SDE 2 Backend

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities.

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview

At Astra Security, we are building the future of AI-driven cybersecurity, including Autonomous Pentesting- an experience that helps teams automatically discover, test and secure Web & Mobile applications, Cloud and APIs at scale.

As a Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the core backend services that power our platform. You'll work on developing scalable APIs, distributed services, and backend systems that enable platform capabilities. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, DevOps, and fellow backend engineers to build reliable, secure, and high-performance systems. During your journey with us, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to new product initiatives from 0-1, influence technical decisions, and own features from design through production.

Here's what's in it for you

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Own features end-to-end- from technical design and implementation to deployment and monitoring.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and backend services that power core platform functionality.
• Leverage AI effectively to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and debugging while ensuring all code meets production-quality standards through critical review and validation
• Design clean, maintainable, and reusable software following object-oriented design principles.
• Collaborate with frontend, product, DevOps, QA, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality features.
• Design efficient database schemas and optimise queries for performance and scalability.
• Build reliable asynchronous workflows using queues, events, and background processing.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.
• Ship production-ready code frequently in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Continuously improve developer productivity, system reliability, and engineering

What we are looking

• 3- 6 years of experience building backend applications in a product-based or SaaS environment.
• Strong proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language such as Java, C#, PHP, Python, or C++.
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), design patterns, and software engineering principles
• Strong engineering judgment by validating, refining, and taking ownership of AI-assisted outputs.
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
• Good understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including schema design and query optimisation.
• Understanding of Dependency Injection, ORM frameworks, data validation, caching, logging, and error handling.
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.

Why Astra?

• Opportunity to work on products that solve challenging real-world problems.
• Ownership of features from concept to production.
• Fast release cycles with the ability to ship code frequently.
• Exposure to distributed systems and modern backend architecture.
• Collaborative engineering culture with a strong focus on learning and innovation.
• You’ll be joining a team of builders and problem-solvers who thrive on first-principles thinking, move fast without breaking trust and take pride in shipping products that matter.
• We work closely with founders, embrace ownership at every level and value curiosity as much as expertise.
• Opportunity to build products from the ground up and influence technical direction.
• Flexible hybrid work environment.
• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family.
• Annual team off-sites and regular team events.
• A supportive, high-growth environment where your ideas and contributions have real impact.
• Health insurance & other benefits

Location

This is a hybrid role in Bengaluru and requires a regular in-office presence to collaborate closely with Engineering and Product teams. Being in-office helps foster deep collaboration, faster decision-making and the shared energy of building together - values that define how we operate at Astra.