Golang + AWS Developer

Strong Staff Software Engineer / FDE profile (full-stack + production GenAI, multi-team technical leadership)

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 7+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated full-stack delivery across backend and frontend.

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have deep production experience with Python AND JavaScript/TypeScript, working comfortably across the full stack.

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have hands-on experience architecting production generative AI applications — LLM integrations, vector databases, RAG systems, and evaluation pipelines

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (Next.js / React) and backend API development.

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP valued), including infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation / Terraform).

Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have working knowledge of multiple database paradigms — relational (PostgreSQL), document, and key-value (Redis) — with ability to select the right storage per problem.

Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions), containerization, and production deployment strategies.

Mandatory (Experience 8) – Must have demonstrable fluency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) and proven ability to design agentic engineering workflows and train teams on them

Senior Xano Developer

Visual Backend Development, APIs & AI-Assisted Build

📍 Mumbai (On-site) | Full-time | 3-5 years

About the Role:

Unico Connect is an AI-first technology partner that builds custom mobile, web, and AI products for clients across multiple geographies.

We are hiring a Xano Developer who will build backend systems and APIs for our customer engagements on Xano, the visual backend development platform.

The mandatory requirement for this role is hands-on production backend engineering experience, including PostgreSQL data modelling and REST API design, in either a Node.js or Python environment.

Prior production work on Xano is strongly preferred.

The role is hands-on and customer-facing. You will own backend delivery across engagements: designing data models, building API flows in Xano, integrating third-party services, and partnering with frontend, mobile, and AI engineers on contracts and behaviour.

The work spans all three Xano build modes: no-code function stacks, custom code through Xano’s scripting and code blocks, and Xano’s AI assistance and agentic features.

A typical week includes a data model review for a new engagement, building a complex API flow in Xano, integrating a third-party webhook, and a customer working session on a new module.

Responsibilities:

Backend Delivery on Xano

Own end-to-end backend implementation on Xano: database schema, API endpoints, function stacks, background tasks, and integrations.

Ship production-ready work that meets customer requirements and engineering quality standards.

Build Across All Three Xano Modes

Use Xano’s no-code function stacks for standard CRUD and business logic.

Drop into custom code (JavaScript, Python through code blocks, expressions) where visual flows would be unwieldy.

Use Xano’s AI assistance and agentic features to accelerate routine build work.

Database Design on PostgreSQL

Own data model decisions for each engagement: table design, relationships, indexes, addons, and query performance.

Make schema choices that hold up as product usage grows and that map cleanly to the API contracts the client needs.

API Design and Integration

Design clean REST API contracts that the frontend, mobile, and third-party consumers can rely on.

Cover authentication, input validation, pagination, error handling, and rate limiting.

Integrate external services (payment gateways, messaging, storage, AI providers) through Xano’s connectors and custom requests.

Product Thinking and Solutioning

Translate fuzzy product asks from customers into concrete backend solutions.

Ask the right questions about edge cases, data lifecycle, multi-tenancy, and access control before building.

Push back on requirements that will cause pain later.

Customer Communication

Work directly with customers in discovery, design reviews, demos, and weekly working sessions.

Explain trade-offs in plain language, present options with clear recommendations, and write tight technical updates.

AI-Assisted Backend Development

Use Xano’s built-in AI features as well as external AI tools (Claude, Cursor, and similar) day to day for schema drafts, function stack scaffolding, query writing, integration setup, and review.

Develop strong instincts for when AI output is usable as-is and when it must be reworked.

Quality, Testing, and Reliability

Test the flows you ship.

Set up sensible error handling, logging, and alerts for the backend services you own.

Participate in incident response when something breaks in production.

Documentation and Handover

Document data models, API contracts, and non-obvious decisions inside Xano and in shared docs so the rest of the team and the customer can pick up the work without you in the room.

Continuous Learning

Track changes to the Xano platform, including new features, performance improvements, and AI capabilities.

Apply them to active engagements where they reduce build effort or improve product outcomes.

Requirements:

Hands-on Production Backend Engineering Experience (Mandatory)

Must have personally shipped backend systems to production for real users, with ownership of API design and data modelling.

POCs, coursework, and internal-only tools do not qualify.

