Senior Backend Engineer — Platform & Microservices Lead

Zoomcar; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

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.