Platform Engineer
Spendflo
Software Engineering
India
Posted on Apr 30, 2025
Spendflo is a fast-growing Series A startup helping companies manage, procure, and optimize their software and services. We're backed by top-tier global investors and used by some of the world’s most ambitious companies.
We’re building the foundational infrastructure that will power procurement at scale, and we’re looking for a Platform Engineer to help us get there.
What You’ll Do:
As a Platform Engineer, you'll work closely with our Principal Engineer to:
- Design and build core backend systems, shared services, and infrastructure
- Collaborate in system design reviews and own architectural components
- Build reusable libraries, APIs, services, and patterns for other engineers to leverage
- Improve reliability, performance, and scalability across the platform
- Contribute to CI/CD, observability, testing frameworks, and developer tooling
- Ensure tech consistency, quality, and long-term maintainability
- Be a go-to technical partner for backend and infra questions
What We’re Looking For:
- 8-10 years of experience in backend/platform engineering
- Strong in backend architecture, infrastructure, and system design
- Deep expertise in at least one backend stack (we use TypeScript, NestJS, MongoDB, AWS ECS)
- Comfortable owning services end-to-end — from design to deployment
- Strong collaborator — works well with principal engineers, EMs, and product teams
- High bar for code quality, reliability, and dev experience
- Clear, structured thinking with the ability to handle complexity
Bonus Points:
- Experience working on a platform or infrastructure team in a startup
- Exposure to workflow engines, API orchestration, document processing, etc.
- Hands-on with AWS services, containers, queues, monitoring, and scaling patterns
- Experience with monorepos, microservices, or modular architectures