API & Backend Engineer

Company: Rcruitable
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Location: Chennai
Job Description:

About the Company

Our client is a Singapore-headquartered AI-native data & service platform delivering cyber, digital, and risk solutions across Asia. They help essential service enterprises make responsible decisions through the collective intelligence of humans and machines.

AI is embedded in how they build and run systems, but humans remain accountable.

The Opportunity

We’re hiring an API & Backend Engineer to design and evolve the API layer powering an intelligent platform used in real-world, high-stakes environments.

This role is ideal for engineers who care deeply about:

  • Clean API architecture

  • Backward compatibility and contract integrity

  • Production reliability and performance

  • Using AI tools to accelerate development (with strong human oversight)

You won’t just build endpoints — you’ll own the long-term stability and behaviour of the API surface.

What You’ll Do

Design & Build Product APIs

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs

  • Define API contracts, versioning strategy, and backward compatibility

  • Ensure secure and predictable access to platform intelligence

  • Optimise query correctness and performance

Work in an AI-Enabled Engineering Environment

  • Use AI tools to generate API handlers, schemas, and test scaffolding

  • Expand contract and edge-case test coverage with AI assistance

  • Analyse production usage patterns to improve API design

  • Review and validate AI-generated outputs — accountability remains human

Ensure Production Readiness

  • Participate in CI pipelines for automated API testing and validation

  • Own test coverage and contract correctness

  • Follow structured deployment and rollback mechanisms

  • Contribute to safe, controlled releases in production

What You’ll Own

  • API stability and consumer trust

  • Contract integrity and predictable behaviour

  • Versioning strategy and long-term maintainability

  • Performance tuning and scalable query execution

  • Safe releases supported by strong automated testing

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong experience building backend systems and APIs (REST, GraphQL, or event-driven)

  • Solid understanding of API design principles and versioning best practices

  • Experience with scalable, cloud-native backend architectures

  • Familiarity with automated testing, contract testing, and CI/CD pipelines

  • Comfort working alongside AI-assisted development tools

  • Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate in production environments

Why This Role is Interesting

  • Build APIs powering AI-driven intelligence systems

  • Work in a modern, AI-native engineering culture

  • Own critical production-facing capabilities

  • Join a growing, high-impact platform operating across multiple markets

Posted: February 15th, 2026