Application Security Engineer

Job Title: Backend Developer (Bench Role – Staff Augmentation)

Location: Remote

Engagement Type: Contract / Project-based / Full-time (depending on client)

Experience Range: 2–7 years

About the Opportunity

We are building a strong remote bench of Backend Developers for ongoing and upcoming projects with global SaaS, FinTech, and product-based startups across the US, Canada, and Middle East.

Selected developers will work on exciting projects with flexibility, clear deliverables, and competitive monthly retainers.

Core Skills Required

(You should be confident in at least 1–2 of the stacks below)

Primary Languages & Frameworks:

• Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot)
• Node.js (Express.js or NestJS)
• Python (Django or FastAPI)
• Go (preferred for microservices)
• Ruby on Rails or .NET Core (nice to have)

Backend Architecture & APIs:

• REST API & GraphQL development and consumption
• Microservices & event-driven architecture
• Auth systems (JWT, OAuth2)
• API documentation/testing tools (Swagger, Postman)

Databases:

• Relational: PostgreSQL, MySQL (schema design, indexing, optimization)
• NoSQL: MongoDB, Redis
• Nice to have: Cassandra, ElasticSearch

Messaging & Caching

• Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS
• Caching strategies for performance improvement

Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure
• Docker and Kubernetes (required)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm)

CI/CD & Testing

• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) – required
• Unit/integration testing frameworks (Jest, PyTest, JUnit)
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK stack

Security & Performance

• Secure coding practices (OWASP Top 10)
• API rate-limiting, secrets management, abuse prevention
• Performance profiling & optimization

 Ideal Candidate Should Be

• Able to own backend modules end-to-end
• Strong in debugging, performance tuning, and scalable backend design
• Comfortable working in distributed teams across time zones
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum workflows and cross-functional collaboration
• Brings a product mindset—focus on business impact, not just code

 Perks for Bench Developers

• Access to global projects (short-term and long-term)
• Regular evaluation & project matching
• Competitive monthly retainers (based on skills & experience)
• Remote-first flexibility with clear deliverables

Apply If You Have Experience In

• Working with startups or product companies
• Building scalable, secure, and maintainable backend systems
• End-to-end feature/API ownership in a fast-paced environment

Job Responsibilities

• Design, build & test ETL processes using Python & SQL for the corporate data warehouse
• Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions
• Maintain advertising data integrity by working closely with R&D to organize and store data in a format that provides accurate data and allows the business to quickly identify issues.
• Evaluate and prototype new technologies in the area of data processing
• Think quickly, communicate clearly and work collaboratively with product, data, engineering, QA and operations teams
• High energy level, strong team player and good work ethic
• Data analysis, understanding of business requirements and translation into logical pipelines & processes
• Identification, analysis & resolution of production & development bugs
• Support the release process including completing & reviewing documentation
• Configure data mappings & transformations to orchestrate data integration & validation
• Provide subject matter expertise
• Document solutions, tools & processes
• Create & support test plans with hands-on testing
• Peer reviews of work developed by other data engineers within the team
• Establish good working relationships & communication channels with relevant departments

Skills and Qualifications we look for

• University degree 2.1 or higher (or equivalent) in a relevant subject. Master’s degree in any data subject will be a strong advantage.
• 4 - 6 years experience with data engineering.
• Strong coding ability and software development experience in Python.
• Strong hands-on experience with SQL and Data Processing.
• Google cloud platform (Cloud composer, Dataflow, Cloud function, Bigquery, Cloud storage, dataproc)
• Good working experience in any one of the ETL tools (Airflow would be preferable).
• Should possess strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good to have skills - Apache pyspark, CircleCI, Terraform
• Motivated, self-directed, able to work with ambiguity and interested in emerging technologies, agile and collaborative processes.
• Understanding & experience of agile / scrum delivery methodology

The Lead UI/UX Designer must be a great leader with the ability to maximize the talents of the teams. Doing so means being a coach, an instructor, a team leader and a critic all at once. The Lead UI/UX Designer work with User Experience Designers, Visual Designers, User Researchers, Front End Engineers, Business Analysts, Copywriters, and other Marketers on a regular basis to ensure the full experience of the UI/UX of the website, web application or mobile application is being taken care of.

Lead UIUX Design Job Description

• Maintain ownership of the product vision and roadmap and improving the product development process. Lead the team in expanding mastery of the business goals of each design request and pushing back on stakeholders with innovative UX/UI proposals.
• Demonstrate high quality design practices. This includes participation in all aspects of UX: research, ideation, strategy, interaction design, and visual design.
• Conceptualise original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks, working on a framework for judging the success or failure of the product, prioritising feature development and structuring product failures.
• Empower and mentor designers in the team, fostering a collaborative, productive, and positive environment within a growing team.
• Lead design strategy activities to understand user needs & business opportunities, uncover business/user needs, generate potential solutions, craft a holistic vision for the end-to-end product and develop roadmaps for achieving that future.
• Maintain and further build design team workflows that ensure that all designs delivered are in line with style guides and are of high quality standards.
• Ensure that the projects are delivered on a timely manner.
• Highly communicative and responsive both within the team and to stakeholders across the company while managing a large volume of ongoing projects.

