Senior Backend Engineer (Platform) - Remote

Seeking a Platform Engineer to build and scale the core analytics automation platform including orchestration, execution engine, and distributed systems infrastructure.

Company details
Savant is a rapidly growing (Series A: $18M) SaaS company focused on building an all-in-one platform for analytics automation. We aim to transform the way business analysts build, automate, and share analytics projects. With a dynamic and rapidly scaling platform, we’re building solutions in areas like job scheduling, resource provisioning, and more to empower our users to extract timely and reliable business insights.
Website: https://www.savantlabs.io/

Requirements
• Proficient in Java or similar object-oriented programming languages
• Familiarity with developing and deploying enterprise applications in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Understanding of distributed systems or microservices architecture
• Problem-solving skills with the ability to debug and troubleshoot distributed systems issues in a cloud environment
• 5+ years of experience in full time agile software development roles
• Experience with owning features end to end from design and development through deployment and production support
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
• Enthusiasm for learning new technologies and solving complex problems
• Ownership of assigned tasks with attention to detail
• A proactive approach to challenges with a growth-oriented mindset
• Willingness to learn from and collaborate with other team members

Preferred Candidate
• Experience with the Spring ecosystem frameworks in Java
• Experience with large scale distributed data processing technologies like Spark and query engines like Trino
• Experience with data analytics
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Experience with resource management frameworks like Airflow or Argo
• Knowledge of agentic application principles, including knowledge extraction from unstructured data, short-term/long-term memory design and vector-based context management
• Experience with prompting frameworks (e.g., ReAct, CoT), multi-agent orchestration frameworks (e.g. AutoGen, CrewAI), agent communication protocols (e.g. A2A, MCP)
• Familiarity with embedding models, vector stores, and grounding techniques is a plus

Responsibilities
• Develop key platform features such as job scheduling, orchestration, execution engine and resource management
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code while adhering to industry standards & best practices
• Investigate and resolve issues in the platform to ensure reliability, scalability and performance
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers and designers, to contribute to feature definitions and implementation
• Continuously improve your technical skills by working alongside experienced team members and participating in technical discussions

Job Details
Job location: India (Remote)

Interview process
• Resume/Screening round
• Technical round
• System design round
• Culture/team fit round
• Final leadership round

Important Note
ClanX is a recruitment partner, helping Savant hire a Platform Engineer