Software Engineer II - Back-end - Data Engineering

About Us

Blueshift is a venture-funded startup headquartered in San Francisco. Our AI-Powered marketing platform empowers cutting edge B2C brands to drive 1:1 marketing on every channel. With Blueshift, marketers are in full control of automating various forms of personalised messaging across every engagement channel.

Blueshift is trusted by leading digital brands like Udacity, LendingTree, BBC, and Paypal to automate their customer engagement marketing and recognised by Gartner as a "Cool Vendor for AI in Marketing".

Blueshift is founded by repeat entrepreneurs who previously built Mertado.com (acquired by Groupon to become Groupon Goods), and were part of the early team behind Kosmix (acquired by Walmart to become @WalmartLabs). We are backed by top-tier VCs including Nexus Venture Partners, Storm Ventures, Luma Partners, and SoftBank Venture Asia.

Blueshift is staffing its team in Pune, India. As part of Blueshift, you will get to work on a cutting-edge product using the latest technologies. This is an exciting opportunity for motivated individuals to build a great career.

Software Engineer II - Backend - Data Engineering

We are looking for passionate software engineers to join our Data Engineering team at Blueshift. In this role, you will contribute to building and maintaining high throughput, low latency data pipelines that ingest millions of user, product, and event data into our system — in both real-time and batch modes.

You'll work closely with experienced engineers to develop scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure that powers our core personalisation and decisioning systems. Your work will include integrating with external systems and data warehouses to ingest and export data reliably.

You'll take ownership of key components and features, from design to deployment, and have the opportunity to grow your skills in system design, performance optimisation, and production monitoring. You'll work with modern technologies like Rust, Elixir, and Ruby on Rails, and gain hands-on experience building backend systems that operate at scale.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to design, implement, and maintain data ingestion pipelines that handle both real-time and batch processing workloads.
• Contribute to building and enhancing services that move and transform large volumes of data efficiently.
• Develop new microservices and components to support data integration and platform scalability.
• Work on integrations with third-party data warehouses and external systems for importing or exporting data.
• Participate in efforts to improve the performance, reliability, and observability of existing data systems.
• Assist in diagnosing and resolving data-related issues reported by internal teams or customers.
• Engage in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement of engineering practices within the team.
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or related fields.
• 2+ years of experience on building applications as a backend engineer.
• Solid understanding of CS concepts including OOP, data structures, concurrency.
• Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL.
• Attention to detail, curiosity, proactiveness, willingness to learn, sense of ownership are critical - qualities to succeed at Blueshift.
• Good communication and coordination skills.
• Experience working on a public cloud like AWS/Azure/GCP will be an advantage.
• Experience working on a modern language like Elixir/Rust/Golang will be an advantage.
• Experience with NoSQL systems such as Cassandra/ScyllaDB, ElasticSearch, REDIS will be a great advantage.
  
  

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive salary along with stock option grants.
• Excellent hospitalisation, personal accident, and term insurance coverage.
• Located in a top-notch facility in Baner - one of the best neighbourhoods for tech startups.
• Daily catered breakfast, lunch, and snacks along with well-stocked pantry
• A team that cares about you.