About Us:
Soul AI is a pioneering company founded by IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad alumni, with a strong founding team from IITs, NITs, and BITS. We specialize in delivering high-quality human-curated data, AI-first scaled operations services, and more. Based in SF and Hyderabad, we are a young, fast-moving team on a mission to build AI for Good, driving innovation and positive societal impact.
About the Role
As an SDE-3 Backend Engineer, you will architect core backend systems, scale distributed services, and lead backend engineering best practices. You'll own high-impact initiatives across performance, reliability, data architecture, and platform evolution.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Architect distributed systems using Node.js/Java/Go/Python services.
- Lead platform scalability, performance tuning & high-availability systems.
- Drive database modeling, sharding, replication & indexing strategies.
- Own Kafka/event-driven pipelines and large-scale queueing systems.
- Lead infra upgrades, observability, and resilience engineering.
- Guide engineers through design reviews and complex backend problems.
- Collaborate with product leadership on architecture decisions.
- Ensure backend systems meet security & compliance standards.
- Improve CI/CD, deployment pipelines, and developer efficiency.
- Mentor backend teams and set engineering standards.
Education & Desired Qualifications
- 610+ years backend experience in high-scale product environments.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infra.
- Strong experience with Node.js, Java, Go, or Python.
- Strong data modeling and performance optimization experience.
- Proven leadership in scaling backend systems.
Why Join Us
- Work on high-impact projects that contribute to building AI for Good.
- Collaborate with top-tier engineers and domain experts from IITs, NITs, and BITS.
- Opportunity to grow in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.
