Backend Developer

Job Title: Backend Engineer (SDE 2–3)
Location: Ahmedabad
Experience: 3+ Years

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Backend Engineer (SDE 2–3) with strong expertise in Golang to design, develop, and optimize scalable backend systems. As a senior contributor, you’ll work on high-performance services, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and play a key role in building the core architecture of our platform. The ideal candidate brings solid backend engineering principles, excellent problem-solving skills, and a mindset for clean, maintainable code.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop robust, scalable backend systems and APIs using Golang.
• Apply concurrency models, goroutines, and Go's ecosystem effectively to solve performance-critical problems.
• Participate in system architecture discussions and contribute to design decisions.
• Write clean, idiomatic, and well-documented Go code following best practices and design patterns.
• Model and manage data using relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
• Implement automated unit and integration tests with a TDD mindset.
• Debug, monitor, and profile system performance, identifying and addressing bottlenecks.
• Work with Docker, container orchestration tools (e.g., Docker Compose, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient development and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate in Agile environments through code reviews, pair programming, and daily stand-ups.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong backend focus.
• Deep proficiency in Golang, with real-world experience building production-grade systems.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, goroutines, and Go’s standard libraries and tooling.
• Solid knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, and clean code principles.
• Experience in high-level system design and building distributed systems.
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases and effective data modeling practices.
• Hands-on experience with unit testing, integration testing, and TDD in Go.
• Proficient with containerization technologies like Docker, and basic orchestration (Docker Compose / Kubernetes).
• Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.
• Strong debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with message queues or event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Exposure to Wails or other desktop application frameworks like Electron.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies (e.g., JavaScript, TypeScript, React, or Svelte).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Helm).
• Experience building cross-platform or desktop-native applications.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From ₹50,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Provident Fund
• Work from home

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Prahlad Nagar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Go: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: In person