Senior Software Engineer - Backend (GO)

Location: Bengaluru, India

Department: Technology

Experience: 4-7

• 4–7 years of hands-on backend engineering experience building production-grade services and APIs.
• Strong programming experience in Go (Golang), with solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and software engineering principles.
• Experience designing high-performance and scalable backend services.
• Strong understanding of REST/gRPC APIs, API design, authentication, authorization, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience supporting offline-first and intermittently connected applications, including synchronization, conflict resolution, idempotency, retries, and eventual consistency.
• Strong experience with databases, caching, key-value stores, and messaging/event-driven systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scalability, and reliability.
• Experience handling high transaction volumes and large datasets.
• Strong understanding of observability, including logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work closely with Mobile/Android, Architecture, Product, and DevOps/Cloud teams.

• Experience with GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar messaging systems.
• Experience designing mobile synchronization systems, including delta sync, batching, and background synchronization.
• Experience optimizing APIs for mobile network constraints, including payload optimization and compression.
• Experience with backend performance testing, profiling, and capacity planning.
• Experience in retail, logistics, field-service, or enterprise applications.

• Build and own backend services powering Native Android applications and offline-first workflows.
• Partner with Mobile engineers to design reliable mobile-to-cloud APIs and synchronization mechanisms.
• Drive backend decisions around scalability, reliability, performance, consistency, and observability.
• Own backend components from architecture through deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Participate in API and data-model design with Mobile, Architecture, and Product teams.
• Support UAT, phased rollouts, production releases, and time-sensitive delivery milestones.

• An opportunity to be part of some of the best enterprise SaaS products to be built out of India.
• Opportunities to quench your thirst for problem-solving, experimenting, learning, and implementing innovative solutions.
• A flat, collegial work environment, with a work hard, play hard attitude.
• A platform for rapid growth if you are willing to try new things without fear of failure.
• Remuneration with best-in-class industry standards with generous health insurance cover

• Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Companies by Financial Times for five consecutive years: 2020-2024.
• Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000 for seven consecutive years: 2018-2024.
• Voted #1 by more than 300 retailers worldwide in the RIS Software LeaderBoard 2024 report.
• Ranked #72 in America’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2023—by Fortune—alongside companies like Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, IBM, etc.
• Forged a strategic partnership with Google to equip retailers with cutting-edge generative AI tools.
• Recognized in multiple Gartner reports, including Market Guides and Hype Cycle, spanning assortments, merchandising, forecasting, algorithmic retailing, and Unified Price, Promotion, and Markdown Optimization Applications.