
What You’ll Do:
- Architect & build our core backend using modern microservices patterns
- Develop intelligent AI/ML-driven systems for financial document processing at scale
- Own database design (SQL + NoSQL) for speed, reliability, and compliance
- Integrate vector search, caching layers, and pipelines to power real-time insights
- Ensure security, compliance, and data privacy at every layer of the stack
- Collaborate directly with founders to translate vision into shippable features
- Set engineering standards & culture for future hires
What You Bring:
- Core SkillsDeep expertise in Python (Django, FastAPI, or Flask)
- Strong experience in SQL & NoSQL database architecture
- Hands-on with vector databases and caching systems (e.g., Redis)
- Proven track record building scalable microservices
- Strong grounding in security best practices for sensitive data
Experience:
- 1+ years building production-grade backend systems
- History of owning technical decisions that impacted product direction
- Ability to solve complex, high-scale technical problems
- Bonus Points ForExperience building LLM-powered applications at scale
- Background in enterprise SaaS, or financial software
- Early-stage startup experience
- Familiarity with financial reporting/accounting concepts
Why Join Us:
- Founding team equity with significant upside
- Direct influence on product architecture & company direction
- Work with cutting-edge AI/ML tech on real-world financial data
- Backed by top-tier VC
- Join at ground zero and help shape our engineering culture

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About the role:
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer with expertise in building scalable, extensible applications, identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, collaborate with other team members to innovate current/new products; Identify, communicate and implement best practices for application engineering. Our engineering process is fully agile and has a really fast release cycles - which keeps our environment very energetic and fun.
What you’ll do:
- Architect, Design and build scalable applications.
- Work with Product Management teams to get maximum value out of existing data.
- Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements software system.
- Ensure high scalability and performance
- You will advocate for good, clean, well-documented and performing code; define and follow standards and best practices for front-end development.
- Ability to deliver great results in an agile development
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
We’d love for you to have:
- Experience: 3-5 years of experience as a backend developer is required
- Education: B.Tech. in Computer Science from tier - 1 engineering colleges in India
- A self-starter who is passionate about problem solving across complex technology stack.
- Highly skilled back-end engineer using Object-Oriented programming preferably Java, exposure to open source libraries and frameworks.
- Strong knowledge and experience in REST based programming using Restlet framework.
- Ability and experience in evaluation and integration of third party systems and libraries.
- Experience in system architecture, data structures, algorithm design and their optimization.
- Passion for performance benchmarking and debugging.
- Strong knowledge of web standards (i.e. REST/SOAP) concepts
- Knowledge of version control (GIT) and databases (MySQL)
- Experience with the full software development lifecycle, design, develop, debug, document, and deliver (especially in a multiple location organization).
- Experience in Test-driven development.
● Designing, code reviews, POCs on latest cutting-edge technologies building,
deploying highly scalable and robust cloud based intelligent solutions.
● Architect & Design, code high performance and scalable solutions that meet the needs of millions of customers.
● Implement cutting-edge models and algorithms that operate on massive amounts of data.
● Working on the REST framework
● Working on session-based and token-based authentication, Working on Celery
● Handling the payment gateway
● Work with Multi-threading, Data Structures, Algorithm, Design Patterns and develop robust high-performance and scalable applications.
● Writing scalable code using Python programming language.
● Developing back-end components.
Strong fundamentals in OOPS, RDBMS, Data structures, and Design patterns
Experience in any SQL database (Preferably SQL Server)
Ability to write clean code
Ability to write automated unit tests using frameworks such as NUnit, Mock, etc.
Ability to communicate and articulate clearly and work collaboratively in an agile team
Experience with code repositories like git
Ability to communicate and articulate clearly and work collaboratively in an agile team
Esper is looking for a software engineer to transform the customer experience
for developers and engineering teams using the platform of services to deploy
and build out their device fleets. You and your team will own services that will
enable customers to develop and customize their development process, along
with easing their use of Continuous Integration techniques for their software. We
need a leader that is experienced in delivering scalable multi-region fault tolerant
systems, is passionate about the developer tools space, is excited to have
software developers as their customers, and is obsessed about creating
compelling customer experiences.
In this role you will contribute to a critical and highly-visible function within the
Esper business. You will be given the opportunity to autonomously deliver the
technical direction of the service, and the feature roadmap. You will work with
extraordinary talent and have the opportunity to hire and shape the team to best
execute on the product. If you’re excited to have a large impact on Esper and the
device industry, you’ll find this role to be engaging, challenging, and full of
opportunities to learn and grow.
