
Backend Engineer
at A digital identity verification product company
Founded in 2012,leader in high-assurance digital identity verification technology. Named to Forbes’ 2019 AI 50 list as one of America’s most promising AI companies, and a recent winner of API World’s Best Data API, technology applies artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques with trusted online/offline data intelligence from email, address, phone, IP, social media and the broader Internet to verify identities in real-time. Customers include three of the top five U.S. banks, seven of the top 10 U.S. card issuers, as well as the majority of leading digital banks, lenders and insurers across the U.S. We are funded by some of the world's best investors and entrepreneurs including Scale Venture Partners, Commerce Ventures, Work-Bench, Santander InnoVentures and Two Sigma Ventures.
The only way we can further our mission of becoming the single, trusted source of identity verification and eliminating identity fraud is by building the best team on the planet. This is where you come in!
We are hiring Software Engineers across all levels in Chennai!
What You'll Be Doing:
- You will partner with our globally distributed cross-functional teams (Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, Data Science) to conceptualize and develop new features and products in an Agile environment.
- You will own end-to-end delivery of software components all the way to production, owning team features or systems.
- You will be building web services and REST APIs at scale, and producing high-quality results with direct business impact.
- You will be monitoring and improving existing deployments, ensuring that we are continuously improving our product.
- You will be assisting our QA and support team in triaging and resolving production issues and addressing bugs.
What You'll Bring:
- You are interested in our tech stack (Java or Scala, SQL Databases, NoSQL, Microservices, and AWS)
- You will have strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, various programming languages, distributed systems, etc.
- You understand engineering best practices and seek to improve engineering standards, tooling and processes.
- You write “good code” - easily understandable, secure and testable!
- You are comfortable helping drive technical decisions within our Engineering team.
- You have experience building applications at scale.
Perks & Benefits:
- Competitive base salary
- Equity - every employee is a stakeholder in our enormous upside
- A tech-first company culture driven by entrepreneurial thinking and talent
- A great team working in unison towards the same mission
- Transparency is what our product is built on—and so is our culture
- Daily catered lunch and snacks
- Generous health insurance for employees and dependents
- Flexible work schedule and work-from-home options
- Flexible PTO
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Position of the role
The Principal Engineer reports to the Domain Lead and plays a key role in driving the technical vision, strategy, and execution of development initiatives. The Principal Engineer collaborates with multiple teams to ensure that software solutions are scalable, cost-optimized, performant, and aligned with business objectives.
Result expectation in terms of result areas and core activities
The Principal Engineer is responsible for defining, designing, and overseeing the implementation of complex software solutions. This role involves deep technical expertise, mentorship, and architectural guidance across multiple teams. The Principal Engineer also acts as a thought leader, influencing technology choices, best practices, and innovation within the organization.
Main objectives of the role
✔ Leading the design and architecture of the software by following best practices that ensure scalability, maintainability, cost optimization, and high performance.
✔ Driving innovation and continuous improvements in software development practices.
✔ Providing technical mentorship and coaching to engineers across teams.
✔ Ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software aligned with business requirements.
✔ Defining and maintaining coding standards, best practices, and governance frameworks.
✔ Collaborating with product management and other stakeholders to shape the technical roadmap.
✔ Identifying technical debt and implementing strategies to mitigate it effectively.
✔ Promoting a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration.
✔ Leading DevOps, CI/CD, and automation to improve software delivery processes and efficiency.
Specialisation
✔ Deep understanding of software architecture, system design, and performance optimization.
✔ Translating complex business requirements into scalable and efficient software solutions.
✔ Handling large data transformations and ensuring system efficiency under the required load conditions.
✔ Leading initiatives for modernizing the technology stack and implementing best practices.
✔ Ensuring that security, scalability, and maintainability are embedded into development processes.
✔ Driving research and development efforts to explore emerging technologies and their business impact.
✔ Enabling teams to develop and maintain high-quality software through code reviews, architecture guidance, and technical strategy.
✔ Collaborating with product owners and stakeholders to ensure that development aligns with business goals and user needs.
Key processes in the role
✔ Agile / Scrum / Kanban development methodologies.
✔ CI/CD and DevOps practices to streamline delivery.
✔ Cloud-native architecture, monolith and microservices-based development.
✔ Scalable and high-performance computing strategies.
✔ Secure software development lifecycle (SDLC).
✔ Data-driven decision-making.
✔ Performance optimization.
Key relationships (teams and/or position titles)
✔ Engineering Teams (Developers, QA, DevOps).
✔ Head of Engineering and Technology Leadership.
✔ Product Management and Business Stakeholders.
✔ Customer Success and Solution Architects.
✔ External Technical Partners and Vendors.
Requirements
✔ Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
✔ 10+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record .
✔ Strong experience in Python and modern software engineering practices.
✔ Expertise in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
✔ Experience in architecting and developing scalable, high-performance applications.
✔ Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tools, and automation.
✔ Deep understanding of microservices, monolith, APIs, and distributed systems.
✔ Strong experience with database technologies, including SQL and NoSQL.
✔ Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.
✔ A passion for mentoring, coaching, and fostering a strong engineering culture.
✔ Experience in defining and implementing technical governance and best practices.
Competences
✔ Strategic Thinking - 4
✔ Analytical Problem Solving - 4
✔ Technical Leadership & Mentorship - 4
✔ Communication & Collaboration - 3
Measures of success
✔ Technical leadership impact - measurable improvements in code quality, architecture, and scalability.
✔ Delivery of high-quality software within agreed timelines and business requirements.
✔ Successful mentorship - improvement in team skill levels, problem-solving capabilities, and innovation.
✔ Reduction of technical debt through strategic refactoring and modernization.
✔ Engineering team satisfaction - based on feedback and collaboration effectiveness.
✔ Improvements in system performance, stability, cost-optimization, and security.
✔ Adoption of best practices and emerging technologies across teams.
✔ Contribution to company-wide strategic initiatives through technical innovation and leadership.
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- Design and build user-facing products, owning the entire process from gathering functional requirements from teams, through testing and staging, to deploying in a Python based stack
- Guide the team in making technical trade-offs
- Proactively identify bottlenecks, areas for improvement and put forth a plan to course-correct
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- Coordinating with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions
Technical Skills Desired:
- 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)
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- 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
Functional Skills Desired:
- 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
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- Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual
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- 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
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Required Skills :
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- Experience in Java language APIs, Spring technologies, Hibernate, JDBC, RDBMS and NoSQL based data persistence.
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- Solid understanding of Domain Modeling with Relational and Non-Relational Databases.
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills, including ability to diagnose and fix performance and scalability issues.
- Experience working in an agile methodology-based development environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- BS/B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science or a related field.
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