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From checkout optimisation and reducing return-to-origin (RTO) to payments, retention, and post-purchase engagement, we help brands scale profitably. Today, GoKwik powers 15,000+ merchants globally and processes $2B+ in GMV annually. Backed by RTP Global, Z47, Peak XV, and Think Investments, we are building AI-led infrastructure to enable faster, smarter commerce outcomes for brands worldwide.\nWhy This Role Matters\nWe are looking for a Software Development Engineer III to lead the design, development, and scaling of backend systems powering KwikEngage, GoKwik’s commerce engagement suite. The role focuses on customer engagement, messaging, campaign execution, automation, and customer data processing.\nYou will work hands-on with Go and Node.js to build reliable, high-performance distributed systems, make architectural decisions, and drive complex engineering initiatives from design through production. 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Build customer-event ingestion, identity resolution, segmentation, and analytical pipelines.\nScalability and Multi-Tenancy: Design systems that support multiple merchants while maintaining data isolation, predictable performance, and effective workload management during traffic spikes.\nCloud Infrastructure and Production Readiness: Own production readiness on AWS, including capacity planning, observability, safe deployments, backward compatibility, disaster recovery, and infrastructure cost optimisation.\nProduction Reliability: Lead complex debugging and incident resolution, identify root causes, and implement long-term improvements to prevent recurring production issues.\nTechnical Leadership: Lead architecture and design reviews, document technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and communicate risks and trade-offs to engineering and product stakeholders.\nMentoring and Collaboration: Mentor engineers, review code, and drive cross-functional engineering initiatives from planning through execution.\nAI-Assisted Engineering: Use AI tools for development, testing, refactoring, and debugging. Ensure generated code is properly validated for correctness, security, and maintainability.\n AI-Powered Product Development: Contribute to AI- and LLM-powered product capabilities, including evaluation, failure handling, and operational safeguards.\nWho You Are\nHave substantial experience building, scaling, and operating production backend systems, with ownership extending beyond individual features or services.\nPossess strong hands-on proficiency in both Go and Node.js, along with working knowledge of TypeScript.\nHave a deep understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, consistency, transactions, API design, and fault tolerance.\nHave practical experience with Kafka or Redpanda, including consumer lag monitoring, event replay, delivery guarantees, and safe schema evolution.\nHave experience with ClickHouse, including analytical data modelling, ingestion patterns, and query optimisation.\nUnderstand MongoDB, including document modelling, indexing, and performance optimisation at scale.\nHave strong experience with relational databases, including Amazon RDS, transactions, schema migrations, indexing, and query tuning.\nHave practical experience using Redis for caching, expiry management, coordination, and queue-backed workloads.\nHave experience deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting production systems on AWS.\nHave built and operated reliable background jobs and workers using Bull, BullMQ, or equivalent technologies.\nCan identify bottlenecks across application code, queues, databases, and infrastructure and demonstrate improvements through measurable results.\nHave experience implementing incremental migrations and architectural changes without disrupting production systems.\nDemonstrate sound engineering judgement and the ability to balance technical complexity with business requirements.\nHave proven technical leadership experience through architecture decisions, design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and cross-team delivery.\nCommunicate technical decisions, trade-offs, risks, and execution plans clearly to engineering and product stakeholders.\nWhy GoKwik\nAt GoKwik, you will build the backend infrastructure powering customer engagement and commerce growth for leading D2C brands. 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