 Requirements:

• 6+ years of industry experience as a UI/UX designer and/or manager in a cross-functional UI/UX team, dedicated to the complete UI/UX design and development lifecycle of several successfully launched desktop and mobile applications.
• Deep understanding of the iOS and Android platforms and experience designing and launching products for both.
• Proven success designing and optimizing high-quality product experiences for a variety of platforms including desktop, web and mobile. Experience in B2B platforms is an advantage.
• Mastery of UX interaction and design principles and deliverables including rapid prototyping, concept diagrams, user scenarios, wireframes, flows, experience maps, design patterns and annotated comps.
• Architect system wide design solutions that satisfy both product and engineering requirements.
• Experience managing a team of around 6-8 UI/UX designers. Ability to communicate with different departments of a multi-national and dynamic company
• Working knowledge of the capabilities and constraints of web front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap as well as iOS components and Material Design.
• Drive and willingness to go the extra mile with a strong work ethic.
• Experience in other type of designs (online ads, print, etc.) will be an advantage.

Role Responsibilities

• Support Infor WMS 2000
• Work on enhancement/customization on Infor WMS 2000
• Analysis of business requirements
• Application maintenance and enhancement
• Testing and documenting
• Supporting current software package

We need an experienced engineer who can lead our existing team and product. 

Job description 

• Must possess strong analytical skills to be able to break down complex problems into smaller atomic units of work.
• Must be able to develop application modules independently and fix any bugs promptly.
• Do unit testing for the development work carried out.
• Act as a mentor to the junior developers and provide technical guidance.
• Troubleshoot problems and provide solutions.
• Conduct and participate in project planning & scheduling, design discussions, and provide assistance during testing.
• Willing to learn and adopt new technologies in a short period of time as required by the project.
• Will require to produce technical documentation as the requirements of the project.
• Remain up to date with the modern industry practices involved in designing & developing high-quality software.
• Should be able to do performance engineering and identify and fix bottlenecks

Job Requirements

• Good knowledge of Node.js, Express.js, React
• Need clear understanding of JavaScript and Typescript.
• Sound understanding of MVC and design patterns.
• Excellent grasp of data structures and designing and developing ReST APIs.
• Good skills of NoSQL (MongoDB or equivalent).
• Must have at least 3 years’ experience in MEAN/MERN Stack development.
• Experience in developing responsive web applications.
• Good communication skills.
• Sound understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies and ability to participate in local and remote Sprints.
• Good grasp of UI / UX concepts.
• Should have experience in using Git & VSCode.
• Knowledge of AWS and Postman will be considered positively.

• Product Analytics: This is the first and most obvious role of the Product Analyst. At this capacity, the Product Analyst is responsible for the development and delivery of tangible consumer benefits through the product or service of the business.
• In addition, in this capacity, the Product Analyst is also responsible for measuring and monitoring the product or service’s performance as well as presenting product-related consumer, market, and competitive intelligence.
• Product Strategy: As a member of the Product team, the Product Analyst is responsible for the development and proposal of product strategies.
• Product Management Operations: The Product Analyst also has the obligation to respond in a timely manner to all requests and inquiries for product information or changes. He also performs the initial product analysis in order to assess the need for any requested changes as well as their potential impact.
• At this capacity, the Product Analyst also undertakes financial modeling on the products or services of the business as well as of the target markets in order to bring about an understanding of the relations between the product and the target market. This information is presented to the Marketing Manager and other stakeholders, when necessary.
• Additionally, the Product Analyst produces reports and makes recommendations to the Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager to be used as guidance in decision-making pertaining to the business’s new as well as existent products.
• Initiative: In this capacity, the Product Analyst ensures that there is a good flow of communication between the Product team and other teams. The Product Analyst ensures this by actively participating in team meetings and keeping everyone up to date.
• Pricing and Development: The Product Analyst has the responsibility to monitor the market, competitor activities, as well as any price movements and make recommendations that will be used in key decision making. In this function, the Product Analyst will normally liaise with other departments such as the credit/risk in the business in order to enhance and increase the efficiency of effecting price changes in accordance with market shifts.
• Customer/Market Intelligence: The Product Analyst has the obligation to drive consumer intelligence through the development of external and internal data sources that improve the business’s understanding of the product’s market, competitor activities, and consumer activities.
• In the performance of this role, the Product Analyst develops or adopts research tools, sources, and methods that further support and contribute to the business’s product.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• 3-5 years of work experience in the development background, with at least 2 years experience in Java, Spring, Sprint Boot, Hibernate or JPA, MySQL, Oracle, Spring MVC.
• B.E. degree in Computer Science, Graduate in Software Engineering or equivalent
• Experience in Core JAVA, Spring, Spring Boot Frameworks.
• Experience with ORM's like Hibernate.
• Good knowledge of developing RESTful web services using Spring Boot, Java1.x,Servlet2.4, JSP2.0, JDBC3.0, Java Mail, Struts2.x, HTML, HTML5, Angular7+, JavaScript, JSF, Bootstrap2.x-3.x, JQuery & CSS 3.x, Maven 3.x, Apache Tomcat7
• Knowledge of Cloud AWS.
• Experience in any Messaging Queue e.g. Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, etc.
• Experience on Web services with REST and SOAP.
• Experience working on tool set like Eclipse IDE, SQL clients.
• Experience using application server like Jboss, TomCat, Wildfly, glassfish.
• Experience in using tools like SOAP UI, POSTMAN
• Ability to write SQL queries to fetch data.
• Knowledge of Micro services, Redis Cache and Mongo DB (or any other NoSQL) is good to have