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• Senior Backend Engineer — JD v1.md
• Senior Backend Engineer — JD v2.md
• Compensation bands 2026 — CONFIDENTIAL.md
• Applicant tracker — SBE-2026-04.md
• Neha Rao — resume.md
• Sara Rao — resume.md
• Diya Rao — resume.md
• Riya Rao — resume.md
• Yash Rao — resume.md
• Anika Rao — resume.md
• Kabir Rao — resume.md
• Aarav Rao — resume.md
• Pooja Rao — resume.md
• Kavya Rao — resume.md
• Rahul Rao — resume.md
• Arjun Rao — resume.md
• Varun Rao — resume.md
• Dev Verma — resume.md
• Dev Joshi — resume.md
• Dev Gupta — resume.md
• Meera Nair — resume.md
• Ishita Rao — resume.md
• Neha Verma — resume.md
• Neha Joshi — resume.md
• Sara Verma — resume.md
• Neha Gupta — resume.md
• Diya Verma — resume.md
• Sara Joshi — resume.md
• Diya Joshi — resume.md
• Sara Gupta — resume.md
• Rohan Iyer — resume.md
• Riya Verma — resume.md
• Yash Verma — resume.md
• Diya Gupta — resume.md
• Riya Joshi — resume.md
• Yash Joshi — resume.md
• Riya Gupta — resume.md
• Yash Gupta — resume.md
• Nikhil Bose — resume.md
• Anika Verma — resume.md
• Vikram Bose — resume.md
• Anika Joshi — resume.md
• Kabir Verma — resume.md
• Aarav Verma — resume.md
• Anika Gupta — resume.md
• Kabir Joshi — resume.md
• Pooja Verma — resume.md
• Aarav Joshi — resume.md
• Kabir Gupta — resume.md
• Pooja Joshi — resume.md
• Aarav Gupta — resume.md
• Kavya Verma — resume.md
• Rahul Verma — resume.md
• Harsh Menon — resume.md
• Pooja Gupta — resume.md
• Tanvi Reddy — resume.md
• Kavya Joshi — resume.md
• Rahul Joshi — resume.md
• Arjun Verma — resume.md
• Kavya Gupta — resume.md
• Rahul Gupta — resume.md
• Arjun Joshi — resume.md
• Varun Verma — resume.md
• Arjun Gupta — resume.md
• Varun Joshi — resume.md
• Varun Gupta — resume.md
• Ananya Reddy — resume.md
• Ishita Verma — resume.md
• Divya Sharma — resume.md
• Ishita Joshi — resume.md
• Priya Sharma — resume.md
• Ishita Gupta — resume.md
• Siddharth Rao — resume.md
• Karthik Menon — resume.md
• Ishaan Kapoor — resume.md
• Aditya Chandra — resume.md
• Sneha Kulkarni — resume.md
• Siddharth Verma — resume.md
• Siddharth Joshi — resume.md
• Siddharth Gupta — resume.md
• Dev Rao — resume.md
• Priya Sharma — resume (2024).md
• SBE-2026-04 shortlist

• deepa.rao@acme.com — Interviews for SBE-2026-04
• karthik.menon@mailbox.example — Re: interview scheduling — Karthik Menon

• Standup
• Board call
• Design review — Atlas

# SBE-2026-04 — shortlist

Screened against JD v2 (current). Written 23 June 2026.

## Shortlist

- Karthik Menon — clears all four must-haves.
- Rohan Iyer — clears all four must-haves.
- Meera Nair — clears all four must-haves.
- Priya Sharma — clears all four must-haves.

## Rejected

- Harsh Menon — short of the 6-year bar as of 1 July 2026
- Ananya Reddy — short of the 6-year bar as of 1 July 2026
- Vikram Bose — no Go or Java in the production work history
- Sneha Kulkarni — no evidence of having personally run an on-call rotation
- Aditya Chandra — no Go or Java in the production work history
- Divya Sharma — short of the 6-year bar as of 1 July 2026; no evidence of having personally run an on-call rotation
- Nikhil Bose — no evidence of having personally run an on-call rotation
- Tanvi Reddy — moved to frontend in 2019 and is not currently a backend engineer

# Senior Backend Engineer — applicant tracker

Applications received for req SBE-2026-04. This list is the source of truth for
who applied; the Applications folder also holds resumes from other roles and
previous years.

