Hire a Backend Engineer in India
Hire a senior backend engineer in India for APIs, PostgreSQL data modeling, event-driven queues, auth/SSO, payments, and cloud infra that scales. Remote, IST.
Want to hire a backend engineer in India who thinks in systems, not just endpoints? I’m Kuldeep Pisda — a senior backend engineer and former startup CTO based in Bengaluru. For 6+ years I’ve designed and run the parts of a product no one sees until they break: the APIs, the database underneath them, the queues that move work off the request path, and the infra that keeps it all up. My default stack is Django/DRF, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL, but the framework is the least interesting decision — the data model and the failure modes are what matter.
What I build
- APIs and services — clean, versioned REST APIs with sane pagination, idempotency where it counts, and contracts that don’t break clients on the next deploy. Django REST Framework and FastAPI, whichever fits the team.
- Databases and data modeling — PostgreSQL as the source of truth: schemas that match how the data is actually queried, real indexes over guesswork, and concurrency correctness enforced in the database with row locks and exclusion constraints instead of hopeful application code.
- Event-driven architecture — Celery/RabbitMQ with a queue per workload, so a slow report never sits behind a payment. Retries, dead-letter handling, and idempotent workers so a redelivery doesn’t double-charge anyone.
- Auth and SSO — Keycloak-backed single sign-on, token and session handling, and permission models that hold up across multiple frontends and tenants.
- Payments — gateway integrations with webhook handling, reconciliation, and the boring correctness work that keeps money and records in agreement.
- Cloud and CI/CD — AWS (ECS, S3, CloudFront) provisioned with Terraform, plus the deploy pipelines, monitoring, and founding-SRE plumbing around a service.
Experience you’re hiring
I’ve done the founding-SRE work on a growing platform and scaled a backend past 30,000 users — the kind of scale where lazy queries and single shared queues start to hurt and you fix them for real. I’ve split Celery workloads into a queue per job type so one heavy task can’t starve the rest, stood up Keycloak SSO across services, and chased down concurrency bugs with Postgres locks and exclusion constraints rather than papering over race conditions. Clients are mostly under wraps, so the case studies describe the work by role and scale — the actual decisions and trade-offs, not a feature list. I also wrote django-rls, a PostgreSQL row-level-security library for multi-tenant isolation, and I’ve taken a product through SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2. I speak at DjangoCon US, DjangoCon Europe, and EuroPython, and I test what I ship.
How engagements work
Short, well-scoped engagements with a written plan and testable milestones — a fixed-scope backend build, an ongoing retainer for a team that needs a senior hand, or an architecture review before you commit to a direction. Remote-first and async-friendly, based in India (IST) and used to overlapping with US and EU hours.
FAQ
Which stacks do you work in? Python-first — Django/DRF and FastAPI — with Node when a project already lives there. PostgreSQL (including pgvector) is my default datastore, Celery/RabbitMQ for async work, Keycloak for auth, and AWS with Terraform underneath. I pick the tool that fits the team, not the one that’s trendy.
Can you work with an existing backend? Yes — most of my work is on live systems, not greenfield. I’ll map the data model, traffic, and failure modes before changing anything, and refactor incrementally so you’re never staring at a big-bang rewrite.
Can you help us scale something that’s straining?
That’s a core part of the job. I work from EXPLAIN ANALYZE, real query plans, and
metrics rather than hunches — fixing N+1 queries, adding the missing index,
splitting overloaded queues, and moving slow work off the request path.
Do you handle databases and DevOps too, or just app code? Both. I own the PostgreSQL layer end to end and can stand up the AWS, CI/CD, and monitoring around a service — the founding-SRE and SOC 2 compliance work is mine as much as the API code.
Do you work with international clients? Yes — remote with clients in the US, EU, and India, on IST, with hours structured to overlap when it matters.
Let’s talk
Tell me what you’re building and where it’s straining — get in touch, or grab a time below:
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