Role Overview :

As a Senior Software Engineer - Backend, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and scaling backend services and APIs. You will work closely with product, frontend, data, and engineering teams to build robust solutions that can support millions of users and evolving business requirements. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, takes ownership of systems end-to-end, and wants to contribute to engineering architecture and best practices.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs.

- Build reliable and secure systems capable of handling high traffic and large data volumes.

- Own backend features and services from technical design through development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

- Design and optimize RESTful APIs, microservices, databases, and distributed systems.

- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested, and production-ready code.

- Identify and resolve performance, scalability, reliability, and security issues.

- Work closely with Product, Frontend, Data, and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products.

- Participate in system design and architecture discussions and contribute to long-term technical decisions.

- Conduct code reviews and help establish engineering standards and best practices.

- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture.

- Monitor production systems, troubleshoot incidents, and drive continuous improvements.

- Evaluate new technologies and approaches that can improve system performance, developer productivity, and reliability.

Required Skills & Qualifications :

- 5+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Scala, Python, C++, or similar language

- Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. GCP, Docker, Kubernetes

- Proven track record in architecting, developing, deploying, and operating components of large scale distributed systems

- Strong software engineering maturity: security, correctness, engineering excellence, operational excellence

- Platform mindset: effective building platforms for other software teams, iterating quickly to reduce friction to adoption, advocating for platform use

- Cross-functional skills: we have platform customers internal at Databricks as well as external customers, which requires strong cross-functional skills

What We Offer :

- Competitive compensation, in line with market standards

- Hybrid/Bangalore work location

- Full ownership of one of the most business-critical systems in the company, from a clean starting point, with the mandate to build it properly

- Genuine ownership - this is revenue-critical infrastructure to build, not a maintenance seat

- The opportunity to shape how we build as part of a team deliberately structured around clear pod ownership

Why Join House of EdTech :

- Work on products that directly impact students, educators, and learners.

- Solve challenging backend and scalability problems in a fast-growing technology environment.

- Take significant ownership of architecture, engineering decisions, and product development.

- Collaborate with a passionate and highly driven team.

- Opportunity to grow into technical leadership and architectural ownership.