5,564 Backend Engineer jobs in India

About Alaan

Alaan is the SuperCard™ for businesses and the most loved fintech in the Middle East. Our mission is to simplify finance for businesses so they can save time and money.

Alaan provides everything businesses need to manage and control expenses, including the SuperCard™, AI-powered automation and insights, streamlined accounting, and centralized dashboards, all in one place.

Over 1500 businesses in the UAE and KSA, from startups to enterprises, use Alaan to control spending and save costs.

Backed by Y Combinator and top global investors- including founders and executives of leading startups - Alaan is built by a world-class team from McKinsey, BCG, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Zomato, Careem, Rippling, and other high-growth companies.

We’re not just building software. We’re reimagining how finance works for modern businesses across the region.

About the role

As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the server-side logic, database architecture, and APIs that power our products. You will collaborate closely with front-end developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver scalable, high-performance systems that meet the needs of our business.

What you'll do

• Develop and maintain backend systems and services to ensure optimal performance and scalability
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices for our FinTech platform
• Collaborate with front-end developers and product managers to define, develop, and deliver features
• Write clean, reusable, and efficient code, following best practices
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing applications as needed
• Ensure the security and integrity of backend systems, data, and APIs
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to team members
• Monitor system performance and resolve production issues as they arise

What we are looking for

• 2 to 4 years of experience in backend development - (JavaScript - Must Have)
• Proficiency in server-side programming languages such as Node.js, NestJS, Express, or Python
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and development
• Experience with databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL, and data modeling
• Familiarity with cloud services like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and DevOps tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Proficiency with version control systems like Git
• Understanding of software development best practices, including testing, security, and scalability
• Experience with caching tools such as Redis or Memcached
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks like Mocha, Chai, Sinon, or Jest
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Familiarity with fintech or payment systems
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment tools

What's in it for you

• Contribute to building the Middle East’s most beloved fintech brand from the ground up
• Benefit from a role with significant ownership and accountability
• Thrive in a flexible hybrid culture with ample work-life balance
• Participate in exciting offsite events
• Competitive salary and equity
• Enjoy additional perks like travel allowances, gym memberships, and more

Grow Your Staff is looking for a Backend Engineer for a Computer Software firm in Germany. The position is a full-time remote opportunity.

The role will have excellent growth opportunities. You will work directly with the team based in Germany.

Experience required: 5 years+

CTC: 15-20 LPA

Time: 1 PM to 10 PM IST (Monday-Friday)

Location: Remote

Type of employment: Full-time

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend services using NodeJS, NestJS, and TypeScript.
• Design, implement, and optimize database solutions using MongoDB.
• Collaborate with front-end developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver scalable and high-performance applications.
• Implement and maintain DevOps practices, including Kubernetes and AWS-based deployments.
• Ensure system reliability, performance, and security through best practices in DevOps and backend development.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to backend development and deployment.
• Write clean, scalable, and well-documented code following best software engineering practices.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in backend development using NodeJS, NestJS, and TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB database management and optimization.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and experience working with Kubernetes and AWS.
• Experience in building scalable, high-performance applications.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.
• Good communication skills and the ability to collaborate with remote teams.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Backend Engineer or a similar role.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and API development.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems like Git.
• Ability to troubleshoot and optimize backend performance.

Benefits:

• Work-from-home environment.
• Opportunity to work with European clients and a global audience.
• Gain experience in a fast-paced and innovative tech environment.

Backend Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 2+ years (Full-time experience only)

Employment Type: Full-Time, Onsite

About Us:

WareIQ is a fast-growing eCommerce fulfillment platform, powering logistics and operations for leading consumer brands across India. We're building a scalable, tech-first backbone for digital commerce and are expanding our engineering team to strengthen our core infrastructure.

