Senior Backend Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable, low-latency, and highly reliable backend systems for high-growth B2C products.
The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, system design, performance optimisation, observability, and production reliability. Experience with search, recommendation, ranking, AI-powered product features, or data engineering is an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services using Java or Go.
• Develop reliable REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs.
• Design distributed systems, microservices, data models, and event-driven architectures.
• Improve system latency, throughput, availability, reliability, and infrastructure efficiency.
• Work with Kafka, Redis/Valkey, Elasticsearch, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
• Own production monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, and reliability improvements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.

• Strong programming skills in Java or Go.
• Experience building high-scale, low-latency production systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Experience with Kafka, caching systems, Elasticsearch, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Strong system design, debugging, testing, and end-to-end production ownership skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience in  AI-powered applications, search and recommendation systems, or data engineering would be an added advantage.
  

Benefits

• Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
• Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
• High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.

About Us
Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.
Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.