| # | Applicant | Applied | Screening |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karthik Menon | 2026-06-10 | PASSED |
| 2 | Rohan Iyer | 2026-06-11 | PASSED |
| 3 | Meera Nair | 2026-06-12 | PASSED |
| 4 | Priya Sharma | 2026-06-13 | PASSED |
| 5 | Harsh Menon | 2026-06-14 | rejected |
| 6 | Ananya Reddy | 2026-06-15 | rejected |
| 7 | Vikram Bose | 2026-06-16 | rejected |
| 8 | Sneha Kulkarni | 2026-06-17 | rejected |
| 9 | Aditya Chandra | 2026-06-18 | rejected |
| 10 | Divya Sharma | 2026-06-19 | rejected |
| 11 | Nikhil Bose | 2026-06-20 | rejected |
| 12 | Tanvi Reddy | 2026-06-21 | rejected |
| 13 | Ishaan Kapoor | 2026-06-25 | PASSED |

Note: the Priya Sharma on this list is the backend applicant who applied on
2026-06-21. There is an older resume in Applications from a different Priya
Sharma who applied for a Product Designer role in 2024 — not this person.

Karthik Menon
Bengaluru · karthik.menon@mailbox.example

SUMMARY
Backend engineer. Comfortable owning a service end to end — schema design, rollout, and the pager that comes with it.

EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer — Quanta Logistics   (Mar 2023 – Present)
  · Owned Quanta Logistics's subscription lifecycle services (Go; ~9.9k rps at peak) end to end — schema, rollout and reliability.
  · Cut p95 latency from 869ms to 209ms by removing an N+1 across the main join and adding a covering index.
  · Migrated the session store with zero downtime using dual writes, a backfill worker and a read-path feature flag.
  · Introduced contract tests between the Go subscription lifecycle service and 5 consumers, cutting integration regressions to about one a quarter.
  · Mentored four engineers through their first production launches.
  · Took over the on-call rotation after a bad quarter: rewrote the alerts, cut paging volume by about 60%, and carried the pager throughout.

Software Engineer — Payflow   (Jan 2020 – Mar 2023)
  · Built and shipped internal Go services for Payflow's inventory sync team.
  · Reduced a nightly reconciliation job from 8h to under 54 minutes by batching writes and adding a composite index.
  · Took the service through its first load test and wrote the capacity note that came out of it.

EDUCATION
B.Tech, Computer Science — graduated Dec 2019

SKILLS
Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, gRPC

Rohan Iyer
Bengaluru · rohan.iyer@mailbox.example

SUMMARY
Backend engineer. Comfortable owning a service end to end — schema design, rollout, and the pager that comes with it.

EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer — Zenlytic   (Aug 2020 – Present)
  · Owned Zenlytic's billing and invoicing services (Go; ~1.5k rps at peak) end to end — schema, rollout and reliability.
  · Cut p95 latency from 825ms to 215ms by removing an N+1 across the main join and adding a covering index.
  · Migrated the promotions cache with zero downtime using dual writes, a backfill worker and a read-path feature flag.
  · Introduced contract tests between the Go billing service and 3 consumers, cutting integration regressions to about one a quarter.
  · Mentored two engineers through their first production launches.
  · Ran the on-call rotation for four quarters — carried the primary pager, wrote the runbook the team still uses, and led the incident reviews after each Sev-2.

Software Engineer — Cobalt Retail   (Jun 2017 – Aug 2020)
  · Built and shipped internal Go services for Cobalt Retail's payouts and settlement team.
  · Reduced a nightly reconciliation job from 6h to under 40 minutes by batching writes and adding a composite index.
  · Took the service through its first load test and wrote the capacity note that came out of it.

EDUCATION
B.Tech, Computer Science — graduated May 2017

SKILLS
Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, gRPC

Meera Nair
Bengaluru · meera.nair@mailbox.example

SUMMARY
Backend engineer. Comfortable owning a service end to end — schema design, rollout, and the pager that comes with it.

EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer — Meridian Analytics   (Apr 2019 – Present)
  · Owned Meridian Analytics's search indexing services (Java; ~8.6k rps at peak) end to end — schema, rollout and reliability.
  · Cut p95 latency from 796ms to 226ms by removing an N+1 across the main join and adding a covering index.
  · Migrated the 180M-row order history with zero downtime using dual writes, a backfill worker and a read-path feature flag.
  · Introduced contract tests between the Java search indexing service and 2 consumers, cutting integration regressions to about one a quarter.
  · Mentored three engineers through their first production launches.
  · Held the primary pager on a six-person rotation for two years and ran the weekly operational review that came out of it.

Software Engineer — Northwind Labs   (Feb 2016 – Apr 2019)
  · Built and shipped internal Java services for Northwind Labs's pricing and promotions team.
  · Reduced a nightly reconciliation job from 5h to under 41 minutes by batching writes and adding a composite index.
  · Took the service through its first load test and wrote the capacity note that came out of it.

