Lead Backend Engineer
Aakaar AI is a profitable, customer-funded startup building an AI-driven operating system for Amazon sellers. This role involves architecting and owning the backend, data ingestion, and agent orchestration layers as a founding-level individual contributor. The ideal candidate has deep experience in data-heavy production systems, cloud infrastructure, and deploying production AI agents. You will work directly with founders to scale architecture and define the engineering culture.
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Experience
7+ years
Function
Engineering
Work mode
Remote, India
Company
Tier 2
What you will work on
Aakaar AI is a profitable, customer-funded startup building an AI-driven operating system for Amazon sellers. This role involves architecting and owning the backend, data ingestion, and agent orchestration layers as a founding-level individual contributor. The ideal candidate has deep experience in data-heavy production systems, cloud infrastructure, and deploying production AI agents. You will work directly with founders to scale architecture and define the engineering culture.
TAL's take
Strong early-stage role with high autonomy and technical impact, though at a pre-unicorn stage.
Very clear scope, architectural expectations, and technical stack requirements provided.
Must haves
- 7+ years backend engineering experience
- 3+ years owning data-heavy systems at production scale
- Deep database expertise in OLTP and OLAP systems
- Strong API engineering experience
- Cloud-native engineering on GCP
- Hands-on experience with LLMs and AI agents in production
Tools and skills
Nice to have: react, amazon sp-api, amazon ads api, shopify api, meta ads api, google ads api.
About the company
Profitable, revenue-generating startup, but not yet a high-profile unicorn.