Backend Engineering Intern

The reason this job description was created is…
At Propsoch, our mission is to be the assurance partners and empower every homebuyer to make informed real-estate decisions to avoid buyer’s remorse. Key to our mission is the way we connect with our audience, share and expand knowledge, and build trust in the truest sense via our communications.

This is where you 🫵 come in. We're looking for a backend engineer intern who will own, build, monitor, and scale our core systems. Your work will play a crucial role in strengthening the foundation of India's fastest-growing real estate advisory brand.

Our Team Ethos:
Our ambition is much larger than any of us. And our team is critical & central to achieving this ambition. We approach team building at Propsoch as building a championship team. There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Propsoch, regardless of role or team.

• Firstly, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in a team like ours, where we default to trust, utmost intellectual honesty, embrace constant feedback, disrupt ourselves, & expect high quality execution bias as we play as a championship team.

• Secondly, we expect every team member to acknowledge and internalise the seriousness of how we are impacting our customer’s lives, not just today but for the next 10-15 years.

• Finally, we seek people that have a deep desire & capacity to learn, grow & continually upskill themselves & their team members

The most important ways to spend time doing this job are…

• Collaborating with peers in product, design, infra, security, and other teams to build mission-critical backend features that support our users, partners, and internal teams.
• Writing scalable, production-ready code to ensure robust performance and efficient data handling.
• Improving our infrastructure & processes to handle growing demand reliably & efficiently.

Your 2-3 core duties In this job are…

• Developing and maintaining APIs, databases, and backend systems for our users & advisors.
• Proactively monitoring & optimising code performance to deliver fast & reliable user experiences.
• Innovating & documenting solutions to improve system architecture in limited resources.

What it takes to be successful in this job…

• Experience or projects in backend engineering, ideally in B2C startups.
• Proficiency in Node, AWS & MySQL.
• Familiarity with Machine Learning, Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence is a bonus.
• Strong attention to detail and organisational skills.
• A team player with excellent communication, eager to learn and grow.

Simplest way to know if this job is being done well…

• Consistently delivering stable, scalable features each week.
• High backend system performance and reliability.
• Efficient code reviews with minimal feedback loops.