Senior Backend Engineer - Bengaluru

We’re looking for a backend builder who owns problems end-to-end, thinks from first principles, builds lean and scalable systems, and moves across boundaries when the product needs it.

Company Details
upGrad is a South Asia-focused EdTech platform that combines technology, industry partnerships and expert-led learning to help learners achieve career outcomes. upGrad

Requirements

• 3–5 years of software engineering experience with strong backend fundamentals.

• Hands-on experience with Java and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Production experience with Spring/Spring Boot or Node.js.

• Comfortable working across Java/Spring and Node.js when required.

• Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems and production-grade system design.

• Experience with SQL databases, including schema design, indexing and query optimisation.

• Good understanding of NoSQL concepts such as partitioning, consistency, access patterns and data modelling.

• Experience with at least one cloud platform — AWS, GCP or equivalent.

• Ability to reason about scalability, reliability, performance, maintainability and cost.

• Strong engineering judgement and willingness to use AI effectively while validating its output.

Responsibilities

• Own backend problems from idea and design through production.

• Build simple, maintainable and scalable backend architecture.

• Design and evolve distributed systems, service boundaries and communication patterns.

• Make deliberate decisions around microservices, tenancy, data isolation, partitioning and access patterns.

• Own backend performance through query optimisation, API performance, caching and concurrency.

• Design systems for scalability, extensibility, reliability and maintainability without over-engineering.

• Think beyond tickets by understanding product outcomes and challenging solutions when needed.

• Optimise infrastructure and engineering costs.

• Ship, measure and iterate with pace.

• Collaborate across backend, frontend, infrastructure, product and other teams when required.

• Use AI for exploration, coding, debugging, testing and review while owning engineering decisions.

Job Details
Bengaluru — Work from Office

Interview Process

• Recruiter Screening

• Technical Assessment

• Backend Technical Interview

• System Design Interview

• Hiring Manager Interview

• Final Interview

Important Note
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