Senior Backend Engineer (Platform) - Remote

Seeking a Platform Engineer to build and scale the core analytics automation platform including orchestration, execution engine, and distributed systems infrastructure.

Company details
Savant is a rapidly growing (Series A: $18M) SaaS company focused on building an all-in-one platform for analytics automation. We aim to transform the way business analysts build, automate, and share analytics projects. With a dynamic and rapidly scaling platform, we’re building solutions in areas like job scheduling, resource provisioning, and more to empower our users to extract timely and reliable business insights.
Website: https://www.savantlabs.io/

• Requirements
• • Proficient in Java or similar object-oriented programming languages
• • Familiarity with developing and deploying enterprise applications in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
• • Understanding of distributed systems or microservices architecture
• • Problem-solving skills with the ability to debug and troubleshoot distributed systems issues in a cloud environment
• • 5+ years of experience in full time agile software development roles
• • Experience with owning features end to end from design and development through deployment and production support
• • Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
• • Enthusiasm for learning new technologies and solving complex problems
• • Ownership of assigned tasks with attention to detail
• • A proactive approach to challenges with a growth-oriented mindset
• • Willingness to learn from and collaborate with other team members
• Preferred Candidate
• • Experience with the Spring ecosystem frameworks in Java
• • Experience with large scale distributed data processing technologies like Spark and query engines like Trino
• • Experience with data analytics
• • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• • Experience with resource management frameworks like Airflow or Argo
• • Knowledge of agentic application principles, including knowledge extraction from unstructured data, short-term/long-term memory design and vector-based context management
• • Experience with prompting frameworks (e.g., ReAct, CoT), multi-agent orchestration frameworks (e.g. AutoGen, CrewAI), agent communication protocols (e.g. A2A, MCP)
• • Familiarity with embedding models, vector stores, and grounding techniques is a plus
• Responsibilities
• • Develop key platform features such as job scheduling, orchestration, execution engine and resource management
• • Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code while adhering to industry standards & best practices
• • Investigate and resolve issues in the platform to ensure reliability, scalability and performance
• • Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers and designers, to contribute to feature definitions and implementation
• • Continuously improve your technical skills by working alongside experienced team members and participating in technical discussions
• Job DetailsJob location: India (Remote)
• Interview process• Resume/Screening round• Technical round• System design round• Culture/team fit round• Final leadership round
• Important NoteClanX is a recruitment partner, helping Savant hire a Platform Engineer