Backend Developer

About Us

“Capco, a Wipro company, is a global technology and management consulting firm. Awarded with Consultancy of the year in the  British Bank Award and has been ranked Top 100 Best Companies for Women in India 2022 by Avtar & Seramount. With our presence across 32 cities across globe, we support 100+ clients across banking, financial and Energy sectors. We are recognized for our deep transformation execution and delivery. 

WHY JOIN CAPCO?

You will work on engaging projects with the largest international and local banks, insurance companies, payment service providers and other key players in the industry. The projects that will transform the financial services industry.

MAKE AN IMPACT

Innovative thinking, delivery excellence and thought leadership to help our clients transform their business. Together with our clients and industry partners, we deliver disruptive work that is changing energy and financial services.

#BEYOURSELFATWORK

Capco has a tolerant, open culture that values diversity, inclusivity, and creativity.

CAREER ADVANCEMENT

With no forced hierarchy at Capco, everyone has the opportunity to grow as we grow, taking their career into their own hands.

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We believe that diversity of people and perspective gives us a competitive advantage.

MAKE AN IMPACT

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll design, build, and maintain the server-side systems that power our applications. You’ll focus on how data is stored, processed, and served via APIs—ensuring our services are performant, secure, reliable, and scalable.

Key responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain backend services like procedure/functions linked to APIs for integrations. 

- Build and optimise data models, database queries, and storage strategies. 

- Ensure high performance and reliability through profiling, monitoring, and tuning. 

- Implement secure-by-design practices (authentication/authorisation, data protection, secure coding). 

- Design scalable architectures and contribute to system design decisions. 

- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code; contribute to code reviews and engineering standards. 

- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and drive preventative improvements. 

- Collaborate with frontend engineers, product, QA, and platform/SRE teams to deliver end-to-end outcomes. 

- Document APIs, services, and operational runbooks to support long-term maintainability.

Skills & Experience

- Strong backend engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed systems basics. 

- Experience building server-side applications and APIs (REST and/or event-driven patterns). 

- Solid understanding of databases like PostgreSQL, indexing, transactions, and data consistency. 

- Practical experience with testing strategies (unit/integration), CI/CD, and version control. 

- Ability to design systems that handle high throughput and large volumes of operational tasks. 

- Strong problem-solving skills and a language-agnostic mindset.

- We’re open to engineers proficient in any of the following: Python, Java, C++, C#, Clojure, CoffeeScript, F#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, TypeScript, Scala.