Senior Backend Engineer

Soch Street
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering team and take ownership of backend development, architecture, scalability and production systems.

Location: Chennai (Hybrid)

Experience: 3–6 Years

CTC: ₹20–30 LPA

Target Joining: November 2026

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect, build and deploy backend features and services.
  • Design database schemas and handle complex migrations.
  • Build and scale APIs with a focus on performance and reliability.
  • Work on system design, scalability, monitoring, logging and production issues.
  • Maintain strong engineering standards through code reviews and automated testing.
  • Identify and reduce technical debt.
  • Contribute to CI/CD and deployment improvements.
  • Explore AI-assisted engineering workflows and automation.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decisions.
  • Collaborate with Product, Frontend and other stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

  • 3–6 years of backend engineering experience.
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails, Django, Express or similar MVC frameworks.
  • Strong SQL, relational database, ORM and schema design experience.
  • Good understanding of system design, scalability, performance and reliability.
  • Experience building and scaling APIs and production systems.
  • Strong automated testing and code review practices.
  • Experience owning technical deliveries or leading engineering initiatives.
  • Strong problem-solving, ownership and communication skills.
  • B2B SaaS / product-company experience preferred.

Nice to Have

  • Ruby on Rails experience.
  • Technical mentoring experience.
  • CI/CD and infrastructure exposure.
  • AI-assisted development experience.
  • Multi-tenant SaaS experience.

What You Can Expect

  • High ownership and autonomy.
  • Opportunity to work on challenging backend problems.
  • Exposure to architecture and technical decision-making.
  • Collaborative engineering environment.
  • Competitive compensation and performance benefits.

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