SSE - Backend

About Apna

Since 2019, apna has connected over 60 million jobseekers with more than 250,000 enterprises and small business across India. Founded by Nirmit Parikh, a Stanford graduate and serial entrepreneur who recognized the challenges in entry-level hiring, apna has rapidly grown to become India's fastest unicorn in 2021 achieving this milestone in just 21 months.

Backed by Marquee global investors

• Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital, and GSV, we're revolutionizing livelihood creation across India.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend with 4–6 years of hands-on experience in designing and building scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend systems.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Golang and hands-on experience with System Design, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and MySQL . You will be responsible for designing backend services, solving complex engineering problems, and building systems that can scale with business growth.

Experience: 4–6 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

Requirement: 1

Location: Work from office (Bangalore

• Domlur | 5 days)

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and high-performance backend services using Golang.
• Own backend components/services end-to-end, from design and development to deployment and production support.
• Participate in system design and architecture discussions and make appropriate technology and design decisions.
• Design and implement REST APIs and distributed backend services .
• Work with MongoDB and MySQL for data modeling, query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Build and maintain search and indexing solutions using Elasticsearch .
• Design and implement event-driven architectures using Kafka .
• Identify and resolve performance, scalability, reliability, and production issues.
• Write clean, maintainable, testable, and production-ready code.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with Product, Frontend, Data, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to improving the team's engineering standards.
• Take ownership of technical problems and drive them to resolution.

Required Skills

• 4–6 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Golang .
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience with System Design .
• Experience designing scalable and distributed systems .
• Strong experience with MongoDB , including:
• Data modeling
• Indexing
• Query optimization
• Aggregation
• Hands-on experience with MySQL and relational database concepts.
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch , including indexing and search optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven systems.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems .
• Good understanding of concurrency, data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with production systems and troubleshooting complex issues.
• Good to Have
• Experience working with AWS/GCP/Azure .
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes .
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar .
• Experience building highly available and fault-tolerant systems.
• Experience working in a high-scale consumer/product environment.