Software Engineer II - Back-end - Data Engineering

About Us

Blueshift is the Intelligent Customer Engagement Platform (CEP), headquartered in San Francisco, that empowers leading B2C brands to drive truly personalized, 1:1 marketing across every channel. Founded by repeat entrepreneurs who previously built Mertado (acquired by Groupon) and were part of the early team at Kosmix (acquired by Walmart), Blueshift leverages AI, including Predictive, Generative, and Agentic AI, to automate customer engagement for clients like ClearScore, LendingTree, Udacity, and U.S. News. Backed by top-tier VCs including Nexus Venture Partners, Storm Ventures, and SoftBank Venture Asia, the company has raised a total of $65 million in venture funding and is consistently recognized as a market leader and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 award recipient.

Blueshift is actively scaling its development center in Pune, India. As part of our team, you will drive innovation in cutting-edge technologies including machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, and large-scale distributed data systems. This is an exciting career path for motivated individuals looking to build complex, impactful solutions that define the future of customer engagement.

Software Engineer II - Backend - Data Engineering

We are looking for passionate software engineers to join our Data Engineering team at Blueshift. In this role, you will contribute to building and maintaining high throughput, low latency data pipelines that ingest millions of user, product, and event data into our system — in both real-time and batch modes.

You'll work closely with experienced engineers to develop scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure that powers our core personalisation and decisioning systems. Your work will include integrating with external systems and data warehouses to ingest and export data reliably.

You'll take ownership of key components and features, from design to deployment, and have the opportunity to grow your skills in system design, performance optimisation, and production monitoring. You'll work with modern technologies like Rust, Elixir, and Ruby on Rails, and gain hands-on experience building backend systems that operate at scale.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to design, implement, and maintain data ingestion pipelines that handle both real-time and batch processing workloads.
• Contribute to building and enhancing services that move and transform large volumes of data efficiently.
• Develop new microservices and components to support data integration and platform scalability.
• Work on integrations with third-party data warehouses and external systems for importing or exporting data.
• Participate in efforts to improve the performance, reliability, and observability of existing data systems.
• Assist in diagnosing and resolving data-related issues reported by internal teams or customers.
• Engage in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement of engineering practices within the team.

Requirements

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or related fields.
• 2+ years of experience on building applications as a backend engineer.
• Solid understanding of CS concepts including OOP, data structures, concurrency.
• Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL.
• Attention to detail, curiosity, proactiveness, willingness to learn, sense of ownership are critical - qualities to succeed at Blueshift.
• Good communication and coordination skills.
• Experience working on a public cloud like AWS/Azure/GCP will be an advantage.
• Experience working on a modern language like Elixir/Rust/Golang will be an advantage.
• Experience with NoSQL systems such as Cassandra/ScyllaDB, ElasticSearch, REDIS will be a great advantage.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive salary along with stock option grants.
• Excellent hospitalisation, personal accident, and term insurance coverage.
• Located in a top-notch facility in Baner - one of the best neighbourhoods for tech startups.
• Daily catered breakfast, lunch, and snacks along with well-stocked pantry
• A team that cares about you.