Software Engineer III

Whatwe'relooking for

We're looking for a Software Engineer III who is passionate about building reliable, scalable backend systems and enjoys working across the stack when needed. You are a handson engineer who thrives on solving realworld problems, writing clean and maintainable code, and collaborating closely with teammates to deliver highquality features endtoend.

You bring strong engineering fundamentals, a growth mindset, and the ability to work independently on wellscoped projects — owning mediumsized features from design through deployment in alignment with our engineering best practices. You're comfortable contributing to technical discussions, making thoughtful tradeoffs, and following established architectural patterns as you deepen your understanding of our systems.

This role isfully remote, based inIndiaand offers the opportunity to meaningfully influence backend architecture, shape engineering best practices, and work with a mission-driven, high-performing team.

Whatyou'llown

As aSoftware Engineer III, you will have clear ownership over features, with opportunities to contribute across the stack:

• Own and deliver small to medium-sized backend features end-to-end: From technical discovery and design through implementation, testing, deployment and iteration

• Take technical ownership of one or more noncritical backend services or components: Ensuring they remain reliable, maintainable, welldocumented, and easy to extend.

• Write clean, modular, testable code: Primarily in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Python, while contributing to frontend code when needed to support fullstack feature delivery.

• Contribute to the design and evolution of our APIs: Including GraphQL and REST endpoints that power frontend and partnerfacing applications, following established architectural patterns and best practices.

• Ensure strong observability and operational health of owned services: Through logging, monitoring, alerting, and contributing to rootcause analysis and followthrough improvements.

• Actively participate in technical discussions: Bringing thoughtful perspectives that balance simplicity, longterm maintainability, and performance as you deepen your understanding of Perch's systems.

• Support team productivity through highquality code reviews and collaboration: Sharing context, helping unblock others, and contributing to a strong engineering culture.

Whatyou'lldo

• Design and buildscalable, resilient backend systemsusing Ruby on Rails, Python and PostgreSQL

• Contribute to implementation of complex features and integrations, including external systems such asSalesforce

• Take technical design decisions independently for your features

• Own and evolveGraphQLservicesthat power frontend and partner-facing applications

• Improve system reliability throughtesting, monitoring, alerting, and operational best practices

• Ship production-ready codefrequentlyusing amodern CI/CD pipeline

• Review code and designs with a strong focus on maintainability, performance, and long-term impact

What will help you succeed

Experience & leadership

• 4+ yearsof experience building and operating high-availability backend systems

• Demonstrated experience delivering backend features and owning systems

• Strong fundamentals insystem design, API design, and datamodelling

• Ability to clearly communicate technical decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Actively represent engineering team in key discussions with US stakeholders

• Proven experience mentoring junior engineers and raising the technical bar of a team

• Comfortable working in ambiguous problem spaces and iterating toward robust solutions

Backend & infrastructure

• Strong experience withPython or Ruby, including proficiency in at least one web framework:

• Ruby on Rails

• FastAPI, Django or Flask

• Working knowledge of ReactJS, with the ability to contribute to frontend components to support fullstack delivery

• Advanced SQL skills and experience withPostgreSQLor similar relational databases

• Hands-on experience with AWS servicessuch as S3, SQS, SES,EventBridge, or similar cloud-native services.

• Containerization using Docker

• Exposure to distributed systemsor platform engineering

• Familiarity with background jobs, async processing, and event-driven workflows

Bonus points for

• Experience integrating withSalesforce or other enterprise platforms

• Experience designing and owning GraphQLAPIs(Apollo or similar)

• Strong opinions (loosely held)on backend architecture, scalability, and system design

• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering—such as using modern AI tools for coding, debugging, testing, documentation, or exploring LLM-based workflows in backend systems

• Familiarity withobservability and distributed tracing toolssuch asOpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Prometheus, or similar

• Experience withcontainer orchestration and deploymentusing Kubernetes and Helm charts

• Passion for sustainability, clean energy, and buildingmission-driven products

What success looks like in this role

• Backend systems scale reliably as usage, data volume, and complexity grow

• Engineers move faster due to clear APIs, architecture, and standards

• Production issues areidentifiedearly and resolved with lasting fixes

• Technical debt is addressed proactively rather than reactively

• The backend platform enables product teams instead of limiting them

Benefits:Apart from Fixed Base Salary potential candidates are eligible for following benefits

• Competitive compensation based on market standards.
• Flexible Leave Policy

• Office is in the heart of the city in case you need to step in for any purpose.

• Medical Insurance (1+5 Family Members)

• We provide comprehensive coverage including accident policy and life Insurance.

• Annual performance cycle

• Quarterly team engagement activities and rewards & recognitions

• L&D programs to foster professional growth

• A supportive engineering culture that values diversity, empathy, teamwork, trust, and efficiency

Eliminatingcarbon footprints,eliminatingcarbon copies.Here at Perch, we cultivate diversity, celebrate individuality, and believe unique perspectives are key to our collective success in creating a clean energy future. Perch is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race,color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. While we are currently unable to consider candidates who willrequirevisa sponsorship, we welcome applications from all qualified candidates eligible to work in India.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation toparticipatein the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request

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