Backend Engineer (NodeJS/TypeScript/Python)

About the role

Live2.ai builds an AI-native Social Content and Campaign Intelligence OS for global consumer brands, helping them monitor, audit, analyse and act on intelligence across social content, influencer campaigns, user-generated content and commerce. ClanX is recruiting a Backend Engineer in Bengaluru to own the backend services behind Live2.ai, including data models, APIs and asynchronous processing. This is an IC4 individual contributor role reporting to the Engineering Manager, with ownership of production reliability, data integrity and isolation.

Key responsibilities

• Build and operate backend services with strict data integrity and isolation requirements.
• Design data models for multi-tenant systems and keep them correct under delivery pressure.
• Build asynchronous, queue-based processing that handles failures midway through a workflow.
• Design and maintain APIs used by internal teams and enterprise customers, versioning them carefully to protect existing integrations.
• Own services after deployment, including production issues and on-call duties.

Required profile

• Minimum 3 years of experience building and operating production backend services.
• Strong relational data modelling skills, including multi-tenant or access-scoped designs.
• Solid understanding of asynchronous processing, background workers, queues and handling partial failures.
• Experience taking responsibility for production correctness, data integrity, access isolation and operational issues.
• Nice to have: regulated or audited domain experience, real-time or streaming systems, cross-language work, performance tuning in data-heavy systems, and enterprise integration support.

Required skills

• Languages: Python and TypeScript
• APIs and services: FastAPI and Node.js
• Data: PostgreSQL and Redis
• Async processing: Celery, message queues and background workers
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker and Kubernetes
• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Architecture: multi-tenant services, event-driven processing and REST APIs

The company values engineering judgment over familiarity with a particular framework, and will ask which part of the stack you prefer to start with. The position is on-site in Bengaluru.