
Only 10% of India speaks English and 90% speak over 25 languages and 1000s of dialects. The internet has largely been in English. A good part of India is now getting internet connectivity thanks to cheap smartphones and Jio. The non-english speaking internet users will balloon to about 600 million users out of the total 750 million internet users in India by 2020. This will make the vernacular segment one of the largest segments in the world - almost 2x the size of the US population. The vernacular segment has very few products that they can use on the internet. One big need is that of sharing thoughts. Twitter serves this need globally through a micro-blogging platform. However most of the Tweets are in English and the vernacular Indian feels out of place on it. To solve that problem, we started Koo.
About The Company
The app is a micro-blogging platform in Indian languages. It is an app built in India, for Indians, to share their thoughts and opinions on any topic in their mother tongue using Audio/Video/Text. Koo gives a voice to Indians and enables the “Best of India” to share their thoughts with the “Rest of India”. We provide a personalised feed to users by letting people select the people they want to follow. The user is then shown content from these people. Some of the top minds of India are invited to share their thoughts and opinions on various topics. Users can follow such personalities and follow what they are talking about, and share their opinions too.
We are a Series A venture funded company. It has raised $6.5 million from stellar investors like Accel Partners, Shunwei Capital, Kalaari Capital, 500startups and Blume Venture Partners.
Technology Team & Culture
Nishant (CTO), has headed engineering for large and complex platforms like Coverfox and CitrusPay catering to the needs of millions of consumers. Technology team comprises sharp coders, technology geeks and guys who have tried entrepreneurship or are very entrepreneurial in nature and extremely passionate towards technology. Anyone being part of a technology team will have a lot to learn from their peers and mentors. Download our android app nearing 1 million downloads from play store and take a look at what we are trying to build. Technology stack compromises of a wide variety of cutting edge technologies like Elixir, Java 11, Reactive Programming, MongoDB, Neo4j, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, Redis, Aerospike, ML, Deep learning etc. Working hard & party harder is the mantra that we believe in.
Technology skill sets required for a matching profile
1. Work experience between 2 years to 8 years in building large scale high user traffic consumer facing applications with desire to work in a fast paced startup.
2. Knowledge on reactive and asynchronous programming is preferable. If you have worked with coroutines, goroutines, high concurrency or optimized number of threads for processing on your backend server you could be a good fit.
3. Extremely proficient at writing performant, scalable and production ready code in Kotlin, Java (8 or above, comfortable with concepts like lambda, streams, multithreading etc), Elixir, Rust, or Golang. Should be familiar with static code analysis, code coverage and code reviews.
4. Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis or Aerospike is required.
Knowledge of graph DBs like Neo4j is preferred.
5. Strong in algorithms, problem solving and data structures.
6. Knowledge of TDD and experience with building applications integrated with CI-CD pipelines (automated build, tests and deployments).
7. Exposure to micro-services with good understanding of containers, kubernetes, logging, alerting and monitoring. Inter services communication. Should know how to handle multiple versions of APIs.

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Role: Senior Backend Developer
Mode of work: WFO
Supercharge Your Career as a Senior Backend Developer at Technoidentity!
Are you ready to solve people challenges that fuel business growth? At Technoidentity, we’re a Data+AI product engineering company building cutting-edge solutions in the FinTech domain for over 13 years—and we’re expanding globally. It’s the perfect time to join our team of tech innovators and leave your mark!
What’s in it for You?
We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Backend Developer with 4-6 years of experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will have strong backend development expertise, a deep understanding of distributed systems, and a high sense of ownership. This role requires working independently on POCs and projects while also mentoring junior team members and enabling scalable delivery.
What Will You Be Doing?
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and services.
- Work independently on project implementations and backend solution development.
- Implement distributed architecture design patterns to build reliable and high-performance systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust backend solutions.
- Guide and mentor junior developers, ensuring quality implementation and adherence to best practices.
- Participate in system design discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
- Ensure high ownership in delivering solutions aligned with project timelines and goals.
What Makes You the Perfect Fit?
- 4-6 years of backend development experience with strong expertise in Java or Go,
- Hands-on exposure to distributed systems, and solid knowledge of PL/SQL, with the ability to work independently and take high ownership of deliverables.
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities.
- Experience working with distributed systems and architecture design patterns.
- Strong database development skills with PL/SQL.
- Excellent team coordination and collaboration skills.
- High sense of ownership, accountability, and commitment towards project delivery.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field is required.
Good to Have Skills
- Exposure to Cloud platforms (AWS or GCP).
