Back End Developer

Position Title: Backend Developer Web Applications

Employer: Loch Corporate Services Private Limited

Location: Gurugram, India (Work from Office mandatory)

Position Type: Full time (employment or contract, as determined at offer stage)

Reports To: Director

Remuneration: Commensurate with experience

About the organisation

Loch Corporate Services Private Limited is a professional services firm delivering a broad range of solutions across administrative, technical, marketing, and specialised operational areas. Established with a focus on high quality and compliant service delivery, Loch supports organisations seeking integrated support functions under a single trusted provider. The firm is committed to strict confidentiality standards, consistent quality controls and seamless collaboration with client teams across multiple sectors.

Purpose of the role

Design, build and maintain backend services and APIs that support web applications and internal tools used by Loch and its clients.

Ensure backend systems are secure, scalable, reliable and maintainable.

Work closely with frontend developers, product owners and stakeholders to translate requirements into robust server-side solutions.

Responsibilities and duties

• Design, develop and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs for web applications.
• Implement and manage secure authentication and authorisation mechanisms including JWT, OAuth and role-based access control.
• Design and optimise relational database schemas, queries and migrations in systems such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Implement business logic and workflow automation based on documented requirements.
• Monitor and improve application performance, scalability and reliability.
• Integrate third party APIs, SaaS tools and external services as required.
• Write clean, modular, testable and well documented code following agreed standards.
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architecture decisions.
• Troubleshoot, debug and resolve backend issues in production and non-production environments.
• Support deployment workflows including CI/CD, environment configuration and release activities.

Key deliverables

• Stable and well documented backend services that support agreed application features.
• APIs delivered in line with specifications, including error handling and authentication requirements.
• Database structures and queries that meet performance and reliability expectations.
• Defects and incidents resolved within agreed timeframes.
• Technical documentation maintained for services, endpoints and key workflows.

Compliance and confidentiality

All development work must be performed using approved systems, repositories and environments.

Source code, credentials, test data and configuration details must be handled in line with internal security and confidentiality protocols.

Production and client data must not be copied to personal devices or unapproved tools.

Any exposure to client systems or information must be for authorised business purposes only and logged in accordance with internal processes.

Key relationships

Director.

Frontend and web development team.

Product owners or business stakeholders.

IT infrastructure or DevOps support.

External vendors and platform support teams where required.

Essential skills

• Minimum three years of backend development experience.
• Strong experience in at least one of Node.js (Express or NestJS), Python (Django or FastAPI), Java (Spring Boot) or .NET Core.
• Proven experience building and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Strong understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Experience with authentication and role-based access control.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices and common web security risks.
• Experience with Git and standard version control workflows.
• Familiarity with at least one cloud platform such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Understanding of containerisation concepts, preferably Docker.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work through production issues.

Desirable skills

• Experience building SaaS platforms or enterprise web applications.
• Exposure to microservices architecture and related patterns.
• Experience with caching systems such as Redis.
• Experience configuring or working within CI/CD pipelines.
• Basic understanding of frontend frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.
• Experience with message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Qualifications and experience

Bachelors degree in computer science, Engineering or a related field is preferred.

Proven track record of delivering production grade web applications and backend services.

Employee benefits

Employees of Loch Corporate Services Private Limited are entitled to the following benefits:

• Four weeks of paid annual leave.
• Health insurance coverage.
• Provident Fund (PF) contributions in accordance with Indian regulations.
• Performance linked bonuses, subject to eligibility and company policy.