Software Development Engineer I (Backend)

GoKwik· Gurugram, India

Posted November 13, 2026

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Experience
1 – 3 years
Pay
Not disclosed
Education
Not specified
Location
Gurugram, India
Work mode
On-site
Job type
Full-time

About this role

GoKwik runs a growth platform that helps online D2C brands with checkout, payments and customer retention. This engineer builds and maintains backend services and APIs that serve many merchants at high traffic. They own small to medium features from design to release and monitor them in production.

What you will do

  • Build and maintain backend services and REST APIs in Node.js and TypeScript
  • Own small to medium features from design to rollout and monitoring
  • Write efficient SQL and improve database performance
  • Keep merchant data isolated across queries, caches and jobs
  • Run safe database migrations with senior guidance
  • Build third-party integrations and background jobs with retries and timeouts
  • Add logs, metrics and traces and debug production issues
  • Use AI coding tools and check the generated code

What the employer expects

  • 1-3 years building production backend services in Node.js and TypeScript
  • Strong basics in data structures, algorithms and debugging
  • SQL skills including joins, indexes and query plans
  • Understanding of multi-tenant systems
  • Knowledge of caching, queues, retries and idempotency
  • Good grasp of REST API design
  • Regular use of AI coding tools
  • Strong written communication

Skills

  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • REST APIs
  • Redis
  • Queues
  • Caching
  • Multi-tenant architecture
  • Idempotency
  • AI coding tools

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