Backend Engineer

Loop; Bengaluru South; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Loop in Bengaluru, Karnataka is hiring for a backend engineering role to own architecture and implementation while collaborating across teams. Candidates should have a Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or equivalent, along with 4+ years of industry experience. Key skills include expertise in Node, Java, or Python, and strong experience with microservices and cloud platforms like AWS and GCP. The role involves mentoring engineers, improving system performance, and working on complex technical problems in the healthcare domain.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Expertise in programming languages like Node, Java, Python.
• Strong experience building scalable, secure APIs.

Responsibilities

• Own backend architecture, design, and implementation.
• Collaborate with teams to adopt new backend changes.
• Mentor and lead other engineers.

Skills

Backend architecture

Database schema design

API development

Microservices

AWS

GCP

NoSQL

SQL

Continuous integration

Design documentation

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Responsibilities

• Own backend architecture, design and implementation
• Design and evolve database schema to comply with business requirements
• Work with teams consuming backend APIs in adopting new changes and improvements
• Improve performance, reliability, and security of the infrastructure
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and to anticipate future needs while architecting systems
• Collaborate with other Loop employees including frontend engineers and product managers
• Collaborate with technical leadership to prioritize long-term technical investments and get them on the engineering roadmap
• Educate engineers about new findings and technology best practices through setting up brainstorming, Knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Build cadence in the team around code quality through code reviews, release guidelines and ensure no disruption of core business flows.
• Mentor, lead, hire other engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field of study
• 4+ years of relevant industry experience
• Expertise in any application programming language like Node, Java, Python
• Demonstrated ability to build and scale systems
• Strong experience building microservices; scalable and secure APIs
• Strong experience with CSPs like AWS, GCP. Strong experience with at least one of NoSQL (Firestore, MongoDB etc), SQL (MySQL/Postgres) databases and schema design
• Knowledge of modern auth mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, OAuth, etc
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Experience writing high-quality design docs with architecture diagrams
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to do cost analysis and optimization of software systems
• Ability to own and lead work on complex technical problems
• Excitement towards our mission and a strong desire to solve problems in the healthcare domain
• Ability to mentor, lead, and interview other engineers