Software Engineer, Backend - India
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Ema's standard text
About Ema
Ema builds AI Employees for HR, IT and Finance. Our AI Employees take on the busy work across the employee experience, from recruiting, onboarding and benefits to IT support, invoice processing and payroll, so people can spend their time on work that needs them. Founded by former executives from Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta, our team includes engineers from premier tech companies and graduates of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, and IITs.
We are backed by industry leading investors including Accel, Naspers/Prosus, Creaegis, Section32, and angels like Sheryl Sandberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and with offices in London, Bangalore and Vancouver, Ema is at the frontier of what Agentic AI can do in production. We ship real systems that run real business processes at scale.
Who are you?
We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Software Engineer to join the Ema team in India. As an Enterprise Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our enterprise software applications. You will work with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, and developers to deliver high-quality software solutions that meet the needs of our enterprise clients.
The ideal candidate has experience building products across the stack and a firm understanding of web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple back-end languages. Most importantly, you are excited to be part of a mission-oriented, fast-paced, high-growth startup that can create a lasting impact.
You will:
- Develop and maintain enterprise software applications, including API, data, application, and service development
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code by employing test-driven development process.
- Build scalable and reliable back-end systems using languages like Go and Python.
- Develop and maintain APIs using REST, gRPC or GraphQL
- Integrate multiple enterprise applications and services using a scalable framework like FastAPI
- Build and maintain data schema using PostgreSQL, NoSQL etc.
- Knowledge of front-end interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks such as React or Angular.
- Design data pipelines for ML using DE stack ; event driven technologies like Temporal and Kafka. Work with foundational LLMs across OpenAI. Gemini and Claude.
- Ensure that applications are secure and adhere to industry best practices.
- Able to design and develop enterprise grade features / modules using SOLID principles and best practices around software engineering.
- Develop high availability, low latency enterprise grade software products using Agentic Architecture, LLMs and RAG technology.
- Continuously improve software development processes and practices.
Ideally, you'd have:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- At least 7+ years of relevant work experience.
- Solid background in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming
- Experience in back-end development using languages like Python and Go
- Knowledge of database technologies like PostgreSQL, Elastic, Redis.
- Knowledge of designing and building API platforms and integration systems.
- Experience with cloud technologies like GCP
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with integrating multiple enterprise applications, including frameworks and authentication.
- Experience in Agentic, LLMs and knowledge search is good to have.
- Understanding of security best practices and protocols for enterprise software applications
- Experience deploying software in multi-tenant SaaS environments.
- Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks like React or Angular
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Experience working with global teams
Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
Ema's standard text
Ema Unlimited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetics.
What this role asks for
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Kubernetes · PostgreSQL · Python
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Okta
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
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The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 19 open in Engineering. 7 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Okta (19 of 19), Python (13 of 19), GCP (10 of 19), LLM (10 of 19), Azure (9 of 19), Kubernetes (8 of 19), Machine Learning (8 of 19)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Security Engineer - Cloud & AI Platform posted Oct 15
- Devops Engineer, US posted Oct 9
- IT Engineer posted Oct 5
- AI Resident UK/EMEA posted Oct 1
- Software Engineer, Full-Stack posted Oct 1
- Software Engineer, Machine Learning posted Oct 1
- Software Engineer, Full-Stack posted Sep 22
- Engineering Leader posted Aug 25
- AI Resident posted Jul 31
- Devops Engineer posted Jul 31
- Senior Infrastructure Engineer posted Jun 19
- Platform Engineer posted Jun 19
- Software Engineer, Full Stack - UK posted Jun 11
- Site Reliability Engineer posted Jun 10
- Engineering Leader posted Apr 30
- Principal Machine Learning Engineer posted Oct 6
- Software Engineer, Machine Learning posted Sep 18
- Software Engineer, Machine Learning posted Mar 11
From the team and dates on Ema's own job board.
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