Backend Developer

EmptyCup is an interior design platform. Our goal is to make good interior design accessible.

To know more about our vision, checkout this intro presentation.

You can also checkout our website here to know more about the product offering.

Senior Backend Engineer (Platform) Full Time Bangalore (Potentially Remote)

What you’ll be doing:

Design and develop core systems that will be power teams to build services and apps

Ensure and constantly improve reliability, scalability, security and performance of core apis and infrastructure

Be proactive in technical decision making and a sound influence in technical discussions

Work with the product teams to help shape product direction by communicating limitations and possibilities

Adopt and advocate best practices and guidelines in architecture, code conventions, development practice

Who we are looking for:

5+ years of experience building web services in Python/Go/Java, preferably in Python with excellent debugging and analytical skills

Strong understanding of software engineering principles, computer science fundamentals - data structures, algorithms and operating systems

Proven experience in building, deploying and maintaining highly scalable RESTful web services

Excellent written and oral communication ability in both technical and non tech. aspects

Good understanding of benchmarking and performance monitoring - concurrency, multi-threading, logging, database optimisations

Decent knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with shipping code quickly and reliably.

What we offer:

Ownership of the platform core with a clear roadmap.

A small cool meritocratic team that's driven by passion.

An inspiring culture that balances creative exploration & heads down execution.

Cash compensation upto 20L and negotiable stock in a gold mine.