3 to 5 Years of Professional Backend Engineering Experience

In either a Node.js or Python environment.

Candidates with slightly less time but strong demonstrated ownership are welcome to apply.

Strong PostgreSQL Skills

Schema design, indexing, query writing, and migrations on at least one production system.

Able to reason about query performance and design data models that hold up under realistic product usage.

REST API Design and Integration Depth

Comfort designing API contracts that are clean, predictable, and easy for frontend, mobile, and third-party consumers to work with.

Experience integrating external services such as payment gateways, messaging providers, storage, and AI APIs.

Familiarity with at Least One Node.js or Python Backend Stack

Such as Express, NestJS, Fastify, FastAPI, Django, or Flask.

Comfort reading and writing application code outside of visual environments when the situation calls for it.

Product Thinking and Solutioning

Ability to take a fuzzy product brief, ask the right questions, and propose a backend design that is fit for purpose.

Strong instincts for what to build first, what to defer, and what not to build.

Strong Written and Spoken English Communication

Confident in customer working sessions and design reviews.

Comfortable writing precise technical documentation and explaining trade-offs to non-engineering stakeholders.

Cloud and Deployment Fundamentals

Working knowledge of at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure: deploying services, reading logs, managing environments, and basic operational tasks.

Familiarity with Docker is a plus.

Bachelor’s Degree

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline.

Exceptional candidates with demonstrable production experience and strong portfolios may be considered without a formal degree.

Nice to Have

• Prior production experience on Xano, Bubble, Retool, or comparable visual or low-code backend platforms
• Full stack experience with React, Next.js, React Native, or Flutter
• Experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) into backend workflows
• Multi-tenant SaaS product experience
• Prior agency, consulting, or product-engineering experience

JOB DETAILS:

* Job Title: Lead I - Software Engineering-Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, Aws

* Industry: Global digital transformation solutions provide

* Salary: Best in Industry

* Experience: 5 -7 years

* Location: Trivandrum, Thiruvananthapuram

Role Proficiency:

Act creatively to develop applications and select appropriate technical options optimizing application development maintenance and performance by employing design patterns and reusing proven solutions account for others' developmental activities

Skill Examples:

1. Explain and communicate the design / development to the customer
2. Perform and evaluate test results against product specifications
3. Break down complex problems into logical components
4. Develop user interfaces business software components
5. Use data models
6. Estimate time and effort required for developing / debugging features / components
7. Perform and evaluate test in the customer or target environment
8. Make quick decisions on technical/project related challenges
9. Manage a Team mentor and handle people related issues in team
10.  Maintain high motivation levels and positive dynamics in the team.
11.  Interface with other teams’ designers and other parallel practices
12.  Set goals for self and team. Provide feedback to team members
13.  Create and articulate impactful technical presentations
14.  Follow high level of business etiquette in emails and other business communication
15.  Drive conference calls with customers addressing customer questions
16.   Proactively ask for and offer help
17.  Ability to work under pressure determine dependencies risks facilitate planning; handling multiple tasks.
18.  Build confidence with customers by meeting the deliverables on time with quality.
19.  Estimate time and effort resources required for developing / debugging features / components
20.  Make on appropriate utilization of Software / Hardware’s.
21.  Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Knowledge Examples:

•     Appropriate software programs / modules

1. Functional and technical designing
2. Programming languages – proficient in multiple skill clusters
3. DBMS
4. Operating Systems and software platforms
5. Software Development Life Cycle
6. Agile – Scrum or Kanban Methods
7. Integrated development environment (IDE)
8. Rapid application development (RAD)
9. Modelling technology and languages
10. Interface definition languages (IDL)
11. Knowledge of customer domain and deep understanding of sub domain where problem is solved

Additional Comments:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer with strong expertise in Kotlin and Java to join our dynamic engineering team.

The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of backend frameworks, cloud technologies, and scalable microservices architectures, with a passion for clean code, resilience, and system observability.

You will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining core backend services that power our high-availability e-commerce and promotion platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Kotlin (JVM, Coroutines, Serialization) and Java.

Build robust microservices with Spring Boot and related Spring ecosystem components (Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Kafka, Spring Data).

Implement efficient serialization/deserialization using Jackson and Kotlin Serialization. Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests using JUnit 5, Mockk, and ArchUnit to ensure code quality.

