Founding Backend Engineer

Job Title: Founding Backend Engineer
Location: Remote
Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• Evening Shift
• Regular Shift

Why Join Now?

This is a rare opportunity to:

• Join as a founding engineer and shape the architecture, product, and engineering culture from day one.

• Work on meaningful, high-impact problems that affect millions of people.

• Help build a modern backend from scratch with clarity, scale, and resilience in mind.

• Be part of a mission-driven team operating at the intersection of technology, finance, and public policy.

What You'll Do

As the Founding Backend Engineer, you will:

• Own and build core backend services and APIs design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable endpoints.

• Model data systems using Postgres and DynamoDB, choosing the right tools and schemas for the task.

• Build on AWS Serverless infrastructure (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, EventBridge, SQS/Kinesis).

• Optimize backend performance through query tuning, caching strategies, and efficient pagination.

• Ingest and normalize policy and financial data from external sources using both batch and streaming data pipelines.

• Integrate AI/ML services via AWS Bedrock (LLMs, embeddings, retrieval systems, guardrails).

• Implement observability best practices: structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting.

• Uphold security and compliance: authentication, authorization, IAM roles, secret management, input validation.

• Ensure code quality and deployment hygiene with testing, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and zero-downtime deployments.

• Help define the overall architecture, with long-term scalability, maintainability, and performance in mind.

Who You Are

• Backend engineer with 4+ years of experience in production environments (or equivalent project depth).

• Proficient with AWS Serverless stack (Lambda, S3, API Gateway) and databases (Postgres, DynamoDB).

• API-first mindset: You care about clean contracts, versioning, idempotency, and developer experience.

• Obsessed with performance: You reduce latency, optimize SQL queries, and minimize cold starts.

• Security-conscious: You design systems with clear boundaries, minimal blast radius, and strong safeguards.

• Comfortable in startup environments you move fast, adapt quickly, and thrive in ambiguity.

• Mission-aligned: You believe technology can make policy more transparent and accessible.

Nice to Have

• Python scripting for data processing, ETL, or third-party API integrations.

• Experience working with LLMs or integrating with AWS Bedrock.

• Familiarity with financial APIs (like Setu, Perfios, or RBI datasets) or government open data platforms.

• Previous experience as a founding engineer or early-stage team member.

Tech Stack

• Backend: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, EventBridge, SQS, Kinesis

• Data: Postgres, DynamoDB

• AI/ML: AWS Bedrock (LLMs, embeddings, retrieval)

• Language: Python (nice to have)

Compensation & Benefits

• Role: Founding Backend Engineer

• Compensation: Competitive salary

• Benefits: Remote-friendly.

• Location: Remote-first (India preferred)

• Impact: Build something that helps millions understand the policies that shape their lives

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹800,000.00 - ₹1,800,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Internet reimbursement
• Provident Fund
• Work from home

Education:

• Master's (Preferred)

Experience:

• 8years: 3 years (Required)

Shift availability:

• Night Shift (Required)
• Overnight Shift (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote