AEM Developer- (Permanent Work From Home)

A BIT ABOUT US

Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.

The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.

Our business includes Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, Japan, US, and expanding rapidly. 

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join our dynamic software development team. In this role, you will contribute to key backend projects, collaborate across teams, and play a vital part in delivering robust, scalable, and high-performance software solutions. As a senior engineer, you will work independently, make impactful technical decisions, and help shape the backend architecture while collaborating with a passionate, high-performing team.

You will work hands-on with products primarily built in Python, with opportunities to contribute to Golang. These technologies are at the core of our development stack, and your focus will be on building, scaling, and maintaining distributed services. Distributed systems are integral to our architecture, providing a chance to gain hands-on experience with maintaining and optimizing them in a fast-paced environment.

As a Senior Engineer, you are expected to:

• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code while following best practices.
• Architect solutions, address complex problems, and deliver well-thought-out technical designs.
• Take ownership of assigned modules and features, delivering them with minimal supervision.
• Contribute to code reviews and technical discussions, ensuring high-quality deliverables.

We highly value open source contributions and encourage you to check out our work on GitHub at Appknox GitHub. While no prior experience in security is required, our experienced security professionals are available to support you in understanding the domain.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology, drive impactful solutions, and grow within a collaborative environment that values autonomy, innovation, and technical excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Drive backend development for a disruptive product in the Security domain, focusing on innovation, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Take ownership of the software design process, including designing workflows, system architecture, and implementation plans.
• Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design, making independent decisions to ensure efficiency and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend and security teams, to deliver cohesive and high-quality solutions.
• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices, maintainability, and coding standards.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code using Django and Python, adhering to industry best practices.
• Design and implement scalable software components, frameworks, and APIs using Django and Django REST Framework (DRF).
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize existing systems to improve functionality and performance.
• Create detailed technical documentation, including flowcharts, layouts, and system requirements, to ensure clarity and alignment.
• Develop and enforce robust software verification plans, quality assurance procedures, and deployment strategies.
• Ensure timely delivery of software updates while addressing user feedback to enhance solutions.
• Provide technical expertise to solve backend challenges and participate in critical decision-making processes.
• Support team growth by sharing knowledge, fostering collaboration, and mentoring junior engineers informally as needed.

Requirements:

• 5–6 years of professional experience in backend development with a strong focus on Django and Python.
• Proficiency in Django REST Framework (DRF), relational databases, SQL, and ORMs (e.g., Django ORM, SQLAlchemy).
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to make independent technical decisions regarding system design and implementation.
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing scalable, maintainable, and high-performing backend systems.
• Deep understanding of software engineering practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to document and present technical specifications and workflows clearly.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and microservices architectures is a bonus.
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision.
• Ability to handle ambiguity and adapt to rapidly changing business needs while maintaining focus on delivering quality solutions.

Work Expectations:

Within 1 month-

• Attend KT sessions conducted by the engineering and product teams to gain a deep understanding of the product, its architecture, and workflows.
• Learn about the team's development processes, tools, and key challenges.
• Work closely with the product team to understand product requirements and contribute to the design and development of features.
• Dive deep into the existing backend architecture, including database structures, APIs, and integration points, to fully understand the technical landscape
• Begin addressing minor technical challenges and bugs, while understanding the underlying architecture and tech stack.
• Begin to participate in creating action plans for new features, ensuring that design and implementation are aligned with product goals.

Within 3 months-

• Achieve full autonomy in working on the codebase, demonstrating the ability to independently deliver high-quality features from design to deployment.
• Take complete ownership of critical modules, ensuring they are optimized for performance and maintainability.
• Act as a technical resource for the team, offering support and guidance to peers on complex issues.
• Collaborate with DevOps to optimize deployment pipelines, debug production issues, and improve backend infrastructure.
• Lead discussions for technical solutions and provide recommendations for architectural improvements.
• Contribute to the design of new features by translating functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.
• Prepare regular updates on assigned tasks and communicate effectively with the engineering manager and other stakeholders.

Within 6 months-

• Be fully independent in their development tasks, contributing to key features and solving critical challenges.
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and the ability to take ownership of technical modules.
• Actively participate in code reviews and technical discussions, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
• Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business requirements.
• Establish themselves as a reliable and proactive team member, contributing to the team’s growth and success.