Key Responsibilities
Help drive business decisions with your technical input
Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software
solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and
security.
Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of
quality for all of the team deliverables
Write high quality distributed system software
Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
Basic Qualifications
2 -4 years of professional software development experience
You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
You are comfortable with programming languages like Go, Python, Java
You’ve good understanding of databases system like Postgres. Extensive Knowledge about Postgres is a big plus.
You’ve have worked with Docker, Kubernetes and have fundamental understanding of distributed systems like Kafka, Elasticsearch
Preferred Qualifications
Experience taking a lead role developing complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers.
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs and product strategy.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing and operations
Demonstrated ability to mentor junior software engineers in all aspects of their engineering skill-sets.
What we think makes us special
Esper is a fast-growing, well-funded company where everyone matters and you can see your impact daily. We trust our teammates and offer intense ownership and therefore accountability. We’re inventing the future and building something special. The team really enjoys what we do and cares about your input. We don’t hire just to fill a spot, we want you to make a difference.
As you help us build this special company, Esper will take care of you. We offer flexible vacation, regular hack-days, competitive pay and benefits, and room for advancement. We hire capable veterans so we avoid the drama and trust in each other’s work. Our worldwide footprint mixes different cultures for a unique experience. We also like to have fun because we play just as hard as we work.
Technical Experience :
- 2-6 years of Python working experience
- Expertise in at least one popular Python framework /Django/ Flask
- Knowledge of object-relational mapping d
- Familiarity with front-end technologies JavaScript and HTML5
Key Responsibilities :
- Write effective, scalable code
- Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
- Integrate user-facing elements into applications
- Test and debug programs5 Improve functionality

- Design, construct, test and maintain robust and scalable data pipelines.
- Research, prototype and apply different methods to improve data reliability, fault tolerance and system performance.
- Instrument, monitor and troubleshoot these systems in a Production environment.
- Contribute to design reviews, code reviews, integration and automated testing.
- Adopt and improve our Agile development process.
- Writing effective and scalable Python codes
- Designing and implementing robust applications
- Debugging applications to ensure low-latency and high-availability
- Integrating user-facing elements with server-side logic
- Implementing security and data protection
- Accommodating various data storage solutions
Key Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
- You have prior experience as a Python Developer
- Good knowledge Django, Flask or similar Python frameworks
- Familiarity with front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Knowledge of ORM (Object Relational Mapper)
- Familiarity with various testing tools.
From the very beginning, Ally has believed that the right people united by the right mission can redefine the possible
Ally is a B2B SaaS startup. We enable teams to focus, align and achieve goals, with strong employee engagement. Our OKR solution is ridiculously easy to use and scalable to startups and larger teams.
We believe in being where the work happens. Ally is well integrated with the tools and products that we already use in our daily workflows. Further, you can access it from the web and mobile. Ally’s Insights identifies problems and helps the team make the necessary changes to achieve the goals on time.
We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Ally Engineering Team in Chennai, India.
What does a lead software engineer do at Ally?
As a lead software engineer, you will be the technical lead for a team that focuses on building software applications that scale well. You will play a significant role in shaping our software architecture that provides measurable customer value. You understand both technology and business to know the right tradeoffs to make. You will be a technical mentor for your team members. You will work closely with your peers, managers, product, design and operations teams to create solutions that meet business requirements. You will drive engineering and operational excellence across Ally. You will collaborate with other engineers to surface common pain points, develop solutions and evangelize best practices.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building customer-facing web and/or mobile applications
- Strong coding skills using Ruby, Java, C/C++, Scala (or equivalent programming language)
- Excellent knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms
- Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Self-starter, quick learner and passionate problem resolver
- Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, with an enthusiastic attitude to support and resolve customer problems
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Above all, an insatiable desire and ability to learn
Nice to have skills:
- Experience with large-scale SaaS applications
- Experience building web and mobile applications
- Experience designing services on top of cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, etc
- Knowledge of Ruby on Rails
- Prior experience as a technical lead
Additional Information
Benefits
- Ownership and autonomy to drive customer and culture initiatives
- Centrally located in the city; right next to Metro station
- Opportunity to get mentored and mentor junior engineers
- Competitive salaries
- Paid time off
- Medical insurance






