Job Title- Senior Software Engineer
Location: India (Remote)
About the role:
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer — Backend
who enjoys building reliable, scalable systems. This is a hands-on
individual contributor
role focused primarily on
backend services, APIs, data infrastructure, and production systems
.
You’ll work deeply across our
Node.js and AWS stack
to design, build, and operate systems that power core product workflows at scale.
We’re looking for someone who gets excited by:
Solving hard backend problems
Debugging complex production issues
Improving performance under load
Designing fault-tolerant services
Building systems that remain reliable as usage grows
While this is primarily an IC role, you’ll also help raise the engineering bar through:
Strong design thinking
High code quality
Mentorship for junior engineers
If you care deeply about
correctness, maintainability, observability, and thoughtful system design
, we’d love to talk.
Responsibilities:
Design, build, and maintain backend services, internal systems, and APIs with a strong emphasis on performance, reliability, and scalability
Own backend architecture and execution for core product workflows, including service design, data modeling, asynchronous processing, and external integrations
Solve difficult engineering problems such as debugging production incidents, optimizing slow database queries, improving system throughput, and refactoring brittle services
Build and operate systems for scale — including multi-tenant SaaS workflows, high-throughput APIs, event-driven systems, background jobs, and distributed processing pipelines
Design robust backend patterns around queues, retries, idempotency, caching, consistency, and fault tolerance
Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code, and raise the quality bar through thoughtful code reviews and mentoring
Partner with Product, Design, and frontend engineers to translate ambiguous requirements into reliable backend systems and clean API contracts
Own what you build in production — including instrumentation, monitoring, alerting, incident investigation, and iterative improvements
Contribute meaningfully to technical design and architecture discussions; propose, challenge, and refine ideas with sound engineering judgment
Stay curious and pragmatic about tools, patterns, and infrastructure choices that improve engineering velocity and system quality
Requirements:
4–6 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production software, with meaningful backend ownership
Strong depth in at least one backend language and framework
JavaScript/TypeScript with Node.js is strongly preferred
, but we value deep backend strength over exact stack matching
Experience building and operating backend systems at scale — such as multi-tenant SaaS platforms, high-throughput services, distributed systems, or data-intensive applications
Strong hands-on experience with databases and data access patterns, including SQL and/or NoSQL systems such as
Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB
, or similar
Good understanding of tradeoffs in schema design, indexing, consistency, and query performance
Comfort with cloud infrastructure, ideally
AWS
, including services such as
Lambda, ECS, SQS, S3
, and related backend infrastructure patterns
Experience designing APIs, background jobs, event-driven workflows, and service integrations with a clear understanding of failure modes and operational tradeoffs
Strong debugging and ownership mindset — comfortable reading logs, tracing requests across systems, reproducing edge cases, and driving issues to root cause
Good understanding of testing strategies across unit, integration, and system-level concerns for backend services
Strong written and verbal communication, especially in a remote-first environment
Curiosity, accountability, and a high standard for engineering craft
What we offer:
Opportunity to make an impact on one of the most promising, high-growth SaaS startups in India
Flat-hierarchy, performance-driven culture
Rapid growth and learning opportunities
Comprehensive medical insurance coverage
A high-performing action-oriented team
Competitive package, benefits and employee-friendly work culture
About Scrut
Scrut Automation is a global leader in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). Our mission is to help modern enterprises move beyond simple checklists to build a security-first culture. We provide a single, intelligent platform that helps companies achieve and maintain compliance for standards like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA, while also proactively managing risk.
We are a high-growth, remote-first company with a strong focus on collaboration, ownership, and customer obsession. We believe in building a team of smart, motivated builders who are passionate about solving complex problems for our customers.
Note:
Due to a high volume of applications, only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted by the HR team. We appreciate your interest and effort.
