Backend engineer

About Streamlyn

Streamlyn is a regional leader in adtech, specializing in enhancing monetization for Publishers through innovative and compelling ad products. Our ad tech engagement solutions suite empowers Publishers to elevate their business and monetize their content effectively. With a vast network of premium publisher partners across Asia, Streamlyn reaches over 100 million consumers monthly.

Job Overview

As the Tech Lead, you will play a critical role in defining the future of our advanced ad tech platform. This position requires full technical ownership of a high-impact project, where you’ll architect and implement a scalable, high-performance system while guiding a dedicated team of developers to advance our product roadmap.

In this role, you’ll balance strategic technical oversight with hands-on involvement. You will combine strategic technical leadership with hands-on involvement to oversee the platform’s scalability, reliability, and technical evolution. Success will depend on a combination of ad tech expertise, strategic vision, and strong leadership as you drive innovation and foster a high-performance engineering culture.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Independent Project Leadership: Lead a dedicated project stream within our ad tech platform, from initial architecture and design through to delivery. Take full accountability for your project’s technical vision, resource planning, and execution, ensuring it meets performance and scalability requirements.
• Strategic Technical Ownership: Define and implement a technical roadmap that aligns with Streamlyn’s goals, focusing on scalability, resilience, and innovation. Ensure project components are optimized for real-time bidding, ad serving, and data processing requirements unique to ad tech.
• Performance & Scalability: Architect a platform capable of processing billions of requests daily with minimal latency. Utilize advanced load balancing, caching, and database technologies to achieve optimal performance and reliability.
• Team Building & Mentorship: Lead a specialized team of developers, fostering an environment of technical excellence and innovation. Set high standards for code quality, maintainability, and performance while mentoring team members and encouraging growth.
• Product Innovation & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with product, operations, and sales teams to ensure the products and platform meet high standards and unique demands. Drive the development of cutting-edge features like custom ad units and contextual targeting to keep Streamlyn competitive.
• Ad Tech Expertise: Apply a deep understanding of ad tech—DSPs, SSPs, oRTB protocols, and header bidding frameworks—to ensure seamless integration and adherence to industry best practices.
• Team and Process Development: Drive agile methodologies and efficient development processes within your team to support responsive and high-quality delivery. Implement continuous improvement practices that optimize team productivity and platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years in software development with hands-on ad tech experience, ideally in building ad servers, header bidding solutions, oRTB (Open Real-Time Bidding) integrations, and data pipelines.
• Technical Proficiency -
• Languages: Advanced knowledge in Java and Python.
• Databases: Strong experience with MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Aerospike, and familiarity with other NoSQL technologies.
• Data Pipeline: Proven experience designing and implementing data pipelines for handling large-scale ad data in real-time, including ingestion, processing, and transformation.
• Infrastructure and Cloud: Proficiency with AWS Cloud services, including EMR, EKS, and Docker Containers. Experience with Apache Spark, Kafka, and MKS.
• Ad Tech Ecosystem Knowledge: Strong understanding of the ad tech landscape, including DSPs, SSPs, header bidding, programmatic advertising, and RTB protocols.
• Architectural Expertise: Advanced skills in designing distributed, microservices-based architectures and developing APIs for high-performance, low-latency applications. Advanced knowledge in load balancing, caching, and database technologies to enhance performance and scalability.
• System Monitoring & Optimization: Hands-on experience with monitoring and optimization tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar for system reliability.
• Data Engineering: Experience with ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, data warehousing, and building data flows for analytical and reporting purposes.
• Agile and Project Management: Experience with Agile methodologies and the ability to prioritize and manage complex projects.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead a team, with experience in mentorship, team building, and technical coaching. Comfortable taking ownership and accountable for team deliverables.
• Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical issues and facilitate cross-functional team discussions.

About us

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 8300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview

As an SDE 2 Back-end Engineer at Astra, you will play a crucial role in the development of a new vulnerability scanner from scratch. You will be architecting & engineering a scalable technical solution from the ground-up.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals, collaborating to deliver innovative solutions and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in vulnerability scanning. The role requires deep collaboration with the founders, product, engineering & security teams.

