Founding Backend Engineer

About the job

Location : Bengaluru Experience : 3–4 years Remuneration : Salary + Equity About us We are building the next-generation real-time social platform — where users can hang out live, join group sessions, shop together, and interact with creators in real time. Think : live rooms, shared state, group sync, voice / video, and interactive experiences. We are at the MVP-ready stage and now looking for a Founding Backend Engineer to own and scale the real-time core of the platform. What You’ll Build Real-time chat, presence, group sync, and shared state Live rooms with multi-user concurrency Event-driven systems for notifications, sessions, and live commerce High-performance Redis + Socket.IO / WebSockets infrastructure APIs for creators, payments, and interactions Scalable backend architecture for 10K → 1M users Must-Have Skills 3+ years of Node.js / TypeScript backend experience Strong in WebSockets / Socket.IO Deep understanding of Redis, caching, queues, pub / sub Experience with AWS, Docker, Microservices Solid grasp of system design & real-time concurrency Comfortable owning production systems end-to-end Experience with WebRTC (voice / video) Built real-time gaming, trading, or live-streaming systems Worked on high-concurrency platforms (10K+ users) Startup or early-stage product experience What You Get Founding Engineer title Equity + leadership growth (Potential CTO Role) Direct ownership of product real-time engine Freedom to design architecture the right way Massive upside as the platform scales

Requirements

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• WebSockets
• Socket.IO
• Redis
• AWS
• Docker
• Microservices
• WebRTC

Preferred Technologies

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• WebSockets
• Socket.IO
• Redis
• AWS
• Docker
• Microservices
• WebRTC

Benefits

• Equity
• Leadership growth