Backend Engineer – Fresh Grad

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary engineer assigned to the go-to-market team.

• Develop and maintain backend systems utilized regularly by BDRs and AEs.

• Create and manage data pipelines that extract account and contact information from various sources and APIs.

• Clean, deduplicate, evaluate, and synchronize data to the CRM, ensuring it serves as the single source of truth.

• Design the GTM data model and a central database that integrates CRM, outreach, and product data.

• Connect internal and external tools through REST APIs and webhooks.

• Develop internal services and tools in scenarios where existing solutions fall short.

• Implement signal detection, lead scoring, routing, and alerts for sales representatives.

• Create AI-driven tools and agents for research, proposals, and CRM updates.

• Deploy, schedule, monitor, and maintain systems, incorporating error handling, retries, rate limits, logging, and alerts.

• Troubleshoot issues, determine root causes, deploy fixes, and document solutions.

• Work closely with the Sales team and collaborate with Engineering on architecture and best practices.

• Report directly to the Head of GTM.

• Enhance sales productivity and pipeline through dependable, user-adopted systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Recent graduate (0–2 years) in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline with a strong academic background.

• At least 1 year of backend experience through a first full-time position or internships in a startup environment.

• Proficiency in Python or another backend programming language, SQL, and data modeling.

• Familiarity with building and consuming REST APIs and working with webhooks.

• Experience with Git, deployment, scheduling, testing, logging, and debugging in a production environment.

• Systems thinking with an understanding of component interdependencies.

• Practical experience with AI coding tools and LLM APIs, such as Claude Code or the Claude API.

• Track record of building and delivering a real feature, service, data pipeline, or internal tool.

• Independent, proactive, and comfortable with remote communication, particularly in written form.

• Fluent in English, both spoken and written.

• Must currently reside in India.

• German language skills are not required.

• Desirable: Experience with AWS or GCP, a data warehouse, a CRM and its API, or GTM tools such as Clay.

🏝️ Benefits

• Shares / generous equity package.

• 26 days of vacation plus local public holidays.

• Comprehensive health coverage.

• €1,000 annual budget for personal development.

• Remote workspace budget.

• Access to co-working spaces.

• Annual retreat.

• Latest technology equipment (MacBook, monitors, headphones).

• Company-wide events.

• Opportunity to connect with world-class mentors.

• 100% remote work with a virtual office in Gather.