<div><strong>The Role:</strong><br><br>As Software Engineer, Backend, you will be integral to building, scaling, and maintaining our microservices architecture, driving the performance and reliability of our core platform. The ideal candidate should possess a strong background in backend engineering and system design - particularly in Golang - demonstrate exceptional problem-solving abilities, and exhibit enthusiasm for actively contributing to the achievements of the leading startup within the EdTech sector of Bangladesh.<br><br><strong>Key Roles & Responsibilities:</strong><br><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Owning assigned microservices end-to-end on a quarterly basis across our fleet of 30+ services (e.g., live class, core, gateway, live exam, machinary, kpi, analytics, anubadok, Shikho AI).<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Designing and building scalable, high-throughput microservices in Golang with comprehensive test coverage.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Hands-on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) engineering: building and maintaining retrieval pipelines, embedding stores, and evaluation datasets for AI-powered services (e.g., anubadok, Shikho AI).<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Debugging, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues, while optimizing endpoint performance and overall system health.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Translating product and platform requirements into robust technical architectures and participating in technical design discussions.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Representing the Backend platform in cross-platform API design (REST/GraphQL) and collaboration with Mobile and Product teams.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Maintaining complete technical documentation, service specifications, and system diagrams for owned microservices.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Working in an AI-native engineering environment using agentic IDEs and coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor) to deliver daily agent-generated diffs.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Leveraging AI assistance to generate unit tests, test fixtures, database migration scripts, and run efficient production log analysis for root-cause hypothesis generation.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Utilizing AI tools to draft PR descriptions, RFCs, technical documentation, and service runbooks following team playbooks.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Contributing to AI context engineering (prompts, agent skills, context files) and workflow optimization for cost-effective AI utilization.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Participating in code reviews, sharing effective AI prompt workflows, and mentoring junior engineers.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure strict deadlines and sprint planning guidelines are met.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Working collaboratively within the engineering team to offer support whenever needed to achieve system objectives.<br><br><strong>Qualifications and Skills:</strong></div><div><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Minimum 3–4 years of professional experience in backend software development, with a core focus on distributed microservices architectures.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Proven track record of designing, building, and delivering high-volume, low-latency microservices and API endpoints.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Strong proficiency in the specified tech stack: Golang, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ArangoDB, Redis, REST/GraphQL, Docker, and Weaviate (vector search/RAG).<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Hands-on experience or deep familiarity with AI/RAG architectures, including embedding stores, vector databases, retrieval pipelines, and model evaluation datasets.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Experience writing comprehensive test suites (unit/integration), managing test fixtures, and handling database migration strategies.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Demonstrable adaptability to an AI-native workflow, with familiarity using agentic IDEs (Cursor/Claude Code), context engineering, prompt optimization, and daily AI-assisted shipping.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Exceptional problem-solving skills, root-cause debugging capabilities (log analysis), and a metrics-driven approach to service health and latency optimization.<br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
- </span>Strong collaborative skills to translate technical specifications into clean designs and represent backend architectures across multi-team discussions.</div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Important Bits:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Job type: Full Time</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Department: Technology
- Engineering</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Work Location: HQ, Banani, Dhaka</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Salary: Competitive and Negotiable Based on Experience</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Working Days: 5 days a week, from Sunday to Thursday</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">- Other
com/" rel="noreferrer"><strong>Shikho</strong></a> is a Bangladeshi education technology start-up with a mission to democratise access to high-quality education.
0 million USD of international funding from global venture capitalists in Singapore and America, the highest for a Bangladeshi seed-stage startup and the highest in education technology for the country.
Investors include education technology investment specialists Learn Capital from Silicon Valley, regional experts Wavemaker Partners from Singapore along with the Family Office of Singtel Chairman and local partner SAJIDA Foundation.
com/press/bloomberg-new-economy-announces-2023-catalysts/" rel="noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px;cursor:pointer;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px;">Shikho and its Founder, Shahir Chowdhury featured in Bloomberg New Economy 2023 Catalysts</strong></a></div></div>