Role Overview:

We're looking for a Backend Engineer who can design, develop, and maintain complex functional flows for our core products. You will work closely with frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver reliable, scalable, and efficient backend systems.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs using Python and Flask
• Design efficient database schemas and write optimized queries in PostgreSQL
• Collaborate with frontend and DevOps teams to integrate and deploy new features
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Optimize application performance and troubleshoot production issues
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices

Requirements:

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience developing backend systems for complex product workflows
• Strong expertise in Python, Flask, and PostgreSQL
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals
• Good debugging, testing, and documentation skills
• Clear communication and a collaborative mindset

What We Offer:

• Opportunity to work on meaningful, large-scale systems
• Lean, fast-paced tech team
• Competitive compensation
• Hybrid/remote flexibility

Backend Engineer – DeFi (Remote)

Our client is a leading DeFi derivatives platform redefining how users trade on-chain derivatives. With deep liquidity, instant execution, and up to 25x leverage across 70+ markets, they’re building one of the most advanced decentralized trading experiences on Ethereum, powered by the Synthetix protocol on Optimism for low gas fees and high performance.

As a backend engineer, you’ll play a critical role in building and scaling the systems that power their trading infrastructure. You’ll work on high-performance backend services, smart contract integrations, and on-chain transaction systems that drive one of the most ambitious products in DeFi.

What you’ll do:

• Design and implement scalable, low-latency backend systems for trading, data processing, and risk management
• Collaborate with frontend, product, and blockchain teams to deliver seamless platform functionality
• Develop APIs and backend architecture for reliable, high-speed trade execution
• Maintain top-tier standards of security, performance, and reliability
• Mentor developers, conduct code reviews, and drive engineering best practices

What we’re looking for:

• 4+ years of backend development experience
• Proven background building scalable, high-performance systems in trading, fintech, or DeFi
• Strong experience with Node.js, Go, Python, or similar backend languages
• Familiarity with technologies like MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, GCP, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools
• Understanding of microservices architecture and API design
• Passion for DeFi and building products you’d want to use yourself

Nice to have:

• Experience with blockchain or smart contract integrations
• Understanding of trading algorithms, derivatives, or risk management concepts
• Contributions to open-source DeFi or blockchain projects

Why join:

• Competitive compensation (with the option for crypto payments)
• Unlimited paid leave and flexible, async remote work
• Bi-annual in-person team retreats (all expenses covered)
• Fast-moving, high-impact environment in a rapidly growing DeFi sector

About Redaptive:

Redaptive is an Energy-as-a-Service provider that funds and installs energy-saving and energy-generating equipment. Redaptive’s programs help many of the world’s most sophisticated organizations reduce energy waste, save money, lower their carbon emissions, and meet their sustainability goals across their entire real estate portfolios. With Redaptive, customers can overcome capital and contractual barriers to achieve energy-saving benefits quickly, all with real-time data powered by Redaptive’s proprietary Data Solutions metering platform. Redaptive was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Denver, CO. Redaptive is backed by CarVal, ENGIE New Ventures, Linse Capital, CBRE, Evergy Ventures, Rabobank, CPP Investments, and Honeywell.

Our company culture is exciting, collaborative, and fast paced. We are passionate about changing the world and helping our customers to become more environmentally sustainable and profitable. We are looking for team members who are driven, passionate, and want to take on a diverse set of challenges to help grow a great company. Redaptive, Inc is an equal employment opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. For more information, visit

Position Summary:

Redaptive is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our Engineering team. As a Backend Engineer, you will be working with Engineering team, DevOps, Data Science, Product Managers, and QA to develop and maintain features in Redaptive’s platform.

Redaptive’s core platform is a data backhaul and meter data management system gathering Redaptive’s meter data from the field, and applications leveraging that meter data such as energy savings models and data dashboards. Integration between core operational systems (e.g., Salesforce, NetSuite) is another major focus area.

Expectation on working hours will be roughly 2 pm – 11 pm IST to align with USA mornings. (These will be the same hours as the other software developers from India will work.) This role will be based in India (ideally Pune) and will work closely with teammates across several international time zones including Argentina and USA. This position reports to the Software Engineering Manager in Pune, India.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Works independently on all technical tasks and mentors junior team members and provides technical guidance.
• Consistently suggests improvements during peer reviews and code reviews.
• Effectively communicates the problem with its background and suggests possible solutions.
• Identifies and proposes technical designs for most problem statements
• Provides task and user-story level estimations
• Ensures that processes in place are followed by the team.
• Possesses comprehensive expertise at least in 3 functional aspects of the product
• Possesses comprehensive expertise in at least 3 technical aspects of the product
• Regularly creates high-quality sharable task-level/API-level objects like LowLevel Design (LLD), documentation, technical artifacts, etc.

