Sara Naaz Malik

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Backend Engineer, Cairn Labs - gRPC · Kafka · idempotency

Cairn Labs
New Delhi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
1+ years experience
Shri Ram College of Commerce
English, Hindi
Open to work
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Overview

Currently at Cairn Labs, where I work on payments infrastructure. Designed the reconciliation system that matches 5 million transactions a day. Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 29% in two quarters. Most at home with distributed systems and idempotency.

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  • Roles in payments infrastructure
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Skills
Erlang/OTPKafkadistributed systemsgRPCidempotencyPCI DSSPostgreSQL
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Senior Backend Engineer roles in HR tech - New Delhi or remote

Target roles
Senior Backend Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Consumer apps, Developer tools
Work mode
Remote
Available
60 days notice
Work authorization
Indian citizen, open to relocating
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns payments platform end to end.
Not interested in
Night shifts

1 years in payments infrastructure. Strongest at gRPC and idempotency. Serving notice now.

New Delhi, Indiadistributed systemsgrpckafka
Open

Experience

  1. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Cairn Labs · 1 yr · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Wrote the gRPC service that now handles 88 million requests a day.
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 1 million transactions a day.

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Education

  1. Shri Ram College of Commerce
    B.Com, Electrical Engineering
    2021 - 2025

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