
Backend Developer
📍 Noida | 🕐 Full-Time | 🧭 Experience: 2–3 Years
The Mission
We aren't building traditional backend systems — we're powering the infrastructure behind Agentic Intelligence. TestMu AI is building the world's first AI-native platform where backend systems don't just serve requests, they enable autonomous decision-making, execution, and scale.
The name "TestMu" comes from our community conference. Our users and team aren't an audience — they're the heartbeat of what we build. We believe AI augments human potential. It doesn't replace it.
You'll be building the core backend systems that power AI-driven workflows — ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability at every layer.
The Pillars of Impact
🚀 1. Core Backend & System Architecture (50%)
- Build and scale high-performance backend services and APIs
- Design efficient database schemas, query optimization, and data flows
- Write clean, logical, production-grade code (Python, Golang, or similar)
- Own system performance — latency, throughput, and reliability
⚙️ 2. Backend for AI Systems (30%)
- Develop backend systems supporting AI agents and autonomous workflows
- Handle large-scale data processing, async tasks, and event-driven systems
- Integrate backend infrastructure seamlessly with AI/ML components
🧠 3. Scalability & Distributed Systems (20%)
- Contribute to microservices architecture and service decomposition
- Build fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems
- Optimize systems for high concurrency and real-time execution
Your Engineering Stack
Tech/ToolsPython / GolangBuilding core backend services and logic-heavy systemsAWS / GCPDeploying and scaling distributed backend infrastructureKafka / RabbitMQHandling asynchronous processing and event-driven workflows
The Bar
SignalCore Backend Experience2–3 years of hands-on experience building APIs, backend systems, and scalable servicesProblem-Solving AbilityStrong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and logical thinkingSystem Design UnderstandingAbility to design scalable backend systems with clear architectural thinkingOwnership & ExecutionExperience owning backend features end-to-end in a fast-paced environment
The Interview Loop · Screening for the Top 1%
RoundsRound I · Recruiter ScreenEvaluation of backend experience, problem-solving approach, and project depthRound II · Hiring ManagerDeep dive into backend projects, APIs, databases, and system design thinkingRound III · Domain LeadLive coding + backend problem-solving + discussion on scalability and distributed systemsFinal · LeadershipCulture fit, ownership mindset, and ability to operate in a high-velocity startup environment
Your Growth Trajectory TestMu AI is a high-growth environment where we promote based on complexity solved, not years of tenure. As a Backend Developer, you have a massive runway to scale from an Individual Contributor (IC) into a core Engineering Leadership role, working alongside pioneers in agentic intelligence.
Perks of the Future
- Health & Wellness: 100% premium covered insurance for you + family (spouse, kids, parents) with annual check-ups.
- Fuel for Innovation: Fresh, daily gourmet lunch and dinner served at our Noida HQ.
- Seamless Transit: Safe, GPS-enabled cab facilities for eligible shifts (home-office-home).
- POD Culture: Dedicated quarterly budgets for team-building, offsites, and collaborative celebrations.

About TestMu AI (Formely LambdaTest)
About
TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest) is the world’s first full-stack Agentic AI Quality Engineering Platform.
We built TestMu AI for a reality where software is written by AI and must be shipped at machine speed.
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Location: Onsite – Indore (Vijaynagar), MP, India
Experience: 4–6 Years
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Role Overview
We are looking for a Tech Lead who is backend-heavy, highly product-driven, and capable of owning end-to-end technical execution. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working across multiple backend stacks, while also having enough frontend understanding to unblock issues independently.
This role requires someone who can solve problems proactively, handle technical blockers without unnecessary escalations, and drive projects efficiently in a startup environment.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Ownership
- Take end-to-end ownership of projects from planning to deployment
- Ensure timely delivery under tight deadlines
- Maintain high standards of code quality, scalability, and performance
Backend Development (Core Focus)
- Design and build scalable backend systems using Python and other backend stacks
- Architect APIs, services, and data flows for high-performance applications
- Handle complex technical challenges independently
Frontend Awareness
- Possess working knowledge of frontend technologies (React.js / Next.js)
- Be capable of debugging and resolving frontend issues when required
Problem Solving & Execution
- Identify and resolve technical blockers independently before escalation
- Drive solutions with a cost-efficient and time-efficient approach
- Optimise system performance and architecture
Innovation & Product Thinking
- Contribute new ideas and technical improvements
- Think from a product perspective, not just implementation
- Continuously improve processes and delivery speed
Collaboration & Leadership
- Work closely with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Engineering)
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders
- Guide junior developers when required
Required Skills-
Core Technical
- Strong experience in Python (Django/FastAPI preferred)
- Experience with multiple backend stacks (Node.js, etc. is a plus)
- Solid understanding of system design, APIs, and databases
Frontend Understanding
- Hands-on or working knowledge of React.js / modern frontend frameworks
Engineering Mindset
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to handle pressure and tight deadlines
- Experience working in startup environments
Ideal Candidate Profile
- 4–6 years of experience in product-based or startup environments
- Has worked on multiple projects end-to-end
- Highly productive, proactive, and ownership-driven
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to take initiative and make decisions independently
- Focused on efficiency, scalability, and execution speed
What We’re Looking For
- Someone who doesn’t wait for instructions but takes initiative
- A problem solver who fixes issues before they escalate
- A tech-driven thinker with strong execution capability
- Comfortable in fast-moving, high-pressure startup setups
Hiring Process
- HR Round
- Assignment
- Technical Round
- Cultural Fit Round
- Founder’s Call
About the Role
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We are a remote-first team and are open to hiring exceptional candidates globally.
