SDE 3 (Backend Engineer)

About Us:

Soul AI is a pioneering company founded by IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad alumni, with a strong founding team from IITs, NITs, and BITS. We specialize in delivering high-quality human-curated data, AI-first scaled operations services, and more. Based in SF and Hyderabad, we are a young, fast-moving team on a mission to build AI for Good, driving innovation and positive societal impact.

About the Role

As an SDE-3 Backend Engineer, you will architect core backend systems, scale distributed services, and lead backend engineering best practices. You’ll own high-impact initiatives across performance, reliability, data architecture, and platform evolution.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Architect distributed systems using Node.js/Java/Go/Python services.
• Lead platform scalability, performance tuning & high-availability systems.
• Drive database modeling, sharding, replication & indexing strategies.
• Own Kafka/event-driven pipelines and large-scale queueing systems.
• Lead infra upgrades, observability, and resilience engineering.
• Guide engineers through design reviews and complex backend problems.
• Collaborate with product leadership on architecture decisions.
• Ensure backend systems meet security & compliance standards.
• Improve CI/CD, deployment pipelines, and developer efficiency.
• Mentor backend teams and set engineering standards.

Education & Desired Qualifications

• 6–10+ years backend experience

  in high-scale product environments

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• Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infra.
• Strong experience with Node.js, Java, Go, or Python.
• Strong data modeling and performance optimization experience.
• Proven leadership in scaling backend systems.

Why Join Us?

• Work on high-impact projects that contribute to building AI for Good.
• Collaborate with top-tier engineers and domain experts from IITs, NITs, and BITS.
• Opportunity to grow in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.