Senior Software Engineer - Backend

GoGroup is looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer in Noida/Kathmandu with immediate effect.

As a Senior Engineer at GoGroup, you play a pivotal role in shaping the team’s development goals, product strategy, and future team growth while driving a culture of quality and process adherence. Beyond optimizing your own code, you empower engineers to enhance their coding practices, ensuring high standards across the board. This role combines technical leadership with active mentorship, fostering an environment of continuous improvement and innovation.

The engineering team operates across diverse domains, tackling challenges like large-scale system design, distributed computing, real-time data processing, and user experience optimization. Your responsibilities include collaborating with founders, product managers, and developers to refine requirements and align priorities, contributing hands-on to backend development, managing devops aspects, and mentoring junior engineers. You will also focus on maintaining system accuracy, availability, and scalability while continuously identifying opportunities to refine architecture and implementation standards.

About GoGroup:

GoGroup is an active holding company that focuses on building outstanding digital products independently and in cooperation with partners. Founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneurs in the technology space, the group now operates offices in Berlin, Germany and New Delhi, India, with over 100 employees from over 20 nations.

The GoGroup team is driven by the technological opportunities of the so-called ‘new industry’, in which conventional production processes are increasingly merging with the possibilities of digitalisation.

In this context, GoGroup is active in three disciplines:

• Build: We incubate our own companies.
• Partner: We enable partners to develop and distribute outstanding digital companies and products.
• Invest: We invest in existing companies in our areas of specialization.

In everything GoGroup does in this way, enthusiasm for technology, the pursuit of predictable profitability and a belief in true entrepreneurs with a long-term horizon are at the forefront.

You'll get an opportunity to:

• Work with the founders, product managers and developers closely to understand and filter the requirements.
• Align the stakeholders on the priority of tasks.
• Contribute to the core product development by being hands-on
• If needed, own portions of devops around the product.
• Maintain the applications for accuracy and high availability.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve system designs, architecture and implementation standards.
• In all of the above, responsibly leverage AI to drive outcomes.

You're a good fit, if you have:

• Experience in architecting and building products/business-critical backend applications using Node.js (Nest or Express).
• Experience with using AI augmented IDEs and tools(Copilot, Cursor etc) for development, debugging and deployment
• Experience in deploying and maintaining web applications.
• Experience with relational databases like Postgres or MySQL.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, etc.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and stress testing tools.
• Good communication skills.

What we offer:

• A modern, international working environment characterized by start-up energy, dynamism and leaps in growth
• A key position to impact the product you build and take it to the next level
• Flexible working conditions with the option to work remotely, combined with a workplace in Noida