Backend SDE-2

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll contribute to frameworks that enable flexible/scalable customer journeys and tying them with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners.

Responsibilities:

1. Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
2. Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation
7. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 4 years experience as an SDE, building large scale services
2. Extensive experience in at least one programming language and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
3. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
4. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
5. Passion for solving complex problems
6. Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
7. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
8. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
9. Experience with team management
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience working with node.js, MongoDB and Google Cloud
2. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Our Mission

To make video as accessible to machines as text and voice are today.

At lookup, we believe the world's most valuable asset is trapped. Video is everywhere, but it's unsearchable—a black box of insight that no one can open or atleast open affordably. We’re changing that. We're building the search engine for the visual world, so anyone can find or do anything with video just by asking.

Text is queryable. Voice is transcribed. Video, the largest and richest data source of all, is still a black box. A computer can't understand it, and so its value remains trapped.

Our mission at lookup is to fix this.

About the Role

We are looking for founding Backend Engineers to build a highly performant, reliable, and scalable API platform that makes enterprise video knowledge readily available for video search, summarization, and natural‑language Q&A. You will partner closely with our ML team working on vision‑language models to productionize research and deliver fast, trustworthy APIs for customers.

Examples of technical challenges you will work on include: distributed video storage, a unified application framework and data model for indexing large video libraries, low‑latency clip retrieval, vector search at scale, and end‑to‑end build, test, deploy, and observability in cloud environments.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and build robust backend services and APIs (REST, gRPC) for vector search, video summarization, and video Q&A.
• Own API performance and reliability, including low‑latency retrieval, pagination, rate limiting, and backwards‑compatible versioning.
• Design schemas and tune queries in Postgres, and integrate with unstructured storage.
• Implement observability across metrics, logs, and traces. Set error budgets and SLOs.
• Write clear design docs and ship high‑quality, well‑tested code.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate and productionize VLMs and retrieval pipelines.
• Take ownership of architecture from inception to production launch.

Who You Are:

• 3+ years of professional experience in backend development.
• Proven experience building and scaling polished WebSocket, gRPC, and REST APIs.
• Exposure to distributed systems and container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes).
• Hands‑on experience with AWS.
• Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., Cassandra), including schema design, query optimization, and scaling.
• Familiarity with our stack is a plus, but not mandatory: Python (FastAPI), Celery, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Weaviate, React.
• Ability to diagnose complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective fixes.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced startup environment.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on work with LLM agents, vector embeddings, or RAG applications.
• Building video streaming pipelines and storage systems at scale (FFmpeg, RTSP, WebRTC).
• Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS) and responsive UI design.

Location & Culture

• Full-time, in-office role in Bangalore (we’re building fast and hands-on).
• Must be comfortable with a high-paced environment and collaboration across PST time zones for our US customers and investors.
• Expect startup speed — daily founder syncs, rapid design-to-prototype cycles, and a culture of deep ownership.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Work on the frontier of video understanding and real-world AI — products that can redefine trust and automation.
• Build core APIs that make video queryable and power real customer use.
• Own systems end to end: performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• Work closely with founders and collaborate in person in Bangalore.
• Competitive salary with meaningful early equity.

We're looking for a high-energy Java engineer to design and implement scalable microservices using Spring Boot. You'll collaborate across teams to deliver clean, efficient, and high-performance backend services.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain RESTful services and microservices using Spring Boot
• Utilize OOP, Java Collections, Exception Handling, and method overloading/overriding in modern coding practices
• Build and optimize multithreaded systems (Threads, synchronization, wait(), notify(), yield()) for performance and scalability
• Write unit and integration tests (JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test) to ensure code quality
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (QA, DevOps, Product) through code reviews and feature planning
• Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecksJVM tuning, SQL/caching optimizations
• Adhere to coding standards, best practices, and participate in peer code review

🎯 Required Skills & Experience

• Strong Java fundamentals: OOP, Collections, Generics, Exception Handling
• Concurrency mastery: multithreading, synchronization primitives (wait(), notify(), yield())
• Spring Boot: solid experience building, testing, deploying REST APIs
• Microservices: design, inter-service communication, stateless service patterns
• Testing frameworks: JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test
• Performance tuning: profiling, optimization with JVM settings and database queries
• Tools & practices: Git, Maven/Gradle, CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes (plus)
• Soft skills: strong problem-solving, collaboration, and effective communication

A backend developer is an engineer who can handle all the work of databases, servers,

systems engineering, and clients. Depending on the project, what customers need may

be a mobile stack, a Web stack, or a native application stack.

You will be responsible for:

 Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

 Own & build new modules/features end-to-end independently.

 Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

Required Skills :

 Thorough understanding of Node.js and Typescript.

 Excellence in at least one framework like strongloop loopback, express.js, sail.js, etc.

