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A BIT ABOUT US
Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.
The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.
Our business includes Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, Japan, US, and expanding rapidly.
The Opportunity:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join our dynamic software development team. In this role, you will contribute to key backend projects, collaborate across teams, and play a vital part in delivering robust, scalable, and high-performance software solutions. As a senior engineer, you will work independently, make impactful technical decisions, and help shape the backend architecture while collaborating with a passionate, high-performing team.
You will work hands-on with products primarily built in Python, with opportunities to contribute to Golang. These technologies are at the core of our development stack, and your focus will be on building, scaling, and maintaining distributed services. Distributed systems are integral to our architecture, providing a chance to gain hands-on experience with maintaining and optimizing them in a fast-paced environment.
As a Senior Engineer, you are expected to:
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code while following best practices.
- Architect solutions, address complex problems, and deliver well-thought-out technical designs.
- Take ownership of assigned modules and features, delivering them with minimal supervision.
- Contribute to code reviews and technical discussions, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
We highly value open source contributions and encourage you to check out our work on GitHub at Appknox GitHub. While no prior experience in security is required, our experienced security professionals are available to support you in understanding the domain.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology, drive impactful solutions, and grow within a collaborative environment that values autonomy, innovation, and technical excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to backend development for a cutting-edge product in the Security domain, with focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Implement software components and features based on high-level architectural guidance using Django and Django REST Framework (DRF).
- Collaborate with senior engineers to translate functional and technical requirements into robust backend implementations.
- Write clean, modular, and testable code following industry best practices and team standards.
- Participate in design discussions and code reviews to maintain code quality and continuously learn from peers.
- Work closely with frontend, QA, and security teams to deliver well-integrated, end-to-end solutions.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues in existing systems, ensuring stability and efficiency.
- Contribute to the creation of technical documentation for components and modules you build or maintain.
- Follow defined verification plans and contribute to improving test coverage and automation.
- Participate in sprint planning, estimations, and agile ceremonies to support timely and effective project delivery.
- Proactively seek feedback and continuously improve your technical skills and understanding of system architecture.
- Support team success by collaborating effectively, sharing knowledge, and guiding junior team members when needed.
Requirements:
- Solid hands-on experience with Django and Django REST Framework 3-4 years
- Good understanding of relational databases, SQL, and working with ORMs such as Django ORM.
- Ability to contribute to design discussions and implement well-structured, maintainable backend systems.
- Exposure to writing unit and integration tests; familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems
- Proficiency in debugging, performance optimization, and addressing scalability concerns under guidance.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and clean coding practices.
- Able to collaborate effectively within a team and take ownership of moderately complex modules.
- Good communication skills, with the ability to document and explain solutions to peers.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and microservices architecture is a plus.
- Self-driven with a growth mindset and willingness to learn from peers and feedback.
Work Expectations:
Within 1 month-
- Attend KT sessions conducted by the engineering and product teams to gain a deep understanding of the product, its architecture, and workflows.
- Learn about the team's development processes, tools, and key challenges.
- Work closely with the product team to understand product requirements and contribute to the design and development of features.
- Dive deep into the existing backend architecture, including database structures, APIs, and integration points, to fully understand the technical landscape
- Begin addressing minor technical challenges and bugs, while understanding the underlying architecture and tech stack.
- Begin to participate in creating action plans for new features, ensuring that design and implementation are aligned with product goals.
Within 3 months-
- Achieve full autonomy in working on the codebase, demonstrating the ability to independently deliver high-quality features from design to deployment.
- Take complete ownership of critical modules, ensuring they are optimized for performance and maintainability.
- Act as a technical resource for the team, offering support and guidance to peers on complex issues.
- Collaborate with DevOps to optimize deployment pipelines, debug production issues, and improve backend infrastructure.
- Lead discussions for technical solutions and provide recommendations for architectural improvements.
- Contribute to the design of new features by translating functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.
- Prepare regular updates on assigned tasks and communicate effectively with the engineering manager and other stakeholders.
Within 6 months-
- Be fully independent in their development tasks, contributing to key features and solving critical challenges.
- Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and the ability to take ownership of technical modules.
- Actively participate in code reviews and technical discussions, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
- Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business requirements.
- Establish themselves as a reliable and proactive team member, contributing to the team’s growth and success.
Personality traits we really admire:
- Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
- Has attention to details and helps identify edge cases.
- Proactive mindset.
- Highly motivated and coming up with ideas and perspective to help us move towards our goals faster.
- Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.
Interview Process
- Round 1 Interview - Profile Evaluation (EM)
- Round 2 Interview - Assignment Evaluation & Technical Problem Solving discussion (Tech Team)
- Round 4 Interview - Engineering Team & Technical Founder (CTO)
- Round 5 Interview - HR
Compensation
- Best in industry
We prefer that every employee also holds equity in the company. In this role, you will be awarded equity after 12 months, based on the impact you have created.
Please be aware that all your customers are Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies.
Why Join Us:
- Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
- Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
- Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
- Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first hand.
- Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage upto 5 Lacs for you and your family including parents.
Desired Experience
3+ years
Job Description
What You’ll Do
- Design financial systems for scale. Measure, plan, iterate.
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Setup and own the engineering architectures built around event sourcing, application sharding, database sharding, service communication mesh, etc.