Required Abilities and Skills:

• Proficiency in Java programming language and related technologies
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles, data structures, and algorithms.
• Extensive experience with Java frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, etc.
• Expertise in database systems and SQL, including database design and optimization.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proficient in software development tools and version control systems (e.g., Git, SVN).
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to mentor junior team members and provide technical guidance.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions within deadlines.
• Continuously learning and staying up to date with emerging technologies and best practices in Java development.
• Domain knowledge in energy efficiency, solar/storage, or electric utilities is a plus. Domain knowledge energy efficiency, solar/storage, or electric utilities is a plus.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with Java frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, etc.
• More than 8 years of software development experience.
• Experience with cloud computing and the AWS suite. For example: IOT, S3, Lambdas, SQS, RDBMS (PostgreSQL), API Gateway.
• Experience with version control systems like Git.
• Hands-on experience with RESTful API design and development.
• Experience in Agile software development methods and tooling, such as Jira ticketing, Scrum process, etc.

Travel:

This role does not involve any international travel.

The Perks!

• Equity plan participation
• Medical and Personal Accident Insurance
• Support on Hybrid working – Equipment, Relocation
• Flexible Time Off
• Continuous Learning
• Annual bonus, subject to company and individual performance

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, drug free workplace, and complies with Labor Laws as applicable. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.

About KeyValue

KeyValue is a premier global AI-driven product development hub, dedicated to transforming ideas into scalable and impactful software products. With expertise across diverse industries, we deliver high-quality solutions with the power of AI and automation. As an AI-first organisation, we strive to push the boundaries of technology, offering accelerated, flexible, and cost-effective product development.

We have ideated, conceived, strategized and built some of the globe’s most innovative Fintech, Payments, Financial Services, Digital Commerce, Madtech, Edtech, Socialtech, Logistics, High Technology, Blockchain, Crypto, NFT and Healthcare companies, helping them conceive, scale, pivot, and enhance their businesses.

KeyValue’s mission is to be the world’s most trusted product development hub – delivering high-value outcomes for start-ups & scale-ups – with a talented skilled team – in a thriving and inclusive culture.

We are looking for Backend Engineers to work in a fast paced environment and are always eager to take on big challenges.

What makes you a great fit

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to optimize code for performance and scalability
• Good understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures & algorithms.
• Expertise in one or more server-side programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Node.js, Golang, Scala, Rust)
• Extensive experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB)
• Strong knowledge of API development (RESTful APIs, GraphQL)
• Proficiency with cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Familiarity with containerization and microservices architecture (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)
• Experience with unit testing frameworks and methodologies (e.g., JUnit, Jest, pytest, ScalaTest)

If you get to join us, what you get in the process would be invaluable opportunities to solve global problems with your talents and work with some of the most experienced software architects in the Indian IT industry and get mentored by them.

Backend Engineer (Founding Team)

Bangalore, India | 2–4 yrs exp

About Nexie

We’re building an AI-first platform that transforms how ecommerce brands connect with customers. Our agentic AI goes beyond simple automation — it thinks, creates, and adapts in real time to drive growth. The mission: make marketing feel effortless and intelligent.

Why Join

• Founding seat → shape product & culture from scratch
• Work directly with serial founders (past startup → exit)
• Real equity + Competitive salary
• Build fast, ship fast, impact global brands

Your Role

• Own the backend stack end-to-end (node.js/go/ modern tooling)
• Build scalable, robust backend services for an AI-native product
• Work closely with design + product team to prototype and ship quickly
• Push for simplicity and elegance

You Bring

• 2–4 yrs backend development (Node.js/Python/Go/Java)
• Strong fundamentals in databases (SQL + NoSQL), APIs, distributed systems
• Curiosity to explore LLMs: prompt tuning, context design, structured outputs
• Hands-on with cloud infra (AWS/GCP/Azure) & event-driven architectures
• Comfort in fast-paced, zero→one environments

Bonus

• Background in SaaS or ecommerce tools
• Previous experience in building AI native products

We Value

Builders > employees. You’re curious, scrappy, and want your code and design sense to shape the company’s DNA.

Apply if you’re ready to build beautiful, AI-native products from the ground up.