Job Description

### you'll be responsible for--

• The development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• Ensuring sub-second server response and being responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores, and messaging stores as needed.
• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code.
• Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices.
• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
• Designing and optimizing backend systems to handle large-scale AI/ML data pipelines, model serving, and real-time data processing for predictive analytics.
• Developing a highly scalable and performant backend based on event-driven architecture with AI/ML integration.
• Integrating AI/ML model APIs into backend services and ensuring optimal performance of those models.
• Breaking down features into tasks and driving the evolution of the backend architecture to support AI/ML models at scale.
• Define use cases and develop methodology and benchmarks to evaluate different approaches
• Set direction and goals for the team related to project impact, AI system design, infrastructure, and developer efficiency

### you need--

• Overall 6+ years of software development experience, with deep expertise in frameworks and languages such as Java, Go, and Python, including 3+ years of focused, hands-on experience with Golang.
• Experience with frameworks like Springboot, Quarkus, Gin/Mux.
• Proficient in OOP, SQL, Design Patterns with data modeling experience in relational databases.
• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Experience with scalable infrastructure for AI/ML model serving and orchestration of machine learning workflows.
• Experience optimizing backend systems for AI/ML workloads and addressing challenges in building AI-powered systems for large-scale inference and data processing in production environments.
• Track record of mentoring and growing other engineers
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

### bonus points for--

• Experience with AI/ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or MLFlow.
• Experience in Cloud Run, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Kubernetes, Cloud Vision.
• Experience with both AWS and GCP stacks.
• Open-source contributions, side projects, blog posts, and YT tech videos.

### what you get--

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks -- and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

### about us--


Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for leading startups, fast-growing scale-ups, and global enterprises. We're headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies.


We are Proximity -- a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company's success will be huge. You'll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product and design teams. Here's a quick guide to getting to know us better:

• Watch our CEO, Hardik Jagda, tell you all about Proximity.
• Read about Proximity's values and meet some of our Proxonauts here.
• Explore our website, blog, and the design wing -- Studio Proximity.
• Get behind-the-scenes with us on Instagram! Follow @ProxWrks and @H.Jagda