Software Development Engineer II (Backend)
Gokwik (company site, opens in a new tab)3+ yrsGurugramOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 16–28 LPA
Posted 1d ago
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About This Role
- Own and design the app store and developer platform services including OAuth flows, public APIs, webhook delivery, and app lifecycle management.
- Ensure production reliability by managing SLOs, on-call duties, incident response, and root cause analysis for live services serving millions of API calls weekly.
- Drive platform safety and scalability for AI agents and AI-built apps, including designing AI-ready APIs with scoped permissions and abuse controls.
Minimum Requirements
- 3+ years of backend engineering experience with strong Node.js and TypeScript skills.
- Production experience designing and shipping APIs with versioning and backward compatibility, including OAuth 2.0 or similar token-based authorization.
- Hands-on experience with multi-tenant architectures, relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL), Kafka or similar event streaming, and distributed system fundamentals.
- Work Experience Required: 3+ years; Notice Period: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Proven ability to independently own complex backend services that are live in production with critical external dependencies.
- Strong skill in low-level and high-level system design, able to document trade-offs, failure modes, and communicate technical decisions clearly.
- Experience building scalable, secure multi-tenant distributed systems with a focus on operational reliability and mentoring junior engineers.