Backend Software Developer

Role Overview:

We’re looking for an exceptionally passionate, logical, and smart Backend Developer to join our core tech team. This role goes beyond writing code — you’ll help shape the architecture, lead entire backend team if needed, and be deeply involved in designing scalable systems almost from scratch.

This is a high-impact opportunity to work directly with the founders and play a pivotal role in building the core product. If you’re looking to grow alongside a fast-growing startup, take complete ownership, and influence the direction of the technology and product, this role is made for you.

Why Clink?

Clink is a fast-growing product startup building innovative solutions in the food-tech space. We’re on a mission to revolutionize how restaurants connect with customers and manage offers seamlessly. Our platform is a customer-facing app that needs to scale rapidly as we grow. We also aim to leverage Generative AI to enhance user experiences and drive personalization at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and completely own high-performance backend systems.
• Architect scalable, secure, and efficient system designs.
• Own database schema design and optimization for performance and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and designers.
• Guide and mentor junior team members .
• Explore and experiment with Generative AI capabilities for product innovation.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure high engineering standards.

Must-Have Skills:

• 2–5 years of experience in backend development at a product-based company.
• Strong expertise in database design and system architecture.
• Hands-on experience building multiple production-grade applications.
• Solid programming fundamentals and logical problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Python or Ruby on Rails (one is mandatory).
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and services.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Familiarity with Generative AI tools, APIs, or projects.
• Contributions to open-source projects or personal side projects.
• Exposure to frontend basics (React, Vue, or similar) is a plus.
• Exposure to containerization, cloud deployment, or CI/CD pipelines.

What We’re Looking For:

• Extremely high aptitude and ability to solve tough technical problems.
• Passion for building products from scratch and shipping fast.
• A hacker mindset — someone who builds cool stuff even in their spare time.
• Team player who can lead when required and work independently when needed.

Job Description

Build and maintain bots on Azure platform.  Integration with Active directory, WEB API based integration with external systems. Training and Integrate bots as per users’ requirements. Work in line with design guidelines, best practices and standards of bot deliverable. Creative approach to the conversation flow design, human aspects in the bot responses and sentiments

Qualifications

1. a) 5 years of experience in software development with clear understanding of the project life cycle
   b) Min 2-3 years of hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure Bot Framework, LUIS and other Cognitive services offered by Azure
   c) Hands on experience with Machine Learning based chat bots
   d) Experience with Azure bot services like Text Analytics etc.
   e)Strong database skills and hands-on experience on databases like SQL Server/Oracle
2. f) Strong experience on Azure Active directory and adaptive cards integration in Chat bot.
3. g) Strong experience designing and working with

with service-oriented architectures (SOA) and WebAPIs.

1. h) A strong experience on Microsoft Azure, ASPNET / MVC and programming languages such as C#/VBNET
2. i) Knowledge of Python and NodeJS is a plus
3. j) Ability to design and optimize SQL Server 2008 stored procedures.
4. k) Experience with JQuery, CSS3, HTML5 or similar technologies.
5. l) Ability to adapt quickly to an existing, complex environment.

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong experience in Python (5+ years).
• Hands-on experience with any database (SQL or NoSQL).
• Experience with frameworks like Flask, FastAPI, or Django.
• Knowledge of ORMs, API development, and unit testing

Required Skills:

● Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least Django (More web frameworks are a plus)

● Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries

● Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

● Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture

● Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack)

● Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 (is a plus)

● Understanding of accessibility and security compliance

● Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

● Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

● Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

● Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform

● Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes

● Strong unit test and debugging skills

● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools

● Knowledge of application deployment process and server set up

● Integration of data storage solutions

Responsibilities:

● Owning one or more of the web services; adding new features, resolving bugs, and refactoring/ improving code base.

● Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

● Translating product requirements into functional, maintainable, extensible software that is in-line with company objectives.

● Good knowledge of software engineering best practices, including unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, debugging, troubleshooting, & agile development.

● Work on cutting-edge web technologies to make a powerful impact on 1M+ enterprise users

● Be part of a growing team that will design, develop, and test software and cross-product applications which span across different Planview products

● Work in an agile engineering team writing maintainable and scalable code for software components and influencing team decisions

● Contribute to the product’s architecture vision and execution, working closely with cross-product teams and other leaders within the R&D department

● Collaborate with stakeholders to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch software that impacts our customers and inspires your peers

● Drive continuous improvement of software quality, CX and maintainability of features

● Continuous learning of technology trends, tools, and approaches, including sharing this knowledge with your team

Job Responsibilities
● Implement and maintain Django-based applications

● Use server-side logic to integrate user-facing elements.

● Develop software related to asset management

● Write and implement software solutions that integrate different systems.

● Identify and suggest various opportunities to improve efficiency and functionality.

● Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself

● Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components

● Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

● Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

● Should have the ability to work with old and new versions of django.

● Understand existing code base and adapt to business needs as required

Required Skills
● 3 years experience in software industry

● Minimum 2 year experience in Python

● Minimum 1 Year experience in Django

● Basic understanding of front end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery

● Ability to build user interfaces using the latest web standards

● Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

● Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes

● Strong unit test and debugging skills

● Experience working in Linux

● Excellent problem solving skills

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills

● Ability to work well in a team development environment

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You will be coordinating our enterprise account-specific teams called squads, consisting of members from engineering, machine-learning, and conversation-design teams.
• There are five working groups in the organization, (i) Business (ii) Research (iii) Solutions (iv) Product, and (v) Operations, where you will be joining the Solutions, working group.
• You will be collaborating with the sales team to design an appropriate solution to the customer's problems and help them showcase the value of the product.
• You will be collaborating with the operations team to ensure we are not compromising on our quality standards.
• You will also be co-working with the product working group to help them improve the overall platform and to prioritize the high-impact initiatives in the roadmap.

Work you will be doing:

• You will be building bespoke voice bots for enterprise clients using internal tools.
• You're expected to help build the Solutions stack whose goal is to reduce the amount of effort put into building our voice bots. 
• You will be involved in analyzing client calls where you're expected to use either data pipelines or SQL to get insights into caller behavior.

• Professional experience of at least 1 year.
• Has experience with integrating or building HTTP APIs
• Has hands-on experience working with Python
• Good communicator

Optional Requirements:

• Has experience working in any of Django Rest Framework, Redis, Celery

Skit uses a microservices architecture where we employ both HTTP and GRPC to communicate between our services

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 5 years experience with the Django framework
• Experience with building APIs (REST or GraphQL) 
• Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
• React.js knowledge would be an added bonus 
• Understanding on how to use a database like Postgres (prefered choice), SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL.
• Sound knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis.
• A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.
• Strong communication skills.

Experience:

• Min 5 year experience
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location:

• Remote developer

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.