Core Tasks
· Build and maintain the trading engine core for execution, backtesting, and event logging.
· Develop isolated strategy execution runners to support multi-user, multi-strategy environments.
· Implement abstraction layers for brokers and market data feeds to offer a unified API experience.
· Bridge the core engine language with Python strategies using gRPC, ZeroMQ, or similar interop technologies.
· Implement logic to parse and execute JSON-based strategy DSL from the strategy builder.
· Design compute-optimized components for multi-asset workflows and scalable backtesting.
· Capture real-time state, performance metrics, and slippage for both live and simulated runs.
· Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to support high-availability deployments.
Top Technical Competencies
· Proficiency in distributed systems, concurrency, and system design.
· Strong backend/server-side development skills using C++, Rust, C#, Erlang, or Python.
· Deep understanding of data structures and algorithms with a focus on low-latency performance.
· Experience with event-driven and messaging-based architectures (e.g., ZeroMQ, Redis Streams).
· Familiarity with Linux-based environments and system-level performance tuning.
Bonus Competencies
· Understanding of financial markets, asset classes, and algorithmic trading strategies.
· 3–5 years of prior Backend experience.
· Hands-on experience with backtesting frameworks or financial market simulators.
· Experience with sandboxed execution environments or paper trading platforms.
· Advanced knowledge of multithreading, memory optimization, or compiler construction.
· Educational background from Tier-I or Tier-II institutions with strong computer science fundamentals, a passion for scalable system design, and a drive to build cutting-edge fintech infrastructure.
What We Offer
· Opportunity to shape the backend architecture of a next-gen fintech startup.
· A collaborative, technically driven culture.
· Competitive compensation with performance-based bonuses.
· Flexible working hours and a remote-friendly environment for candidates across the globe.
· Exposure to financial modeling, trading infrastructure, and real-time applications.
· Collaboration with a world-class team from Pomona, UCLA, Harvey Mudd, and Claremont McKenna.
Ideal Candidate
You’re a backend-first thinker who’s obsessed with reliability, latency, and architectural flexibility. You enjoy building scalable systems that transform complex strategy logic into high-performance, real-time trading actions. You think in microseconds, architect for fault tolerance, and build APIs designed for developer extensibility.
We are a tech venture which provides Product Engineering, QA Automation, Infrastructure, Data, and Market Research services.
Technical Proficiency :
Must have :
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Strong development experience in Python in the environment of Unix/Linux/Ubuntu
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Strong practical knowledge of Python and its libraries.
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Current working experience with cloud deployment of AWS/Azure/GCP, Microservice architecture, and Docker in Python.
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Good knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices
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Good Experience of Python with Django/ Scrapy/ Flask frameworks.
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Good Experience in Jupyter/ Docker/ Elastic Search, etc.
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Solid understanding of software development principles and best practices.
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Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
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Proven ability to drive large-scale projects with a deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration, and leadership.
Good to have : -
Expected to have migration experience from one version to the other, as this project is about migration to the latest version.
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Preferred if had an OpenEdx platform experience or any LMS platform.
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With our farmer-first mentality, we are building a smart tractor that will enhance (not replace) the existing farm ecosystem, alleviate labor availability, and cost issues, and provide an avenue for competitive organic and beyond farming by providing mechanical solutions to replace harmful chemical solutions. Despite all the cutting-edge technology we will incorporate, our tractor will still plow, till, and haul better than any other tractor in its class. We have all the necessary ingredients to develop, build and scale the Monarch Tractor and digitally transform farming around the world. For more details visit
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Requirements and skills:
· 3+ Years of software development experience
· Strong in data structures and algorithms
· Solid understanding of Linux development environment and systems
· Expert level knowledge of Python along with frameworks some application framework
· Prior experience with WebRTC and video streaming protocols like RTMP, RTP and payloads
· Prior experience of h264, h265, vp8, vp9 and av1 encoders and decoders
· Prior experience with GStreamer pipelines
· Knowledge of C++ and proxy servers such as NGNIX is an added advantage
· Proficient in writing unit test cases using the Pytest framework.
