Fullstack Developer

• Minimum 4+ years of experience building Java & React JS/Node JS applications, in a service-based architecture.
• Need hands on current experience on Java 8+, React JS/Node JS and above, Java script, Angular JS, JUnit, XML, Spring, Spring Boot, rest APIs, and SQL. 
• Hands on experience with version control, build integration and messaging technologies.
• Need to demonstrate in-depth understanding of OOO principles, design patterns and threading techniques.
• Strong web Services background required.
• Must be able to interact with all levels of personnel within the organization and be effective with both business and technical teams.
•  Ability to deal with ambiguity and define approaches to bring unfocused issues to resolution
• Excellent written and oral communication skills for managing interactions both within the team and without.
• Very strong attention to detail and organizational skills. Strong work ethic

WHAT YOU WILL DO

We are seeking a talented and motivated Backend Engineer to join our team, focusing on the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance enterprise software solutions using Java and Spring. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing robust REST APIs and orchestrating complex workflows across a microservice architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Software Development: Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code within Spring Boot Applications and Services
• API Design: Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure RESTful APIs to power front-end applications and third-party integrations. Build high-throughput, high-availability, and low-latency systems
• Microservices Orchestration: Orchestrate data flow and business logic across multiple microservices to ensure seamless end-to-end functionality.
• Database Management: Design schema, interact with, and optimize both NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB) and SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL) databases.
• Code Quality & Tooling: Leverage AI coding tools such as Cursor, CodeX, GitHub Copilot or similar tools to enhance productivity, accelerate development cycles, and maintain high code quality standards.
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to define, design, and ship new features.
• System Architecture: Participate in architectural discussions, code reviews, mentor and guide junior engineers, and help shape the future direction of our software platform.

REQUIREMENTS 

• 4+ years of relevant work experience in software engineering, preferably enterprise software development
• AI/ML Concepts: An understanding of AI agents, their application in enterprise systems, use of MCP servers and the principles of context engineering.
• Frontend Development: Experience with React, Next.js, component libraries like mui, and an interest in being a full stack developer. An understanding of CSS, HTML DOM is a plus.
• Cloud Experience: Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
• DevOps Practices: Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

ABOUT RIA

RIA is a tech company that leverages cutting-edge technology to revolutionize the insurance and healthcare industry. RIA has operations in India and in the US. 

At the core of its operations is the Symphony platform, a Vertical AI platform which can be used for customised decision-making, automation, and data orchestration across Insurance and Health products.  

Symphony can support businesses with its microservices-based architecture and helps modernize and modularize the legacy system. 

WHY JOIN US

We’re building the foundation of our team right now, and are looking for ambitious team members to join us and increase with us. The work environment is fast-paced and you would make a clear impact! 

You’ll partner with a stellar leadership team from IIT Kanpur, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, IIT Guwahati, and the University of Michigan. The team has also worked at companies such as McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Niva Bupa, Acko, Care, ICICI Prudential, etc.

We’re a well-funded company, which has raised capital from top VCs, global insurers, and prominent Indian family offices. 

Founding Engineer:

As a Founding Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and launching our product to customers. Specifically,

• Since our team is lean and we plan to keep it that way - you’ll be one of the first five engineers in leading the zero-to-one journey of a product our customers are hungry for
• Lead technical design and implementation of the frontend and backend of the product with coaching and mentorship from world-class technical architects
• Have knowledge of (or learn) how to work with Shopify’s CLI
• Iterate quickly to create delightful user experiences, working closely with customers/ design partners
• Help us hire a world-class engineering team in the months ahead
• Our team is currently fully remote (with offices to be opened in Bangalore and Mumbai over next few months) and cross-border across San Francisco, Boston, and India - help us cultivate a remote-first, inclusive, diverse, and friendly culture
• Work directly with the founders with an ownership mindset

Skills and Experience:

• Prior experience working with backend tech stacks (e.g. Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Django, Laravel)
• Experience with service service-oriented architecture, writing REST APIs, unit testing, and architectural design
• Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST, GraphQL, WebSockets)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and other technologies (e.g. Mysql, Redis, Kafka)
• Prior experience working with frontend tech stacks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Prior experience working with frontend UI frameworks (e.g. Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS)

Job Description:

• working on all layers of architecture Understanding the flow of code and how it interacts with different components.
• Building REST API.
• Creating technical design documents by understanding requirements, and product objectives.
• Writing effective Unit tests
• Good analytical skills and innovative mind.
• Source code management.
• Excellent communication skills.

Desired Skills

• Experience on Mern Stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js)
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, object-oriented JS, its quirks, and workarounds•
• Strong hands-on experience in JavaScript• Strong proficiency with JavaScript or CoffeeScript depending on your technology stack.
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors such as Stylus, Less•
• Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, jQuery, and AJAX•
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues• Familiarity with JavaScript module loaders, such as Require.js and AMD•
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as SVN• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance
• Key Programming Skills: MERN stack, full stack, React, Java, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap.
• Experience working with Rest based APIs

About Us

We have grown over 1400% in revenues in the last year.

