Senior Backend Engineer

Mandatory Criteria (Can't be neglected during screening) :

Need candidates from Growing startups or Product based companies only

1. 4–6 years experience in backend engineering

2. Minimum  2+ years hands-on  experience with :

• TypeScript
• Express.js / Nest.js

3. Strong experience with  MongoDB  (or MySQL / PostgreSQL / DynamoDB)

4. Strong understanding of  system design & scalable architecture

5. Hands-on experience in :

6. Strong in  automated testing  (especially integration tests)

7. Experience with  CI / CD pipelines  (GitHub Actions or similar)

8. Experience managing  production systems

9. Solid understanding of  performance, reliability, observability

10. Cloud experience ( AWS  preferred; GCP / Azure acceptable)

11. Strong coding standards —  Clean Code, code reviews, refactoring

Description

About Us

Started in 2019,  STAGE is a dialect-based OTT platform  known for producing premium quality content in Indian dialects to reinforce, protect and validate people’s sense of identity for their culture and heritage.

We currently focus on Haryanvi and Rajasthani dialects. Our mobile apps have 15 Mn+ downloads and 1 Mn+ paying customers globally. That makes STAGE the biggest media platform in both regions.

In 2023, STAGE was also featured on Shark Tank India S2.

About the opportunity

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Backend team. This is a unique opportunity to join a fast growing company in the early STAGEs where you will get to solve real customer and business problems, shape the future of a product built for Bharat and build the engineering culture of the team. You will have immense responsibility and autonomy to push the boundaries of engineering to deliver scalable and resilient systems.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for shipping innovative features at breakneck speed, designing the architecture, mentoring other engineers on the team and pushing for a high bar of engineering standards like code quality, automated testing, performance, CI / CD, etc. If you are someone who loves solving problems for customers, technology, the craft of software engineering, and the thrill of building startups, we would like to talk to you.

What you will be doing

The role could be ideal for you if you

Don’t hesitate to try out new technologies. At STAGE, nobody is limited to a role. Every engineer in our team is an expert of at least one technology but often ventures out in adjacent technologies like React.js, Flutter, Data Platforms, AWS and Kubernetes. If you are not excited by this, you will not like working at STAGE. Bonus : if you have experience in adjacent technologies like AWS (or any public cloud provider, Github Actions (or CircleCI), Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.), etc