Senior Software Engineer

ClanX
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Requirements

  • 4+ years in backend and distributed systems, including real architecture ownership.
  • You've designed systems that stayed correct and affordable under scale and concurrency.
  • Deep judgment on data modelling, consistency, isolation, and failure modes.
  • You've made a fast-growing team better through standards, review, and mentorship.
  • Calm with ambiguity; you bring order to it.Bonus Qualifications
  • Worked on agentic/AI systems, event-sourced architectures, or high-stakes transactional systems.
  • Tamed a runaway cost or reliability problem in a complex system.
  • Opinions on where automated systems need hard limits and human confirmation.

Responsibilities

  • Own backend architecture as the team and product scale several-fold.
  • Design the boundaries and safety that keep autonomous, AI-driven systems correct, bounded, and affordable.
  • Get multi-tenant isolation, reliability, and performance right.
  • Make the hard design and build-vs-buy calls, and write the standards the team builds against.
  • Raise the bar through review and mentorship.30 / 60 / 90-Day Expectations
  • 30 days: you've absorbed the architecture, found the sharpest risks, and are already shaping decisions.
  • 60 days: you own architecture for core systems and have led a foundational design the team is building on.
  • 90 days: you're the architecture owner, standards, boundaries, and the bar are set by you.

Job Details

Bengaluru, work from office.

Interview Process

  • Technical Discussion
  • System Design Round
  • Founder Discussion

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