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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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Python / Django Developer (Backend) K12 Techno Services • Bengaluru, Karnataka • via Cutshort ₹15L–₹20L a year Full–time Job description Designation: Python/Django Developer (Backend) Department: Software Engineering Team Location: Whitefield (Bangalore) Qualification: Any Computer (Graduate or Post Graduate) Experience: 3+ years of relevant experience in building functional and efficient server-side applications using Python/Django with 2+ years of relevant experience in working with RDBMS. Responsibilities: • Help design and implement functional requirements • Build efficient back-end features in Python • Integrate front-end components into applications • Manage testing and bug fixes • Prepare technical documentation • Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement design into the code • Coach junior team members • Implement software enhancements and suggest improvements Skills Required: • Experience with Python frameworks (e.g. Django, Flask, FastAPI) • Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud technologies • Excellent understanding of REST API Development and HTTP Methods • Understanding of databases and SQL • Good experience in working with RDBMS • Good understanding of computer science fundamentals - data structures, algorithms, memory management, performance. • Knowledge of web stack - javascript, html, web frameworks like React.js is a plus • Good understanding of Good Troubleshooting experience and exposure • Ability to work with Jr engineers, mentor, guide and help them • Enjoys coding and problem solving • Good communication skills. Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely • Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial) Salary: Upto 21LPA (Negotiable) IMMEDIATE JOINING PREFERRED!

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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Python / Django Developer (Backend) K12 Techno Services • Bengaluru, Karnataka • via Cutshort ₹15L–₹20L a year Full–time Job description Designation: Python/Django Developer (Backend) Department: Software Engineering Team Location: Whitefield (Bangalore) Qualification: Any Computer (Graduate or Post Graduate) Experience: 3+ years of relevant experience in building functional and efficient server-side applications using Python/Django with 2+ years of relevant experience in working with RDBMS. Responsibilities: • Help design and implement functional requirements • Build efficient back-end features in Python • Integrate front-end components into applications • Manage testing and bug fixes • Prepare technical documentation • Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement design into the code • Coach junior team members • Implement software enhancements and suggest improvements Skills Required: • Experience with Python frameworks (e.g. Django, Flask, FastAPI) • Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud technologies • Excellent understanding of REST API Development and HTTP Methods • Understanding of databases and SQL • Good experience in working with RDBMS • Good understanding of computer science fundamentals - data structures, algorithms, memory management, performance. • Knowledge of web stack - javascript, html, web frameworks like React.js is a plus • Good understanding of Good Troubleshooting experience and exposure • Ability to work with Jr engineers, mentor, guide and help them • Enjoys coding and problem solving • Good communication skills. Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely • Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial) Salary: Upto 21LPA (Negotiable) IMMEDIATE JOINING PREFERRED!

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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AI/ML – Investment Services A Career with Point72's AI/ML – Investment Services Team The AI/ML – Investment Services team at Point72 spearheads the development of cutting-edge AI solutions that seek to transform our business processes and enhance enterprise intelligence. The team aims to bridge the gap between business challenges and technological innovation, collaborating with stakeholders across the firm and leveraging expertise in generative AI, data engineering, and machine learning. WHAT YOU'LL DO Build and scale core backend services and platforms that power generative AI applications and data infrastructure used across the firm’s investment workflows Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines to ingest, normalize, and serve both structured and unstructured data Develop robust APIs and microservices to support model inference, feature serving, and downstream applications Integrate generative AI tools and model-serving workflows into production, including embedding stores, retrieval components, and fine-tuning pipelines Optimize system performance, cost, and reliability through profiling, capacity planning, and architectural improvements Implement automated testing, continuous delivery pipelines, monitoring, and incident response practices to maintain production health Partner with data scientists, AI engineers, product owners, and operations to translate models and prototypes into scalable, production-grade solutions Mentor engineers, lead code reviews, and establish engineering best practices for maintainability, security, and observability Own end-to-end delivery, operational runbooks, and metrics-driven measurement of feature impact and system reliability WHAT'S REQUIRED Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field Minimum 5+ years of professional experience building backend systems and production services Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale data engineering pipelines

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📍 Bengaluru, INDIA, India· Full-time· Hybrid
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For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. You Will: Design, build, and maintain backend integrations using AWS services such as Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, and EventBridge Develop API-based automations and orchestrate data flows between Salesforce, NetSuite, Workday, Snowflake, and other SaaS platforms Refactor and enhance legacy integration logic to align with modern architecture standards Own your code from design through CI/CD (GitLab) and deployment via Terraform/CloudFormation Collaborate with US-based engineers on shared initiatives, sprint planning, code reviews, and technical handoffs Participate in a shared production support rotation, resolving critical integration and data pipeline issues Partner with architects and BSAs to review integration design and testing strategies for reliability and resilience Support both ETL-style batch pipelines and real-time event streaming using CDC and platform events You Have: BS in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent industry experience 5+ years of experience in backend software development or automation using Node.js, Python, VS code or similar Strong experience with AWS services, especially Lambda, S3, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, DynamoDB Expertise in database design, schema modeling, and query optimization (DynamoDB & Snowflake preferred) Strong grasp of integration design patterns, secure API development (REST/SOAP), and system interoperability Develop and maintain GitLab based CI/CD pipeline implementations for tests, linting, deployment, etc. Experience with managing infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cl

