Backend Developer

JOB DETAILS:

* Job Title: Engineering Manager (Client facing)

* Industry: Technology

* Salary: Best in Industry

* Experience: 8-12 years

* Location: Bengaluru

Role & Responsibilities

We are seeking a visionary and decisive Engineering Manager to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will lead and inspire a talented team of software engineers, driving innovation and excellence in product development efforts. This is an exciting opportunity to influence and shape the future of our engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a high-performing team of software engineers.
• Develop and implement engineering strategies that align with organizational goals.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize product features.
• Implement and uphold Agile methodologies to optimize team performance and efficiency.
• Conduct regular performance evaluations, fostering continuous professional growth within the team.
• Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from initial conception through to deployment.
• Manage budgets, resources, and capacity planning for engineering projects.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, ensuring the team is equipped with the latest industry trends.
• Ensure adherence to best engineering practices, maintaining high coding standards.
• Hands-on coding experience required – actively contribute to coding and technical design decisions.
• Tech stack: Java, Spring, microservices, cloud technologies, and building large-scale systems.
• Experience in collaborating directly with clients – ensuring client requirements are met and managing relationships effectively.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Client-Facing Engineering Manager Profile
• Must have 8+ years of engineering experience, with substantial exposure to back-end development, scalable distributed systems, and modern web services
• Must have 2+ years of experience in people and delivery leadership, owning engineering execution and leading teams to deliver complex products
• Must have proven experience working directly with external stakeholders / clients, translating client requirements into engineering plans and delivering solutions with high customer impact
• Strong technical foundation with experience in backend engineering, REST APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and building reliable, high-performance systems
• Strong problem-solving and design capabilities; experience with system design, architecture reviews, and engineering best practices
• Must have expertise in agile methodologies and project management tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of presenting technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• (Cross-Functional Collaboration): Must be skilled in working with product, design, sales, and client teams to drive requirements, delivery, and client success
• (Execution & Delivery): Demonstrated ability to manage end-to-end delivery, coordinate releases, prioritise effectively, and deliver results in time
• (Company): Product companies
• (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• (Education): B.Tech in computer science, engineering or a related field from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges (Master's preferred)

Backend Engineer III – Senior Python Developer (LLM & AI)

Location: Gurgaon, India

Positions: 1

Experience: 6 to 9 Years

Gurgaon Hybrid

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Backend Engineer III / Senior Python Developer to join our AI engineering team and play a critical role in building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend platforms for LLM and AI-driven applications. You will work as a hands-on individual contributor while collaborating closely with Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Cloud/DevOps teams to deliver innovative, production-grade AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and services using Python to support LLM and AI-based applications
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices that serve machine learning models and AI components
• Write clean, modular, efficient, and testable code following industry best practices and coding standards
• Participate actively in code reviews, ensuring high quality, security, and maintainability of the codebase
• Debug, profile, and optimize applications to improve performance, reliability, and scalability
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in AI/ML pipelines and backend services
• Collaborate with ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams to translate business and technical requirements into robust backend solutions
• Mentor and support junior developers, promoting a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment workflows to ensure consistent and reliable releases
• Stay up to date with emerging trends in Python, cloud-native development, and LLM/AI engineering practices and apply them to improve systems and processes

Required Skills & Experience

• 6 to 9 years of strong hands-on experience in Python development
• Solid understanding of Python software design, architecture patterns, and testing best practices
• Proven experience working on AI, Machine Learning, or LLM-based projects
• Strong experience in building and consuming RESTful APIs and microservices architectures
• Hands-on experience with FastAPI, Flask, or similar model-serving frameworks
• Strong debugging, performance profiling, and optimization skills
• Experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.)
• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is a strong plus
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, evolving AI/ML environment while mentoring junior team members

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
• AWS or other relevant cloud certifications are preferred but not mandatory

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge AI and LLM platforms
• Collaborate with top-tier engineering and data science teams
• Opportunity to influence system architecture and technical direction
• Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities

Job Title: Deployment Lead (Python, Linux, AWS) 

Location: Coimbatore

Overview 

We are seeking an experienced Deployment Lead to oversee the end-to-end deployment lifecycle of our applications and services. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Python, strong Linux administration skills, and hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure. You will work closely with engineering, DevOps, QA, and product teams to ensure reliable, repeatable, and scalable deployments across multiple environments. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead and manage deployment activities for all application releases across development, staging, and production environments. 
• Develop and maintain deployment automation, scripts, and tools using Python and shell scripting. 
• Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline). 
• Oversee Linux server administration, including configuration, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and security hardening. 
• Design, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, RDS, ECS/EKS, CloudFormation/Terraform). 
• Ensure robust monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, or ELK. 
• Collaborate with developers to improve code readiness for deployment and production reliability. 
• Manage environment configurations and ensure consistency and version control across environments. 
• Lead incident response during production issues; conduct root-cause analysis and implement long-term fixes. 
• Establish and enforce best practices for deployment, configuration management, and operational excellence. 

