SSE - Backend

• *About Apna**

Since 2019, apna has connected over 60 million jobseekers with more than 250,000 enterprises and small business across India. Founded by Nirmit Parikh, a Stanford graduate and serial entrepreneur who recognized the challenges in entry\-level hiring, apna has rapidly grown to become India's fastest unicorn in 2021 achieving this milestone in just 21 months.

Backed by Marquee global investors \- Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital, and GSV, we're revolutionizing livelihood creation across India.

• *About the Role**

We are looking for a **Senior Software Engineer – Backend** with 4–6 years of hands\-on experience in designing and building scalable, reliable, and high\-performance backend systems.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in **Golang** and hands\-on experience with **System Design, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and MySQL**. You will be responsible for designing backend services, solving complex engineering problems, and building systems that can scale with business growth.

• *Experience:** 4–6 Years

• *Employment Type:** Full\-time

• *Requirement:** 1

• *Location:** Work from office (Bangalore \- Domlur \| 5 days)

• *Requirements** **Key Responsibilities:**

• Design, develop, and maintain **scalable and high\-performance backend services** using Golang.
• Own backend components/services end\-to\-end, from design and development to deployment and production support.
• Participate in **system design and architecture discussions** and make appropriate technology and design decisions.
• Design and implement **REST APIs and distributed backend services**.
• Work with **MongoDB and MySQL** for data modeling, query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Build and maintain search and indexing solutions using **Elasticsearch**.
• Design and implement event\-driven architectures using **Kafka**.
• Identify and resolve performance, scalability, reliability, and production issues.
• Write clean, maintainable, testable, and production\-ready code.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with Product, Frontend, Data, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to improving the team's engineering standards.
• Take ownership of technical problems and drive them to resolution.

• *Required Skills**

• **4–6 years of professional software development experience.**
• Strong hands\-on experience with **Golang**.
• Strong understanding and hands\-on experience with **System Design**.
• Experience designing **scalable and distributed systems**.
• Strong experience with **MongoDB**, including:
• + Data modeling

+ Indexing

+ Query optimization

+ Aggregation

• Hands\-on experience with **MySQL** and relational database concepts.
• Hands\-on experience with **Elasticsearch**, including indexing and search optimization.
• Hands\-on experience with **Kafka** and event\-driven systems.
• Strong understanding of **REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems**.
• Good understanding of concurrency, data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Strong debugging and problem\-solving skills.
• Experience working with production systems and troubleshooting complex issues.

• *Good to Have**

• Experience working with **AWS/GCP/Azure**.
• Experience with **Docker and Kubernetes**.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with observability tools such as **Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar**.
• Experience building highly available and fault\-tolerant systems.
• Experience working in a high\-scale consumer/product environment.