
Backend Developer
at The company provides a platform for subscriptions. (GF1)
- 2+ years of experience in Python, Django, Mongo, Express, MySQL, etc
- Have built applications capable of serving high volume with low latency in production
- Following practices of agile development with continuous integration/deployment
- Experience in deploying applications in AWS cloud
- Knowledge in building applications for Fintech/payments domain is a bonus
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or equivalent from a reputed institution
- Self-starter, hustler, and a desire to achieve greatness is a MUST
- Immediate joining preferred
- You will have the flexibility to design the application and systems from the ground up.
- Your primary responsibility is to implement business logic in the backend and create awesome restful APIs for seamless integration with our mobile front end.

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About the Role
We are looking for a strong software engineer who actively uses AI to build better software faster. This is a backend-heavy engineering role where LLMs and AI systems are integrated into real production applications.
You will design, build, deploy, and maintain AI-enabled systems, while maintaining strong engineering discipline and code quality.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and build scalable backend systems (Python / FastAPI preferred)
- Integrate LLM APIs, RAG pipelines, and AI workflows into production applications
- Deploy and maintain containerized applications on AWS/Azure
- Use AI coding assistants and agents to accelerate development, without compromising code quality
- Convert ambiguous requirements into production-ready systems
Must-Have Skills
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong Python backend experience
- Experience building REST APIs and production systems
- Solid understanding of system design and clean architecture
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Linux
- Experience deploying to AWS or Azure
- Experience integrating LLM APIs into applications
- Experience with embeddings / vector databases / RAG pipelines
- Strong Git and collaborative development workflows
- Ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments
Most importantly:
- Strong engineering fundamentals
- High ownership mindset
- Comfort using AI tools to move fast
- Discipline to maintain structure and quality
Good-to-Have
- Experience with real-time streaming or WebSockets
- Kubernetes deployment experience
- Experience in a fast-paced startup or consulting environment
- Familiarity with agent frameworks or voice/multimodal systems
Screening Requirement
Please include:
- A portfolio of systems you’ve built (especially AI-enabled systems), and
- A short note explaining how you use AI tools in your development workflow.
We are specifically looking for engineers who lean into AI agents and coding assistants, but still understand architecture, performance, and clean code.
autonomous world.Rich data in large volumes is getting collected at the edge (outside a datacenter) in use cases like autonomous vehicles, smart manufacturing, satellite imagery, smart retail, smart agriculture etc.These datasets are characterized by being unstructured
(images/videos), large size (Petabytes per month), distributed (across edge, on-prem and
cloud) and form the input for training AI models to get to higher degrees of automation.
Akridata is engaged with building products that solve these unique challenges and be at the forefront of this edge data revolution.
The company is backed by prominent VCs and has it’s entire software engineering team
based out of India and provides ample opportunities for from-scratch design and
development.
Role:
This role is an individual contributor role with key responsibilities in developing web server
backends for Akridata management plane software that provides a ‘single pane of glass’ for users to manage assets, specify and monitor large volume data pipelines at scale involving 10s of petabytes of data.
This role involves:
1. Working with tech leads and the rest of the team on the feature design activities and
picking appropriate tools and techniques for implementation.
2. Be a hands-on developer able to independently make correct implement choices, follow
sound development practices to ensure an enterprise grade application.
3. Guide and mentor junior team members.
What we are looking for:
1. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science with strong CS fundamentals and
problem solving.
2. 5+ years of hands-on experience with software development with 3+ years on web
backend development.
3. A good understanding of backend application interactions with relational databases like
MySQL, Postgres etc
4. Knowledge of web server development frameworks preferably on Python.
5. Enthusiastic to work in a dynamic, fast paced startup environment.
Good to have:
1. Hands-on experience with designing database schema and implementing and debugging SQL queries for optimal performance for large datasets
2. Experience working with applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters.
3. Experience with working on a product from early stages of it’s development typically in a
startup environment.
Job Description:
- .Develop and maintain the backend for a web platform in the Fin-tech Industry domain.
- Create testing framework for all business use cases Maintain Deploy builds
Requirements:
Benefits:
Responsibilities:
- Understanding requirements from the product manager and translating to technical specifications
- DB schema development
- API development (structuring REST endpoints + real-time endpoints like socket.io integration)
- Integrating 3rd party services for payments, email, whatsapp, and other such services
- Optimizing our current architecture & processes for scale (we expect usage to go up)
- Guiding junior developers on best coding practices
Requirements:
- Experience in at least one Python-based Web Framework like Flask or Django
- Experience in SQL databases & API design
- Experience with Docker
- Hands on experience in full lifecycle development and deployment of a platform/system
- Being a self-starter with the ability to thrive in ambiguous and high pressure scenarios working towards a common goal with other teams
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features.
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
- Building big, robust. Scalable and maintainable Node JS application.
- Debugging, fixing bugs, Identifying Performance issues, and improving App performance.
- Developing, Deploying, and maintaining multistage, multi-tier applications.
- Provide scalable and secure solutions to large customer problems worldwide.
- Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
- Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports
- Experience in building robust APIs
- Good problem-solving abilities
- Participate in architectural, design, and product sessions.
- Develop the system architecture and infrastructure for our point-of-contact real-time communication system.
- The complete development life cycle of the delivered capability
Our client is a call management solutions company, which helps small to mid-sized businesses use its virtual call center to manage customer calls and queries. It is an AI and cloud-based call operating facility that is affordable as well as feature-optimized. The advanced features offered like call recording, IVR, toll-free numbers, call tracking, etc are based on automation and enhances the call handling quality and process, for each client as per their requirements. They service over 6,000 business clients including large accounts like Flipkart and Uber.
- Selecting appropriate Cloud services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements
- Migrating complex, multi-tier applications on Cloud Platforms
- Designing and deploying enterprise-wide scalable operations on Cloud Platforms
- Implementing cost-control strategies
- Developing and maintain the CI/ CD pipeline for the assigned projects
- Conducting code reviews, and make technical contributions to product architecture
- Getting involved in solving bugs and delivering small features
- Fostering technical decision making on the team, but taking final decisions when necessary
- Understanding engineering metrics and seeking to improve them
- Understanding the requirements from the Product team, plan and execute.
What you need to have:
- Expert in designing Software and System architecture.
- Must have knowledge of Python (PHP knowledge is a plus) and related tools.
- Must understand MySQL queries and optimization.
- Must be able to build high performance teams.
- Must have worked with similar technologies: redis, docker, AWS, elasticsearch.
- Must know about microservice architectures and CI/ CD pipelines.
- Must be great at planning, researching and communicating.
- Must have a good understanding of application metrics.
Requirements
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Overall 2-8 years of software development experience in building web-based and highly scalable applications
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Excellent understanding of core computer science concepts like algorithms, data structure, system design, OOP, etc.
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Deep knowledge and development expertise in Core Java and SpringBoot or other equivalent frameworks
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Strong experience in HTML5 and CSS3 and should have basic experience in JS technologies
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Good knowledge of database concepts, having SQL writing experience, and familiarity with at least one of the relational databases
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Worked in a CI/CD environment with Jenkins
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Experience working in an agile team with software engineering practices like automated testing, test-driven development, continuous integration, etc is a big plus.
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Ability to quickly learn and evaluate new technologies and work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
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Strong oral and written communication.
Responsibilities for Staff Engineer role:
- Having experience in Java/Python/Golang along with Springboot, Micorservices, RDBMS
- Experience required: 10yrs to 15 yrs.









