Senior Backend Engineer

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.