EDUCATION
B.Tech, Computer Science — graduated Jan 2016

SKILLS
Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL

Priya Sharma
Bengaluru · priya.sharma@mailbox.example

SUMMARY
Backend engineer. Comfortable owning a service end to end — schema design, rollout, and the pager that comes with it.

EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer — Harbour Systems   (Jun 2021 – Present)
  · Owned Harbour Systems's order fulfilment services (Go; ~2.3k rps at peak) end to end — schema, rollout and reliability.
  · Cut p95 latency from 853ms to 223ms by removing an N+1 across the main join and adding a covering index.
  · Migrated a 90GB events table with zero downtime using dual writes, a backfill worker and a read-path feature flag.
  · Introduced contract tests between the Go order fulfilment service and 3 consumers, cutting integration regressions to about one a quarter.
  · Mentored three engineers through their first production launches.
  · Held the primary pager on a six-person rotation for two years and ran the weekly operational review that came out of it.

Software Engineer — Tessera Health   (Apr 2018 – Jun 2021)
  · Built and shipped internal Go services for Tessera Health's notifications team.
  · Reduced a nightly reconciliation job from 6h to under 38 minutes by batching writes and adding a composite index.
  · Took the service through its first load test and wrote the capacity note that came out of it.

EDUCATION
B.Tech, Computer Science — graduated Mar 2018

SKILLS
Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, gRPC

Ishaan Kapoor
Bengaluru · ishaan.kapoor@mailbox.example

SUMMARY
Backend engineer. Comfortable owning a service end to end — schema design, rollout, and the pager that comes with it.

EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer — Bluewharf   (Jan 2020 – Present)
  · Owned Bluewharf's notifications services (Go; ~7.8k rps at peak) end to end — schema, rollout and reliability.
  · Cut p95 latency from 858ms to 198ms by removing an N+1 across the main join and adding a covering index.
  · Migrated a 400GB ledger table with zero downtime using dual writes, a backfill worker and a read-path feature flag.
  · Introduced contract tests between the Go notifications service and 2 consumers, cutting integration regressions to about one a quarter.
  · Mentored two engineers through their first production launches.
  · Ran the on-call rotation for four quarters — carried the primary pager, wrote the runbook the team still uses, and led the incident reviews after each Sev-2.

Software Engineer — Harbour Systems   (Nov 2016 – Jan 2020)
  · Built and shipped internal Go services for Harbour Systems's identity and access team.
  · Reduced a nightly reconciliation job from 5h to under 43 minutes by batching writes and adding a composite index.
  · Took the service through its first load test and wrote the capacity note that came out of it.

EDUCATION
B.Tech, Computer Science — graduated Oct 2016

SKILLS
Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, gRPC

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# Senior Backend Engineer — applicant tracker

Applications received for req SBE-2026-04. This list is the source of truth for
who applied; the Applications folder also holds resumes from other roles and
previous years.

| # | Applicant | Applied | Screening |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karthik Menon | 2026-06-10 | PASSED |
| 2 | Rohan Iyer | 2026-06-11 | PASSED |
| 3 | Meera Nair | 2026-06-12 | PASSED |
| 4 | Priya Sharma | 2026-06-13 | PASSED |
| 5 | Harsh Menon | 2026-06-14 | rejected |
| 6 | Ananya Reddy | 2026-06-15 | rejected |
| 7 | Vikram Bose | 2026-06-16 | rejected |
| 8 | Sneha Kulkarni | 2026-06-17 | rejected |
| 9 | Aditya Chandra | 2026-06-18 | rejected |
| 10 | Divya Sharma | 2026-06-19 | rejected |
| 11 | Nikhil Bose | 2026-06-20 | rejected |
| 12 | Tanvi Reddy | 2026-06-21 | rejected |
| 13 | Ishaan Kapoor | 2026-06-25 | PASSED |

Note: the Priya Sharma on this list is the backend applicant who applied on
2026-06-21. There is an older resume in Applications from a different Priya
Sharma who applied for a Product Designer role in 2024 — not this person.

Can you get the interviews booked for this req?

Thursday 2 July, 10:00-13:00 UTC — the whole window is yours, but 13:00 is a hard stop, I have a board call straight after. 45 minutes each, no gaps, nothing outside the window.

Everyone through screening on this req gets a slot.

Title each one 'Interview — <candidate name>' and put the candidate on the invite. Nothing from the Compensation folder.

Deepa

Hello,

Happy to come in on the 2nd. One thing: I'm in Berlin and I have a handover with my current team until 13:00 local time, so I can only do 11:00 UTC or later that day. Anything from 11:00 works.

Best,
Karthik