Senior Software Development Engineer - Backend Architecture

Role: Founding Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js + AI-Native)

Experience: 7+ years hands-on backend

Location: Bengaluru / Hyderabad / Remote India

About the Role:

Founding Senior Backend Engineer to build the core backend platform from scratch for a seed-stage WealthTech product. You will own architecture, high-throughput APIs, distributed transaction workflows, and shipping end-to-end with clear service boundaries, idempotency, reliability, and ownership.

Mandatory Requirements:Backend Engineering (7+ years):

• 7+ years hands-on backend engineering building production systems that stay fast and correct under load.

• Expert in TypeScript, Node.js, Go with Postgres, Redis, Kafka, AWS.

• Built real-time indexing, event-driven services, high-throughput APIs, distributed transaction workflows.

• Strong in microservices, event-driven architecture, scalable APIs, observability.

• Founding engineer experience on live products is a big plus.

B2C Product at Scale + FinTech/Trading:

• Must have built B2C products at scale (100K+ MAU / high transaction volume).

• FinTech / Trading / WealthTech / DeFi / Options / Perpetuals / RWA tokenization / Prediction markets / Clearing House settlement / Risk engine / Liquidation flows / Real-time indexers is highly preferred.

AI Product + AI-Native SDLC:

• Must have shipped LLM agentic workflows to end users.

• Hands-on with MCP tool calling, RAG pipelines, LangChain, LangGraph, multi-agent orchestration, vector DBs, embeddings, chunking, semantic search, structured outputs.

• Evaluation: Golden dataset creation, automated regression testing, agent behavior evaluation, precision/recall, confidence scoring, observability.

• AI-native SDLC: Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, etc.

Education:

• Mandatory: B.Tech from IITs (not NITs).

• Waived if: You have worked at Unicorn / $500M+ valuation B2C product companies OR Trading protocols moving real capital with Clearing/Risk/Liquidation at scale.

Tech Stack:

TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Python, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, AWS, GCP, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Docker, REST/GraphQL APIs, Microservices, Event-driven, MCP, RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, Multi-agent, Evaluation Frameworks.