Deputy Manager (AWS and Python)

About us 

RockED is the premier people development platform for the automotive industry, supporting the entire employee lifecycle from pre-hire and onboarding to upskilling and career transitions. With microlearning content, gamified delivery, and real-time feedback, RockED is educating the automotive workforce and solving the industry's greatest business challenges. 

The RockED Company Inc. is headquartered in Florida. Backed by top industry experts and investors, we’re a well-funded startup on an exciting growth journey. Our R&D team (Indian entity) is at the core of all product and technology innovation.

Check out our website https://www.rocked.us/ 

Your Impact 

We’re looking for passionate and self-driven Backend Software Engineers who can combine technical depth with strategic product thinking. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with modern backend stacks, brings strong critical thinking to the table, and can balance short-term delivery with long-term technical vision. 

• Build scalable and reliable backend services and APIs that power the product.
• Design, implement, and maintain databases, ensuring data integrity, security, and efficient retrieval. 
• Implement the core logic that makes applications work, handling data processing, user requests, and system operations. 
• Contribute actively to system architecture, proposing enhancements and leading design discussions for new features and services.
• Working closely with product managers and designers to turn ideas into reality and shape the product roadmap. 
• Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and security 
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies and frameworks, contributing to the advancement of software development practices 
• Drive code quality through writing unit tests, code reviews, and documentation.
• Take ownership of end-to-end feature development — from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Mentor junior developers, setting high standards for engineering excellence within the team

What skills do you need? 

• Extensive (Must have) hands-on experience in JavaScript / TypeScript, backend development using Node.js and Express.js, and database management with MySQL.
• Strong command of JavaScript and understanding of its quirks and best practices
• Exposure to system design and interest in building scalable, high-availability systems.
• Experience from a high-growth product-based startup is a must-have.
• Ability to think strategically when designing systems—not just how to build, but why
• Prior work on B2C applications with a focus on performance and user experience
• Ensure that applications can handle increasing loads and maintain performance, even under heavy traffic 
• Work with complex queries for performing sophisticated data manipulation, analysis, and reporting. 
• Knowledge of Sequelize, MongoDB, and AWS would be an advantage. 
• Experience in optimizing backend systems for speed and scalability. 

Why choose a career at RockED? 

• Remote-first culture with initial in-office training at our Bangalore HQ to help you settle in and connect with the team.
• Company-sponsored travel and stay during quarterly in-person meetups.
• Comprehensive health insurance – ₹10 lakh coverage for you and your family, fully paid by RockED.
• A rare opportunity to learn directly from our investors, who have built and exited multi-million dollar companies.
• Direct access to leadership with experience at top global companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Walmart, and more.
• Be part of a diverse and global team working across the US, India, and Germany.
• Unlimited leave policy – built on trust and so far used responsibly by our team.

Role overview:

As a founding senior software engineer, you will play a key role in shaping our AI-powered visual search engine for fashion and e-commerce. Responsibilities include solving complex deep-tech challenges to build scalable AI/ML solutions, leading backend development for performance and scalability, and architecting and integrating software aligned with product strategy and innovation goals. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to address real consumer problems and build robust AI/ML pipelines to drive product innovation.

What we’re looking for:

• 3–5 years of Python experience (Golang is a plus), with expertise in concurrency, FastAPI, restful APIs, and microservices.
• proficiency in PostgreSQL/MongoDB, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and containerization tools like Docker/Kubernetes.
• Strong experience in asynchronous programming, CI/CD pipelines, and version control (git).
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills are essential.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and ESOPs, along with hackerhouse living: live and work with a Gen-Z team in a 7bhk house on MG Road, Gurgaon.
• Hands-on experience in shipping world-class products, professional development opportunities, flexible hours, and a collaborative, supportive culture.

We are seeking a talented and motivated Backend Developer to join our dynamic team. As a senior Backend Developer, you will play a crucial role in enhancing and expanding our AI productivity tool, working on the intersection of natural language understanding (NLU), event-condition-action (ECA) frameworks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement advanced features for our AI productivity tool.
• Innovate and propose creative solutions to enhance the functionality and user experience of the platform.
• Develop back-end components of the AI productivity tool, ensuring performance and scalability.
• Design and implement robust backend services and APIs using Python- Django.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Proven experience (3-4 years) as a Software Development Engineer, with a focus on Python- Django
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think creatively.
• Ability to take up different tech stacks.
• Mathematical experience preferred.
• Proficiency in Backend Technologies as well as a basic understanding of Frontend technologies.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience with cloud platforms and services.
• Experience with Frontend Technologies.
• Track record of contributing to open-source projects.
• Passion for staying updated on the latest trends in AI and technology.

Collaborate with clients and internal teams to develop appropriate solutions

• Brainstorm with team members and prove the ability to think on the fly.

Requirements

• Core Java

• Spring Boot, Spring Rest, Spring Data

• Testing framework - Junit, Mockito

• Experience in deploying applications on one of public cloud preferably Microsoft Azure. (Other

- AWS or Google Cloud)

• Experience in one of messaging platform preferably Kafka (Other - Rabbitmq or Active MQ)

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• Others – Linux, Git, Maven, CI/CD pipeline

• Experience in working with Agile teams

Good To Have

• Git (6+ years of experience)

• Develop test cases, conduct SIT, load test, and tune the performance of systems to meet

acceptance criteria.

• Perform and manage stages of the SCRUM and participate in the systems review with Project

Lead/Manager.

• Experience in the development of cloud-native applications is an added advantage.

• Experience working in Agile teams

What We Offer

• National and International Business Trips (if there is an opportunity)

• Culture of Knowledge Sharing and Training

• Modern & lively working environment

• Opportunity to write books, participate in conferences

• International assignment

• Strong first principles
• Hustle! We're young, lean, and in our early days. You'd have to set up your own shop, work with design customers to find generalizable use cases, and build them out.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and ship new features
• At least 2-6 years of experience with primary exp in Python
• Must have skills - Flask / Django, RESTful Web Services, Database SQL / NoSQL
• The preferred Location is Bangalore but is also flexible with PAN India.
• Would require candidates from Tier 1 & 2 Companies or Tier 1 & 2 Colleges preferably.
• Proficient experience of back-end programming language - Python
• The preferred Location is Bangalore but is also flexible with PAN India.
• Would require candidates from Tier 1 & 2 Companies or Tier 1 & 2 Colleges preferably.