, caching strategy, optimizing for cost and latency (CloudFront or equivalent)
You’ve personally seen production systems break under load, understood why, and fixed them traffic spikes, DB bottlenecks, queue backlogs, media-delivery issues, outages, deployment failures

How you work

You think about how a system behaves as traffic grows, where it fails, and how it should be monitored not just the ticket in front of you
You can break down an unfamiliar problem, question assumptions, and reason to a practical solution
You’re comfortable reviewing designs, challenging decisions, and raising the bar for the team

Nice to have: Generative AI in production — integrating LLM, image, or video model APIs into backend services, including agentic / tool-calling workflows, BullMQ, ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch, Terraform, CI/CD, WebSocket's, video upload/transcoding pipelines, AWS cost optimization.

We care more about the depth of your ownership and how you think through hard problems than years on paper.

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Total Years of experience *

Less than 2 years

2-3 years

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Walk me through the backend system you’ve spent the most time on. What did it do, what was the stack, and what part of it did you build versus inherit? *

Minimum 300 Words

Tell me about a technical decision you made that nobody asked you to make. What did you see, what did you change, and what happened? *

Minimum 300 words

Describe the worst production incident you’ve personally handled. How did you find the root cause, what did you do to fix it in the moment, and what changed afterward? *

Provide in detail the the cause, the incident and how did you fix it and what changed ?

What’s the highest traffic or data volume you’ve dealt with, and what broke first when you got there? How did you handle media delivery or heavy content at that scale? *

Current Location *

Are you located in Bengaluru ? *

Yes

Open for relocation

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