Founding Backend Engineer (Remote - India) (Bangalore Urban)
Job Description
As the founding backend engineer, you will architect and build the platform engine that powers deployments across AWS, GCP, and Azure for our customers. You’ll design scalable systems that automate environment provisioning, orchestration, and runtime reliability.
What you’ll do
- Build distributed backend services, APIs, pipelines, and workflow engines
- Architect infrastructure automation layers and scalable deployment logic
- Integrate cloud services (AWS ECS/EKS/Lambda/VPC/IAM etc.)
- Ship production-critical features rapidly with high reliability
- Write clean, well-tested code and collaborate closely with full-stack & support engineering
- Shape product direction based on real customer feedback
Requirements
- 3–4 years backend development experience in Go and/or NodeJS/Typescript
- Experience with Postgres or any other relational database
- Robust foundation in AWS services, cloud networking, and system design
- Experience with containers, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
- Experience working on Kubernetes
- Experience writing Terraform/Pulumi
- Comfortable deploying & operating real production systems
Nice to have
- Observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Worked in platform/infrastructure/dev-tool products previously
- Have contributed to open source libraries/frameworks
Why join now
- Architect the core engine powering deployments across cloud environments
- ESOPs + accelerated career path to Engineering Leadership / Platform Lead
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