
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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We are hiring a Principal Datacenter Backend Developer to architect and build highly scalable, reliable backend platforms for modern data centers. This role owns control-plane and data-plane services powering orchestration, monitoring, automation, and operational intelligence across large-scale on-prem, hybrid, and cloud data center environments.
This is a hands-on principal IC role with strong architectural ownership and technical leadership responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end backend architecture for datacenter platforms (orchestration, monitoring, DCIM, automation).
- Design and build high-availability distributed systems at scale.
- Develop backend services using Java (Spring Boot / Micronaut / Quarkus) and/or Python (FastAPI / Flask / Django).
- Build microservices for resource orchestration, telemetry ingestion, capacity and asset management.
- Design REST/gRPC APIs and event-driven systems.
- Drive performance optimization, scalability, and reliability best practices.
- Embed SRE principles, observability, and security-by-design.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence technical roadmap decisions.
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on experience in Java and/or Python.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud-native deployments.
- Databases: PostgreSQL/MySQL, NoSQL, time-series data.
- Messaging systems: Kafka / Pulsar / RabbitMQ.
- Observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch.
- Secure backend design (OAuth2, RBAC, audit logging).
Nice to Have
- Experience with DCIM, NMS, or infrastructure automation platforms.
- Exposure to hyperscale or colocation data centers.
- AI/ML-based monitoring or capacity planning experience.
Why Join
- Architect mission-critical platforms for large-scale data centers.
- High-impact principal role with deep technical ownership.
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You’ll be our: Application Developer
You’ll be based at: IBC Knowledge Park, Bengaluru
You’ll be Aligned with: Application Development Lead
You’ll be the member of:VehicleSoftware Team
What you’ll do at Ather:
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You will be developing the various Applications for the cloud to process data connecting with the vehicle
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You shall work with the Lead and product team to define and deliver features.
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Be part of the Agile team, to define Sprint work content definition.
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Work with cross functional teams to drive overall feature delivery.
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Be part of the initiatives that achieve the functional requirements of the team. Explore technical feasibility of solutions, propose and evaluate tech stacks.
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Performance tuning and benchmarking of the features
Here’s what we are looking for:
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Strong knowledge and Hands on experience with Nodejs, RestAPI, Java Script, Java Development experience in cloud based infrastructure
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Strong fundamentals in any fullstack of your choice, OOPS concepts, Google Cloud Platform. Knowledge of Java, React, React Native, Android Native , HTML5, Firebase and Go Programming is a plus.
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Knowledge on CI/CD pipelines, JIRA, UML, Static Code Analysis tools and Unit test framework is required
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Knowledge on the S/W communication protocols like gRPC, HTTP, MQTT is a plus Cross platform development experience would be needed.
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Knowledge of Cloud Based solutions would be a plus.
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App development for a product which is beyond a mobile platform would be a plus. Experience with Telematics/Infotainment projects would be a great advantage.
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Strong experience with Agile methodology, along with tools such as JIRA, Confluence.
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Flashing and debugging tools experience is a plus.
You bring to Ather:
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Bachelor’s/Master’s in computer science or any other equivalent degree
- Proven hands-on Software Development experience
- Proven working experience in Java development
- Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
- Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
· 3+ years java development experience with JSE/JEE, Java based Micro-services framework and implementation, Spring framework, Hibernate framework, SQL etc
· Hands on experience on Spring boot & Microservices .
· Strong knowledge of micro-service logging, monitoring, debugging and testing
· Implementations experience of micro-service integration, packaging, build automation and deployment.
· Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.
About the team
In today’s highly competitive private equity market, firms must not only deliver superior returns, but also respond to more stringent reporting requirements and increasing demands for information – both from within and outside their organization. Throughout the industry there is mounting pressure on organizations to do more, requiring a clear technology strategy that not only addresses the demands of today, but also enables the growth and performance of tomorrow.
What you will be doing
This position would be part of CORE product development team to work on:
- Development of new modules & functionality.
- Fixing of the production bugs for existing clients.
- Contribute in team meetings to provide suggestions or raise concerns where necessary
- Participate actively in Agile SCRUM & play the role that SCRUM team demands
- Participate in technology discussions to perform POC’s & help in scaling the application
- Provide technical guidance to other team members.
What you bring:
Knowledge / Experience
- 3-5 Years of hands-on experience on Java with knowledge of Garbage Collector, JMS, Event Based programming, Collections, Java Streams, Spring Dependency Injection Framework.
- Experience in Angular 2+.
- Experience working with Spring and Hibernate frameworks.
- Working knowledge on application Servers (WildFly)
- Strong experience in REST Web Services.
- Good knowledge in writing DB queries (Oracle, SQL Server)
- Experience working in Unix/Linux environment and proven knowledge of scripting languages
- Exposure to MQ / AMQ messaging system.
- Sound knowledge of Design Patterns
Skills
- Desired to have knowledge of JMX
- Agile – SCRUM or XP or TDD methodology preferred.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Competencies
- Fluent in English
- Excellent communicator – ability to discuss technical solutions to internal and external parties and adapt depending on the technical or business focus of the discussion
- Attention to detail – track record of authoring high quality documentation
- Organized approach – manage and adapt priorities according to client and internal requirements
- Self-starter but team mindset - work autonomously and as part of a global team
What we offer you
- A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
- A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities – FIS is your final career step!