- Understanding of Frontend technologies or DevOps practices.
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Temporal or similar platforms.
Work Requirements:
- Willingness to work in US or flexible shift timings based on project requirements
- Ability to work independently on POCs/projects and help scale additional pods of work
- Guide and direct junior team members to ensure proper implementation
We are seeking a skilled Java Developer with hands-on experience in Java and Spark to build scalable data processing solutions. You'll contribute to high-performance data pipelines and analytics platforms in a dynamic Agile environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop Java applications integrated with Apache Spark for ETL processes, data transformations, and analytics.
- Build and optimize Spark jobs (Spark SQL, DataFrames, Streaming) for large-scale data processing.
- Collaborate with data engineers and analysts to implement robust data workflows.
- Write clean, maintainable Java code following best practices (Spring Boot, Microservices preferred).
- Perform code reviews, unit testing, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines.
- Troubleshoot and optimize Spark performance for production workloads.
- Document technical solutions and mentor junior developers.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 4-7 years of hands-on Java development experience.
- Strong expertise in Apache Spark (Spark Core, Spark SQL, PySpark basics).
- Proficiency in Java 8/11+ with multithreading and collections frameworks.
- Experience with data processing (ETL, data pipelines, big data).
- Familiarity with build tools (Maven/Gradle) and version control (Git).
- Strong problem-solving skills and Bangalore location availability.
- Excellent communication skills for cross-team collaboration.
Good to Have
- Experience with Snowflake for cloud data warehousing.
- Knowledge of DBT (Data Build Tool) for analytics engineering.
- Python scripting for data manipulation and automation.
- Exposure to AWS/GCP/Azure cloud platforms.
- Familiarity with Kafka, Airflow, or containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
Role: Java Developer
Overall: 4 to 8 Years
Location: Chennai
Notice: Immediate to short joiners
Job Description:
We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Java Developer to join our team in Chennai. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in Java development with a focus on backend frameworks such as Spring Boot and Hibernate. If you’re passionate about clean code, scalable applications, and delivering robust software solutions—this is the role for you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain backend applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
- Write efficient, scalable, and reusable code.
- Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and deliver high-quality software.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
- Ensure best practices in software development and Agile methodologies.
Required Skills:
- Strong proficiency in Core Java (Java 8 or above).
- Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Hibernate.
- Proficient in working with RESTful APIs and Web Services.
- Experience with SQL and relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL).
- Familiarity with version control tools like Git.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle and Agile practices.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Handle multiple products/modules simultaneously, lead the team in development and support
- Lead development teams
- Daily updates to customers and Product Managers/Delivery Managers
- Participate in design discussions
- Design and Architect small modules
- Effort estimations for modules, subsystems or use cases.
- Learn new skills and mentor the new team members
- Champion best practices within the team, including code reviews
Work Experience & Skills:
- B.E/B.Tech or any relevant Masters degree from reputed college.
- Strong 5+ years of experience in Java, J2EE, Spring IOC, Spring Annotations, Spring JDBC, Jquery, Java script, HTML 5 and CSS
- Strong experience in Postgres or any SQL technology
- Experience with working on Tomcat, Apache, JBoss or any similar application server
- Should have 3+ years of experience in leading team.
- Good experience in JSON / RESTful API / Web Services.
- Experience in working on Agile methodology using Scrum and sprints
- Experience in using build tools, Maven, GIT, Bugzilla or similar tools.
- Experience in cloud technologies, Microservices and frameworks such as AWS or GPC, container technologies like Docker is a plus.
- Ability to adapt to new development environments, changing business requirements and learning new systems highly desired
- Experience in Microservices, SpringBoot and Angular is a plus.
- Experience with tuning deployed applications for scalability and performance.
- Good knowledge of deployment and scripting on Linux/Unix servers
- Strong technical documentation skills.
- Good oral and written communication skills
Responsibilities
- Software Engineering
- Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems with minimal
guidance for a market leader in the logistics industry
- Partner with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design
philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team
- Research new technologies and tools that enable building the next generation of our services
- Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence
- Product Delivery
- Partner with product managers to define and execute on the feature roadmap
- Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
- Coordinate with various cross functional teams on planning and execution
- Maintaining automated build / test / deployment environments
Qualifications
- Software Engineering
- Should have at least 2 years of hands on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying
applications on Java, Ruby, Kotlin, Python, Node or Go for large scale applications
- Deep knowledge of one of the programming language they have experience in
- Proficient in OOP and Design Patterns, experience with functional programming would be a plus
- Data modelling experience in Relational Databases
- Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
- Product Delivery
- Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency
risks.
