Senior Backend Engineer — Product & Platform
Andheri East, Mumbai · Full-time · Onsite only · ₹12–15 LPA · 4+ years
We are hiring a senior, hands-on backend engineer to take ownership of our core product and platform architecture. You will work directly with the founder and engineering team to build customer-facing features, strengthen the existing platform, and improve its scalability, security and reliability. The role also provides exposure to new product areas, including in-house voice and conversational AI systems that change how customers interact with the platform.
What you'll work on
- Design, develop and maintain backend services, APIs and database architecture
- Build and deliver new product features from requirement definition through production release
- Improve the platform's scalability, performance, security and reliability
- Design systems for a multi-tenant B2B SaaS environment
- Build and maintain deployment pipelines and release automation
- Establish effective monitoring, alerting, logging and backup systems
- Diagnose and resolve production issues
- Integrate third-party messaging, payment, verification and communication services
- Contribute to voice interaction and conversational AI initiatives
- Participate in product and technical-direction discussions with the founder
- Review code and improve engineering standards and documentation
- Mentor and support junior engineers and interns
- Bring structure to existing systems and independently take ownership of undocumented areas
What we're looking for
- Four or more years of experience building and operating production backend systems
- Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript
- Strong knowledge of REST APIs, asynchronous processing and backend design patterns
- Solid understanding of system design and the ability to reason about scale
- Strong SQL, data modelling and database-schema design skills
- Experience with PostgreSQL or a comparable relational database
- Familiarity with modern ORMs such as Prisma
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, including S3, IAM and Lambda
- Experience building deployment pipelines and release automation
- Understanding of authentication, authorisation and application security
- Ability to diagnose production issues across application, database and infrastructure layers
- Comfort working with ambiguity and taking ownership independently
Bonus if you have
- Experience with WhatsApp Business Platform or other business-messaging APIs
- Experience building multi-tenant SaaS applications
- Experience with Redis, queues or event-driven systems
- Exposure to voice or conversational AI systems
- Experience working at an early-stage technology company
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
Why this is different
Omnipresence Ventures India Private Limited builds a B2B SaaS operations platform for FMCG manufacturers, brands, distributors and other field-sales-led businesses. Our product suite helps organisations manage field sales, customer relationships, orders, workflows, approvals, expenses, communication and analytics. We have a live product serving paying customers and are entering our next phase of product and commercial growth.
Growth path
Ownership of core systems within a growing B2B SaaS platform. Direct collaboration with the founder and influence over technical direction. Opportunity to work on customer-facing products and applied AI initiatives. Fixed compensation with a performance-linked variable component. Significant professional growth as the engineering organisation expands. Potential to grow into a senior technology-leadership or CTO role based on sustained performance and organisational requirements.
To apply
Share your:
- Resume
- Brief note describing a production system you have owned from development through deployment and ongoing operation
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