Senior Backend Engineer

  • Pune
  • Northstar Hr Consultants

Job Title - Senior Backend Engineer

Job Location - Baner, Pune, Maharashtra


About Client

The mission of our client is to create an online environment where all consumers are protected from online spam and abuse. Recognized by G2 as the 2023 Leader in Bot Detection and Mitigation, with the highest score in customer satisfaction and the largest market presence four quarters running, our client offers the world's first $1M warranties for credential stuffing and SMS toll fraud. With 20% of our customers being Fortune 500 companies, our AI-powered platform combines powerful risk assessments with dynamic threat response to undermine the strategy of attack, all while improving good user throughput. They protect enterprises from cybercrime and abuse.


Position Summary

  • Work on high-traffic SaaS services running at a global scale, serving hundreds of millions of requests per day and constantly growing.
  • Develop highly available, zero downtime middleware and front-end products.
  • Contribute to software development that spans the full stack—from browser interfaces to data analytics pipelines—supporting a dedicated team focused on data science and operational monitoring.
  • Collaborate within an agile, cross-functional team (Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Quality Engineers) to take full ownership of services and projects, from gathering requirements and writing specifications to release and ongoing maintenance.
  • Assist in transitioning from a monolithic architecture and AWS Lambdas to a microservices-based framework leveraging Kubernetes.


What we want from you:

Must Have:

  • 5+ years of experience in a commercial environment using back-end programming languages, specifically Python and Go.
  • 2+ years of experience leading technical projects.
  • 2+ years of experience with databases, both NoSQL and Relational.
  • 2+ years of experience designing and implementing microservices.
  • 2+ years of experience with various services from cloud providers like AWS and Azure.
  • Strong knowledge of web and HTTP concepts and methodologies, including DNS, TLS, browser caching, and CDNs (e.g., Cloudflare, CloudFront).
  • Experience with agile development methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).

Nice to Have:

  • Experience with Django and the Airflow DAG framework.
  • Experience in implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
  • Proficiency with Docker and containers, ideally including container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.