Backend Engineer

Nightfall AI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI platform provider in India is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to architect low-latency, real-time microservices for sensitive data processing. The role involves building secure authentication services, maintaining internal databases, and optimising data services at scale. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of experience and expertise in programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, or C++. This position offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities to lead problem-solving initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend development.
• Expertise in one or more programming languages like Python, Go, Java, or C++.
• Experience with distributed storage and database systems.

Responsibilities

• Build highly available and secure authentication and API services.
• Maintain and evolve mission-critical internal databases and services.
• Optimise high-volume, auto-scaling streaming data services.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

C++

Kafka

Hadoop

Hive

Storm

Zookeeper

Tools

MySQL

Cassandra

Job description

As a Backend Engineer at Nightfall, you'll enable us to deliver our platform reliably, securely, and at a massive scale. You'll help architect low-latency, real-time microservices that process and detect sensitive data at scale.

Responsibilities

• Building highly available and secure authentication and API services.
• Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services.
• Optimising and operating high-volume, auto-scaling streaming data services.
• Instrumenting streaming data services for visibility into utilisation per customer.
• Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services.

Requirements

• Expertise in one or more systems/high-level programming languages (e. g., Python, Go, Java, C++) and the eagerness to learn more.
• Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (three 9s) systems.
• Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring, and reliability.
• Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e. g., MySQL, Cassandra).
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them.
• Data Processing - experience with building and maintaining large-scale and/or real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Storm, or Zookeeper.
• 5+ years of experience.