Personality traits we really admire :-

• Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
• Has attention to details and helps identify edge cases.
• Highly motivated and coming up with ideas and perspective to help us move towards our goals faster.
• Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Interview Process 

• Round 1 Interview - Profile Evaluation (EM)
• Round 2 Interview - Assignment Evaluation & Technical Problem Solving Discussion (Tech Team)
• Round 3 Interview - System Design (Sr. Architect)
• Round 4 Interview - Engineering Team & Technical Founder (CTO)
• Round 5 Interview - HR

Compensation

• Best in industry

We prefer that every employee also holds equity in the company. In this role, you will be awarded equity after 12 months, based on the impact you have created.

Please be aware that all your customers are Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies.

Why Join Us :-

• Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
• Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
• Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first hand.
• Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage upto 5 Lacs for you and your family including parents.

Requirements

• 5-12 years of experience in technical customer support or network operations
• IP Networking basics: TCP/IP(ARP, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP), Subnetting, IP Packet flow, OSI layers
• Routing technologies: OSPF, ISIS, BGP, MPLS (L2 & L3 VPN), RSVP, LDP, Multicast protocols (IGMP, PIM), Multicast VPN (MVPN)
• BNG protocols: PPPoE, DHCP, IPoE, L2TP
• Forwarding: Hierarchical QoS, uRPF, Firewalls, ACLs
• Switching and Data Center technologies: VLAN/Trunking, STP, RSTP, VSTP, VXLAN/EVPN, IP-Fabric as an added advantage
• Very Strong automation skills and experience with scripting languages like Python/Robot Framework
• Experience with traffic generators and network protocols analysis tools like IXIA, Spirent
• Any Open Source tools usage & certifications is an added advantage
• Knowledge of Linux, ONL infra and containers is an advantage

Responsibilities

• Proactively work with customers to enable them maximize usage of RtBrick products with least possible effort
• Understand customer usecases and help with qualification of RtBrick products & features
• Triage and resolve any issues customers face with products
• Work with engineering to resolve new defects
• Help engineering by collecting relevant information from live setup and reproduce the issue in LAB occasionally
• Understand in-house regression coverage and identify gaps in test case as per customer deployments
• Write and automate test cases related to customer usage and defect scenarios

Our IT Project Managers are responsible for assisting various tasks throughout the project lifecycle. Being a central liaison between all project stakeholders consisting Executive Board, Developers, and QA, they makes sure that we do not miss any deliverables from the schedule.

Curious about your work?

• Processing new projects that come in from the client.
• Attending calls/meetings with the client’s teams as needed.
• Determining work flow, steps and timelines for all projects.
• Assisting in the creation of documentation and reports such as project overviews and communicating the same to various internal stakeholders.
• Maintains ongoing daily communication with other departments and resources regarding project status.
• Ensuring each project flows within the timeline, receives checks, and is completely ready for delivery on time.
• Providing timely updates to the client side

Who will you work with?

Everyone, in a way! At SimplePlan, ours is an intentionally flat setup — you will be working directly with team leads, execution heads as well as team members across the length and breadth of the agency.

Who are you?

We're looking for someone who is passionate about scaling teams and working with groups of people towards a common objective — someone who:

• has 0-1 year of experience in Website Projects
• has a tech bachelors' degree
• is proactive as we care deeply about what we do & when we see opportunities/problems, we act
• is good on getting on and doing things
• is clear, concise and precise with a lot of documentation
• has an ability to communicate effectively and professionally with clients

You'll fit right in if:

• you really care about nurturing a delightful team environment
• you possess excellent active listening, presentation and communication skills
• you enjoy solving problems
• you have an innate sense of ownership when it comes to work
• you enjoy discourse on people and operations management
• you enjoy close collaboration with cross-functional teams and individuals from different backgrounds
• you are good with people and to people - whether it’s your fellow team leads, or those who help run SimplePlan behind the scenes

You won't fit right in if:

• you default to waiting for instructions rather than figuring things out yourself
• you are disinterested in being on top of everything
• you would rather keep quiet than speak up in a meeting

*Digital PR Executive*

This role demands a unique blend of SEO link building and digital PR expertise and will be responsible for building high quality, niche and relevant links that really power the SEO performance for in-house projects.

This role requires you to have at least 2-3+ years previous Digital PR experience in either an agency or in-house role and would suit someone looking for their next career challenge which has a strong SEO bias.

