Software Engineer, Backend

The Role:

As Software Engineer, Backend, you will be integral to building, scaling, and maintaining our microservices architecture, driving the performance and reliability of our core platform. The ideal candidate should possess a strong background in backend engineering and system design - particularly in Golang - demonstrate exceptional problem-solving abilities, and exhibit enthusiasm for actively contributing to the achievements of the leading startup within the EdTech sector of Bangladesh.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Owning assigned microservices end-to-end on a quarterly basis across our fleet of 30+ services (e.g., live class, core, gateway, live exam, machinary, kpi, analytics, anubadok, Shikho AI).
• Designing and building scalable, high-throughput microservices in Golang with comprehensive test coverage.
• Hands-on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) engineering: building and maintaining retrieval pipelines, embedding stores, and evaluation datasets for AI-powered services (e.g., anubadok, Shikho AI).
• Debugging, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues, while optimizing endpoint performance and overall system health.
• Translating product and platform requirements into robust technical architectures and participating in technical design discussions.
• Representing the Backend platform in cross-platform API design (REST/GraphQL) and collaboration with Mobile and Product teams.
• Maintaining complete technical documentation, service specifications, and system diagrams for owned microservices.
• Working in an AI-native engineering environment using agentic IDEs and coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor) to deliver daily agent-generated diffs.
• Leveraging AI assistance to generate unit tests, test fixtures, database migration scripts, and run efficient production log analysis for root-cause hypothesis generation.
• Utilizing AI tools to draft PR descriptions, RFCs, technical documentation, and service runbooks following team playbooks.
• Contributing to AI context engineering (prompts, agent skills, context files) and workflow optimization for cost-effective AI utilization.
• Participating in code reviews, sharing effective AI prompt workflows, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure strict deadlines and sprint planning guidelines are met.
• Working collaboratively within the engineering team to offer support whenever needed to achieve system objectives.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Minimum 3-4 years of professional experience in backend software development, with a core focus on distributed microservices architectures.
• Proven track record of designing, building, and delivering high-volume, low-latency microservices and API endpoints.
• Strong proficiency in the specified tech stack: Golang, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ArangoDB, Redis, REST/GraphQL, Docker, and Weaviate (vector search/RAG).
• Hands-on experience or deep familiarity with AI/RAG architectures, including embedding stores, vector databases, retrieval pipelines, and model evaluation datasets.
• Experience writing comprehensive test suites (unit/integration), managing test fixtures, and handling database migration strategies.
• Demonstrable adaptability to an AI-native workflow, with familiarity using agentic IDEs (Cursor/Claude Code), context engineering, prompt optimization, and daily AI-assisted shipping.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, root-cause debugging capabilities (log analysis), and a metrics-driven approach to service health and latency optimization.
• Strong collaborative skills to translate technical specifications into clean designs and represent backend architectures across multi-team discussions.

The Important Bits:

- Job type: Full Time

- Department: Technology - Engineering

- Work Location: HQ, Banani, Dhaka

- Salary: Competitive and Negotiable Based on Experience

- Working Days: 5 days a week, from Sunday to Thursday

- Other Benefits: Festival Bonus, Leave Encashment, Life & Medical Insurance, etc.

About Shikho:

Shikho is a Bangladeshi education technology start-up with a mission to democratise access to high-quality education. It has so far raised $8.0 million USD of international funding from global venture capitalists in Singapore and America, the highest for a Bangladeshi seed-stage startup and the highest in education technology for the country. Investors include education technology investment specialists Learn Capital from Silicon Valley, regional experts Wavemaker Partners from Singapore along with the Family Office of Singtel Chairman and local partner SAJIDA Foundation. Shikho aims to build a holistic learning ecosystem for a digitally enabled Bangladeshi student population, across primary, secondary, and tertiary education.

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