Required Skills & Qualifications 

• 5+ years of experience in deployment engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering roles. 
• Strong proficiency in Python for automation and tooling. 
• Advanced experience with Linux systems administration (Ubuntu, CentOS, Amazon Linux). 
• Hands-on work with AWS cloud services and infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation or Terraform). 
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes. 
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools and automated deployment strategies. 
• Familiarity with networking concepts: DNS, load balancers, VPCs, firewalls, VPN, and routing. 
• Expertise with monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions. 
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills; able to lead troubleshooting efforts. 
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities. 

About Freespace* (a.k.a. Workplace Fabric)  

Workplace Fabric develops solutions that makes workplaces intelligent. Our solutions help increase productivity of office workers while helping to lower the cost of real estate. Our Flagship 

product Freespace is installed in over 40 cities around the world and serves over 30,000 people every day. Starting with the first deployment in March 2016 we have rapidly grown with our solution being rolled out globally while continuing to stay cash positive. With successes at several blue-chip clients Workplace Fabric has carved a unique leadership position in workplace management and employee engagement SaaS solutions. 

*To find out more, follow us on social media – LinkedIn & Facebook @ workplace-fabric 

What is on our offer?  

• An absolutely action packed, fun, and demanding workplace lets our employees to thrive in a team-based environment with passion, fun, pride and teamwork as our core values. 
• We can offer you career opportunities to challenge, develop and exceed your aspirations with training and development throughout your career. 
• Life is never dull at Freespace as there is always something to learn, constantly pushing you to develop your skills and take on the next exciting challenge. 

 Profile Brief:  

You will be an experienced Backend Engineer with an interest in data and analytics, developing our fast growing Analytics Team. Working closely as an active team member, having ownership & accountability to develop analytics stories, in delivering timely projects through Scrum. Working with product owners and team leads to clarifying requirements, challenge assumptions in order to ensure successful executions and push the client analytics to its best.  

Key Skills and Experience  

Required Skills: JavaScript (ES6+), SQL, Nodejs, AWS (Lambda, Athena, S3) 

Good to have: TypeScript, IoT, AWS Certifications 

Experience: 4-6 years  

• Data processing and manipulation expert 
• Able to easily comprehend and write complex & efficient SQL queries  

• Ability to understand, design and fully document end-to-end scalable IoT systems 
• Expert in in building Well-Architected solutions using AWS Services (eg Lambda, Athena, S3 etc) 
• Master in JavaScript with excellent understanding of asynchronous patterns  
• Comfortable with of ES6+, TypeScript & emerging web technologies  
• Experience of building secure, metered REST APIs and connectors for BI tools like Tableau and PowerBI 

• Hands-on programmer 

Page Break 

Key Behaviours  

• Be passionate about understanding the business problem and using data to tell the stories in delivering solutions which drive client decisions. 

• Lead by example by demonstrating best practice and mentoring of team members 
• Clear thinker with a systematic problem-solving approach, breaking the problem down into simple achievable and realistically estimated steps 
• Seeing a project through from conception into production and support ensuring quality throughout. 
• Ensure high standards by instilling  data quality checks, code reviews and documentation in work and team practices. 
• Able to challenge solutions and processes in creating the best products and environment to work. 

• Unafraid to own mistakes  
• Customer focussed 

•  Exp : 3-15 years
• Java NMS/EMS  : Work location : GGN
• Experience in implementation of NMS/EMS applications and good understanding of FCAPS functionalities
• Proficient in Java/J2EE, SpringBoot, SpringCloud, Kafka and REST webservices
• Experience in implementation of micro-services based applications
• Experience in any of the rule engine like Drools and workflow creation like JBPM, Camunda
• Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases, DB schema designing and database accessing using Hibernate JPA 
• Experience with SNMP, Netconf, device management, inventory management
• Hands on experience in Wildfly/Jboss App server 
• Experience in dev-ops tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
• Proficient in Angular, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, Typescript, ES6 
• Good to have Micro Frontend Architecture exposure
• Experience with tools like Maven, Ant, Git, Sonar, JaCoCo, Karma, Jasmine
• Scripting using Shell, Python, etc
• Must be involved in customer interactions for requirement gathering and solution designing discussions

Backend Developer - Node.JS - AirFi

AirFi is a market leader in providing portable Onboard Passenger Entertainment and Mobile Crew Sales Solutions to various passenger travel segments. Founded in 2011 in The Hague, Netherlands - AirFi is the world's fastest-growing company in mobile InFlight Entertainment space and in providing ancillary sales solutions to enterprise customers.

AirFi brings disruptive innovations in a cost-effective manner to the airline cabin and other modes of passenger transport mediums and is making thousands of passengers and crew happy every day all over the globe!

