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Website:
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Job details:
Position Title: Backend Developer
Location: Remote
Department: Engineering
Reports to: CTO
Position Type: Full-time
SWIFT TV is India’s first AI-native FAST (Free Ad-Supported TV) app, already live with a million users, streaming rich regional content powered by AI-driven personalization and automation.
Our backend powers millions of streaming sessions daily. We’re looking for a passionate Senior Backend Developer to help us build, scale, optimize, and embed AI workflows directly into our platform. As a fast-growing company, we are looking for individuals who are passionate about technology, thrive in a startup environment, and are eager to contribute to our exciting journey.
What You’ll Do:
- Build, enhance & maintain backend microservices using Node.js and Python to power streaming, personalization, and content management.
- Design and optimize APIs for high throughput, low latency, and reliability at scale.
- Manage and scale AWS cloud infrastructure, including Lambda, CloudFront, S3, RDS, MediaConvert, SQS, and related services.
- Develop, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows to enable smooth deployments and monitoring.
- Integrate AI/ML capabilities such as LLMs, Langchain, HuggingFace models, and vision AI APIs to enable smart content tagging, summarization, and personalized recommendations.
- Automate repetitive backend workflows related to content ingestion, processing, and notifications.
- Build internal tools and dashboards that empower content, editorial, and marketing teams to work efficiently.
- Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues, bottlenecks, and bugs in production systems.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate product requirements into scalable backend solutions.
What We’re Looking For:
- 2–4 years of backend development experience with strong hands-on skills in Node.js and Python.
- Proven hands-on experience managing and scaling production AWS infrastructure.
- Familiarity or interest in integrating AI-powered workflows and automation tools.
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture, API design, and cloud-native best practices. Experience with CI/CD tooling and infrastructure-as-code is a plus.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design and implementation.
- Experience with database technologies like SQL, NoSQL, and data caching solutions.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong problem-solving skills, debugging ability, and attention to detail.
- Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment ,proactive, collaborative, and delivery-focused.
- Passion for clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Why Join SWIFT TV?
- Work on a live streaming platform with millions of users impacting millions of viewing sessions every day.
- Be part of a small, passionate team pioneering AI-powered regional streaming in India.
- Take ownership of critical backend systems and drive innovation at the intersection of media, technology, and AI.
- Experience a culture of autonomy, rapid iteration, and minimal bureaucracy.
- Opportunity to grow alongside a fast-scaling startup and build products that truly matter.
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Employment Type : Full-time
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