- The tech: Go, Google Cloud Spanner, Kafka, Redis
What you bring to the table
- 3+ years of experience. Relevant experience is preferred.
- Knowledge of 2 common programming languages - Java & Node / Rust /Python & Go
- Comfortable in linux command line, AWS or GCP
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Great communication skills
Bonus if you have…
- Love building great products and engineering systems from scratch
- Are a Self-starter, Hustler and Curious to Learn
- Have an understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Thrive in an early-stage startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
- Have an interest in financial products and/or cryptocurrency
Emint is a fintech startup with the mission to ‘Make the best investing product that Indian
consumers love to use, with simplicity & intelligence at the core”. We are creating a platform
that gives a holistic view of market dynamics which helps our members make smart &
disciplined investment decisions.
Emint is founded by a stellar team of individuals who come with decades of experience of
investing in Indian & global markets.
We are building a team of highly skilled & disciplined team of professionals and looking at
equally motivated individuals to be part of Emint. Currently are looking at hiring a backend
developer to join our team at Bangalore.
Responsibilities:
● The Software Development Engineer's core responsibilities include working on highly
maintainable and unit tested software components/systems that address real world problems.
● Experienced on microservices based architecture, can work on cloud infrastructures.
● Should take the complete ownership of product/feature right from design, code and
deployment.
● High bias to quality of code.
● Should be able to collaborate with multi functional teams & stakeholders to ensure smooth
execution of sprints.
● Able to troubleshoot and fix production issues on priority.
Requirements :
● 4-7 years of experience in building scalable restful/soap microservice services.
● Good at high level design and implementation. Strong problem solving skills.
● Good understanding of data structures and algorithms and their space & time complexities.
● Strong hands-on and practical working experience with Java and Spring.
● B Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college.
Emint provides a work environment that is open, honest & disciplined. We believe in
excellence & encourage our team members to take intelligent risks.
Qualifications
Good in Database schema design
● Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
● Graduates from IIT / NIT/ BITS / IIIT preferred
● Professionals with fintech ( stock broking / banking ) preferred
● Experience in building & scaling B2C apps preferred


● Managing and guiding a team of junior developers for timely delivery of product and
milestones
● Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
● Implementation of security and data protection
● Design and implementation of data storage solutions
● Design & Build: Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for
mission-critical systems, and delivering high-availability and performance.
● Collaborate - Collaborating within your product streams and team to bring best
practices and leverage a world-class tech stack.
● Measurable Outcome - You will need to set quantifiable objectives that encapsulate
the quality attributes of a system. The fitness of the application is measured against
set marks.
● DevOps - You will need to set up every essential (tracking/alerting) to make sure the
infrastructure/software you built is working as expected.
● Design and development of our REST APIs
● Help maintain code quality, architecture, and automation
Required Knowledge and Skills
● 3 - 5 years of experience working in backend development technologies and DevOps
● Highly curious and ready to dive into complex technical challenges.
● Proficiency in development and scripting in Python, Django/Flask framework.
● Database design and management, including being up on the latest practices -
bonus points for MySQL and MongoDB
● User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and
environments
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling
an application to support load changes
● Setup and administration of backups
● Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs
desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
● Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
● Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
● Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
● Server management and deployment for the relevant environment
● Appreciation for clean and well-documented code
● Hands-on experience with architecture and structural design patterns
● Expertise in designing, developing, deploying, and integrating RESTful APIs
● Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical
requirements
● A knack for benchmarking and optimization
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Personality
● Requires excellent communication skills – written, verbal, and presentation.
● You should be a team player.
● You should be positive towards problem-solving, have a very structural thought
process to solve problems
● Interest to work in a high paced start-up environment with a large amount of learning.
● Good understanding of different frameworks, and be able to pick up new
technologies at ease.
● You should be agile enough to figure out a need for new technologies/frameworks
and learn new technology for better product performanc
● Partner with the product/business teams to understand the product features and
specifications, translate them into high level and low-level design
● Participate in all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle
● Develop back-end components, services, and APIs. Support integration of user-
facing elements, and collaborate closely with the design and front-end development
team
● Write elegant, effective, and scalable code while maintaining the highest level of
coding standards
● Take ownership of the work and ensure timely deliveries
● Drive innovation in product development, while relentlessly improving performance,
scalability, and maintainability
Requirement
● Strong problem solving and analytical skills with a minimum of 2-4 years of
experience in backend development
● 1+ experience as a Java Developer, with strong knowledge of Java web frameworks
like Spring Boot, Hibernate, etc. and experience working in Microservices
architecture
● Hands-on experience of working with Linux/Unix platform
● Strong knowledge of SQL and RDBMS like PostgreSQL/MySQL etc.
● Experience in - Python, Git
● Strong technical aptitude and good knowledge of CS fundamentals
● Sound knowledge and application of algorithms and data structures with space and
time complexities
● Strong design skills involving data modelling and low-level class design
● Follow industry coding standards and responsible for writing maintainable, scalable,
and efficient code to solve business problems
Good to have
● B. Tech./M. Tech. in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college
● Prior experience working in a startup environment
● Experience in setting up an entire product from scratch
Experience in Java 8
Experience in frameworks - Spring, Hibernate
Experience in Design Patterns