 Basic architectural understanding of modern day web applications

 Diligence for coding standards

 Must be good with git and git workflow

 Experience of external integrations is a plus

 Working knowledge of AWS or GCP or Azure - Expertise with linux based systems

 Experience with CI/CD tools like jenkins is a plus.

 Experience with testing and automation frameworks.

 Extensive understanding of RDBMS systems

Location: Bengaluru

Experience Required: 2+ Year

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate and motivated ** Software Engineer** with hands-on experience in the Software development (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js,sql)**. The ideal candidate should have strong coding skills, a good grasp of modern web development practices, and excellent communication and work ethics.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain scalable web applications using the (javascript,MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js,sql)

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code

- Debug and resolve technical issues across the stack

- Participate in code reviews and contribute to team knowledge sharing

- Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies

Required Skills & Qualifications

- 2+ year of professional experience as a Software Developer

- Proficiency in JavaScript, ES6+, and TypeScript (optional but a plus)

- Solid understanding of MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js

- Experience with RESTful APIs and third-party integrations

- Familiarity with version control systems like Git

- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

- Good communication skills and a team-player mindset

- Strong sense of ownership and work ethics

Preferred Skills

- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure

- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

- Exposure to testing frameworks like Jest, Mocha, or Cypress

-Prior experience working in a fintech company is a strong advantage.

How to Apply ?

Fill in the form below or

You can directly walk-in to our office in Bangalore

Date: 29-03-2025

Time: 10 Am to 12 Pm

Form link: https://forms.gle/PMJMUvz48pTPZeUu5

Location: Paywize Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

M.R Complex, 7th Cross, 6th Main Rd, BTM 2nd Stage, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560076

Join us and be part of the fintech revolution!

Vah Vah! is an ed-tech company that offers online makeup courses in micro-batches to students across India to learn from the leading teachers in top cities. We provide holistic education with lots of practical training that makes our students job-ready with not just the base skills but also the soft skills for great customer service. Our teachers have more than 15+ years of experience in training makeup and have certified more than 1000+ students. Vah Vah! is founded by executives with extensive experience running consumer business and mobile games at scale (over 100 million players) at Zynga. Vah Vah! is backed by a leading investment firm.

Website Link: https://vahvah.com/

The Mission

Vah Vah teaches professional makeup to budding makeup artists and influencers through live online classes. We have students from Srinagar, all the way to the Andamans. And experienced teachers who have worked in Bridal Makeup, Ramp Shoots, Film and more. We empower our students to join the workforce as fully trained makeup artists. This is the future of vocational education, and you can help build it.

Our Culture

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
• You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
• See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members. Taking lead on projects, as needed.

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 2-5 years in building backend services using languages like NodeJs, Java etc
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, Node.Js, Python, and operating systems may be required.
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.
• Sound knowledge on source control and DevOps

What you get:

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Immense exposure to new technologies

About Vymo

Vymo is a Sanfrancisco-based next-generation Sales productivity SaaS company with offices in 7 locations. Vymo is funded by top tier VC firms like Emergence Capital and Sequoia Capital. Vymo is a category creator, an intelligent Personal Sales Assistant who captures sales activities automatically, learns from top performers, and predicts ‘next best actions’ contextually. Vymo has 100,000 users in 60+ large enterprises such as AXA, Allianz, Generali.Vymo has seen 3x annual growth over the last few years and aspires to do even better this year by building up the team globally.

What is the Personal Sales Assistant

A game-changer! We thrive in the CRM space where every company is struggling to deliver meaningful engagement to their Sales teams and IT systems. Vymo was engineered with a mobile-first philosophy. The platform through AI/ML detects, predicts, and learns how to make Sales Representatives more productive through nudges and suggestions on a mobile device. Explore Vymo https://getvymo.com/">https://getvymo.com/

What you will do at Vymo

From young open source enthusiasts to experienced Googlers, this team develops products like Lead Management System, Intelligent Allocations & Route mapping, Intelligent Interventions, that help improve the effectiveness of the sales teams manifold. These products power the "Personal Assistant" app that automates the sales force activities, leveraging our cutting edge location based technology and intelligent routing algorithms.

A Day in your Life 

• Design, develop and maintain robust data platforms on top of Kafka, Spark, ES etc.
• Provide leadership to a group of engineers in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Manage and drive complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution.
  
  

What you would have done  

• B.E (or equivalent) in Computer Sciences
• 6-9 years of experience building enterprise class products/platforms.
• Knowledge of Big data systems and/or Data pipeline building experience is preferred.
• 2-3 years of relevant work experience as technical lead or technical management experience.
• Excellent coding skills in one of Core Java or NodeJS
• Demonstrated problem solving skills in previous roles.
• Good communication skills.