Your key responsibilities

• Responsible for ideating, designing, developing, and supporting the backend services of AirFi web apps for different modes of passenger transport including major airlines across the world.
• Manage your components independently, including but not limited to: gather requirements; communicate design decisions to cross-functional teams including data science, engineering, analytics, and operations; proactively seek user feedback.
• You will help AirFi to quickly iterate and scale web app development to different segments of customers with standard processes, automation, monitoring, and rapid quality assurance.
• Proactively monitor the web apps space for continuous improvements and optimisations, looking for new opportunities and challenges.

What we look for

• Exposure to product development, self-driven, highly motivated and you must be independent in managing on your own components or features
• You must be extremely collaborative and enjoy working cross-functionally with other engineers, designers, and stakeholders
• You must possess an affinity for metrics and analytics - You must be proactive and must move fast or pivot to meet the changing needs of the product
• You are a problem solver and can use everything from front end to command-line tools to help you identify and fix issues.
• You should be diligent, thoughtful, have an eye for detail and have great oral and written communication skills
• Work with product and engineering teams on different data driven products and help drive/implement the Data flows for the same.
• Designing, integrating and documenting technical components for seamless data extraction and analysis

Must have technical skills

• MUST: Experience in Javascript or any modern-day JS frameworks - 7+ years
• Experience NodeJS, MongoDB or any other NoSQL DB - 7+ years
• Experience on building RESTful services and MVC patterns - 5+ years

You get bonus point for

• Responsive web-frameworks (e.g. Foundation, Bootstrap)
• Experience in AngularJS, React, etc - 2+ years
• Linux skills (we run on embedded Linux)
• Expertise HTML5, CSS,
• Experience on Cloudant, AWS, GCP etc.

• Experience on eCommerce or payments related domains

We promise to provide opportunities that not only satisfy your creative instincts but also let you make a significant impact on the products that we create and ultimately the business we are in. We provide a great platform to take up multiple roles based on individual interests or skills and collaborate with different global teams. We boast of a professional, fun work environment with a flat hierarchy and super supportive people to work with. We also encourage a work culture where - no idea is a bad idea and the team can shout it out to be heard!

Some of our benefits that our employees cherish:

• Flexible work timings, remote working and work from home options
• Liberal employee policies including genuine open-door policy and special focus on keeping the work culture non toxic
• A very liberal leave policy that includes paternity, adoption and sabbatical leaves
• We provide Skill enhancement sponsorships
• Celebratory team events, regular team virtual GupShups and fun engagement activities including the annual team (destination) meetings and the annual family gala dinner!
• Meal coupons and random gift vouchers
• Career longevity perks and so on!

When we're in office some of the things that make AirFi an interesting place to work are - healthy breakfast, snacks and a fully loaded pantry (read: health alert!); we try to keep AirFi as a fun place to work at and have interesting team activities on Fridays with occasional beers. 

You get the opportunity to work and socialise with our global team when they visit or when you visit our customer offices/hangers. Last but not the least, in case you are an aviation geek - the opportunity to be on test flights and learn how the aviation industry works!

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/airfi">LinkedIn
• https://www.facebook.com/AirFi.aero">Facebook
• https://twitter.com/airfi_aero">Twitter
• http://airfi.aero/">Website

The primary responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the overall software development lifecycle.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
• Drive effective, mature Agile practices and continuous execution improvements within your teams.
• Manage stakeholder planning and communications ensuring key outcomes
• Recruit, coach, and mentor the best engineering and management talent
• Build, coach, and manage a strong team of engineers that set the standard and can up-level the overall talent of the extended organization.
• Provide a strong understanding of native mobile developer platforms and bring broad thought leadership to the next generation mobile developer experience.
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent products and programs from delivering on product and program objectives.
• Balance urgent and effective action, commitment to excellence, and taking the initiative to resolve problems; holds internal stakeholders accountable where appropriate.

REQUIRED

• 8+ years of industry experience with 2+ years of senior leadership experience.
• Solid track record of over-achieving engineering and platform delivery and scaling targets in high volume, innovative and fast-paced high-pressure environment; proven results in delivery on platform product.
• Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Python/Scala. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs with skilled knowledge on UI technologies like Angular 2+, React, D3.JS
• Working experience with Agile methodologies and durable team concepts.
• Knowledge in DevOps practices and tools.
• Knowledge in Cloud Technologies, CI/CD, Jenkins, Testing methodologies is preferred.
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch, Kafka
• A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects and bringing in and growing engineering talent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.

As a Senior Software Engineer - I,you'll take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams. As SSE - I, you could expect to: 

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which includes: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support
• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules and that handles interaction between multiple components. 
• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions
• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable
• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions
• Perform design and code reviews
• Perform technical feasibility and trade off studies & guides others to perform these studies
• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to outage
• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.
• Actively mentor and develop junior developers in all software development practices
• Participate in the hiring process (referrals, interviews, attending recruiting events or writing blogs)
• Onboard and mentors new team members, helps shape the culture of the team
• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results

Minimum Requirements: 

• A minimum of 4 years of relevant software development experience