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About the role
Emergence is a thematic holding company backed by the Pritzker Organization focused exclusively on acquiring and scaling category-defining software businesses. We invest in focused portfolios, specialized operating groups with deep domain expertise and proven playbooks. Emergence combines operational rigor with a growth equity mindset, driving sustainable ARR growth, profitability improvements, and industry-leading customer outcomes. The Mission Build reliable backend systems across portfolio companies that scale with the business and ship features that directly impact customers.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement microservices and APIs that handle production traffic with measurable uptime and latency targets
- Identify and fix performance bottlenecks in code or infrastructure, quantifying the impact of your optimizations
- Ship features end-to-end from specification through production, including tests, code review, and incident response
- Propose architecture solutions backed by load estimates or proof-of-concept results to address scalability challenges
- Build logging, monitoring, and alerting systems that surface actionable issues before they impact users
- Mentor junior engineers through code review and pairing to accelerate their ability to ship independently
Requirements
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Node.js) with shipped production systems
- Comfortable with writing majority code using AI
- Experience designing and debugging microservices or distributed systems with REST APIs
- Strong SQL skills and proven ability to optimize database queries and schema design
- Track record owning features end-to-end from design through production deployment
- Comfortable shipping code in moving environments and debugging production issues under pressure
- Working knowledge of ORMs like Prisma and relational databases like PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with background job queues and scheduled task management
- Experience with Redis or Redis-compatible systems for caching and pub-sub
- Good product sense & have built end-to-end projects or products, including frontend/design
- Experience with containerization tools like Docker or Kubernetes
- Familiarity with message queues or event streaming platforms like Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with JWT-based authentication and session management
- Familiarity with AWS CloudWatch or similar logging and monitoring tools
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Software Development Engineer (SDE- I), Emergence | Remote - India | Full-Time
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