- A competitive salary and benefits
- A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities
With a 50-year history rooted in the financial services industry, FIS™ is the world's largest global provider dedicated to financial technology solutions. We champion clients from banking to capital markets, retail to corporate and everything touched by financial services. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, our 53,000 worldwide employees help serve more than 20,000 clients in over 130 countries. Our technology powers billions of transactions annually that move over $9 trillion around the globe. FIS is a Fortune 500 company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500® Index.
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● He/She is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical
strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and
business roadmap.
● He /she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment.
● Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple
business plans and technologies .
● Work closely with Product, Design, and Marketing to conceive features, plan projects, and
build roadmaps
● Prior experience with scalable Architecture managing team of minimum 5 engineers and
coaching, mentoring while maintaining a role with code development.
● Proven history of contributing to product strategy and shipping products with multi-functional
teams.
● Highly involved in recruitment while building team also leading app development for both
platforms
● Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics
and integrity.
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 et
Your role in helping us shape the future:
Gogo Commercial Aviation, An Intelsat Company has an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer. You will help us design and develop solutions aimed at providing a means to manage and deploy the configuration specifics of aircraft, based on airlines, aircraft deployed technology, fleet and installation requirements. This solution uses a combination of configuration management and cloud-based deployment using AWS which also requires an understanding of network / telecom protocols.
Are you up to the challenge?
The ideal candidate for this role will be a working member of an engineering team delivering quality technical solutions carrying through from design to deployment. This role requires solid understanding of the design and development process, using CI / CD technologies. Your role will be crucial in designing and delivering complex products and solutions across technologies products and tools, improving quality of the code by following coding standards/guidelines, using static code analysers, maximum unit test coverage and automating the test cases.
Can you drive these processes?
- Develop groundbreaking and distributed solutions with high availability and impact.
- Work with the Architects/ Technical lead / Product Owner to understand user requirements, convert BDD scenarios or user stories into product functionality.
- Work with the team members collectively to own and deliver features and flexible to take up any type of tasks like develop, automate and test to complete feature.
- Perform code reviews and associated engineering quality checks clearly and consistently.
You should definitely have:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
- 2 - 5 Years of experience in systems implementations with a focus on both custom application development & commercial systems software implementations
- Knowledge and experience in multiple technical disciplines required (development, QA, devops, etc)
- 2+ years of in-depth development experience with Java / C++ / C / Go.
- Experience in CI/CD and AWS deployments (EC2, SQS, SNS, Lambda, S3, Aurora, DynamoDB)
- Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycles; expert knowledge in Agile and Lean methods.
- Proponent of DevOps, TDD, Agile/XP practices, and CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to work under pressure, prioritize work, coordinate with onsite stakeholders and well organized.
- Flexibility in working with technologies and platforms.
- A commitment to excellence, best practices, and the continuous improvement of our products, code base, processes, and tools.
It would be nice if you had:
- Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) work environments
What it’s like to work with us:
Intelsat is connecting the world and transforming the satellite landscape by reaching beyond the traditional satellite industry. We are defining new products that will open new, profitable markets. To help us reach this goal, you should be a bold thinker who will perform a key role in shaping Intelsat innovation for years to come.
- We emphasize personal and professional growth
- Awesome benefits including Leave Benefits, medical and training
- Fun, diverse, and inclusive culture
We are building consumer internet space, payment processing, e-commerce and/or enterprise. SAAS products. Undergraduate (or higher) degree in computer science/engineering. You have an excellent grasp over theoretical and applied computer science.
Job Description
Responsibilities You can take responsibility of large sized projects. You can take full responsibility of one or more core modules and/or technical verticals / libraries / frameworks / components. This will include design and architecture, evaluating and deciding which framework/language/data store/tools to us, preparing roadmaps and timely delivery. You understand the business impact of your decisions. You will review code and ensure that implementations are testable, performant, scalable, documented and secure. You will work closely with product, design, revenue, platform and growth teams. You can take responsibility of large sized projects involving inter-departmental stakeholders. You can take full responsibility of one or more core modules and/or technical verticals / libraries / frameworks / components. Payment processing framework capable of supporting multiple payment methods (cards, netbanking, UPI, wallets, etc.) with one or more payment method supported across multiple payment gateways. This will include design and architecture, evaluating and deciding which framework/language/data store/tools to us, preparing roadmaps and timely delivery. You will drive engineering best practices, recruit other engineers, lead and manage teams, conduct performance reviews and mentor other engineers. You will review code and ensure that implementations are testable, performant, scalable, documented and secure. You will work closely with product, design, revenue, platform and growth teams.
Requirements 3-5 Years of Experience in software engineering.
5-10 years of industry experience in software engineering building consumer internet space, payment processing, e-commerce and/or enterprise SAAS products. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 3+ years relevant work experience. Undergraduate (or higher) degree in computer science/engineering. You have an excellent grasp over theoretical and applied computer science. You have excellent problem solving and analytical skills. You should be able to identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks and design/architect improvements. Experience with working on PCI compliant infrastructure. You should be able to build at this engineering level Store builder (products with multi-level variants (colour, size, etc.), SKUs, discounts) and shopping cart. Highly concurrent double entry accounting system. You have excellent problem solving and analytical skills. You should be able to identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks and design/architect improvements. Good hold on data structures and algorithms. Strong object-oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive modules and class-level interface.
Desired Skills and Experience Python, Golang, Java, Ruby on Rails, Django