Join our team and contribute to the development of a cutting-edge SaaS security platform, where high-quality engineering and continuous learning are at the core of everything we do.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You will be joining our Vulnerability Scanner team which builds a security engine to identify vulnerabilities in technical infrastructure.
• You will be the technical product owner of the scanner, which would involve managing a lean team of backend engineers to ensure smooth implementation of the technical product roadmap.
• Research about security vulnerabilities, CVEs, and zero-days affecting cloud/web/API infrastructure.
• Work in an agile environment of engineers to architect, design, develop and build our microservice infrastructure.
• You will research, design, code, troubleshoot and support (on-call). What you create is also what you own.
• Writing secure, high quality, modular, testable & well documented code for features outlined in every sprint.
• Design and implement APIs in support of other services with a highly scalable, flexible, and secure backend using GoLang
• Hands-on experience with creating production-ready code & optimizing it by identifying and correcting bottlenecks.
• Driving strict code review standards among the team.
• Ensuring timely delivery of the features/products
• Working with product managers to ensure product delivery status is transparent & the end product always looks like how it was imagined
• Work closely with Security & Product teams in writing vulnerability detection rules, APIs etc.

Required Qualifications & Skills: 

• Strong 2-4 years relevant development experience in GoLang
• Experience in building a technical product from idea to production.
• Design and build highly scalable and maintainable systems in Golang
• Expertise in Goroutines and Channels to write efficient code utilizing multi-core CPU optimally
• Must have hands-on experience with managing AWS/Google Cloud infrastructure
• Hands on experience in creating low latency high throughput REST APIs
• Write test suites and maintain code coverage above 80%
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
• Good to have experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems.
• Understanding of cloud/web security concepts would be an added advantage

What We Offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company
• Fully remote & agile working environment
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally
• Experience with security side of things
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru)
• Open and supportive culture 

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

Rejolut is one of the award-winning fastest-growing emerging tech company which is working on leading technology like Blockchain, ML & AI, Complex mobile & web apps, IoT, etc.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing a highly scalable and secure code.

Responsibilities:-
- Able to take the Extreme Ownership of modules/product/projects
- Able to learn & implement new technology/framework/library at God Speed
- Able to come with an optimal solution for the business problem
- Can handle calls with the client & customer to know their feedback
- Writing clean code & able to dig into other's code or open-source code.

Desired Candidate Profile:-
- Good problem-solving skills are a must

- Expertise in Node.js development, Javascript (hands-on Experience )
- Exposure to developing APIs with Node JS
- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express, sails.js, StrongLoop, etc
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database
- Knowledge of tools like Docker, Git, Postman, JSdocs, etc.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
- Added advantage (Python or Ruby or Golang)
- Self-motivated and able to drive the team
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience in working in fintech is a plus

 How we are different 
 -We are a young and dynamic team who are obsessed with solving the business problem at scale.   

-We are a technology agnostic company that focuses more on finding the optimal solution to the business problem rather than technology.

 Why join us
 - We provide a huge learning curve. Spending 1.5-2 years with us will put you 3 years ahead in the career.
- We work only on cutting edge technology like React, React Native, Flutter, NodeJS, Python, Go, Svelte, ELM
- There are two technology Co-founder in the company who are pretty much hands-on and have earlier bult the Consumer application which is downloaded millions of times and are in leadership position in copanies like Samsung, Purplle, Loylty Rewardz.
- Get mentored by the best in the industry
- Flexible working hours
- Perks best in the industry

Roles and responsibilities

• Develop well-designed performant and scalable applications and microservices
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code aligning to software development best practices
• Integrate data storage solutions including databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
• Build integrations with 3rd party applications through apis’ to ingest and process data
• Develop state-of-the-art analytics tools to support diverse tasks ranging from ad hoc analysis to production-grade pipelines and workflows for customer applications
• Ensure security and data protection aspects within the applications
• Partner with Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers to improve the performance and reliability of advanced algorithms
• Ensure high performance and availability of distributed systems and applications
• Interact directly with client project team members and operational staff to support live customer deployments and production issues

• 4+ years of experience in developing applications using python and related technologies.
• Familiarity in data ingestion and processing libraries in python.
• Thorough understanding of REST and GRPC technologies.
• Experience in using ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries for data access.
• Experiencing in developing and hosting APIs and integration with external applications.
• Experience in building data models and repositories using relational and NoSql databases.
• Knowledge of JIRA, Bitbucket and agile methodologies.
• Good to have knowledge of AWS services like Lambda, dynamodb, kinesis and others.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with event-driven programming
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Affinity for learning and applying new technologies and solving new problems
• Effective organizational skills with strong attention to detail
• Experience in working with docker is a plus
• Comfortable in working with Unix/Linux environment
• Strong communication skills — both written and verbal