Role & Responsibilities :
- Take end-to-end ownership of critical backend services - from architecture and development to deployment and scale.
- Design systems for performance, reliability, and observability.
- Identify bottlenecks and eliminate them proactively.
- Collaborate with product and design to deeply understand user pain points and build the right solutions.
- Work independently and own complex modules with minimal oversight.
- Champion clean, maintainable code and help set a high bar for engineering excellence across the team.
- Stay up-to-date with new tools, technologies, and backend trends - and bring the best ideas into our stack.
Ideal Candidate :
2+ years of backend development experience, ideally with Kotlin and Spring Boot (or willingness to ramp up quickly).You've worked in fast-moving teams and thrive when given room to figure things out.You take initiative and can drive complex modules to completion without needing constant guidance.Strong with both low-level and high-level design; you know how to build scalable, reliable RESTful APIs.Proficient with relational databases and aware of common performance pitfalls.Confident with debugging and optimizing - memory leaks, latency issues, and other hard-to-find problems don't scare you.You write clean, testable code and know how to leave systems better than you found them.You bring a product mindset - caring not just about what's built, but why and how it delivers value to users.Perks, Benefits and Work Culture :
Competitive salary and benefits package.Opportunity to make a significant impact on a rapidly growing early-stage company.A key creative role with the opportunity to shape the visual direction of the company.Dynamic, entrepreneurial, high-trust, and collaborative work environment.Opportunity to work closely with founders and key stakeholdersref : hirist.tech)