- Well versed in working with agile methodologies which includes phases such as design, development,
code review, testing and release management
- Ability to have worked in a CI/CD environment, with hands on experience with Git or any similar source
code management tools
- Product Maintenance
- Experience troubleshooting server performance issues such as memory tuning, GC tuning, resource leaks
etc
- Continuously refactor applications to ensure high quality design.
Responsibilities:
- Programming
- Full stack system development
- Product Design
- Technical risk assessment and estimation
- Technical investigation/research, assessment, and recommendation
- Providing solutions and preparing proof-of-concept for technical proposals and demonstrations
- Product maintenance and support
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or any course related to Information Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
- Ability to execute full software development life cycle (SDLC)
- 1+ year experience in product development
- 1+ years Java development experience
- 1+ year experience in agile product development methodology/process
- Develop flowcharts, layouts, and documentation to identify requirements and solutions
- Experience of relational databases, SQL / MySql / PL SQL / Oracle
- Experience in JAVA Frameworks (Spring / Spring MVC / Spring boot / Hibernate)
- Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
- Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
- Document and maintain software functionality
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems
- Experience in Unit testing is a plus
Knowledge in:
- JavaScript / ES6 / JavaScript Reactive Framework (Vue.js / java servlets is a huge plus)
- REST Concepts
- VCS - Git
- AWS
- Excellent programming and problem-solving skills
- Experience with test-driven development
- Good communication skills
- Fast learner, detail-oriented
- Able to work under pressure
- Self-managing and able to collaborate with offsite team members
- Can render extra hours whenever necessary.
Training
After a rigorous training program of up to one month, you'll immediately get to work on one of our projects. We're working on mission-critical government systems or commercial products that are levelling up the way the world does business.
- Collaborating with the product team to understand the requirement
- Managing Design and development of the product
- Ensuring code quality, security and extensibility
- Following the agile development cycles
- Conducting performance tests and optimization of the code based on the results.
- Debugging and troubleshooting of technical issues
- Helping the support team to resolve external user issues
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- B.Tech /B.E.; M.Tech; MCA
- Strong at OOPS, Java/ J2EE, JAX-RS, JDBC, RESTful Web Services, Data Structures, Queues, Multi-Threading etc.
- MySQL and Mongo database knowledge
- Basic understanding of AWS Cloud
- Must have worked on highly scalable and available systems
- Good at adapting and understanding architecture and overall design of the system
- Exposure to design patterns is a plus
- Must have exposure to agile development
- Experience of creating and maintaining system documentation such as architecture, design, deployment plan etc.
- The candidate must have excellent technical skills and must be willing to learn
- new technologies on the go.
- Good at communication
- Good Exposure to Kafka and Redis
A quick overview of our stack:
Python, MySQL, NoSQL, Memcache, Bigquery, Microservices.
Responsibilities
As a backend developer, you would be responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining the multiple modules, encompassing - external integration, API management, building business and operation processes, designing and defining microservices, designing multi-input/output state machines
You will be given complete ownership of modules and processes. You will work with business, product, and UI teams to work on new features and products. You are expected to drive the services/modules to maximize its business impact and customer delight.
- Acumen for good, secure API design
- Write clear and effective API documentation
- Write/review test cases for code and process coverage
- Stickler for good, clear, secure coding, both oneself and team members by code review
- Reviewing designs, code, and processes from a system security standpoint
- Defining and building micro-services
- Building systems with positive business impact Tracking module health, usage, behavior tracking, measure and improve code and processes
Requirement
You will be working on multiple projects/modules. You are expected to write code to integrate - external providers, internal business and process tools, customer-facing applications, and partner-facing applications.
- At least 1-3 years of working experience in web services, preferably in Python
- Should have built and released APIs in production
- Experience working with RDBMS and NoSQL databases
- Designing thoughtful, extensible data models
- Knowledge of identifying, defining and building micro-services
- Working knowledge of GCS, AWS, Azure or any other cloud provider
- Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
- Good communication skills - written and spoken
Good to have
- Focus on constant improvement of developer experience
- Building or Working knowledge of CI/CD
- Basic know-how of front-end technologies like AngularJS/React
- Have worked on additional languages like Javascript/Ruby
Job Location - Bangalore
Looking candidated from service base or service division of any company.
Minimum Qualification:
- Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections, popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning)
- Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, REST Express etc
- Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle or Postgres
- Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB etc
- Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak etc
- Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc








