Application Architect

Job Description

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead Engineer (Full Stack) to spearhead the design, development, and delivery of our scalable web platforms and core application ecosystems. In this role, you will bridge the gap between front-end experiences and robust back-end systems. You will lead an agile development team through technical architecture, feature implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and production support.

The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in both frontend and backend modern frameworks, a passion for system design, and practical experience building secure, scalable, and high-performance distributed web applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Lead end-to-end full-stack software development, architectural design, and system evolution.
• Backend Architecture: Design scalable, fault-tolerant backend architectures, optimizing high-volume data ingestion pipelines and processing engines.
• Frontend Excellence: Direct the development of highly responsive, intuitive, and modular user interfaces that ensure a seamless user experience.
• API & Integrations: Architect secure RESTful APIs and integrate external enterprise platforms, third-party microservices, and identity providers.
• Team Mentorship: Mentor developers, run strict code reviews, define engineering best practices, and guide sprint-level execution.
• Data & Messaging: Maintain and optimize relational, NoSQL, and time-series databases alongside message queues for real-time application events.
• Production Ownership: Own technical troubleshooting for live production bottlenecks, system latency issues, and deployment bugs.
• Documentation: Create clean technical documentation, structural architecture diagrams, and system deployment guidelines.

Required Skills

• Experience: 6+ years of software development experience with at least 2+ years leading engineering teams or owning technical delivery.
• Backend Core: Advanced hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, multithreading, and REST API development.
• Frontend Core: Mastery of modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (such as React, Angular, or Vue.js), HTML5, and responsive CSS architectures.
• Data Platforms: Proficient with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL/Caching systems (Redis, MongoDB).
• Messaging Systems: Experience implementing asynchronous workflows using message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Design Patterns: Strong grasp of microservices patterns, distributed system caching, load balancing, and failover mechanisms.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience deploying workloads to Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience setting up continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
• Exposure to system observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

Education Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Candidates with equivalent exceptional hands-on full-stack engineering experience will be highly considered regardless of formal degree background.

About us

Cere Labs is a Mumbai based company working in the field of Artificial Intelligence. It is a product company that utilizes the latest technologies such as Python, Redis, neo4j, MVC, Docker, Kubernetes to build its AI platform. Cere Labs’ clients are primarily from the Banking and Finance domain in India and US. The company has a great environment for its employees to learn and grow in technology.

Software Developer

Job brief

Cere Labs is seeking to hire a skilled and passionate software developer to help with the development of our current projects and product. Your duties will primarily revolve around building software by writing code, as well as modifying software to fix errors, improve its performance. You will also be involved in writing of the test cases and testing

To be successful in this role, you will need extensive knowledge of programming languages like Java, Python, Java Script, React. 

Ultimately, the role of the Software Engineer is to build high-quality, innovative and fully performing software that complies with coding standards and technical design

Responsibilities

• Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to identify requirements and solutions
• Write well-designed, testable code
• Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
• Document and maintain software functionality
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems
• Deploy programs and test the deployed code
• Comply with project plans and industry standards

Requirements

• BE (CS/IT) degree in Computer Science
• Ability to understand the requirements given and generate the design based on specification given.
• Ability to develop unit testing of code components or complete applications.
• Must be a full-stack developer and understand concepts of software engineering.
• Ability to develop software in Python, Java, Java Script 
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases, MySQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate), in-memory data stores such as Redis
• Experience developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Spring MVC, React) is preferred
• Experience with test-driven development
• Proficiency in software engineering tools including popular IDE’s such as PyCharm, Visual Studio Code and Eclipse
• Proven work experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer will be an added advantage

Working conditions

Hours: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Weekly off: Sunday, First and Third Saturdays

Mode: Work from office

Recruitment process

The selection process includes:

1. Written test
2. Technical interview
3. Final interview

Compensation

CTC: Rs. 3-4 lacs pa, depending on performance in the selection process.

About AIVOA

AIVOA is building an AI-native Supply Chain Operating System for Life Sciences companies (API & FDF manufacturers).

We are creating an intelligent control layer that connects procurement, production, compliance, and logistics — enabling faster decisions, automation, and real-time visibility across operations.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly driven fresher to join as an AI Engineer and work on building AI-native systems from scratch.

This is a full-stack engineering role where you will:

• Build backend systems using Python (FastAPI)
• Develop frontend interfaces using React + Vite
• Work on AI-powered workflows and automation systems

You will directly contribute to building real-world systems used in regulated industries.

What You’ll Work On

• Backend APIs using FastAPI (Python)
• Frontend applications using React + Vite
• AI-assisted workflows (automation, decision systems)
• Integrating APIs, databases, and AI tools
• Building end-to-end product features (not isolated tasks)

Required Skills

• Strong basics in Python
• Basic understanding of React
• Understanding of APIs and how systems connect
• Basic SQL knowledge
• Strong problem-solving mindset

Good to Have (Optional)

• FastAPI exposure
• React project experience
• Git/GitHub
• Interest in AI tools (ChatGPT, Copilot, etc.)

