SDE 3 (Backend)

Job Description

As a senior backend engineer at one of Weekdays clients located in Gurgaon, you will play a crucial role in the architecture, scalability, and performance of products used by a vast number of employees globally. Your responsibilities will extend beyond feature development to tackling complex distributed systems challenges, designing for scale, and guiding engineers across teams. You will be contributing to the architecture and scaling of a desktop application platform, ensuring reliability, secure local execution, auto-updates, offline workflows, and seamless integration with cloud services.Key Responsibilities:- Own backend modules from system design to deployment, monitoring, and production support.- Design and develop scalable APIs and microservices for real-time, high-throughput, enterprise-grade applications.- Architect, build, and maintain desktop applications that securely interact with local system resources and backend services.- Implement auto-update mechanisms, secure credential storage, offline workflows, and local execution safeguards for desktop clients.- Collaborate with Product, AI, and Frontend teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.- Drive engineering excellence through clean code, testing, performance benchmarks, and CI/CD automation.- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.- Mentor junior engineers and influence architectural and technical decisions.Required Skills & Experience:- 59 years of backend engineering experience in building high-scale, distributed systems.- Hands-on expertise with Node.js, including event-driven architecture, async patterns, and performance tuning.- Experience building Electron or desktop/system-level applications that integrate with backend services.- Familiarity with OS-level APIs, installers, auto-updaters, and secure local credential storage.- Solid experience with MongoDB, including schema design, indexing, replication, and performance optimization.- Strong understanding of RESTful API design and data structures.- Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Python or Bash.- Ability to take ownership and deliver in fast-paced environments.Nice to Have:- Experience working on AI/ML-powered products or enterprise SaaS platforms.- Exposure to cloud platforms and containerized deployments.- Experience with message queues for event-driven architectures.- Knowledge of distributed tracing, microservice orchestration, and observability tooling.- Understanding of security best practices.This role offers you the opportunity to work on cutting-edge GenAI-enabled enterprise products, own high-impact systems, collaborate with skilled engineers, and influence technical roadmaps within a fast-growing product organization. As a senior backend engineer at one of Weekdays clients located in Gurgaon, you will play a crucial role in the architecture, scalability, and performance of products used by a vast number of employees globally. Your responsibilities will extend beyond feature development to tackling complex distributed systems challenges, designing for scale, and guiding engineers across teams. You will be contributing to the architecture and scaling of a desktop application platform, ensuring reliability, secure local execution, auto-updates, offline workflows, and seamless integration with cloud services.Key Responsibilities:- Own backend modules from system design to deployment, monitoring, and production support.- Design and develop scalable APIs and microservices for real-time, high-throughput, enterprise-grade applications.- Architect, build, and maintain desktop applications that securely interact with local system resources and backend services.- Implement auto-update mechanisms, secure credential storage, offline workflows, and local execution safeguards for desktop clients.- Collaborate with Product, AI, and Frontend teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.- Drive engineering excellence through clean code, testing, performance benchmarks, and CI/CD automation.- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.- Mentor junior engineers and influence architectural and technical decisions.Required Skills & Experience:- 59 years of backend engineering experience in building high-scale, distributed systems.- Hands-on expertise with Node.js, including event-driven architecture, async patterns, and performance tuning.- Experience building Electron or desktop/system-level applications that integrate with backend services.- Familiarity with OS-level APIs, installers, auto-updaters, and secure local credential storage.- Solid experience with MongoDB, including schema design, indexing, replication, and performance optimization.- Strong understanding of RESTful API design and data structures.- Proficiency in at least one scripting lan

Keyskills :
MongoDBData structuresAlgorithmsSystem designPythonBashNodejsElectron