Fullstack Engineer

About koolio.ai

Website: www.koolio.ai

koolio Inc. is a cutting-edge Silicon Valley startup dedicated to transforming how stories are told through audio. Our mission is to democratize audio content creation by empowering individuals and businesses to effortlessly produce high-quality, professional-grade content. Leveraging AI and intuitive web-based tools, koolio.ai enables creators to craft, edit, and distribute audio content—from storytelling to educational materials, brand marketing, and beyond—easily. We are passionate about helping people and organizations share their voices, fostering creativity, collaboration, and engaging storytelling for a wide range of use cases.

About the Full-Time Position

We are seeking experienced Full Stack Developers to join our innovative team on a full-time, hybrid basis. As part of koolio.ai, you will work on a next-gen AI-powered platform, shaping the future of audio content creation. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-performance web applications, handling client- and server-side development. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a rapidly growing platform with a global reach and thrive in a fast-moving, self-learning startup environment where adaptability and innovation are key.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with teams to implement new features, improve current systems, and troubleshoot issues as we scale
• Design and build efficient, secure, and modular client-side and server-side architecture
• Develop high-performance web applications with reusable and maintainable code
• Work with audio/video processing libraries for JavaScript to enhance multimedia content creation
• Integrate RESTful APIs with Google Cloud Services to build robust cloud-based applications
• Develop and optimize Cloud Functions to meet specific project requirements and enhance overall platform performance

Requirements and Skills:

• Education: Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Work Experience: Minimum of 6+ years of proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role, with demonstrable expertise in building web applications at scale
• Technical Skills:
• Proficiency in front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and ReactJS
• Strong experience with server-side technologies, particularly REST APIs, Python, Google Cloud Functions, and Google Cloud services
• Familiarity with NoSQL and PostgreSQL databases
• Experience working with audio/video processing libraries is a strong plus
• Soft Skills:
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically about issues and solutions
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a remote, diverse, and distributed team environment
• Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work independently, balancing multiple tasks with minimal supervision
• Keen attention to detail and a passion for delivering high-quality, scalable solutions
• Other Skills: Familiarity with GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and best practices in version control and continuous deployment

Compensation and Benefits:

• Total Yearly Compensation: ₹25 LPA based on skills and experience
• Health Insurance: Comprehensive health coverage provided by the company
• ESOPs: An opportunity for wealth creation and to grow alongside a fantastic team

Why Join Us?

• Be a part of a passionate and visionary team at the forefront of audio content creation
• Work on an exciting, evolving product that is reshaping the way audio content is created and consumed
• Thrive in a fast-moving, self-learning startup environment that values innovation, adaptability, and continuous improvement
• Enjoy the flexibility of a full-time hybrid position with opportunities to grow professionally and expand your skills
• Collaborate with talented professionals from around the world, contributing to a product that has a real-world impact

Requisites 

• Experience with software development in one or more programming languages with data structures/algorithms. 
• 1-year experience in software architecture/design. 

• 2 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems and/or data management/storage technologies.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Write and test production systems, with a broader understanding of the product. 
• Review code and provide feedback. Mentor engineers to take on bigger responsibilities. 
• Review and lead design discussions/reviews, with a long-term vision. 

• Set high-level engineering direction, and best practices and document educational content to save engineering hours. 
• Triage product or system issues. Mitigate and resolve production inefficiencies.  

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders and fellow developers.
• Design and implement Python code using the Django framework.
• Identify and fix bottlenecks that may arise from inefficient code.
• Identify and fix software bugs.
• Create a wide variety of unit tests to verify the functionality of the software.
• Manage the security of the platform.
• Write detailed documentation around the code.
• Knowledge of front end languages.
• Create and maintain the application's architecture
• Write code that is reusable, testable, and efficient
• Create and implement applications that are low-latency, high-availability, and performant
• Integration of front-end developer-created user-facing components with server-side logic
• Security and data protection implementation
• Data storage solution integration

Skills

• Able to use Postman, JIRA or similar tools
• Python expert with an understanding of at least one Python web framework, such as Django, Flask, or others
• Working knowledge of several ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Capable of combining many data sources and databases into a single system
• Knowledge of Python's threading constraints and multi-process architecture
• Solid knowledge of server-side templating languages such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc.
• Fundamental knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of accessibility and security regulations
• Managing and maintaining AWS
• Able to create RESTful APIs
• Able to integrate third-party APIs
• Familiarity with user authentication
• Authorisation across numerous systems, servers, and settings
• Knowledge of the core design ideas underlying a scalable application
• Experience with Python event-driven programming
• Understanding the distinctions between various delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimising output to meet the individual platform
• Capable of developing database schemas to represent and support business operations
• Excellent unit testing and debugging abilities
• Thorough knowledge of code versioning systems such as Git, Mercurial, or SVN
• Able to deploy the app on client cloud as well.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master in computer science
• 3-5 years of work experience
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Able to work in a fast, unstructured environment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Must have access to FTTH internet connection

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software products and enhancements to existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills. 

