Senior Software Engineer (Backend - Golang - Mobile)

Impact Analytics
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

About Impact Analytics

Impact Analytics is an agentic-first AI software company transforming retail merchandising through cutting-edge AI, LLMs, and Generative AI technologies. As a fast-growing Series D company with deployments across five continents, it is building both industry-leading merchandising solutions and foundational AI agents that are redefining how retail decisions are made. What makes Impact Analytics unique is its combination of deep retail domain expertise, strong innovation culture, and global presence. It is one of the few India-born AI companies recognized globally by organizations like Fortune, Gartner, and the Inc. 5000.For candidates looking to work on next-generation AI products with global scale and real-world impact, Impact Analytics is an exciting place to build your career. Here’s a link to our website: www.impactanalytics.co.

The impact that you will be making

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to design and build scalable backend systems that power Android-first mobile applications. The ideal candidate will have strong backend engineering expertise, experience supporting mobile applications, and a passion for building high-performance, reliable distributed systems that operate efficiently under constrained network conditions.

You will work closely with Android developers and cross-functional teams to build APIs and backend services that enable seamless mobile experiences, including offline synchronization, scalability, and high availability.

What Lands You In This Role

Must have

  • 4–7 years of hands-on backend engineering experience building production-grade services and APIs.
  • Strong programming experience in Go (Golang), with solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and software engineering principles.
  • Experience designing high-performance and scalable backend services.
  • Strong understanding of REST/gRPC APIs, API design, authentication, authorization, and service-to-service communication.
  • Experience supporting offline-first and intermittently connected applications, including synchronization, conflict resolution, idempotency, retries, and eventual consistency.
  • Strong experience with databases, caching, key-value stores, and messaging/event-driven systems.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Experience handling high transaction volumes and large datasets.
  • Strong understanding of observability, including logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work closely with Mobile/Android, Architecture, Product, and DevOps/Cloud teams.

Good to Have

  • Experience with GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar messaging systems.
  • Experience designing mobile synchronization systems, including delta sync, batching, and background synchronization.
  • Experience optimizing APIs for mobile network constraints, including payload optimization and compression.
  • Experience with backend performance testing, profiling, and capacity planning.
  • Experience in retail, logistics, field-service, or enterprise applications.

Role Expectation

  • Build and own backend services powering Native Android applications and offline-first workflows.
  • Partner with Mobile engineers to design reliable mobile-to-cloud APIs and synchronization mechanisms.
  • Drive backend decisions around scalability, reliability, performance, consistency, and observability.
  • Own backend components from architecture through deployment, monitoring, and production support.
  • Participate in API and data-model design with Mobile, Architecture, and Product teams.
  • Support UAT, phased rollouts, production releases, and time-sensitive delivery milestones.

What We Offer

  • An opportunity to be part of some of the best enterprise SaaS products to be built out of India.
  • Opportunities to quench your thirst for problem-solving, experimenting, learning, and implementing innovative solutions.
  • A flat, collegial work environment, with a work hard, play hard attitude.
  • A platform for rapid growth if you are willing to try new things without fear of failure.
  • Remuneration with best-in-class industry standards with generous health insurance cover

Some Of Our Accolades Include

  • Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Companies by Financial Times for five consecutive years: 2020-2024.
  • Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000 for seven consecutive years: 2018-2024.
  • Voted #1 by more than 300 retailers worldwide in the RIS Software LeaderBoard 2024 report.
  • Ranked #72 in America’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2023—by Fortune—alongside companies like Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, IBM, etc.
  • Forged a strategic partnership with Google to equip retailers with cutting-edge generative AI tools.
  • Recognized in multiple Gartner reports, including Market Guides and Hype Cycle, spanning assortments, merchandising, forecasting, algorithmic retailing, and Unified Price, Promotion, and Markdown Optimization Applications.

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