Founding Backend Engineer
- Smartcoders Consulting
- 3 - 7 years
- Noida, Gurugram
- 3 months ago
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Job Description
Job Title: Founding Backend Engineer
Location: Remote
Type: Full-time | Founding Team |
Schedule:
- Evening Shift
- Regular Shift
Why Join Now?
This is a rare opportunity to:
- Join as a founding engineer and shape the architecture, product, and engineering culture from day one.
- Work on meaningful, high-impact problems that affect millions of people.
- Help build a modern backend from scratch with clarity, scale, and resilience in mind.
- Be part of a mission-driven team operating at the intersection of technology, finance, and public policy.
What You'll Do
As the Founding Backend Engineer, you will:
- Own and build core backend services and APIs design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable endpoints.
- Model data systems using Postgres and DynamoDB, choosing the right tools and schemas for the task.
- Build on AWS Serverless infrastructure (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, EventBridge, SQS/Kinesis).
- Optimize backend performance through query tuning, caching strategies, and efficient pagination.
- Ingest and normalize policy and financial data from external sources using both batch and streaming data pipelines.
- Integrate AI/ML services via AWS Bedrock (LLMs, embeddings, retrieval systems, guardrails).
- Implement observability best practices: structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting.
- Uphold security and compliance: authentication, authorization, IAM roles, secret management, input validation.
- Ensure code quality and deployment hygiene with testing, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and zero-downtime deployments.
- Help define the overall architecture, with long-term scalability, maintainability, and performance in mind.
Who You Are
- Backend engineer with 4+ years of experience in production environments (or equivalent project depth).
- Proficient with AWS Serverless stack (Lambda, S3, API Gateway) and databases (Postgres, DynamoDB).
- API-first mindset: You care about clean contracts, versioning, idempotency, and developer experience.
- Obsessed with performance: You reduce latency, optimize SQL queries, and minimize cold starts.
- Security-conscious: You design systems with clear boundaries, minimal blast radius, and strong safeguards.
- Comfortable in startup environments you move fast, adapt quickly, and thrive in ambiguity.
- Mission-aligned: You believe technology can make policy more transparent and accessible.
Nice to Have
- Python scripting for data processing, ETL, or third-party API integrations.
- Experience working with LLMs or integrating with AWS Bedrock.
- Familiarity with financial APIs (like Setu, Perfios, or RBI datasets) or government open data platforms.
- Previous experience as a founding engineer or early-stage team member.
Tech Stack
- Backend: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, EventBridge, SQS, Kinesis
- Data: Postgres, DynamoDB
- AI/ML: AWS Bedrock (LLMs, embeddings, retrieval)
- Language: Python (nice to have)
Compensation & Benefits
- Role: Founding Backend Engineer
- Compensation: Competitive salary
- Benefits: Remote-friendly, flexible hours
- Location: Remote-first (India preferred)
- Impact: Build something that helps millions understand the policies that shape their lives
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Product ManagementRole Category: Product Management - TechnologyRole: Product HeadEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Smartcoders ConsultingLocation(s): Noida, Gurugram
Keyskills: Databases Postgres Aws Serverless Backend Development Python Data Pipeline Node.Js Security Performance Devops AWS Testing
Smartcoders Consulting
SmartCoders Consulting was founded with a simple thought of delivering exceptional value to global customers. From the start, the vision was clear to empower businesses with world-class software solutions. At SmartCoders Consulting, we not only provide your business with exceptional enterprise-gr...
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