Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

at Almabase

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Java, Microservices, Prometheus, Python, RabbitMQ, React, Redis, SQL, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bangalore, India

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer developing and maintaining backend systems by integrating with various CRMs. Leading reliability and performance in a collaborative team environment in Bangalore.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring Data Integration with Third-Party CRMs: Design and own solutions that integrate customer data seamlessly and reliably with various CRM systems.
• Enhancing Event and Fundraising Management Tools: Drive improvements to our event and fundraising tools, with a focus on reliability and scale.
• Owning Payment and Communication Systems: Take end-to-end ownership of systems that handle payments and user communications, including resilience and failure handling.
• Maintaining and Improving System Uptime: Lead reliability efforts in your areas of ownership, proactively identifying and resolving issues before they impact customers.
• Own Features End-to-End: Design, build, and maintain features independently — from requirements to production — with minimal supervision.
• Drive System Reliability: Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and scalability gaps and address them systematically.
• Debug Production Issues Independently: Investigate and resolve complex production issues using logs, metrics, and structured debugging approaches.
• Code Review and Quality: Conduct and participate in code reviews, raise the quality bar, and help define good engineering practices within the team.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality software that meets user needs.
• Contribute to Architecture: Participate actively in design discussions, propose solutions to technical problems, and think through trade-offs clearly.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay current with engineering best practices and apply that knowledge to improve the systems you own.

Requirements

• 3–4 years of full-time software engineering experience
• Hands-on experience with backend development in Java, Python or Go
• Experience with frontend development using React or similar frameworks
• Strong understanding of HTTP, REST APIs, and client–server architecture
• Experience designing data models and writing complex SQL queries
• Proven ability to build and own distributed systems or microservices in production
• Experience designing APIs and backend systems for scale
• Ability to debug and resolve complex production issues independently
• Hands-on experience with performance tuning — query optimisation, caching strategies, and async processing
• Experience using Git, writing tests, and participating in code reviews
• Comfortable working with minimal supervision and taking ownership of outcomes.
• Experience with Redis or similar in-memory data stores for rate limiting, caching, or queuing
• Familiarity with observability tools — metrics, distributed tracing, alerting (e.g. Datadog, Sentry, Prometheus)
• Exposure to database sharding, partitioning, or replication
• Experience with background job systems, message queues, or event-driven architecture (e.g. Celery, RabbitMQ, SQS)
• Prior experience in a SaaS product environment
• Curiosity about how systems fail at scale and how to design around those failure modes.