Interface.ai provides an Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) to FIs to automate calls and customer inquiries across multiple channels and engage their customers with financial insights and upsell/cross-sell.

Our IVA is transforming financial institutions’ call centers from a cost to a revenue center.

Our core technology is built 100% in-house with several breakthroughs in Natural Language Understanding. Our parser is built based on zero-shot learning that helps us to launch industry-specific IVA that can achieve over 90% accuracy on Day-1. 

We are 45 people strong with employees spread across India and US locations. Many of them come from ML teams at Apple, Microsoft, and Salesforce in the US along with enterprise architects with over 20+ years of experience building large-scale systems. Our India team consists of people from ISB, IIMs, and many who have been previously part of early-stage startups. 

We are a fully remote team.

Founders come from Banking and Enterprise Technology backgrounds with previous experience scaling companies from scratch to $50M+ in revenues.

As a SDE III, you will be :

1. Designing and implementing FullStack applications of interface.ai’s conversational AI platform and playing a significant role in evolving them.
2. Working with a team of driven and passionate engineers working on cutting edge technology, who take pride in solving complex problems.
3. Engaging in cross-functional team discussions on Product, design, QA, deployment and maintenance,  in a fast-moving collaborative set up.
4. Building reusable code and libraries for future use
5. Analyzing high level requirements, breaking it down into workable/demoable tasks, estimating them and delivering with high quality.
6. Contributing to improve our engineering processes, tooling, and standards.

1. Are extremely self motivated
2. Have ability to learn quickly
3. Have a growth Mindset (read this if you don't know what it means - https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322" target="_blank">link)
4. Have Emotional Maturity (read this if you don't know what it means - https://medium.com/@krisgage/15-signs-of-emotional-maturity-38b1a2ab9766" target="_blank">link)
5. Are Passionate about the possibilities at the intersection of AI + Banking
6. Have worked in a startup of 5 to 30 employees
7. Have outstanding problem-solving abilities
8. Have proactive outlook for ways to make the solution better
9. Have 5+ years of experience in delivering scalable complex technical products
10. Have Good knowledge of distributed technologies, low latency, and highly scalable systems. 
11. Have Expertise in JavaScript and Node.js
12. Have Hands-on experience in Node.JS / Express.JS / Hapi.js / Koa.js (or any other Web Framework), and Relational Databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
13. Have Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
14. Have Hands-on experience in Mocha or other Javascript testing frameworks
15. Have experience working with react, python (Nice to have)
16. Have hands-on experience in developing applications using microservices, container technologies, container management systems such as Kubernetes
17. Have a strong understanding of systems using real-time interactions (web sockets, long-polling, server-sent events)
18. Have hands-on experience in the Implementation of security and data protection
19. Are eager to learn new technologies
20. Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.
21. Are passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers

Experience: 5+ years

Location: Bangalore (Remote)

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and code features in the front-end and back-end as per the specifications provided by the Product and Design teams.
• Ship features in fast moving agile sprints.
• Work closely with Product Design and Product Management teams to brainstorm and chalk out details of features.
• Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion.
• Strong skills in architecting database models.
• Ability to document your code as this will be an open-core project.
• Ability to write unit, integration, and end to end tests.
• Conduct peer code review.

Must have:

• Strong understanding of Javascript, Typescript, NodeJS.
• Good understanding of asynchronous programming, callback, and closures.
• Experience developing applications that use queues like SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with AWS services like S3, EC2, etc.
• Experience with Docker.
• Strong experience with ReactJS: hooks, functional programming, and optimizing render functions.
• Good knowledge of CSS.
• Experience with creating cross-browser compatible web apps.
• Should be strong in Postgres database.
• Test driven development and use of frameworks like Mocha, Cypress.
• Strong proficiency in English and writing skills.

Good to have

• Basic knowledge of CI, CD
• Intermediate knowledge in any cloud services (AWS, GCP)
• Have created GraphQL APIs or worked with the Apollo framework.
• Have built previous functionality for CRM, marketing, or customer support tools.
• Have worked in open source project previously.

Relevant Experience: 2-6 yrs

• Hands on Experience and manage Node js, Mongo DB, Angular and Express js.
• Architect, Develop, test and deploy robust products that are fast, scalable and highly responsive
• Design and maintain large and complex databases, both relational and non-relational databases.
• Establish, refine and integrate development environment tools and software as needed
• Deploy applications on AWS cloud with ability to quickly debug hosting related issues.
• Expertise in Complete Mean, Node js, Mongo DB, Angular and Express js
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills