Senior Backend Developer

Location: Jaipur/ Bengaluru

Khushi Baby, a nonprofit organization in India, serves as a technical partner to health departments. Established in 2016 from a Yale University classroom, it has grown into a 90+ member team with offices in Jaipur, Udaipur, Delhi, and Bengaluru.

Khushi Baby focuses on digital health solutions, health program strengthening, and R&D. Its flagship platform, the Community Health Integrated Platform (CHIP), supports over 70,000 community health workers across 40,000 villages, reaching 45 million beneficiaries. The platform has identified and monitored 5+ million high-risk individuals, with the Ministry of Health allocating ₹160 crore ($20M) for its scale-up.

CHIP has enabled initiatives like Rajasthan's digital health census, TB case finding, vector-borne disease surveillance, labor room monitoring, and immunization drives, co-designed with extensive field input.

In R&D, Khushi Baby advances community-level geospatial analysis and individual health diagnostics, including smartphone-based tools and low-literacy models. Programmatically, it focuses on maternal health, child malnutrition, and zero-dose children.

Backed by donors like GAVI, Skoll Foundation, and CSR funding, Khushi Baby partners with IITs, AIIMS Jodhpur, JPAL South Asia, MIT, Microsoft Research, WHO, and multiple state governments.

Khushi Baby seeks skilled, creative, and driven candidates eager to make a large-scale public health impact by joining its interdisciplinary team in policy, design, development, implementation, and data science.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
• Architect backend infrastructure using best practices for performance, security, and scalability (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, GCP).
• Oversee database design and optimization for relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Lead, mentor, and support junior developers and interns within the backend team.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and capacity building across the tech team.
• Drive code reviews, documentation, and standardization of backend processes.
• Collaborate closely with the policy, product, and field teams to translate program needs into technical solutions.
• Independently manage timelines, deliverables, and progress reporting through ASANA/Jira.
• Take ownership of critical platform features and actively contribute to new R&D initiatives.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 5+ years of backend development experience with strong proficiency in frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Node.js, or Python (Django/Flask).
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Experience deploying applications on AWS, GCP, and managing containerization using Kubernetes/Docker.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Proven experience in leading or mentoring development teams.
• Familiarity with big data processing tools and data pipeline frameworks is a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.

What We Offer:

• Annual CTC: based on experience and skills.
• Comprehensive medical insurance.
• Paid sick leave, parental leave, and menstrual leave.
• Annual learning stipend for professional development.
• Flexible, supportive work culture with opportunities for leadership growth.
• Opportunities to represent Khushi Baby at national and international conferences.
• 90-day probationary period at the start of the contract.