Sr. Backend Engineer

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Engineer - Backend with 7-12 years of strong backend engineering experience to join our engineering team in Bangalore. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on engineer with strong expertise in Python and/or Node.js, along with experience building and shipping AI-powered products. You will take ownership of backend systems end-to-end from architecture and design through development, deployment, and production. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working in a startup environment, takes ownership of technical problems, and has a strong track record of turning ideas into production-ready products. Responsibilities: - Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend services and APIs. - Build backend systems using Python and/or Node.js, following clean architecture and engineering best practices. - Own backend features end-to-end, from technical design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and production support. - Work closely with Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions. - Build and ship AI-powered products and features that deliver measurable value to customers. - Integrate AI/ML capabilities, LLMs, APIs, and other AI technologies into production applications where appropriate. - Design and implement RESTful APIs, backend services, integrations, and data-processing pipelines. - Make architectural decisions around scalability, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability. - Identify and resolve complex production issues, performance bottlenecks, and reliability challenges. - Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and system-design decisions. - Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to improving engineering standards and practices. - Stay current with emerging AI, backend, and cloud technologies and identify opportunities to improve the product and engineering processes. Requirements: - 7-12 years of professional software/backend engineering experience. - Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or Node.js . - Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, APIs, databases, and scalable application design. - Proven experience building and shipping products to production, not just prototypes or POCs. - Hands-on experience with AI-powered products, AI integrations, LLM applications, or similar AI-driven systems. - Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, testing, debugging, deployment, and production support. - Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases. - Strong problem-solving and system-design skills. - Ability to work independently and take ownership in a fast-paced startup environment. - Strong communication and collaboration skills. Preferred Technical Skills: - Python, Node.js, REST APIs / GraphQL. - SQL / NoSQL databases. - Cloud platforms such as AWS/GCP/Azure. - Docker and CI/CD. - Redis, queues, event-driven architectures. - AI/LLM APIs and frameworks. - Experience with RAG, AI agents, vector databases, embeddings, or similar GenAI technologies is a plus. Good to Have: - Strong backend fundamentals. - Product-building mindset. - Experience taking ownership from idea to architecture, development to production. - Practical experience building and shipping AI products. - Ability to work in ambiguity and move quickly in a startup environment. - Strong engineering judgment and willingness to get hands-on with challenging technical problems Company Summary NetSpring is a cloud application platform-as-a-service for quick, continuous, AI/ML-assisted, actionable business insights from operational event data. NetSpring's operational intelligence platform serves use cases such as product and behavioral analytics, customer experience, IoT, supply-demand management, financial risk management, personalization, data observability, etc. NetSpring's co-founders previously co-founded ThoughtSpot, which is now a 4 billion dollar company. NetSpring's early founding team has very deep expertise in enterprise software, data analytics, large-scale distributed systems, databases, and complex analytic applications. They have experience building and scaling a company from zero to a large company. NetSpring is funded by Khosla Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, and Wipro Ventures. Our mission is to empower every business to reach its peak of operational agility. Why Join Us At NetSpring, we believe in fairness, humility, working hard and enjoying every minute of it, and empowering people to do amazing things they never thought they were capable of. We treat co-workers, partners, and customers with respect and care. We focus on the end goal of generating value for customers, Buyers and users of our products are our priority. Our team always commits deeply to the success of the company.

Required Skills

[AI, LLM, Node.js, NodeJS, Python, backend]

Additional Information

Source recruiter: Shreya Aggarwal Source recruiter designation: Technical Recruiter Company tagline: The operational intelligence platform Employee count: 10 Company founded: 2019 Benefits: Health Benefits, Competitive Compensation, Flexible Work Company tech stack: IoT, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing Website: https://www.netspring.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/netspringio/about/ Instahyre score: NA Strong match: NA Accept outstation: true Company tagline: The operational intelligence platform Logo: https://media.instahyre.com/images/profile/base/employer/38210/bb21ee6873/1600386444587.jfif