Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer — e works

Experience: 5+ Years | Location: Bangalore | Type: Full-time

About the Role

e works is building the backend backbone of India's EdTech platform — powering our LMS, job portal, and payments infrastructure. As a Backend Engineer, you'll own the design, development, and scalability of our core APIs and data systems, including our payment and wallet/payout architecture.

What You'll Do

· Design and build REST APIs powering our LMS, job portal, and payments systems

· Own the data layer on PostgreSQL — schema design, migrations, and query optimization

· Architect and maintain our payment integrations (Razorpay, Stripe) and internal wallet/ledger system, ensuring transactional accuracy and idempotency

· Implement authentication, authorization, and role-based access control (JWT, RBAC)

· Build and maintain background job processing for async payment/payout workflows

· Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and design discussions; take ownership of architecture decisions within your modules

· Collaborate with frontend and product teams to define API contracts and system requirements

· Deploy and monitor services on AWS using Docker and CI/CD pipelines

Must-Have Skills

· 5+ years of professional backend development experience

· Strong hands-on experience with Node.js, Express.js, and TypeScript

· Proficiency in PostgreSQL — relational schema design, transactions, migrations, query optimization

· Proven experience designing and scaling REST APIs

· Experience with JWT authentication and role-based access control

· Experience integrating payment gateways (Razorpay, Stripe, or similar) — including webhooks, signature verification, and refund handling

· Solid understanding of transactional data integrity — ACID transactions, idempotency (critical for payment/ledger correctness)

· Experience with Git/GitHub in a collaborative team environment

Good to Have

· Experience with Redis for caching and queues

· Background job processing (BullMQ or similar)

· Exposure to Docker, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS), and CI/CD pipelines

· Understanding of double-entry ledger / wallet system design

· Experience mentoring engineers or owning a module/service end-to-end

What We're Looking For

Someone who can take ownership of a system end-to-end — from design through deployment — and guide junior engineers along the way. Formal team-lead experience is a plus but not required; what matters most is technical depth and the judgment to make sound architecture decisions independently.

Pay: ₹1,000,000.00 - ₹1,500,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

• What's your current CTC?
• What your notice Period?
• What's your expecting CTC?
• What's your current location?

Work Location: In person