Backend Developer

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
• 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related field with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML).
• 7 years of software experience designing and deploying large-scale AI/ML applications and complex models.
• Experience with MLOps, establishing best practices for production model monitoring, maintenance, and lifecycle management.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineers, and translating complex business objectives into scalable AI-driven roadmaps.
• Experience architecting scalable data pipelines using BigQuery, Beam, or Dataflow, and deploying models on Google Cloud Platform.
• Understanding of Python and frameworks like TensorFlow, JAX, and Scikit-learn, with deep statistical modeling knowledge.

About the job

The People Operations Engineering team is dedicated to building innovative and scalable technology solutions that empower a global workforce. Leveraging the power of data, AI, and machine learning, the team optimizes HR processes, enhances employee experiences, and drives organizational efficiency. Joining this team offers the opportunity to lead the application of AI to solve complex, real-world business challenges.

We are seeking a highly experienced and results-oriented Senior AI Software Engineer to join the Human Resources Engineering (HRE) team in Hyderabad.

In this role, you will serve as a technical leader, driving the design, development, and deployment of sophisticated AI-powered solutions that significantly impact employees across the organization. You will work on large-scale infrastructure, mentor a talented team of engineers, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and help shape the future of HR through innovative AI applications. You will be responsible for translating complex business challenges and strategic objectives into scalable, efficient AI/ML systems.

As part of the Corporate Engineering organization, you will build world-class business solutions that support a global enterprise. The team delivers end-to-end platforms, tools, and experiences that enable employees to work more effectively and drive innovation across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and architecture of complex, scalable AI/ML systems and infrastructure within the HR engineering domain, ensuring high reliability, performance, and long-term sustainability.
• Drive the development of advanced AI/ML algorithms for HR applications such as talent acquisition and employee engagement using Python and frameworks like TensorFlow and JAX.
• Architect large-scale data pipelines for data ingestion, cleaning, and feature engineering using modern data processing frameworks (e.g., Beam, Dataflow), while leading root cause analysis and system troubleshooting.
• Own the end-to-end MLOps lifecycle, including model deployment, monitoring, optimization, and maintenance, while establishing best practices for software development and code quality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable AI/ML solutions, mentor engineers, and drive the adoption of emerging AI technologies across the organization.

We are looking for an experienced SDE-3 Backend Engineer (Node.js) to lead the backend engineering pod responsible for third-party integrations, observability, and engineering support.

The role requires someone who is technically strong in Node.js, TypeScript, databases, and backend system design, and who can remain hands-on while guiding engineers and working closely with internal teams and external partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Own delivery, quality, and production stability for third-party
• integrations, observability, and engineering support.
• Own technical design, architecture decisions, code reviews, and delivery quality for services owned by the pod.
• Drive strong engineering practices across design reviews, code reviews, testing, documentation, release discipline, and operational readiness.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Own integrations with banks, payment partners, fintech partners, and other external systems.
• Ensure partner integrations are reliable, secure, well-documented, and easy to support.
• Build monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and visibility across critical services and partner workflows.
• Create and maintain runbooks, SOPs, dashboards, and troubleshooting guides for critical services and partner workflows.
• Drive timely resolution of production issues, partner issues, and internal escalations.
• Perform RCA for incidents and ensure long-term fixes are implemented.
• Mentor junior engineers and improve engineering practices within the pod.

• Strong hands-on experience in Node.js and TypeScript backend development.
• Strong database skills, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, transactions, and performance tuning.
• Strong understanding of building scalable, performant, resilient, and fault-tolerant backend systems.
• Experience with third-party integrations, webhooks, callbacks, retries, timeouts, and error handling.
• Strong debugging and production issue resolution skills.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and observability tools is preferred.
• Good understanding of secure API design, authentication, authorization, and data protection.
• Exposure to AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or similar tools.
• Ability to guide and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on.
• Ability to drive delivery, manage technical execution, and ensure quality within the pod.
• Strong communication skills for working with internal teams and external stakeholders.

• Design, develop, code and test the solution

• Experience working with large datasets and NoSQL database technologies (e.g. Cassandra, ES) 

• 5-10 yrs of industry experience

• Energetic self-starter, with a desire to work in a startup environment

• Proficient in advanced Java programming skills

• Expert in Application development cloud/on premise end to end. Middle layer, DB layer.

• Nice to have understanding on MQ (e.g. Kafka)

• Good hands on in Complex Event Processing systems

• Solved scale and performance issues while dealing with huge sets of data. Pre compute or data aggregation frameworks to achieve good response time

• Experience working with large datasets and NoSQL database technologies (e.g. Cassandra, ES)

• Experience of debugging applications running on Unix like systems (e.g. Ubuntu, CentOS)

• Experience developing RESTful APIs for complex data sets

• Knowledge of container based development & deployment (e.g. Dockers, K8s)

• Expertise in software security domain, a plus

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.

• Must have experience in either of JavaScript frameworks: Angular
• Must have experience in either of backend software development [J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring core, JPA]
• Must have experience in designing/implementing Hibernate/ORM, Restful web services, Micro Services using Java
• Knowledge with relational/ NoSQL databases (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Knowledge with versioning (Git or SVN) /build tools (Maven/Ant/Gradle/Junit), Unit testing & code coverage tools is desired
• Knowledge of App / Web servers (NGINX / Tomcat / Jboss Wildfly)
• Understands the process of new application development and has the ability to apply these concepts with minimal mentoring and supervision.
• Advanced knowledge experience using any of IDE (e.g., Eclipse, SonarQube, STS, VS Code)
• Knowledge on Cloud platform, technologies & deployments is an added advantage
• Resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and
• Must have experience with Agile tools

• Good knowledge in product development domains
• Knowledge in Finance and Insurance domain preferred
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of
• Complete application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities contributing to team meetings;
• Troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features
• Understanding and implementation of security and data
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications and standards and best industry
• Usage of Process tools – JIRA, TFS, HP QC or any other agile tools, also knowledge of CMM Level 3 development process.
• Self-motivated & working independently with minimal
• Maintain code integrity and
• Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual
• Follow the coding standards for java and angular

• Usage of troubleshooting tools like J Profiler, J Meter or application performance tuning
• Exposure to Non-web-based developments, for both mobile and
• Development experience using Docker, Kubernetes, Containerization etc in AWS or other cloud platforms
• Willing to take up proof of concepts and showcase the technical capability
• Usage of design tools Visio or draw io
• Usage of CI/CD pipeline

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Cloud app development experience
• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
• Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns
• Experience with the fullsite of Go frameworks and tools, including:
• Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc.
• Go’s templating language
• Go’s code generation tools,such as Stringer
• Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments
• Familiarity with code versioning tools(such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone. .

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

Requirements:

• Passion for building and delivering great software with a strong sense of ownership.
• Good understanding into .Net Core and PS
• Minimum of two years of experience in building web applications using ASP.NET MVC and .NET platform in general.
• Should have strong UI development skills using HTML, CSS/JavaScript frameworks.-

     Good understanding of IIS configuration

• Strong experience with Build and Release, Agile processes and Estimation/Planning-
  
  Exposure to New Relic or similar tools to optimize web application performance
  Strong expertise in SQL programming, with experience of writing & optimizing queries that access/process millions of records-
  Experience of architecting and designing web applications and servicesTeam TA,LeadSquared (ref:hirist.com)