Senior Backend Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering team and take ownership of backend development, architecture, scalability and production systems.

Location: Chennai (Hybrid)

Experience: 3–6 Years

CTC: 20–30 LPA

Target Joining: October 2026

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, build and deploy backend features and services.
• Design database schemas and handle complex migrations.
• Build and scale APIs with a focus on performance and reliability.
• Work on system design, scalability, monitoring, logging and production issues.
• Maintain strong engineering standards through code reviews and automated testing.
• Identify and reduce technical debt.
• Contribute to CI/CD and deployment improvements.
• Explore AI-assisted engineering workflows and automation.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decisions.
• Collaborate with Product, Frontend and other stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

• 3–6 years of backend engineering experience.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, Django, Express or similar MVC frameworks.
• Strong SQL, relational database, ORM and schema design experience.
• Good understanding of system design, scalability, performance and reliability.
• Experience building and scaling APIs and production systems.
• Strong automated testing and code review practices.
• Experience owning technical deliveries or leading engineering initiatives.
• Strong problem-solving, ownership and communication skills.
• B2B SaaS / product-company experience preferred.

Nice to Have

• Ruby on Rails experience.
• Technical mentoring experience.
• CI/CD and infrastructure exposure.
• AI-assisted development experience.
• Multi-tenant SaaS experience.

What You Can Expect

• High ownership and autonomy.
• Opportunity to work on challenging backend problems.
• Exposure to architecture and technical decision-making.
• Collaborative engineering environment.
• Competitive compensation and performance benefits.