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📍 Bengaluru, India
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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join The Integrations & Application Engineering team owns the integration and automation platforms at Airbnb. We enable teams across the company to self-serve in connecting their systems and automating solutions, and we integrate Airbnb’s enterprise systems end-to-end. The team also builds and manages custom in-house solutions and the application infrastructure that supports them. This is a hybrid IC and people-leadership role focused on Finance integrations and automations. As a Tech Lead Manager, you will lead and grow a team of engineers while operating hands-on at a senior IC level, setting technical direction, owning delivery, and writing and reviewing code yourself. We’re looking for someone with deep ERP product knowledge who builds integrations in general-purpose languages, takes ownership of systems and people, and is enthusiastic about applying AI, building tools and integrations with Claude Code that extend what the team can do. A Typical Day Lead the Finance and ERP integration practice: set direction, run initiatives in parallel, and own the systems and processes your team supports. Balance management with hands-on work: unblock the team, review designs and code, and build complex integrations, backend services, APIs and MCPs yourself. Partner with Finance, Procurement, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into integrations, automations, and reporting. Coach and grow engineers and contractors through design reviews, architecture discussions, and career development. Own the smooth operation of month-end financial integrations and reporting, proactively surf

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📍 Pune, Maharashtra, India· Full-time
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We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you will design, build, and operate scalable software platforms that support analytics and AI solutions — owning the full journey from intuitive user interfaces to robust cloud-native backends. What This Involves: Front-End Development Develop and maintain user interfaces for web applications using React and Next.js. Translate wireframes and design mockups into functional, accessible UI components. Identify and resolve front-end performance bottlenecks to ensure smooth user experiences. Write and maintain unit and integration tests for front-end components (e.g. Jest, React Testing Library). Back-End Development Develop and maintain high-quality back-end services and APIs using Python. Deploy, operate, and monitor applications in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP). Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes. Contribute to the design and evolution of scalable, cloud-native software architectures. Contribute to and maintain CI/CD pipelines for web and back-end applications. Collaboration and Quality Work closely with data scientists, engineers and project managers to deliver integrated end-to-end solutions. Support the development and deployment of AI and analytics solutions. Write clean, well-documented, and maintainable code across the full stack. Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives. Adhere to internal and client-mandated data protection and compliance policies, ensuring all handling, storage, and sharing of data meets required security and privacy standards. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields. 5+ years of software development experience, with meaningful time on both front-end and back-end systems. Experience designing systems in cloud-native or distributed environments is a plus. Excellent communication and collaboration skills — comfortable working acros

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📍 Pune, Pune, India
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NVIDIA pioneers computer graphics, gaming, AI, and accelerated computing. We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect with full-stack software engineering experience to join our team and play an important role in developing Sales AI applications. This position offers the opportunity to design, build, and evolve solutions that bring generative AI and intelligent workflows into everyday sales experiences. You will work across the application stack and collaborate with Product, AI and machine learning, Data, Security, Solution Architecture, and Engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable solutions used globally. What you’ll be doing: Collaborate with application teams to design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack solutions for enterprise sales workflows. Guide technical solutions across front-end, back-end, APIs, data services, integrations, and cloud infrastructure. Translate product requirements and business needs into secure, maintainable solutions and intuitive user experiences. Integrate generative AI models, AI services, APIs, retrieval systems, and agentic workflows into production applications. Design application architectures that support performance, availability, observability, security, scalability, and long-term maintainability. Lead technical design discussions, compare implementation approaches, make informed architecture decisions, and evaluate emerging technologies. Improve engineering practices for testing, code quality, continuous integration and delivery, monitoring, documentation, and production readiness. Investigate complex issues and develop solutions that improve reliability and user experience. Mentor engineers, share technical knowledge, and contribute to engineering standards and collaborative team practices. What we need to see: <

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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Atomicwork is on a mission to transform the digital workplace experience by uniting people, processes, and platforms through AI automation. Our team is building a modern service management platform that enables growing businesses to reduce operational complexity and drive business success. We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our team and help us build our modern service management platform. This is a hybrid position based out of our Bengaluru office . We offer competitive pay to employees and practical benefits for their whole family. If this sounds interesting to you, read on. What you'll do (responsibilities) We’re looking for experienced individual contributors who’ve worked on large-scale products before, and we expect you to ramp up quickly and help us launch our products. Build the foundations for all things Atomicwork. Develop and maintain complex web applications emphasizing usability, performance, and scalability. Design and build enterprise-grade systems. Implement and maintain high-quality applications and show craftsmanship while coding, testing, and deploying. Collaborate with partner teams. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including design, product management, and backend engineering, to develop and launch new features. Continuously improve our platform. Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other team members. Stay ahead of the curve. Keep up with emerging trends and technologies in front-end development, and recommend new approaches to improve the user experience. Self-direct your work and co-own the product. You will act like the technical founder of the product and will have autonomy and responsibility to do what’s right for the customer. Solve interesting technical problems. You will use your creativity and skills to solve challenging technical problems. What we're looking for (qualifications) We do not requ

