Backend Engineer (Java / .NET)

Launched in 2007 by Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar, ixigo (Le Travenues Technology Limited) is a technology company focused on empowering Indian travellers to plan, book and manage their trips across rail, air, buses and hotels. ixigo assists travellers in making smarter travel decisions by leveraging artificial intelligence. The ixigo, ConfirmTkt and AbhiBus apps allow travellers to book train tickets, flight tickets, bus tickets, hotels, and cabs, and provide travel utility tools and services developed using in-house proprietary algorithms and crowd-sourced information. With over 54 crore Annual Active Users in Fiscal 2025, ixigo is the leading OTA for Next Billion Users in India. For more information, please visit http://www.ixigo.com

What you'll do

• Design, build, deploy, and support features across our services.
• Own backend modules end to end and ship scalable, distributed systems alongside Product, Design, and QA.
• Build highly scalable, multi-tier, distributed backend systems.
• Own the performance and stability of applications and infrastructure.
• Evaluate and adopt new tools and practices that speed up delivery.

What we're looking for

• 2-3 years of backend experience at product companies.
• CS/Engineering degree (IITs / top NITs preferred).
• Expertise in Java/J2EE or .NET (C#) and design patterns.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and multithreading.
• Experience building scalable web services.
• Proficiency with MySQL / Postgres / SQL Server / MongoDB.
• Experience with profiling, performance tuning, and writing unit and automation tests.
• Experience with e-commerce applications.
• Agentic development with AI coding agents like Claude Code or Codex.

Responsible for safeguarding sensitive company data against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, and for reporting any suspected security incidents in line with the organization's ISMS (Information Security Management System) policies and procedures.