Who Should Apply

• Freshers serious about becoming AI / Full Stack Engineers
• Builders (projects > certificates)
• People who can learn fast and execute
• Candidates who want startup experience and real ownership

Growth

• Work directly with founders and domain experts
• Build real AI systems 
• Fast growth based on performance

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices and RESTful APIs using Python (Flask, FastAPI, or Django).
• Architect data models for SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MongoDB, DynamoDB) to optimize performance and reliability.
• Implement efficient and secure data access layers, caching, and indexing strategies.
• Collaborate closely with product and frontend teams to deliver seamless user experiences.
• Build responsive UI components using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like React or Angular.
• Ensure system reliability, observability, and fault tolerance across services.
• Lead code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and promote engineering best practices.
• Contribute to DevOps and CI/CD workflows for smooth deployments and testing automation.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python, with deep understanding of OOP, asynchronous programming, and performance optimization.
• Proven expertise in building FAST API based microservices architectures.
• Solid understanding of SQL and NoSQL data modeling, query optimization, and schema design.
• Excellent hands on proficiency in frontend proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and a modern framework (React, Angular, or Vue).
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and messaging queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and system design skills.

Experience • 1-3 years

Skill to Test

• Java EE (Servlets, JSTL, JSP, JDBC)

• ReactJS

Primary Skills

• Java EE (Servlets, JSTL, JSP, JDBC)

• Frontend frameworks (ReactJS and/or Angular)

• Pure JavaScript, jQuery

• Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS, SASS

Secondary Skills (nice to have)

• Passionate about implementing UX\UI of web applications

• Microsoft SQL Server (writing optimized queries, stored procedures, triggers etc.)

• API Design (REST, JAX-RS)

• Understanding Apache Tomcat configuration and deployment of web applications

• Understanding of browser technologies and limitations

• Authentication and Authorization (SAML, OAuth, OpenID, Okta)

2

Soft Skills

• Thrives collaborating in a team environment with a diverse range of people

• Passionate about delivering an amazing customer experience

• Able to have a change of mind, and able to change the minds of others

• Writes clearly and concisely

• Capable of working without a company office, with a fully remote team

Growth Skills

• Possesses a good work ethic; a self-starter with a desire to grow

• Always looking for better ways to get the job done

• A​ ​hands-on full-stack engineer​​ to join the ​​core team​​ with experience in building products from scratch into large-scale platforms and ​solving business problems leveraging new and innovative technology
• Leverage the DevOps team to ensure the product can be built, deployed, and tested across all of the release cycles from dev to production 
• Strong grasp of modern security principles and how to apply them to applications
• Work with stakeholders (product owners, project managers, and scrum masters) to define and clarify requirements.
• Hands-on development with both front-end, middle-tier, and back-end programming
• Adhere to agile development methodologies
• Experience in Node.js, Javascript and Javascript libraries, NOSQL databases, Python etc

Task:

• Design, implement and maintain Java application phases
• To take part in software and architectural development activities
• Conduct software analysis, programming, testing and debugging
• Identifying production and non-production application issues
• Transforming requirements into stipulations
• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software
• Recommend changes to improve established Java application processes
• Develop technical designs for application development
• Develop application code for Java programs

We wish:

• Minimum 3 years of experience with excellent Java development skills
• Demonstrable hands-on experience in delivering solutions in a JavaEE 6 environment
• Open-source frameworks and standards Hibernate, Spring JDBC
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Ant, Eclipse, Maven, SVN, SoapUI, JIRA, Bamboo
• WS concepts and protocols: WSDL, REST, SOAP, JMS, XSLT, XML Schema
• Experienced with one or more open-source ESB products (JBOSS FUSE ESB, Apache Camel, Apache service mix) and/or message-oriented middleware and Active MQ, JMS
• Strong Java unit test skills
• Good experience in design patterns & design principles
• Experience with Webservices, PLSQL and SQL (Oracle 10g or above)
• Experience in Oops development with Core Java
• Desirable: Experience with:
  • Elastic Search, Smooks, Lucene, Jasper, Report
  • Domain-driven design
  • Experience with NoSQL technologies: Casandra, Mongo DB
  • Experience with agile development practices (Eg Scrum) and continuous integration environment
  • A J2EE application and web containers such as GlassFish, Jetty, Tomcat
  • CMMi-5 level process experience advantage

We Offer:

• Freedom to realize your ideas & individual career & development opportunities.
• A motivating work environment, flat hierarchical structure, numerous company events which cannot be forgotten and fun at the workplace with flexibilities.
• Professional challenges and career development opportunities.