Senior Backend Developer

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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. Show more Show less