26-3104: Senior Backend Engineer

Navitas Business Consulting Inc.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Navitas Business Consulting is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Hyderabad team. You will design, build, and maintain scalable Go-based backend services and APIs for a US-based B2B e-commerce client, ensuring reliability and performance.

You'll work with Kafka for streaming, PostgreSQL data modeling, and AWS deployments, collaborating closely with front-end, product, and QA teams on integrations and API contracts.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong Go (Golang) in production systems.
• Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming platforms.
• Strong PostgreSQL skills: schema design, query optimization and transactions.
• Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda or similar).
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and working with microservices.
• Solid understanding of concurrency, distributed systems and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs in Go
• Build event-driven and streaming workflows using Kafka
• Design data models and write efficient queries in PostgreSQL
• Deploy and run services on AWS, focusing on reliability, performance and monitoring
• Work with front-end, product and QA teams on integrations and API contracts
• Take part in code reviews, technical design discussions and production support
• Write clean, tested and well-documented code

Skills

Backend development

Go (Golang) proficiency

Kafka experience

PostgreSQL expertise

AWS experience

API design / microservices

Concurrency & distributed systems

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

New Relic

Sentry

Datadog

Job description

Senior Backend Engineer

Job ID#:26-3104
Location: Hyderabad, India.

Who We Are: Since our inception back in 2006, Navitas has grown to be an industry leader in the digital transformation space, and we've served as trusted advisors supporting our client base within the commercial, federal, and state and local markets.

What We Do: At our very core, we're a group of problem solvers providing our award-winning technology solutions to drive digital acceleration for our customers! With proven solutions, award-winning technologies, and a team of expert problem solvers, Navitas has consistently empowered customers to use technology as a competitive advantage and deliver cutting-edge transformative solutions.

About the role We're looking for senior backend engineers to join the engineering team of a US-based B2B e-commerce client. You'll build and scale backend services for a high-traffic commerce platform and work closely with the client's US-based engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs in Go
• Build event-driven and streaming workflows using Kafka
• Design data models and write efficient queries in PostgreSQL
• Deploy and run services on AWS, focusing on reliability, performance and monitoring
• Work with front-end, product and QA teams on integrations and API contracts
• Take part in code reviews, technical design discussions and production support
• Write clean, tested and well-documented code

Must-have skills

• 7+ years of backend development experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Go (Golang) in production systems
• Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming platforms
• Strong PostgreSQL skills: schema design, query optimization and transactions
• Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda or similar)
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and working with microservices
• Solid understanding of concurrency, distributed systems and performance tuning

Good to have

• E-commerce or B2B commerce platform experience
• Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform
• CI/CD using GitHub Actions or similar
• Monitoring tools such as New Relic, Sentry or Datadog
• Experience working directly with US clients

Working hours

• Must overlap with US Eastern Time until about 2 PM ET (roughly 6:30 PM - 12:30 AM IST)
• Flexibility for releases or production issues when needed.

The salary range listed reflects our standard market pay structure. Final compensation will be determined based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's unique qualifications, skills required for the position, professional experience, education, and business needs, at the time of hire.

Equal Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Navitas Business Consulting is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Navitas Human Resources.

Navitas is an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment and opportunities for advancement, compensation, training, and growth according to individual merit, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, genetic information, disability, veteran-status veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable Federal, state, or local law. Our goal is for each staff member to have the opportunity to grow to the limits of their abilities and to achieve personal and organizational objectives. We will support positive programs for equal treatment of all staff and full utilization of all qualified employees at all levels within Navitas.