Work with Kafka Streams (Avro), Oracle SQL (JDBC, JPA), DynamoDB, and Redis for data storage and caching needs. Deploy and manage services in AWS environment leveraging DynamoDB, Lambdas, and IAM.

Implement CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI to automate build, test, and deployment processes.

Containerize applications using Docker and integrate monitoring using Datadog for tracing, metrics, and dashboards.

Define and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform for services including GitLab, Datadog, Kafka, and Optimizely.

Develop and maintain RESTful APIs with OpenAPI (Swagger) and JSON API standards.

Apply resilience patterns using Resilience4j to build fault-tolerant systems.

Adhere to architectural and design principles such as Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and Contract Testing (Pact).

Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile Scrum environment to deliver high-quality features.

Utilize feature flagging tools like Optimizely to enable controlled rollouts.

Mandatory Skills & Technologies Languages:

Kotlin (JVM, Coroutines, Serialization),

Java Frameworks: Spring Boot (Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Kafka, Spring Data)

Serialization: Jackson, Kotlin Serialization

Testing: JUnit 5, Mockk, ArchUnit

Data: Kafka (Avro) Streams Oracle SQL (JDBC, JPA) DynamoDB (NoSQL) Redis (Caching)

Cloud: AWS (DynamoDB, Lambda, IAM)

CI/CD: GitLab CI Containers: Docker

Monitoring & Observability: Datadog (Tracing, Metrics, Dashboards, Monitors)

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (GitLab, Datadog, Kafka, Optimizely)

API: OpenAPI (Swagger), REST API, JSON API

Resilience: Resilience4j

Architecture & Practices: Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Contract Testing (Pact) Feature Flags (Optimizely)

Platforms: E-Commerce Platform (CommerceTools), Promotion Engine (Talon.One)

Methodologies: Scrum, Agile

Skills: Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, Aws

Must-Haves

Kotlin (JVM, Coroutines, Serialization), Java, Spring Boot (Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Kafka, Spring Data), AWS (DynamoDB, Lambda, IAM), Microservices Architecture

******

Notice period - 0 to 15 days only

Job stability is mandatory

Location: Trivandrum

Virtual Weekend Interview on 7th Feb 2026 - Saturday

Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have a minimum 4+ years of experience in backend software development.

Mandatory (Experience 2) -Must have 4+ years of experience in backend development using Python (Highly preferred), Java, or Node.js.

Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have experience with Cloud platforms like AWS (highly preferred), gcp or azure

Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have Experience in any databases - MySQL / PostgreSQL / Postgres / Oracle / SQL Server / DB2 / SQL / MongoDB / Ne

Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Java and Spring

Boot.

● Create and optimize SQL database schemas and queries in PostgreSQL to ensure efficient

data storage and retrieval.

● Implement RESTful APIs to facilitate seamless communication between frontend and backend

components.

● Configure and manage Nginx web servers to efficiently handle incoming requests and improve

application performance.

● Deploy and manage applications on AWS or GCP, ensuring scalability, reliability, and

security.

● Configure and optimize message broker systems using Kafka for real-time data processing

and communication.

● Containerize applications using Docker for easy deployment, scaling, and management.

● Create detailed Low-Level Designs (LLDs) and High-Level Designs (HLDs) to guide the

development and architecture of backend systems.

● Automating CI/CD pipelines and streamlining the software development lifecycle.

● Integrate AI/ML models into backend workflows using Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, or

third-party AI APIs.

● Leverage AI tools (e.g., OpenAI APIs, Hugging Face, AWS AI services) to build intelligent

features.

● Collaborate closely with frontend developers, product managers, data scientists, and other

stakeholders to deliver high-quality AI-powered solutions.

● Monitor and troubleshoot production systems to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and

uptime.

What We’re Looking For:

● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

● 3-5 years of experience in backend development.

● Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, SQL, and GitActions.

● Strong understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices.

● Experience with configuring and optimizing Nginx web servers.

● Experience with configuring and optimizing Kafka service.

● Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP.

● Familiarity with Docker containers and container orchestration.

● Ability to create comprehensive Low-Level Designs (LLDs) and High-Level Designs (HLDs)

for backend systems.

● Experience with Python for AI/ML model integration in backend services.

