

Our client develops, publishes and distributes highly engaging games to a wide audience covering mobile, social and online platforms. Their group of architects are always attempting new and radical stuff that enhances the creative programming and gaming stages, keeping the players constantly glued and wanting for more.
Funded by SnapDeal founders, it is a cross platform gaming organisation focused on real money gaming and strategy games. The founder is an INSEAD and IIT-B alumni with more than 10 years of work experience across various countries.
- Handling the server side programming of the multiplayer gaming application
- Writing scalable, robust,, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
- Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software
- Translating design mockups and prototypes into working applications.
- Building customer facing technology products, Developing Highly Scalable Code and Working Closely with Engineering and Product Team.
- Building social, web and mobile based games for users across India
What you need to have:
- Key expertise areas: Client Server realtime communication, MYSQL-POSTGRES database
- Web protocols like: HTTP, MQTT and Web Sockets, Deadlock detection and locking techniques for mutual exclusion, hyper thread and multi threading server model
- Cloud based application management and interfacing it with 3rd party services, Payment gateways and REST APIs.
- Candidates with experience in Golang will be preferred
- Working experience in a Product StartUp (Internet/E-commerce) building scalable applications.
- Hands on experience in system architecture and gaming apps
- Good spoken and written communication skills.
- Good team player.
- Sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills
- Able to think critically of the current system in terms of software development
- Expertise in Golang, AWS cloud computing, Frontend languages like HTML, CSS, Javascript

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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
● Care about things like fault tolerance, durability, backups and recovery,
performance, maintainability, code simplicity etc.
● Lead a team of software engineers and help create an environment of ownership
and learning.
● Introduce best practices of software development and ensure their adoption
across the team.
● Help set and maintain coding standards for the team.
We're seeking passionate, next-gen minded engineers who are excited about solving complex technical challenges and building innovative, first-of-its-kind products which make a tangible difference for our customers. As a Backend SDE-1, you will play a key role in driving strategic initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams across business, product, and operations to solve exciting problems. This role demands strong technical acumen, leadership capabilities, and a mindset focused on innovation and operational excellence.
We value individuals who think independently, challenge the status quo, and bring creativity and curiosity to the table—not those who simply follow instructions. If you're passionate about solving problems and making an impact, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and constantly prioritise your own work.
- Technical Excellence: Understand the onground problems, explore and design various possible solutions to conclude and implement scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Implement and learn best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
- Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Managers, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
- Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 1+ years of experience in software engineering
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
- Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
- Hands on with multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
- Understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
- Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.
Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

Responsibilities:
- Programming
- Full stack system development
- Product Design
- Technical risk assessment and estimation
- Technical investigation/research, assessment, and recommendation
- Providing solutions and preparing proof-of-concept for technical proposals and demonstrations
- Product maintenance and support
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or any course related to Information Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
- Ability to execute full software development life cycle (SDLC)
- 1+ year experience in product development
- 1+ years Java development experience
- 1+ year experience in agile product development methodology/process
- Develop flowcharts, layouts, and documentation to identify requirements and solutions
- Experience of relational databases, SQL / MySql / PL SQL / Oracle
- Experience in JAVA Frameworks (Spring / Spring MVC / Spring boot / Hibernate)
- Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
- Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
- Document and maintain software functionality
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems
- Experience in Unit testing is a plus
Knowledge in:
- JavaScript / ES6 / JavaScript Reactive Framework (Vue.js / java servlets is a huge plus)
- REST Concepts
- VCS - Git
- AWS
- Excellent programming and problem-solving skills
- Experience with test-driven development
- Good communication skills
- Fast learner, detail-oriented
- Able to work under pressure
- Self-managing and able to collaborate with offsite team members
- Can render extra hours whenever necessary.
Training
After a rigorous training program of up to one month, you'll immediately get to work on one of our projects. We're working on mission-critical government systems or commercial products that are levelling up the way the world does business.