· Expert level knowledge of SQL databases like MySQL
· Understanding of microservices architecture
· Knowledge of AWS cloud services like EC2, S3, Lambda etc.
1. As a founding backend engineer, design, build and evolve the backend architecture
of our product to support customer-facing and internal features to serve 1000s of
customers and millions of data requests per hour
2. You will engage in technical decisions from choosing the optimal database design to
best-practice infrastructure decisions
3. You will proactively incorporate best practices for security, analytics, and monitoring
4. You will contribute to DevOps by building procedures for deployment,
troubleshooting, and maintenance
5. You will work directly with the CTO to set the tone for the engineering culture
This role is tailor-made for you if
1. You have 4+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying production-level
large-scale web applications
2. You have hands-on experience with Node JS and other programming languages
(Ruby, Go, Python)
3. You have worked previously on PostgreSQL, SQL, and Message Queue 4. Practical
knowledge and experience in deploying and managing big data applications on a cloud
platform like AWS or Google Cloud.
5. You are comfortable conducting code reviews and giving feedback to ensure high
standards of code maintainability and extensibility.
6. You are energized by ambiguity and can create structure in a dynamic, fast-paced
environment
7. You’ve high confidence, low ego, and are generally a good human being :)
You earn brownie points if
1. You love Slack (we are a Slack first company)
2. You have been part of an early/mid-stage start-up before
3. You love TechCrunch. We are obsessed with reading and talking about startups
4. You have created some amazing open-source projects
- Developing chatbots and voice assistants on various platforms for diverse business use-cases
- Work on a chatbot framework/architecture using an open-source tool or library
- Implement Natural Language Processing (NLP) for chatbots
- Integration of chatbots with Management Dashboards and CRMs
- Resolve complex technical design issues by analyzing the logs, debugging code, and identifying technical issues/challenges/bugs in the process
- Deploy applications using CI/CD tools
- Designing and building highly scalable AI and ML solutions
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
- Open-minded, flexible, and willing to adapt to changing situations
- Ability to work independently as well as on a team and learn from colleagues
- High adaptability in a dynamic start-up environment.
- Experience with bot multi-lingual utilization (preferred)
- Experience with bot human escalation
- Ability to optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
- Come up with new approaches and ideas to improve the current performance of Chatbots across multiple domains and build a highly personalized user experience.
QUALIFICATIONS : B. Tech/ B.E. /M. Tech or a related technical discipline from reputed universities
SKILLS REQUIRED :
- Minimum 3+ years- of experience in Chatbot Development using the Rasa open-source framework.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying chatbots.
- Experience in Conversational AI platforms for enterprises using ML and Deep Learning.
- Experience with both text to speech and vice versa transformation incorporation.
- Should have a good understanding of various Chatbot frameworks/platforms/libraries.
- Build and evolve/train the NLP platform from natural language text data being gathered from users on a daily basis.
- Code using primarily Python.
- Experience with bots for platforms like Facebook Messenger, Slack, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc.
- Knowledge of digital assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, etc.
- Experience in applying different NLP techniques to problems such as text. classification, text summarization, question & answering, information retrieval, knowledge extraction, and conversational bots design potentially with both traditional & Deep Learning
- Techniques - NLP Skills/Tools: NLP, HMM, MEMM, P/LSA, CRF, LDA, Semantic Hashing, Word2Vec, Seq2Seq, spaCy, Nltk, Gensim, Core NLP, NLU, NLG, etc.
- Should be familiar with these terms: Tokenization, N-Grams, Stemmers, lemmatization, Part of speech tagging, entity resolution, ontology, lexicology, phonetics, intents, entities, and context.
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL Databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL
- Experience with working on public cloud services such as Digital Ocean, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Knowledge of Linux shell commands.
- Integration with Chat/Social software like Facebook Messenger, Twitter, SMS.
- Integration with Enterprise systems like Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, Zendesk, Zoho, etc.
MUST HAVE :
- Strong foundation in the python programming language.
- Experience with various chatbot frameworks especially Rasa and Dialogflow.
- Strong understanding of other AI tools and applications like TensorFlow, Spacy, and Google Cloud ML is a BIG plus.
- Experience with RESTful services.
- Good understanding of HTTPS and Enterprise security.
About us:
Siply helps underserved masses inculcate savings behaviour to build a more productive and financially secure country. Our Vision is to build the Digital Bank for 40 Crore Underserved Indians.
