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Backend Engineer || GoLang || WFO

New Delhi Permanent INR2,000,000 - INR3,000,000 per year View Job Description
Seeking a Backend Software Engineer to build and operate mission-critical services powering transactions, with full ownership from design to deployment and monitoring. The role suits experienced engineers who have scaled backend systems in India, think deeply about distributed systems, and effectively use AI tools to enhance productivity.
  • Accelerated growth path.
  • Opportunity to work in cutting edge technologies.

About Our Client

A mission-driven not‑for‑profit building an open network that enables seamless digital commerce across buyers, sellers, and service providers, removing platform silos across multiple sectors in India.

Job Description

* Design and operate the services, pipelines, data layer, and contracts that move l traffic across the network at India scale while maintaining p99 latency less than 200ms.

* Own deployment and operability: CI/CD pipelines, blue-green and canary rollouts, feature flags, structured logs, metrics, traces, and runbooks

* Write the tests that matter - unit, contract, integration against real dependencies, and load tests that prove the SLA.

* Use AI coding assistants thoughtfully - to move faster on boilerplate, scaffolding, refactors, and tests - while staying fully accountable for what lands in main.

* Mentor juniron engineers, review PRs with rigour, and raise the quality bar by example.

The Successful Applicant

* 3-6 years building production backend systems, with at least 2 years on services that handle high RPS and tight latency budgets.

* Strong Go expertise(or comparable systems language with willingness to ramp on Go fast).

* Solid distributed systems fundamentals: consistency vs. availability, idempotency, retries, backoff, dead-letter queues, leader election, eventual consistency.

* Hands-on production experience with Kafka (or a similar log-based broker), PostgreSQL, REST running on containers and Kubernetes on at least one major cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure).

* Observability literacy - Prometheus / Grafana / OpenTelemetry / structured logging - and the habit of instrumenting before shipping.

What's on Offer

  • Opportunities to contribute to impactful projects.
  • A collaborative and supportive work environment in New Delhi.
  • Comprehensive leave policies and additional benefits.
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Job summary

Function
Information Technology
Sub Sector
IT Development
What is your area of specialisation?
Technology & Telecoms
Location
New Delhi
Job Type
Permanent
Job Reference
JN-052026-7013648

Diversity & Inclusion at Michael Page

We don't just accept difference - we celebrate it. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply for this role and are committed to building inclusive, diverse workplaces where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.