• Have strong experience in Go
• Have expertise in implementing microservices (using tools and technologies for messaging, GraphQL, GRPC, REST API, etc)
• Have implementation experience in data visualization (knowledge graph, for example), workflow or business process management
• Have expertise in design and development using PostresSQL
• Have experience with Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
• Experience of Cloud AWS based instances and services (e.g. EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route53, CloudFront, ElastiCache)
• Strong experience in enterprise application development, data structures, modern design patterns and microservices architecture


• You will work on a disruptive product that’s still in its early stages
• Lead development of features within your technical focus area (backend)
• Design and develop secure, clean, clear, scalable, and well-documented
codebase
• Translate objectives into step by step, evaluate, and then refactor into a
scalable and extensible design
• Exercise high end-to-end ownership and initiative of their tasks
• Design, develop, ship, and maintain medium or high complexity features
with little guidance from a more experienced engineer
• Research on new technologies and tools to improve products
• Mentoring other engineers, defining our technical culture, and helping to
build a fast-growing team.
Qualifications
• 2-4 years of experience of building backend services
• Familiar with REST and event driven constructs
• Well-versed in one of the following languages: Java, Go-lang, or Python
• Data modelling experience in Relational and NoSQL databases
• Proficiency in OOP, SQL, Design Patterns, and software best practices
• Well-versed in standard web frameworks such as Spring Boot / Django
• A supportive and highly collaborative attitude to work with cross-
functional teams on a daily basis
• A passion for learning new stacks and taking on new challenges
• Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the
scope of the product
Role: Senior Software Engineer – Backend Location: Bangalore / Gurgaon / Pune
About the Role
The successful backend engineer will work closely and collaboratively with cross functional teams during all phases of the software development lifecycle.
The incumbent should be competent to provide quick solutions to problems and taking a product or a product’s component through the entire life cycle, optimize the space / time complexity and improve on usability and reliability.
What you’ll be doing:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field from top notch colleges
- 4 + years of software development engineering.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles (including MVC).
- Good hands on in AWS scalable environment.
- Experience with different RDBMS and No SQL databases like MySQL, mongo, etc.
- Experience in designing scalable micro-services required.
- Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis.
- Proficiency in one language that emphasizes class abstractions (for e.g. Java) and have coded in it for at least 4 years.
- Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and work with clients with great efficiency.
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills and the ability to express thoughts logically and succinctly.
- Open minded, Team builder, Good communicator and ability to lead and inspire teams.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
- Experience in dealing with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
What are we looking for?
- 4 to 10 years of hands on design / development experience.
- Tech / M.Tech Computer Science or equivalent field from a premier institutes.
- Proficient in Java OR C/C++, data structures, algorithms and OO design / design patterns.
- Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
- Technical depth in OS, computer architecture and OS internals.
- Ability to write scalable and maintainable code.
- Self-starter and goal-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Must be able to work cooperatively within a strong diverse technical community to expedite development tasks.
- Experience in Machine Learning is a plus
PS: Code review and team leading expereince is a pluys for Tech Lead role
What we offer
- Competitive salary and excellent benefits, in a diverse working environment with inspiring and hardworking colleagues
- A positive, get-things-done workplace.
- An inclusive environment that ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions.
- Ability to learn cutting edge concepts and innovation in an agile start-up environment with a global scale.
- A flexible working environment where you can drive your outcomes.
About us
At PayU, we are a global fintech investor and our vision is to build a world without financial borders where everyone can prosper. We give people in high growth markets the financial services and products they need to thrive. Our expertise in 18+ high-growth markets enables us to extend the reach of financial services. This drives everything we do, from investing in technology entrepreneurs to offering credit to underserved individuals, to helping merchants buy, sell, and operate online. Being part of Prosus, one of the largest technology investors in the world, gives us the presence and expertise to make a real impact. Find out more at www.payu.com
Our Commitment to Building A Diverse and Inclusive Workforce
As a global and multi-cultural organization with varied ethnicities thriving across locations, we realize that our responsibility towards fulfilling the D&I commitment is huge. Therefore, we continuously strive to create a diverse, inclusive, and safe environment, for all our people, communities, and customers. Our leaders are committed to create an inclusive work culture which enables transparency, flexibility, and unbiased attention to every PayUneer so they can succeed, irrespective of gender, color, or personal faith. An environment where every person feels they belong, that they are listened to, and where they are empowered to speak up. At PayU we have zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice whether a specific race, ethnicity, or of persons with disabilities, or the LGBTQ communities.



- B Tech/BE or M.Tech/ME in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college.
- Experience level of 7+ years in building large scale applications.
- Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with distributed systems handling large amount of data.
- Excellent coding skills in Java / Python / Node / Go.
- Very good understanding of Web Technologies.
- Very good understanding of any RDBMS and/or messaging.




