Backend Engineer

Influcraft; India; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Influcraft is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and build scalable services powering campaign workflows, escrow payments, approvals, and real-time tracking. You will own secure APIs for creators and brands and optimize database schemas for performance.

You will implement authentication, authorization, and robust transaction handling, integrate external services, and run background jobs in a fast-moving startup environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong experience with Node.js and TypeScript or JavaScript.
• Experience building and maintaining production REST APIs.
• Strong understanding of databases and data modeling.
• Familiarity with payment systems and transaction workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs.
• Build campaign workflows, escrow payments, approval engines and real-time tracking.
• Develop secure APIs for creator and brand-facing products.
• Design database schemas and optimize queries for performance.
• Build reliable payment and escrow workflows with proper transaction handling.
• Implement authentication and authorization and role-based access control.
• Integrate third-party services and external APIs.
• Build background jobs, queues and event-driven workflows.
• Monitor, debug, and improve backend reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers and founders to ship features end to end.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

REST APIs

Git

Debugging

Problem solving

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

API design

Authentication

Authorization

Queues/Background jobs

Event-driven architectures

Job description

Build the systems that power campaign workflows, escrow payments, approval engines, and real-time tracking. You'll work on the core infrastructure that creators and brands depend on to run their businesses.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs
• Build campaign
• workflow
• approval
• and payment systems
• Develop secure APIs for creator and brand-facing products
• Design database schemas and optimize queries for performance
• Build reliable payment and escrow workflows with proper transaction handling
• Implement authentication
• authorization and role-based access control
• Integrate third-party services and external APIs
• Build background jobs
• queues and event-driven workflows where required
• Monitor
• debug and improve backend reliability and performance
• Collaborate with frontend engineers and founders to ship features end to end
• Write maintainable
• well-tested and documented backend code
• Contribute to backend architecture and technical decisions as the product scales

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional backend development experience
• Strong experience with Node.js and TypeScript or JavaScript
• Experience building and maintaining production REST APIs
• Strong understanding of databases and data modeling
• Experience with PostgreSQL
• MongoDB or similar databases
• Understanding of authentication
• authorization and API security
• Experience with asynchronous processing
• background jobs or queues
• Familiarity with payment systems and transaction workflows
• Strong understanding of Git and modern software development practices
• Ability to debug complex problems and build reliable systems
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving early-stage startup