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You will own systems end-to-end: design, code, test, deploy, and the dashboards that wake someone up at 2 a. m. You will work alongside a small, senior team and have a disproportionate impact on what India's open commerce stack feels like for millions of merchants. This role is for an engineer who has shipped backend services at India scale, has strong opinions on distributed systems trade-offs, and uses AI-assisted tooling as a lever, not as a crutch.\n\nResponsibilities: \nDesign and operate the services, pipelines, data layer, and contracts that move l traffic across the ONDC network at India scale while maintaining p99 latency less than 200 ms.\nWrite the tests that matter: unit, contract, integration against real dependencies, and load tests that prove the SLA.\nOwn deployment and operability: CI/CD pipelines, blue-green and canary rollouts, feature flags, structured logs, metrics, traces, and runbooks.\nBe on a healthy on-call rotation. 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