Backend Engineer

Role Overview

We are seeking a Junior Developer with 1-3 year’s experience with strong foundations in Python, databases, and AI technologies. The ideal candidate will support the development of AI-powered solutions, focusing on LLM integration, prompt engineering, and database-driven workflows. This is a hands-on role with opportunities to learn and grow into advanced AI engineering responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain Python-based applications and APIs.
• Design and optimize prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve accuracy and performance.
• Work with JSON-based data structures for request/response handling.
• Integrate and manage PostgreSQL (pgSQL) databases, including writing queries and handling data pipelines.
• Collaborate with the product and AI teams to implement new features.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize performance of applications and workflows.
• Stay updated on advancements in LLMs, AI frameworks, and generative AI tools.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Python (scripting, APIs, data handling).
• Basic understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs) and prompt engineering techniques.
• Experience with JSON data parsing and transformations.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Strong problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Nice-to-Have (Preferred)

• Exposure to AI/ML frameworks (e.g., LangChain, Hugging Face, OpenAI APIs).
• Experience working in startups or fast-paced environments.
• Familiarity with version control (Git/GitHub) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI applications in permitting & compliance.
• Collaborative, growth-focused, and innovation-driven work culture.
• Mentorship and learning opportunities in AI/LLM development.
• Competitive compensation with performance-based growth.

Key skills : Python, Numpy, Panda, SQL, ETL 

Roles and Responsibilities:

- The work will involve the development of workflows triggered by events from other systems

- Design, develop, test, and deliver software solutions in the FX Derivatives group

- Analyse requirements for the solutions they deliver, to ensure that they provide the right solution

- Develop easy to use documentation for the frameworks and tools developed for adaption by other teams

Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

- Must have unit testing and debugging skills

- Good problem solving and analytical skills

- Python packages such as NumPy, Scikit learn

- Testing and debugging applications.

- Developing back-end components.

• Expertise with NodeJS (extensively using ExpressJS) and databases like MongoDB or MySQL
• Comfortable with developing MVC architecture-based code
• Skilled in implementing security features across the applications and components
• Skilled with code optimization techniques
• Strong troubleshooting techniques
• Strong defect resolution process for minimized latency
• Familiarity with confluence management like JIRA/Trello/Youtrack

• Networking fundamentals, prior working experience in network technologies and protocols
• Tools usage - Code quality, Memory/CPU profiling tools
• Ability to build supportability features to reduce the defects in software components
• Knowledge of GNU tools, revision control software (SVN, Git, etc.) and development lifecycle, docker container usage and LDAP is a plus

Job Summary
- Expand the product to suit the needs of all kinds of travellers. From family travellers to hardcore backpackers and from free independent travellers to those who need a more guided approach to planning their trip. 
- Launch across more countries. This means adding support for more geographies, things to do, weather, currencies and payments, transport and accommodation. 
- Scale it up to serve millions of users a year, from across the globe. We are seeing decent growth, but it is time to up the game.

Responsibilities and Duties
How you'll add value: 
- Own the architecture and design decisions that go into shaping our backend microservices 
- Build and ship robust features. 
- Work with web and mobile engineers to design and build APIs to power the traveler and influencer applications. 
- Help us scale out to multiple geographies and serve millions of travelers
Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- An innate desire to grow. Both personally and with respect to the value you add to other people's lives. 
- 4+ years industry experience working with golang/Django
- Sound understanding of CS fundamentals. We don't expect you to remember every algorithm by heart. But if you know how to find the most appropriate one for any given problem, let's talk. 
- Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence and product sense. 
- Interest in contributing to open source projects 
- Bonus points if you have an interest in the philosophy behind technologies. - You are intrigued by why did people develop certain technologies the way they did.
Benefits
- Work with a bunch of amazing people on a challenging problem. 
- 1 backpacking trip each year to travel outside India. We don't allow you to travel, we WANT you to travel. 
- Stock. 
- We don't mind work from home/cafe/some random city in the world as long as your work and your team is not disrupted. 
- We don't have a leave policy (there is a guideline for legal reasons) but you are free to take as much personal time as you need as long as you get your job done.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: ₹2,000,000.00 to ₹3,000,000.00 /year

What You'll do:

• 4+ years of experience building scalable backends using Nodejs
• In-depth knowledge of any framework of Nodejs (i.e. Express, Hapi, Koa.js)
• Hands on experience with developing REST APIs using Node.js and any of the above framework
• Should have experience with Socket.IO
• Familiar with oauth integration Social Networking API (Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Google+)
• Good understanding of standard authentication systems such as OAuth2 and JWT
• Knowledge of server-side templating (e.g. Jade, Handlebars.js, etc.)
• Should have understanding of model, caching, async mechanisms
• Hands-on experience with implementing Role based User authentication and authorization system
• Understanding of caching, database interactions, middlewares
• Able to engineer the best performing solutions and always keeping scalability in mind

What makes you a great fit:

• Strong problem solving skills
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Hungry for more responsibility and knowledge
• Passion for building robust systems that are engineered to handle failure scenarios, an undying love and attitude for maintaining coding standards
• Strong advocate for producing quality software who makes sure issues are raised and resolved
• Experience with at least one of the cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean etc. (docker, Kubernetes, microservice good to have)

Must have skillsets:

Skills : NodeJs

Experience required: + years

Job Type: Full time/ Permanent

Perks and Benefits :

• 5 days working.
• Flexible shift timings
• Company-sponsored certifications.
• Team friendly culture
• Flat hierarchy
• Carrom, Table tennis games, Cricket Tournament Participation for interested employees
• Snack-filled pantry for team members
• Group Medical Insurance (*)