Senior Backend Engineer

Soch Street; Chennai; Presencial; INR 1.500.000 - 2.500.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Soch Street is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the engineering team in Chennai. You will own backend development, architecture, scalability and production systems, collaborating with product and frontend teams to deliver robust features.

The role requires 3–6 years of backend experience with MVC frameworks, strong SQL, and a focus on reliability. You will contribute to CI/CD, address technical debt and help shape engineering standards.

Formación

• 3–6 years of backend engineering experience.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, Django, Express or similar MVC frameworks.
• Strong SQL, relational DB, ORM and schema design experience.
• Good understanding of system design, scalability, performance and reliability.
• Experience owning technical deliveries or leading engineering initiatives.
• Strong problem-solving, ownership and communication skills.
• B2B SaaS / product-company experience preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Architect, build and deploy backend features and services.
• Design database schemas and handle complex migrations.
• Build and scale APIs with a focus on performance and reliability.
• Work on system design, scalability, monitoring, logging and production issues.
• Maintain strong engineering standards through code reviews and automated testing.
• Identify and reduce technical debt.
• Contribute to CI/CD and deployment improvements.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decisions.
• Collaborate with Product, Frontend and other stakeholders.

Descripción del empleo

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering team and take ownership of backend development, architecture, scalability and production systems.

Experience: 3–6 Years

Target Joining: November 2026

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, build and deploy backend features and services.
• Design database schemas and handle complex migrations.
• Build and scale APIs with a focus on performance and reliability.
• Work on system design, scalability, monitoring, logging and production issues.
• Maintain strong engineering standards through code reviews and automated testing.
• Identify and reduce technical debt.
• Contribute to CI/CD and deployment improvements.
• Explore AI-assisted engineering workflows and automation.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decisions.
• Collaborate with Product, Frontend and other stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

• 3–6 years of backend engineering experience.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, Django, Express or similar MVC frameworks.
• Strong SQL, relational database, ORM and schema design experience.
• Good understanding of system design, scalability, performance and reliability.
• Experience building and scaling APIs and production systems.
• Strong automated testing and code review practices.
• Experience owning technical deliveries or leading engineering initiatives.
• Strong problem-solving, ownership and communication skills.
• B2B SaaS / product-company experience preferred.

Nice to Have

• Ruby on Rails experience.
• Technical mentoring experience.
• CI/CD and infrastructure exposure.

What You Can Expect

• High ownership and autonomy.
• Opportunity to work on challenging backend problems.
• Exposure to architecture and technical decision-making.
• Collaborative engineering environment.
• Competitive compensation and performance benefits.