
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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Job Title: Engineering Lead
Role Overview:
We are looking for an Engineering Lead to take end-to-end ownership of technical delivery, design, architecture, and quality for our multi-customer SaaS product. You will lead and mentor the engineering team, drive scalable design and high-quality delivery, manage releases across customer environments, and ensure the stability and performance of the product in production.
Key Responsibilities:
· Delivery & Release Management: Plan and deliver product features and customer-specific releases on time with high quality, ensuring operational readiness and stability across environments.
· Technical Design & Architecture: Lead technical design and high-scale architecture for new and existing modules, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
· Team Management: Mentor and guide engineers, ensure clarity in priorities, unblock challenges, and foster a culture of ownership and quality within the team.
· Requirement to Delivery: Work with product and customer teams to understand requirements, translate them into designs and implementation plans, and track them through to delivery.
· Product Quality: Establish and maintain engineering best practices, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure high product quality and reliability.
· Troubleshooting & Support: Lead the team in debugging complex issues in development and production, ensuring minimal downtime and strong customer satisfaction.
· Hands-on Contribution: Actively contribute technically where needed, providing architectural guidance and coding support aligned with the team’s stack.
Requirements:
· Experience: 8–12 years in software engineering with at least 3+ years in a lead role.
· Proven experience in designing scalable, high-performance architectures and technical solutions.
· Experience delivering multi-customer SaaS product releases, including phased and customer-specific configurations.
· Strong track record of ensuring product quality and stability through structured processes, testing, and monitoring.
· Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and guide teams towards resolution.
· Experience in mentoring and managing engineering teams to drive aligned delivery and high performance.
· Hands-on experience with your relevant tech stack (e.g., Python, Django, Angular, AWS, Docker, Redis, RabbitMQ).
· Excellent communication and collaboration skills with Product, QA, and Customer Support teams.
· Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or related field.
Strong written/verbal communication skills
· Minimum 5+ Years of Core Java Programming with Collections Framework, Concurrent Programming, Multi-threading (Good knowledge in Executor service, Fork joins pool and other threading concepts)
· Good knowledge of the JVM with an understanding of performance and memory optimization.
· Extensive and expert programming experience in JAVA programming language (strong OO skills preferred).
· Excellent knowledge on collections like, Array List, Vector, LinkedList, HashMap, Hash Table, HashSet is mandate.
· Exercised exemplary development practices including design specification, coding standards, unit testing, and code-reviews.
· Expert level understanding of Object-Oriented Concepts and Data Structures
· Good experience in Database (Sybase, Oracle or SQL Server) like indexing (clustered, non-clustered), hashing, segmenting, data types like clob / blob, views (materialized), replication, constraints, functions, triggers, procedures etc.
Roles and Responsibilities
Role – Senior Developer (Back End)
Location - Bangalore
Experience 5+ Years
Responsibilities
- Responsible for design & developing products involving Java, JEE, Springboot.
- Object-oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
- Deep insight of Java and JEE internals such as memory management, transaction management, etc.
- Design and develop features and modules for mission-critical applications.
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
- Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications.
- Prepare and produce releases of software components.
- Mentoring and guiding the team members.
- An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology.
- Implementation of API.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in strong core java & J2EE skill
- 5+ years of experience in Spring Boot.
- 5+ years of experience in Spring and REST/SOAP services
- Strong knowledge in Java web application design and development
- Strong knowledge of Spring frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring integration, Spring Security, etc.), JPA, RESTful APIs
- Experience with design and development of highly available, distributed and scalable transactional enterprise systems
- Results oriented and focused on meeting deliverable timelines.
- A team player with excellent communication skills.
- 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
- Proficient in REST API development
- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
- Microservices
- Any Caching Mechanism
- Good at problem solving
Good to Have Skills:
- 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
- Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
- Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.
Experience:
The candidate should have about 1+ years of experience with design and development in Java/Scala. Experience in algorithm, data-structure, database is mandatory.
Required Skills:
- Java or Scala
- Extensive experience in developing web applications. Should possess good Oops knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
- Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complexity of spark job.
- Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux.
Good To have: -
- Python
- Distributed Computing
C++ and QT mandatory and also should be very strong on Data Structures, Algorithms
Note: salary depends on current CTC.
Job Description
- Participate in feasibility analysis of requirements for implementation. • Contribute in technical discussions regarding requirements, implementation adopting best practices/ methodologies, platforms for development and support methodology.
- Estimation and timely implementation of requirement(s) by developing a modular, scalable, high-performance code by adopting best practices.
- Own up the defect free code delivery of module/application and provide support during integration/implementation.
- Bug fixing, code optimization.
- Collaborate with the testing team to understand and resolve the bugs.
Required Skills
- C++ QT framework user interface desktop application
- Extensive hands-on experience in Desktop application development using QT technology
- Experience with GUI implementation and debugging desktop applications using Qt
- Experience in real-time communications software development and related build environments, with a focus on mission-critical, low latency multithreaded applications
- Experience designing, developing and debugging networked client/server applications
- Experienced with source/version control software, including Git
- Strong proficiency in C++, with fair knowledge of the language specification
- Thorough knowledge of the standard library, STL containers, Data Structures and algorithms
- Good understanding of memory management in a non-garbage collected environment
- Knowledge of the latest C++11,C++14,C++17 standard
- Familiarity with system call wrapper library functions
- Thorough knowledge of Nginx , Redis,Kafka, RabbitMQ, MySql
- Familiarity with language tools, such as Valgrind
- Sound knowledge of Postgre and MySQL
- C++ with QT User Interface, Data Structures, Algorithms, AWS, TCP,UDP
Job Description:
- Must have experience of 1 – 6 years.
- Experience in Java/J2EE platform.
- Experience in web application development with JSP, Servlet, Spring Boot, Hibernate
- Knowledge of MySQL database.
- Developed REST and SOAP web services..
- Experience in version control system and build tool
- Must have completed BE/MCA/M.Sc/MTech.
- 7 years of hands-on experience on database development
- Very strong and hands-on in Oracle Database and PL/SQL development
- Hands on experience in designing solutions and developing for data migration projects using Oracle PL/SQL
- Experience with Oracle Argus Safety, ArisG and other Safety/Clinical systems
- Working experience in development of ETL process, DB Design and Data Structures
- Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, Tables, Views, Constraints, Index (B Tree, Bitmap and Function Based) , Object type, Stored Procedures, Functions, Packages and Triggers, Dynamic SQL, Set transaction, pl/sql Cursor variables with Ref Cursor
Excellent written and verbal communication skills










