Senior Backend Engineers
This role is for Immediately available BE Engineers onl
yWhat You’ll Do
- —The development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-en
- d.Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance and maintainable cod
- e.The entire lifecycle of stories: development, test, production, and subsequent fixes and improvement
- s.Solving complex technical problem
- s.Develop a highly scalable and performant backend based on event driven architectur
- e.Building robust, secure and scalable microservice
- s.Splitting features into tasks and for the backend architecture and its evolutio
- n.Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of cod
- e.Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards. This includes collaborating with QAs, PMs to ensure timely delivery of high-quality app
- s.Participating in, designing and driving the code review proces
- s.Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gatewa
- y.Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible to implement relational, document, key, object or graph data-stores, index stores and messaging stores as neede
- d.Tracking defects and working with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlo
- g.Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructur
- e.Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussion
- s.Owning and delivering end-to-end backend features, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalabilit
- y.Collaborating with product stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions aligned with business objective
- s.Writing clean, efficient, maintainable code using best practices and participating in code review
- s.Building reusable services and contributing to core engineering librarie
- s.Documenting and demonstrating solutions through documentation, DFDs, and code comment
- s.Solving complex technical problems with objectivity before writing cod
- e.Taking ownership of backend systems, including APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructur
- e.Working closely with Product to help drive KPIs and align engineering goals with business outcome
- s.Staying agile and adapting quickly to evolving requirements, scope, and prioritie
s.Own the inference tier for med
ia: deliver low-latency scoring/ranking APIs; tune batching/concurrency/precision; design caching/back-pressure; enforce SLOs.Guarantee offline/online feature pari
ty: feature storage, model versioning/registry, schema evolution, drift detection.Orchestrate GPU-heavy pipelin
es end-to-end (key-frames → model calls → stitching) with priorities, retries, checkpoints, and cost budgets.Run online evaluation safe
ly: shadow → canary → A/B with metric guardrails and instant rollback.Build observability & reliabili
ty: tracing, metrics, logs, error budgets, kill-switches, privacy/rights compliance.Ship quality gat
es: lip-sync confidence scoring + fallback policy; scene-consistency checks before publis
h.What You Brin
- g —3+ years of experience in software development with strong expertise in Gola
- ng.Overall 6+ years of experience in software development with a strong base and framework expertise in Java/Go/Pyth
- on.Basic working knowledge of frontend technologi
- es.Experience with frameworks – like Springboot, Quarkus, Gin/M
- ux.Experience in working with microservice architectures, transactional systems, and distributed environmen
- ts.Exposure in building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance and metrics (with something like Newreli
- c).Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSql (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoD
- B).Proficient in OOP, SQL, Design Patterns with Data modeling experience in Relational databas
- es.Proficient in building GraphQL AP
- Is.Proficient with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and version control (Gi
- t).Well-versed with TDD and Test Engineering and Automat
- ionExcellent attention to deta
- il.Outstanding written and verbal communication skil
- ls.To have mentored a team of 2-3 enginee
- rs.To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal-to-no guidance in a fluid environme
- nt.To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed syste
- ms.To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and prioriti
- es.To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environmen
- ts.Strong fundamentals
in distributed systems, performance engineering, and API des
i - gn.Proven experience taki
ng ML models from notebook → product
ion (packaging, serving, autoscaling, optimizatio - n).Fluency
in feature lifecy
cle (contracts, versioning, offline/online parity) and model lifecy
cle (registry, rollout, rollbac - k).Hands-on wi
th orchestrating compute-intensive workfl
ows and managing latency/cost trade-of fs.Experimentation
ops: canary/A-B design, metric plumbing, guardrails, revert discipline.Observability mind
set: tracing, metrics, SLOs, incident runboo- ks.Plus (nice to have): familiarity wi
th media process
ing, vector retrieval/embeddi
ngs, multilingual ASR/T - TS.Security & compliance awarenes
s: PII handling, rights metadata, audit tra
i
ls.Bonus points f
- or —Open-source contributions, side-projects, blog posts and YT tech vid
- eos.Experience deploying serverless applications to
- GCP.Experience in Cloud Run, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Kubernetes, Cloud Vis
- ion.Experience with AWS st
- ack.Machine learning experie
nce.What you
- get:Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordi
- ngly.Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the f
- ield.Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every
day.Ab
out us
Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media and Entertainment companies in the world! We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client com
panies.We are Proximity — a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product and design teams. Here’s a quick guide to getting to know us
- better:
Watch our CEO, Hardik Jagda, tell you all about Pr - oximity.Read about Proximity’s values and meet some of our Proxonau
- ts here.Explore our website, blog, and the design wing — Studio Pr
- oximity.Get behind-the-scenes with us on Instagram! Follow @ProxWrks and @
H.Jagda.Please Note: This is a 5 month fixed term
contract.
