Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)

Cutshort; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best salary

AI learning

Continuous learning

Global clients

Job summary

Cutshort is seeking Senior Backend Engineers to architect and build highly scalable, low-latency distributed systems with RESTful services. You will develop internal software products and tackle complex scale-up challenges, leading architecture discussions and mentoring juniors.

Applicants should have 5-8 years in software development with Go/Java/Python, experience in microservices, AWS, Docker, and CI/CD. Fluency in English and strong communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Overall 5-8 years of software development experience with strong base in Golang/Java/Python.
• Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD.
• Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux.
• Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments.
• Experience with RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics.
• Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ.
• DevOps experience.
• Experience with AWS stack.
• Excellent attention to detail and outstanding communication.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, high-performance, maintainable code.
• Solve complex technical problems and drive architecture discussions.
• Analyze problems objectively and propose unbiased technical solutions.
• Coordinate cross-functionally to meet business objectives and compliance.
• Lead code reviews and mentor junior engineers.
• Build robust, secure, scalable microservices.
• Implement RESTful services with metric-driven APIs.
• Ensure sub-second server responses and manage diverse data stores.
• Track defects, triage bugs, and manage backlog.
• Own and maintain cloud infrastructure.
• Drive KPI alignment with product teams.
• Scale engineering efforts for hundreds of millions of users.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers.

Skills

Golang

Java

Python

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

CI/CD

Microservices

RESTful APIs

ElasticSearch

SQL/NoSQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Spring Boot

Gin/Mux

Hystrix

Job description

• Writing documentation & create engineering processes.

We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low-latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

You’ll be responsible for—

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code.
• Solving complex technical problems.
• Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
• Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.
• Participating in and driving code reviews.
• Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices.
• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
• Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
• Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog
• Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
• Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
• Architecting & designing the platform.
• Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation.
• Writing documentation & create engineering processes.
• Working as an individual contributor.
• Helping drive KPIs with Product.
• Taking ownership of backend systems.
• Helping with unit tests & QA process.
• Scaling the engineering team.
• System scaling to hundreds of millions of users.
• Working with product managers and designs.

Requirements

What you need—

• Overall 5-8 years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional).
• Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD.
• Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux.
• Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments.
• Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix).
• Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ.
• DevOps experience.
• Experience with AWS stack.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• To be a self‑starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment.
• To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
• To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities.
• To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.
• To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional).
• To have contributed to open-source projects.
• To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth.
• Proficiency in English.
• Experience with Web3(optional).

Benefits

What you get—

• Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
• Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
• Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
• High-impact work: Build AI‑first systems and products used at scale by global clients.

Skills:- Go Programming (Golang), Java, Python, Distributed Systems and Kubernetes