26-3104: Senior Backend Engineer

Navitas Business Consulting, Inc.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Navitas Business Consulting, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our US-based client team in Hyderabad. You will design, build, and scale backend services for a high-traffic B2B e-commerce platform, collaborating with US engineers and product teams.

The role requires strong Go proficiency, Kafka experience, and solid PostgreSQL and AWS expertise to deliver reliable, scalable systems and clear API contracts.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Go

Kafka

PostgreSQL

AWS

REST APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

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.