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Founding Backend Engineer
Zaimler
Bengaluru, IND
Full-time
Senior · 4+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
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- Design and implement core microservices that handle document ingestion, entity extraction, and graph construction
- Define and enforce clean service interfaces and communication protocols (e.g., gRPC, REST)
- Drive schema design and service ownership in a polyglot environment (Java + Rust)
- Contribute to deployment and runtime infrastructure (Helm, Kubernetes, vLLM, Ray)
- Build internal tooling and APIs that accelerate downstream teams working on retrieval and ranking
- Help scale systems as we ingest more enterprise data and expand graph resolution logic
- Have 4+ years of experience building backend services in modern cloud environments
- Are fluent in at least one strongly typed language (Rust, Java, etc.) and comfortable in dynamic ones (Python)
- Understand distributed systems, service discovery, and observability (we use OpenTelemetry + Grafana)
- Have experience implementing secure APIs and backend systems, including RBAC, authentication, and authorization patterns
- Have strong opinions on API boundaries, fault tolerance, and making systems boring (in a good way)
- Enjoy taking vague problems and turning them into clean, testable services
- Are comfortable working in a high-context, fast-moving startup environment with minimal overhead
- Experience working with knowledge graphs, embeddings, or semantic search
- Familiarity with vLLM, Ray, or distributed compute runtimes
- Background in data-intensive systems or working with unstructured inputs
- Exposure to entity resolution, NER, or schema linking systems
- A rare opportunity to be an early engineer in our Bangalore office, shaping both the company’s direction and the core product from the ground up.
- Competitive salary, full benefits, and meaningful equity.
- Work alongside engineers and researchers from LinkedIn, Visa, Meta, and Branch.
- An onsite, high-collaboration culture designed for deep technical work and fast iteration.
- Comprehensive benefits package (health insurance, meals, equipment, and other local perks).
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