Responsibilities

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
• Coordinate cross-functionally to insure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
• Support test and deployment of new products and features
• Participate in code reviews
• Technical Lead experience exploring other open source frameworks and technologies and integrating with project

Qualifications

• 5+ years of development experience at least two or more of the following languages (Python, Ruby, javascript and Java)
• Expertise in object oriented design and design patterns
• Experience releasing highly scalable enterprise products full lifecycle
• Experience mentoring and training others on complex technical issues
• Experience with implementing algorithms to solve complex real world problems
• Solid coding practices including good design documentation, unit testing, peer code reviews
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• A proven ability to learn and adapt to new, complex development environments with deep dive analytical skills
• Strong object-oriented programming skills, knowledge of design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
• Experience in algorithm design and problem solving
• Experience leading small teams of engineers
• Experience with technologies like MongoDB, DynamoDB is highly desirable
• Experience developing full stack web applications using Perl, Java, Python or PHP
• Experience in any of the top JavaScript MVC frameworks, like Backbone, Angular, Ember, Spine or Knockout
• Passion for creating efficient, scalable, highly usable web interfaces
• Candidates from  Product Start-up companies would be highly preferred.

Job Description

We are looking for applicant from top schools and product based technology companies who can play a key technical leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction of the product.
• Document current, intermediate, and future state technical architectures that support the product’s vision and mission.
• Assist product development teams to provide technical leadership and guidance
• Facilitate and collaborate with scrum teams and product owners to create technical architectural documentation as required.
• Responsible for contributing to the technical direction of the product for the next 3-5 years by incorporating best of breed technologies.
• Provide ongoing evaluation of technology solutions and capabilities to ensure appropriate alignment of business objectives.
• Assess options, risks and cost-benefit analyses as they pertain to data architecture, security, and other technology issues.
• Outline technical recommendations and identify technological requirements that support the product roadmap.
• Develop a technical roadmap that maps to the product’s future state.
• Promote technical standards, guidelines, best practices and quality control measures for enabling and implementing software systems.
• Develop a foundational strategy to scale our platform to meet upcoming growth
• Hands-on coding, code reviews, and leadership of the technical team
• Continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate, and optimise systems and tools to best meet evolving business and market needs
• Attention to detail, coupled with ability to think abstractly
• Create prototypes and proof-of-concepts for iterative development
• Keen to learn new technologies and apply the knowledge in production systems
• Take complete ownership of projects and their development cycle

Additional Requirements:

1. 10+ years of Software Development background.
2. Min 3 Years of working experience as an Architect.
3. Deep background knowledge in software development and architecture with Java for Enterprise solutions.
4. A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field) from IITs and Premier Engineering College.
5. Excellent Object Orientation, coupled with excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
6. Highly skilled at Java and related technologies, including Java Frameworks like Spring-boot or Drop wizard, RESTful web services, J SON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS, Solr.
7. Must have hands-on experience in building scalable and secure back-end systems.
8. Have hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency
9. Good to have knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, deployment.
10. 5-9 years of software development experience in Java with web architecture and scalable design.
11. Experience with agile development, continuous delivery, and DevOps and related tools.
12. Proactive and communicative to be closely aligned within the Product Management and customer requirements.
13. Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to develop technical and business artifacts.

1. Exposure to Bigdata related technologies / tools.
2. Exposure to Elastic Search.
3. Large scale application development.
4. Able to manage large data structure and huge volume of data.
5. Exposure of developing interactive graphs and business intelligence tools
6. Object-Oriented design, patterns, algorithms, data structures
7. Exposure to business process workflow.
8. Start up work culture mindset.

ABOUT IDEAPOKE
Emerging Technologies | Bengaluru, India

Ideapoke is a global, fast growing start-up with offices in Bengaluru, Bay Area, Tokyo and Shanghai. Our software, search and insights power the innovation agenda of the largest Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies worldwide.

Our growth is powered by our people and their unwavering commitment to the company-wide vision, strong work ethic and an entrepreneurial do-it-all spirit. We push the boundaries and break existing thought processes with the strong belief that innovation amplifies success in every piece of work we do and by extension, amplifying the success of our clients.

Ideapoke’s like to constantly learn, grow and make a difference. Join us and be part of our story.