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where

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📍 Bengaluru, India
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Staff Backend Engineer We’re redefining Privileged Access Management (PAM) from the ground up, purpose-built for Cloud, SaaS, Databases, Containers, and any virtualized environment. Our mission is to simplify and secure workforce access with seamless, secure-by-default workflows that adapt dynamically to modern infrastructure. We eliminate standing privileges, enforce least privilege, and embed Zero Trust principles into every access workflow by default. About the Role We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to serve as the core technical anchor and senior Individual Contributor (IC) for our newly established engineering pod in India. At the P4 level, your primary sphere of influence will be at the team level —taking ownership of complex, ambiguous problems and defining how to solve them cleanly, securely, and efficiently. In this role, you will lead by example through hands-on architecture, high-velocity coding, and end-to-end execution. You will drive the implementation of secure database and network device connectors (routers, switches, firewalls) on top of our core Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) platform. You will work closely with our local Technical Team Lead to elevate the pod’s engineering craft, acting as a technical multiplier for mid-level developers while ensuring tight architectural alignment with our global team. What You’ll Be Doing Execution & Technical Impact End-to-End Ownership: Consistently design, code, debug, test, moni

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📍 Gurugram, India· Full-time
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About PayPay India PayPay, a fintech company providing a service enjoyed by over 75 million users since its launch in 2018 in Japan. The company is now home to a very diverse team of members from more than 50 countries. We grew to a team of several thousand employees in Japan but are far from over. We are still in the Day 1. Every day, new members join us from all over the world to create new value and deliver it to society. Why India ? To build our Payment services, we got technical cooperation from Paytm (A large payment service company in India). And based on their customer-first technologies , we created and expanded the smartphone payment service in Japan. Therefore, we have decided to establish a development base in India, because it is a major IT country with many talented engineers, as evidenced by the fact that cutting-edge mobile payments can continue to be generated. OUR VISION IS UNLIMITED We dare to believe that we do not need a clear vision to create a future beyond our imagination. PayPay will always stay true to our roots and realise a vision (future) that no one else can imagine by constantly taking risks and challenging ourselves. With this mindset, you will be presented with new and exciting opportunities on a daily basis and have the opportunity to grow and reach new dimensions that you could never have imagined. AI-First Culture at PayPay At PayPay, we believe the future of software development is AI-augmented engineering. Every engineer is expected to actively leverage AI tools for code reviews, testing, documentation, debugging, and productivity improvements. AI is not optional — it is a mandatory part of our daily engineering workflow. Candidates must demonstrate both hands-on experience and the right mindset to integrate AI effectively into their workflow, while maintaining the engineering rigor, ownership, and problem-solving skills that only humans can provide. Job Description PayPay India is lookin

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. Senior Backend Engineer About the role As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, implement, and evolve product capabilities while solving high-scope backend problems and influencing the technical and product direction of our teams. You will move beyond "assigned work" to actively improve the quality, reliability, and performance of our systems. You will work across product, frontend, infrastructure, data, and security boundaries, making sound architectural trade-offs, communicating complex ideas clearly in an asynchronous environment, and helping define the standards for a high-scale, global product. Why you’ll love this rol

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📍 India· Full-time· Remote
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. About the role As an Intermediate Backend Engineer, you will take backend features and improvements from clarifying the problem through shipping them and following up in production. You will work within a product area, partnering with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security to deliver predictably and contribute to the quality, security, performance, and maintainability of shared backend code and services. You will be trusted to work with minimal guidance, to know when to seek help, and to communicate clearly in a remote, asynchronous environment — with other tenured engineers alongside you to review your work,

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. Intermediate Backend Engineer About the role As an Intermediate Backend Engineer, you will take backend features and improvements from clarifying the problem through shipping them and following up in production. You will work within a product area, partnering with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security to deliver predictably and contribute to the quality, security, performance, and maintainability of shared backend code and services. You will be trusted to work with minimal guidance, to know when to seek help, and to communicate clearly in a remote, asynchronous environment — with other tenured engineers along

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📍 India· Full-time· Remote
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. About the role As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams, solving the highest-scope and most complex problems in your area. You will lead large, cross-cutting backend initiatives, drive our modular architecture strategy, and define the standards that let teams move faster without compromising quality, security, reliability, or operability. This is a technical leadership role that combines deep backend expertise, systems judgment, product judgment, and influence across organizational boundaries. You will work with Product, Frontend, Infrastructure, Security, Data, Engine

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