SDE 2/3 (Backend)

Gushwork; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO policy

Unlimited AI usage

Cool swag

Stocked pantry

Job summary

Gushwork is seeking a talented backend developer to build next-generation AI-led systems in Bengaluru. You will work on content generation, API design, and system reliability. Team involvement is crucial, as you will work closely with product and frontend teams to ensure features are delivered effectively.

With a focus on collaborative problem-solving and a commitment to high-quality outputs, you’ll play a key role in the growth of this innovative startup. A passion for AI and strong backend experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in backend development.
• Experience with building production systems.
• Capable of owning features from ticket to production.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship backend capabilities for AI-led content research.
• Design APIs and services across AWS infrastructure.
• Maintain system performance and reliability.

Skills

Backend system ownership

Production backend systems

Node.js

Python

AWS services

APIs design

AI pipelines

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

Gushwork is reinventing how businesses get discovered online. We're an agentic AI startup that helps B2B companies show up in AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity by building a content engine on websites designed to attract AI visitors alongside human visitors.

We're a US and Bengaluru-based company that raised over $11M from top-tier global VCs including Lightspeed, SIG, B Capital & Beenext. While search behavior is rapidly shifting toward AI, most B2B companies are being left behind. We're changing that.

We're at an exciting inflection point—moving fast, solving hard problems, and building technology that is becoming critical infrastructure as AI reshapes how buyers find solutions. If you want to work on challenging problems with a talented team in a high-growth environment, we'd love to meet you.

More about the role below—if you feel it's a fit, we are excited to meet you!

What You’ll Do

• Help build and ship next-generation backend capabilities—including AI-led content research, webpage generation pipelines, lead capture, and integrations that power the product.
• Design and evolve APIs and services across ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, queues, and the data stores behind them (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Keep systems performant, robust, and reliable—query and workflow tuning, idempotency, retries, observability, and on‑call‑friendly runbooks.
• Collaborate with product and frontend teams on contracts, rollout, and failure modes so shipping stays fast without surprises in production.
• Own high-risk paths with extra care—auth, migrations, multi‑tenant boundaries, and anything that touches customer domains or data isolation.
• Write clear docs and runbooks for services, ops, and processes.

Why We’ll Like You

Backend Ownership

• You have shipped production backend systems that other teams and customers depend on—not just scripts or one-off jobs.
• You are comfortable owning a feature from ticket to production—including scoping, implementation, monitoring, and iteration.
• You can hold API design, data model, async workflows, and deployment in mind at once while keeping the customer outcome front and center.

Product Minded

• You tie technical work to customer and roadmap impact—asking when and why is unclear instead of guessing.
• You prefer small, reviewable PRs and measurable rollouts over large surprise diffs.
• You treat auth, migrations, and customer‑domain routing as high-risk paths that deserve extra review and a clear rollback story.

AI Native

• You have built or operated software where LLMs or AI pipelines are part of the product path—code generation, orchestration, evaluations, cost, testability, and reliability included.
• You care about quality, cost, and failure modes of AI-assisted flows—latency, retries, queues, human‑in‑the‑loop where needed.

Backend Capabilities

• You have worked on Node.js and/or Python services in production at meaningful traffic, data volume, or workflow complexity.
• You are comfortable with AWS-shaped systems—Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, RDS PostgreSQL, SQS, Step Functions, secrets—or you ramp quickly with our stack.
• You know how to maintain reliable systems while shipping fast—observability (e.g., Sentry), sane defaults, and pragmatic tradeoffs.
• You know how to build and ship CI/CD pipelines and safe deploy patterns for the services you own.

Craft

• You treat and nurture your code like a piece of art, with the right balance of simplicity and complexity, without sacrificing speed.
• You have a high bias to action—running those POCs with cursor/Claude code—and a low bias to over-engineering.

Human

• You build trust with PMs, designers, and engineers—async updates in Slack, threads not @channel noise.
• You admit what you don’t know and pull in the right owner (buddy, infra, security) early.
• You explain complex ideas clearly in writing—specs, PR descriptions, and docs.
• You hold 3+ years of experience.

Why You’ll Love Us

• You’ll be part of an early team at a fast-growing company, with a lot of impact.
• You’ll get to work with really smart and helpful people.
• We constantly adopt the latest technologies and stay close to the latest AI innovations.
• Opportunity to influence the direction of the product and engineering culture.
• Flexible PTO policy.
• Unlimited AI usage.
• Plus cool swag, a stocked pantry, and other benefits.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.