Aftershoot

Backend Engineer - SDE 1

AftershootIndia
HybridFull-timeExperience: FresherPosted: 11/11/2026

Job Description

We're seeking a Backend Engineer (SDE 1) with strong backend and cloud engineering skills to join our team. In this role, you'll build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure leveraging cloud technologies, preferably GCP.

Key Responsibilities

Own backend features end to end, from design and data modelling through to shipping, monitoring and improving them in production.

Build scalable APIs and services for web products, working closely with frontend, product and design.

Design reliable flows for transactions and third-party integrations, including retries, safe re-runs that don’t duplicate actions, and handling failures.

Build systems that handle high-volume data and large files efficiently: storage, processing pipelines, caching and fast delivery.

Run what you build: cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring and on-call ownership of your services.

Raise the bar on code quality, system design and engineering practices in the team.

Requirements & Experience

1.5-2+ years building backend systems for product companies, ideally web or SaaS products used by real customers.

Strong in at least one of Go, Node.js, Python or Java.

Experience designing APIs and data models (SQL and NoSQL) that scale.

Has owned at least one critical flow in production, e.g. payments, orders, billing or integrations with external partners.

Hands-on with a public cloud (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure fine), Docker and infrastructure-as-code.

Experience with monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus or similar) and debugging production issues.

Required Skills

JavaPythonNode.jsGoSQLNoSQL

Job Summary

ExperienceFresher
CompensationCompetitive Salary
Job TypeFull-time
Work ModeHybrid
LocationIndia

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