Senior Backend Engineer

• This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
• Salary range: Rs 5000000 - Rs 18000000 (ie INR 50 - 180 LPA)

• Min Experience: 1+ years
• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• JobType: full-time

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with 1–7 years of experience to design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend systems. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in backend development , API design, databases, server-side programming, and building robust services that support business-critical applications.

Requirements

• Key Responsibilities
• •Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and microservices.
• •Build secure, reliable, and high-performance server-side applications using appropriate backend technologies.
• •Develop and integrate RESTful APIs and other service interfaces for web and mobile applications.
• •Work with relational and NoSQL databases to design schemas, write optimized queries, and improve database performance.
• •Write clean, maintainable, modular, and well-tested code following software engineering best practices.
• •Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, production issues, bugs, and system reliability challenges.
• •Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, QA engineers, DevOps teams, and other stakeholders to deliver end-to-end features.
• •Participate in architecture and technical design discussions and contribute to decisions around scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• •Implement appropriate authentication, authorization, validation, logging, monitoring, and error-handling mechanisms.
• •Develop automated unit and integration tests to ensure application quality and reliability.
• •Review code written by peers and contribute to improving coding standards and development practices.
• •Monitor backend services and proactively identify opportunities for optimization and improvement.
• •Stay updated with emerging backend technologies, frameworks, development practices, and industry trends.

• Must-Have Skills
• •Strong hands-on experience in Backend Development.
• •Proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Python, Java, Node.js, Go, C#, or similar .
• •Strong understanding of REST APIs, HTTP protocols, API integration, and backend architecture .
• •Experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases .
• •Good understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and software design principles.
• •Experience building scalable and production-ready backend applications.
• •Familiarity with Git and modern software development workflows.
• •Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• •Understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, and secure coding practices.
• •Ability to write clean, efficient, reusable, and maintainable code.

• Good-to-Have Skills
• •Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• •Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud .
• •Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• •Experience with caching technologies such as Redis.
• •Familiarity with message queues or event-driven systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.
• •Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
• •Contributions to system architecture, technical documentation, or open-source projects.