Senior Backend Engineer — Platform & Microservices Lead

Zoomcar

Redwood City (CA)

On-site

USD 190,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision
401(k)
Holidays
Wellness
Vacation

Job summary

Zūm Services, Inc. is seeking senior backend engineers to own backend platform verticals and deliver scalable, customer-facing features in a fast-moving, on-site Bay Area environment.

You will build microservices using modern tech (Kubernetes, Kafka, Postgres, gRPC) and contribute to engineering best practices across the codebase while ensuring observability with Datadog, Rollbar and Segment. This Bay Area role requires onsite work in Redwood Shores, CA.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 5+ years of industry experience as a Software Engineer
  • Experience building enterprise software platforms
  • Hands-on architecture design and coding skills
  • Experience with relational and non-relational databases
  • Excellence in one or more programming languages – Node.js, Java, Python
  • Hands-on experience deploying and managing apps in the cloud – AWS/Google

Responsibilities

  • Own backend platform verticals and deliver customer-facing features
  • Build microservices with Kubernetes, Kafka, Postgres, gRPC, and related tech
  • Promote strong engineering practices: clean, maintainable, testable code
  • Improve visibility and traceability with Datadog, Rollbar, Segment, and similar tools

Skills

5+ years experience
Enterprise software
Architecture design
Relational databases
Non-relational databases
Node.js
Java
Python
AWS/Google Cloud
Engineering practices
Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes
Kafka
Postgres
gRPC
Datadog
Rollbar
Segment
Node.js

Job description

Zūm Services, Inc. is seeking senior backend engineers to own backend platform verticals and deliver scalable, customer-facing features in a fast-moving, on-site Bay Area environment.

You will build microservices using modern tech (Kubernetes, Kafka, Postgres, gRPC) and contribute to engineering best practices across the codebase while ensuring observability with Datadog, Rollbar and Segment. This Bay Area role requires onsite work in Redwood Shores, CA.

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