Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About Company

Founded in 2019, Apna is India’s largest professional networking and jobs platform for >250M members of India’s rising working class. Our mission is to connect people to opportunities and help reduce the skill and employment gap.

We help candidates build their digital professional identities, find the best fit hyperlocal jobs, grow their network and learn new skills to grow their careers. Employers can find the best talent and hire for over 70 different roles in < 48 hours.

Having raised $90+ million from marquee investors like Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital, Rocketship.vc and Greenoaks Capital, Apna is on a mission to enable livelihoods for billions in India.

We are looking for a Senior Back-End Engineer responsible looking for engineering ownership of one/multiple products at Apna. Your primary focus will be development of all scalable and stable server-side logic, definition and maintenance of Database systems, and ensuring high performance systems.

Requirements

4-7 years of experience building large scale, distributed systems

Hands and confident in any programming language and willing to learn GoLang. Experience in Python is a plus.

Develop highly scalable services and solve complex software systems problems with strong focus on latencies, RPS, error rates

Experience in Microservices architecture and patterns

Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Postgres)

Experience with Technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, Logging, Tracing, Cloud (GCP / AWS), Docker, Kubernetes

Experience with distributed event streaming platforms (Kafka)

Tech stack at Apna : https://stackshare.io/apna/apna