Senior Back End Developer

Position Title: Senior Backend Developer

Location: Remote

Department: Engineering

Reports to: CTO

Position Type: Full-time

SWIFT TV is India’s first AI-native FAST (Free Ad-Supported TV) app, already live with a million users, streaming rich regional content powered by AI-driven personalization and automation.

Our backend powers millions of streaming sessions daily. We’re looking for a passionate Senior Backend Developer to help us build, scale, optimize, and embed AI workflows directly into our platform. As a fast-growing company, we are looking for individuals who are passionate about technology, thrive in a startup environment, and are eager to contribute to our exciting journey.

What You’ll Do:

• Build, enhance & maintain backend microservices using Node.js and Python to power streaming, personalization, and content management.
• Design and optimize APIs for high throughput, low latency, and reliability at scale.
• Manage and scale AWS cloud infrastructure, including Lambda, CloudFront, S3, RDS, MediaConvert, SQS, and related services.
• Develop, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows to enable smooth deployments and monitoring.
• Integrate AI/ML capabilities such as LLMs, Langchain, HuggingFace models, and vision AI APIs to enable smart content tagging, summarization, and personalized recommendations.
• Automate repetitive backend workflows related to content ingestion, processing, and notifications.
• Build internal tools and dashboards that empower content, editorial, and marketing teams to work efficiently.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues, bottlenecks, and bugs in production systems.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate product requirements into scalable backend solutions.

What We’re Looking For:

• 4–7 years of backend development experience with strong hands-on skills in Node.js and Python.
• Proven hands-on experience managing and scaling production AWS infrastructure.
• Familiarity or interest in integrating AI-powered workflows and automation tools.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture, API design, and cloud-native best practices. Experience with CI/CD tooling and infrastructure-as-code is a plus.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and implementation.
• Experience with database technologies like SQL, NoSQL, and data caching solutions.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong problem-solving skills, debugging ability, and attention to detail.
• Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment ,proactive, collaborative, and delivery-focused.
• Passion for clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.

Why Join SWIFT TV?

• Work on a live streaming platform with millions of users impacting millions of viewing sessions every day.
• Be part of a small, passionate team pioneering AI-powered regional streaming in India.
• Take ownership of critical backend systems and drive innovation at the intersection of media, technology, and AI.
• Experience a culture of autonomy, rapid iteration, and minimal bureaucracy.
• Opportunity to grow alongside a fast-scaling startup and build products that truly matter.
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Employment Type : Full-time