Company Link - https://siply.in/">https://siply.in/
About the Role:
This is the Senior role where you will build systems and infrastructure to enable seamless user experience across all our offerings in the space of Micro-Savings, Micro-Credit, Micro-Insurance, and associated Value-Added Services. You will power the user experiences on the App and translate complex technical issues into Business opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Build the architecture for our Product platforms and take ownership for deliverables.
- Good Understanding of all stage of software development and also mentoring team.
- Design some of the most advanced & complex software systems / products in the industry.
- Determine technical feasibility of medium to low complexity features or solutions by evaluating problem, possible solutions and technology requirements.
- Exercise judgement in prioritizing tasks and selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
- Collaborate and work closely with Engineering, Product and Design team.
Requirements:
- 4 to 7 years of experience in software product development.
- Degree in Computer Science or related field from top tier universities is preferred.
- Excellent abstraction, coding and system design skills.
- Strong hands-on technology experience building and running large scale systems handling multi-million sessions/transactions per day.
- Strong experience in large scale Database systems like rdbms & NoSQL stores.
- Excellent programming skills in Java/GO/NodeJS and expertise in multi- threading and performance-oriented programming.
Join us to be a part of our Growth Journey!
Roles and Responsibilities :
- Design, Develop, test and maintain software applications with MVC architectures, Microservices and scalable cloud-native apps.
- Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews
- Mentor and lead team members to continuously improve the quality and productivity of deliverables
- Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies. Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
- Effective Communication Skills- An ability to express your ideas to the recipient & Co-ordinate and communicate with the cross-functional team along with the client's team
- Problem Solving, Hustler - Get Stuff Done, Self-Disciplined Open-minded, User-Focused, Adaptive
- Lean Principles & Analytical Thinking
- Project planning, timelines and milestones for execution and deliverables
- Participate in the Evaluation Review of your team member
Primary Skills
- Expert in Python with experience on Django.
- Expert in server programming, you should be able to implement complex business logic.
- Good understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
- Good understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
- Knowledge of event-driven programming in Python.
- Experience with python packages like Numpy, pandas, flask, Pyspark, pymongo, os, logging, re, pyyaml.
- Experience with swagger io module to expose API
- Strong unit test and debugging skills.
- At least 2 years of experience in RESTful API/HTTP/JSON`
- Knowledge of AWS cloud and python Boto lib.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Like Git.
- Good understanding of Linux OS.
Secondary Skills:
- AWS Kinesis
- Web Sockets
- RAbbitMQ
- AWS Cloud formation
Type: Individual contributor with good hands on proficiency.
Must have
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Java, Ruby, Python
- Exposure to databases: any of PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache Cassandra
- Any NoSQL database experience is a plus
- Exposure to AWS cloud infrastructure: EC2 or S3
- Proficiency with Git
- MUST: Using REST to make API calls.
Great to have:
- Experience working with one or more middleware, enterprise bus, queueing frameworks
- Any of Memcached/Redis, Apache Kafka / RabbitMQ / PubSub+ / AmazonMQ
Soft skills:
- Appreciation for clean and well documented code
What will you do at Tradyl:
(Examples for illustration only)
- Build a shipping service module that is called by our website to query shipping rates from India to a destination country. Configure this to so that an Ops person can update shipping costs as and when they change. Own deployment and monitoring of this service.
- Use Zapier to build a workflow to export a MixPanel report into a Google sheet every day.
- Change our supplier portal (built on bubble.io) to make an API call to our customer facing site, whenever a supplier modifies his profile.
- Write an alert mechanism that identifies catalogues with insufficient information and makes them non discoverable, which can run every day.
- Work with Business Team to design a workflow for product inwarding using Airtable. Write a small app within Airtable so that whenever a product is updated as “shipped” in airtable, it updates the customer facing website.
- Use an open source dashboarding framework to create a quick dashboard to track important business events.
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You can read more about our engineering and culture on our blog: https://blog.cityflo.com/tag/engineering/" target="_blank">https://blog.cityflo.com/tag/engineering/
Role & Requirements
- 2+ year experience in application development
- ability to write efficient SQL queries and design schemas for relational databases
- good knowledge of operating systems and networking concepts
- experience in using and understanding code from Open Source
- experience with implementing best software engineering practices like version control with git, code reviews, writing unit-tests, writing readable code
- experience with Python and Django is a plus.
- inclination towards researching new technologies and adapt them to solve challenges we face
We look for engineers who
- Are committed to their growth and learning
- care about working in and building a strong engineering culture
- want to take significant ownership and decision making power
- want to make an impact in the real world while working with a great team in a hyper-growth environment










