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Murtaza Saifee

@murtazasaifee

Senior backend engineer building secure, scalable B2B SaaS platforms and LLM-powered automation across distributed teams.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for global remote roles (Europe/Asia overlap) where I can own backend architecture, deliver scalable GraphQL/Postgres systems, and build pragmatic LLM automation that improves productivity and reliability.

I’m a Senior Backend Engineer with 5 years of experience building remote-first, globally used B2B SaaS platforms. I specialize in designing secure public-read data architectures, delivering high-performance GraphQL/Postgres workflows, and collaborating effectively across distributed teams.

At Toddle, I led backend architecture and delivery for a 0-to-1 public curriculum publishing platform—owning backend and DevOps, coordinating engineers and QA, and building a safe public-read model using restricted read-only DB access, row-level security, and public Apollo GraphQL APIs. I also optimized high-volume operations by eliminating N+1 queries and re-architecting PostgreSQL queries, cutting execution time by ~95% (11s to 335ms). Beyond core backend, I build practical LLM automation: an n8n sales follow-up agent that saves an estimated 20–50 hours/month, and a localization pipeline that reduced rollout cycles to ~1 hour per language while controlling costs.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Software Engineer

Toddle

Jul 2024 - May 2026 (1 year 10 months)

Led backend architecture and delivery of a 0-to-1 public curriculum publishing platform, including secure public-read data access via a dedicated Postgres schema and row-level security. Optimized high-volume GraphQL/Postgres workloads—re-architecting a multi-CTE aggregation query to reduce execution time by ~95% (11s to 335ms) and improving API latency by removing N+1 fetches with DataLoader.

GraphQL Data Loading SQL Query Optimization Public Read Publishing Architecture

Software Engineer

Toddle

Jul 2022 - Jun 2024 (1 year 11 months)

Delivered Diploma Programme curriculum expansion and high-stakes student submission workflows, including IBIS-linked flows for IB schools. Designed and shipped an Ably-based real-time and timer-based locking system to prevent conflicting edits in collaborative modules.

Ibis Ably

Associate Software Engineer

Toddle

Jun 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year)

Built and maintained notification and email workflows across web, email, and mobile, integrating cron-based scheduling with SendGrid templates and backend services. Improved reliability of end-to-end notification delivery through coordinated communicator-service integrations.

React Email Templates Sendgrid Email Integration