Backend Engineer

Role: Backend Engineer (Python/Go)

Function: Backend Engineering

Location: Mumbai / Bangalore

Type: Full-time

Industry: Consumer AI

About Company

The company is building the AI layer for Bharat at India-scale. Backed by partnerships with global tech leaders like Meta and Google, it serves the entire Indian user base—across languages, contexts, and daily needs.

The platform is engineered from day one for 100M+ users and 1B-ready constraints on latency, cost, reliability, and safety. The company combines deep India-first AI capability with unmatched India-scale distribution.

The culture emphasises engineering excellence, high autonomy, and tangible impact across sectors that matter to India.

Position Overview

The company is looking for a Backend Engineer with deep Python or Go expertise to build and own mission-critical microservices that power its consumer AI platform. You will design scalable, high-availability systems handling massive traffic at India scale. This role spans L4 (senior IC owning complex service systems) and involves end-to-end ownership from architecture through to production operations.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy production-grade microservices using Python or Go with high availability and data consistency guarantees

• Develop reliable REST and async APIs supporting complex, high-traffic consumer AI workflows

• Optimize system performance through latency reduction, throughput improvements, and efficient asynchronous processing pipelines

• Identify and resolve scaling bottlenecks in production distributed environments serving 100M+ users

• Own end-to-end production services—from architecture and implementation to monitoring, alerting, and incident resolution

Must Have Criteria

• 4–7 years of backend engineering experience with Python OR Go as the primary language

• 2+ years of hands-on experience building production microservices with Python or Go

• Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems handling high-traffic workloads (scale must be specified in resume)

• Demonstrated track record of optimizing API latency and throughput in production environments

• Experience with asynchronous processing systems (e.g., Kafka or similar message queues)

• Hands-on ownership of production services including on-call, incident response, and root cause analysis

• Independently owns complex service systems, driving technical design and delivery end-to-end

Nice to Have

• Experience building backend systems for consumer-facing apps at 10M+ user scale

• Exposure to AI/ML platform backends—model serving, inference APIs, or orchestration layers

• Prior experience at a high-growth startup or scaleup with fast iteration cycles

• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing)

What We Offer

• Opportunity to build the core intelligence infrastructure for India's largest consumer AI platform

• Small, high-autonomy pods with direct ownership and fast iteration loops

• Work alongside engineers solving 1B-scale constraints in latency, cost, and reliability

• Competitive compensation with the backing of a high-scale ecosystem