If you’re passionate about using creativity to tell data and researched based stories and email Campaigns that journalists actually want to cover and link to, we want to hear from you.

We’re all about contagious campaigns that deliver outstanding results for projects, landing linked coverage in top-tier and niche media to supercharge SEO success and position ourselves as a leading industry voice in the finance & crypto niche.

We use digital PR to accelerate organic growth and:

• Build links that give a competitive advantage
• Land top-flight press coverage on key target publications
• Increase awareness in competitive sectors
• Drive targeted referral traffic

*Key Responsibilities*

• Coming up with standout ideas for campaigns.
• Confidently plan, produce and execute data-driven content to help drive campaign performance and earned links.
• Building relationships with journalists and pitching in stories to land linked coverage for campaigns.
• Analyzing campaign performance and reporting on success both internally and externally.

*Who can apply*

Has at least 2-3 years of experience in a related PR role, either in-house or at an agency

You’re a creative individual who is oozing with great ideas.

Has proven and demonstrable results launching creative campaigns and securing coverage and links/mentions in media websites.

A creative thinker with the ability to understand what makes a great idea, whilst being able to confidently communicate this to a client.

You’re passionate about delivering nothing short of amazing results.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Minimum 3-5 years of Experience in Java Backend development. 
• Degree in Engineering or Computer Science. 
• Good knowledge/experience in Data structure, Algorithms. 
• Proficiency with Programming Language: Java 1.8 and above (1.8 V must), J2EE. 
• Proficiency with Framework: Spring Stack (Security, Web MVC, REST), Hibernate, JMS. 

• Strong knowledge in any one Relational Databases (Mysql / Oracle / SQL Server). 
• Strong experience in Web services (SOAP and RESTFUL). 
• Tools & Utilities: STS / Eclipse / IntelliJ / NetBeans.Web/Application Server: Jboss. 
• Should have expertise in Design Patterns, Transactions, Multithreading concepts 
• Proficiency in Build Cycle management (Maven, Jenkins, Scripting). 

• Familiarity with Deployment technologies like Docker, Rancher and Virtual machines. 
• Familiarity with Agile Development processes. 
• Exposure to Spring Integration batch knowledge, OAuth2 authentication 
• Excellent verbal communication skills. 
• Good problem-solving skills with attention to detail. 

• Able to create functional, attractive applications that perfectly meet the needs of the user. 

Frontend Developer.

Experience: 3 - 5 years

Skills: React , UI Development, JavaScript,  HTML5, CSS , J Query, JSON, Bootstrap, Typescript, 

Optional:  jasmine, karma

• Responsible to develop web applications using React.
• Write and maintain the front-end code of web applications & To work in UI development.
• Experience in Responsive / Material UI Development.

• Able to interact with the team and understand functional requirements and create design documents for new features.
• Exposure to bug fixing, maintenance, continuous integration releases.
• Participate in sprint planning and story elaboration sessions.
• Candidate should be able to work independently in an Agile project.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development, Integration testing and Agile processes.

NextGen AVP Role - Pune Location

Job Description

Experience:

Should have subject matter expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure & GCP), and next generation technologies

Should possess experience in designing and delivering architectural solutions for mission critical applications using cloud native development and architecture and cloud migration methodologies and tools

Demonstrated as a trusted advisor for customers on various Next Gen technology solution options and presented strong value proposition to win the deals

Experience is building differentiated solution & service offerings in building Next Gen Application development

Extensive experience in Presales, Solutioning, Delivery, People Management, Global experience and should be in a P&L role

Have experience leading complex, global solution implementations programs

Technology Experience:

Cloud Native App development, Microservices based enterprise grade application development, Serverless Computing, Containerization technologies

AWS, Azure, GCP and aPaaS platforms like Cloud Foundry

DevSecOps – CI/CD tool chain, API Management platforms

Database technologies – Structured & Unstructured data storage platforms

Expectations:

Responsible to formulate business development strategies for NextGen Application Development Technology practice

Create differentiated solution & Services offerings and translate into revenue growth

Drive strategic account growth and be responsible for the delivery of consulting services to our customers

Actively search for opportunities to expand business within existing accounts and help win new clients

Building new technology capabilities, and building team competencies

Marketing of technology & domain solutions / service offerings to internal/external stakeholders

Manage business relationship with the technology partners & start-up eco systems and demonstrate edge over competition