Back End Developer

Role: Backend Engineer

Function: Backend Engineering / Software Engineering

Location: Bangalore

Type: Full-time

Industry: Marketing Research, Data Intelligence, Consumer Analytics

About Company

The company is a global marketing research and data intelligence firm with over 25 years of experience. It operates proprietary consumer research panels of 1.3 million in Japan and 36 million globally.

The company integrates survey, digital behavioral, and daily purchase data to deliver insights for approximately 4,000 domestic and international clients. Backed by $848 million in funding, it is currently in a high-growth merger stage.

Its engineering culture is built on deep thinking, swift execution, transparency, and high ownership. Engineers here directly shape platforms that influence how major brands across Asia-Pacific understand consumer behavior.

Position Overview

This role owns the design, delivery, and operation of the company's core data and marketing platforms on GCP. Working end-to-end — from shaping requirements with product and business stakeholders to running reliable production systems at scale — this engineer sits at the intersection of engineering excellence and measurable business impact. The work directly powers insights consumed by 4,000+ global brands.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design and evolve backend services on GCP, making deliberate trade-offs around scalability, reliability, maintainability, and cost
• Build and deliver secure, scalable REST and gRPC APIs in Go, from development through production
• Own production systems end-to-end — including stability, performance tuning, on-call rotation, and incident resolution
• Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to translate requirements into sound technical solutions
• Modernize legacy systems through thoughtful refactoring, platform improvements, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
• Maintain high engineering standards through clean code, automated testing (Testcontainers, Pact), and rigorous code reviews
• Mentor junior engineers and actively contribute to building a high-ownership engineering culture

Must Have Criteria

• 7+ years of experience building and owning backend systems or applications
• Proficiency in Go (preferred) or any other backend language as the primary language for backend service development
• Solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or Cloud SQL) and managing production data at scale
• Experience having architected, or been a core part of architecting, a microservice
• Strong High-Level Design experience or exposure

Nice to Have

• Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform in a GCP environment
• Familiarity with Datadog and OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and observability
• Experience with contract testing tools such as Pact in a microservices architecture
• Domain background in market research, ad-tech, data platforms, or consumer analytics
• Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in technical communities

What We Offer

• Ownership of systems that power insights for 4,000+ global brands across the Asia-Pacific region
• Modern, well-defined tech stack — Go, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog
• Collaborative, high-ownership engineering culture with a strong emphasis on craft and impact
• Exposure to large-scale consumer data platforms integrating survey, behavioral, and purchase data
• Meaningful investment in engineering growth