● Familiarity with AI platforms and APIs such as OpenAI, Hugging Face, AWS AI/ML, or GCP

Vertex AI.

● Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

● Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team

environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

● Knowledge of microservices architecture and related technologies.

● Experience with cloud-native development and serverless computing.

● Understanding of software development best practices, including Agile methodologies

Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript & OOPS
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it 
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors 
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Knowledge of AWS will be preferable

Kindly do not apply if you have less than 4 Yrs of Experience in Python

Position(6 Months Contract in Gurugram, India) :

Sr. Software Engineer

Experience:

4+ years of relevant exp

Location:

Gurugram, India

(Note: FREE accommodation can be given in Gurgaon, India for the 6 months & 'work from home' is not allowed)

About Company:

The company for which you will be working is an online insurance provider that operates a B2C platform as well as a B2B2C platform. They are working to revolutionize the way insurance is bought in India by not only offering an online platform but also providing every customer a touchpoint with its partners. The company has been a platform for Motor, Health, Travel, & Life Insurance.

Key Competencies:

• A strong technical solutioning sense.
• Excellent experience in writing code using the following technologies: Python and Django.
• Can write elegant and performant SQL queries.
• Understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases and come up with effective solutions.
• Strong problem-solving, data structures, and algorithm design skills.
• Good understanding of REST APIs and web technologies in general.
• Very good understanding of any RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases.
• Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion.
• A willingness to learn and choose new technologies with a strong justification for the choices made.

Roles/Responsibilities:

• Be involved in all aspects of development: playing a critical role in the design, planning, development, testing, and deployment.
• Help develop best practices for future development.
• Thinks and implements in the right way instead of cutting corners.
• Conceptualize, Design, and Develop new features in the product.
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications, test & debug programs
• Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application.
• Use technical knowledge and creative thinking to provide the most innovative solutions.
• Optimizing the performance of the components and keeping up to date with the latest industry trends
• Doing effective peer reviews where your peers learn from you every time.
• Be a great team player

If interested, please share your CV with kuldeep[dot]pandey[@]benchkart[dot]com

About us:

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha) and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

About you:

You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements and have a written design. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).

Your responsibilities:

You will primarily work on the backend maintaining the existing platform and writing new enhancements and features. Apart from your own features, as a senior member of the team you will be expected to be actively involved in overall design discussions and peer code reviews. You will factor in extensibility, maintainability, scalability and security in designs and code. You will ensure that best engineering practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate. You will strive for overall engineering excellence.

Must-have Skills:

• 4-8 years of total experience
• 2+ years of experience in Django and DRF. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of DRF.
• Designing and building  scalable web applications
• Good understanding of REST principles
• SQL database design and queries
• Working knowledge of AWS

Good-To-Have Skills:

• Angular or any other JavaScript frontend framework
• Designing microservices
• DevOps experience

FAQ's.

1. Your technology ingredients?

Programming languages:
Our backend is written in Python using Django framework. And the frontend is in AngularJS. Currently there is no mobile app.

Infrastructure:
We are an AWS shop and use their services for most needs, Docker for containerization and ECS as orchestrator, RDS as database, S3 for storage and SQS as messaging backend.

Other tools:
BitBucket for Git and CI/CD pipeline, Trello for project management; and Google Meets and Slack for communication.

2. Your hiring plan?

Currently the engineering team comprises of 3 engineers, and we plan to grow it to 8 by the end of 2021.

3. Your Interview process?

We will try to finish the process within two weeks. In case we can’t go ahead with  your candidature, we will clearly and immediately let you know. But in case of competing applications, we may request you to wait for a week or two.

1. 15 minutes introductory call to discuss requirements and expectations
2. 30 minutes online coding assignment on a screen sharing session
3. 1 hour technical interview covering problem solving, code review and aptitude
4. 15 minutes call with co-founder for final discussion

In case of inability to come to a conclusion from either side, we may go for an additional round.

4. Your WFH and WFO policy?

Due to Covid-19 the team is working from home and will continue till March-2022. After that we will work from the Bangalore or Pune office (yet to be finalised). You should be open to relocate to any of the cities.

5. Your funding status?

In March 2020, Strata raised $1.5 million in seed funding; and $6 million in Series-A in July 2021.