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A BIT ABOUT US
Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.
The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.
Our business includes Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, Japan, US, and expanding rapidly.
The Opportunity:
We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Engineer (Backend) to join our dynamic software development team. In this role, you will take ownership of key backend projects, drive cross-functional collaborations, and lead efforts to deliver robust, scalable, and high-performance software solutions. You will be focused on solving complex problems and influencing technical strategy across multiple teams. As a engineering leader, you will have the autonomy to make technical decisions, define project scope, and guide the direction of backend architecture while working with a passionate, high-performing team.
You will be working hands-on with products built on Python, with additional contributions in Golang and Rust. These technologies are central to our development stack, and your focus will be on developing, scaling, and maintaining distributed services. A core part of our architecture involves distributed systems, so you will gain in-depth experience in maintaining, optimizing, and scaling these systems in a fast-paced environment.
As a lead engineer, we expect you to not only code but also architect solutions, make independent technical decisions, and navigate complex problem spaces. You will be trusted with significant ownership, and your expertise will play a key role in shaping the future of our product and technology stack.
We strongly value open source contributions, and encourage you to check out our work on GitHub at Appknox GitHub. While we have experienced security professionals onboard to guide you, a background in security is not required for this position.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the backend development for a disruptive product in the Security domain, driving innovation while improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Own the software design process, including designing workflows, system architecture, and feature implementation plans.
- Ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions by coordinating sprints, planning releases, and managing cross-team dependencies.
- Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design, taking independent decisions to ensure efficiency and scalability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, providing guidance and support to developers to ensure high-quality deliverables.
- Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices, while mentoring team members in coding standards
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, adhering to best practices and coding standards.
- Design and implement software components, frameworks, and APIs using Django and Python.
- Create flowcharts, layouts, and documentation to identify system requirements and solutions.
- Develop and enforce robust software verification plans, quality assurance procedures, and deployment strategies.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems to enhance functionality and performance.
- Ensure regular updates, maintain software systems, and evaluate user feedback to improve solutions.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.
- Act as the go-to expert for backend technical challenges, driving solutions and decision-making processes across the team.
Requirements:
- 5–8 years of professional experience in backend development with a strong focus on Django and Python.
- Proficiency in Django REST Framework (DRF), relational databases, SQL, and ORMs (e.g., Django ORM, SQLAlchemy).
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to make independent decisions regarding system design and implementation.
- Hands-on experience in designing and developing scalable, maintainable, and high-performing backend systems.
- Deep understanding of software engineering methodologies, including Test-Driven Development (TDD) and CI/CD practices.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to document technical specifications and workflows clearly.
- Proven ability to lead and mentor a small team of engineers, providing technical guidance and support without formal people management responsibilities.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and microservices architectures is a bonus.
- Self-driven and able to operate autonomously in a fast-paced environment
- Able to handle ambiguity and adapt to rapidly changing business needs.
Work Expectations:
Within 1 month
- Attend KT sessions conducted by the engineering and product teams to gain a deep understanding of the product, its architecture, and workflows.
- Learn about the team's development processes, tools, and key challenges.
- Work closely with the product team to understand product requirements and contribute to the design and development of features.
- Dive deep into the existing backend architecture, including database structures, APIs, and integration points, to fully understand the technical landscape
- Begin addressing minor technical challenges and tasks, while understanding the underlying architecture and tech stack.
- Begin to participate in creating action plans for new features, ensuring that design and implementation are aligned with product goals.
Within 2 months
- Take ownership of specific features or modules within the codebase, including the responsibility for their design, development, and delivery.
- Begin identifying potential areas for improvement in the codebase and propose strategies for optimization and scalability.
- Conduct code reviews to ensure high-quality deliverables while mentoring team members on coding standards and best practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., frontend, DevOps, QA) to align technical implementation with business objectives.
- Develop technical documentation for the assigned modules or features, ensuring maintainability and ease of onboarding for new engineers.
- Start contributing to the sprint planning process by estimating effort, identifying dependencies, and mitigating risks.
Within 3 months
- Take complete control of the codebase, demonstrating the ability to work independently and make critical decisions on system design and implementation.
- Lead the development and delivery of key features, ensuring they meet performance, scalability, and maintainability requirements.
- Act as a technical mentor for the team by guiding junior engineers and providing support to peers when needed.
- Drive cross-team collaboration, ensuring smooth communication between engineering, DevOps, and product teams.
- Lead and own the technical discussions for new features, contributing to architectural decisions and resolving technical challenges.
- Monitor and improve development processes, suggesting tools or methodologies to enhance team productivity and software quality.
- Prepare and deliver regular updates to stakeholders on project progress, risks, and mitigation strategies.
Within 5-6 months
- Be fully autonomous in the codebase and capable of leading a small team of engineers.
- Demonstrate strong decision-making skills and the ability to deliver high-quality features independently.
- Establish themselves as the go-to expert for the backend codebase and act as the technical POC for cross-functional teams.
- Play a pivotal role in enhancing team productivity and aligning technical solutions with business needs.
Personality traits we really admire:
- Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
- Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.
- Has attention to details and helps identify edge cases.
- Highly motivated and coming up with ideas and perspective to help us move towards our goals faster.
- Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.
Interview Process:
- Round 1 Interview - TA Profile Evaluation
- Round 2 Interview - Assignment Evaluation
- Round 3 Interview - Engineering Team & Technical Founder
- Round 4 Interview - HR
Compensation:
- As per Industry Standards
Why Join Us:
- Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
- Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
- Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
- Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first hand.
- Health insurance: We offer family health insurance coverage to employees.
Software Engineer - Backend
Job Description
Introduction
Cashflo, true to its name, is on a mission to unlock $100+ billion of trapped working
capital in the economy by creating India’s largest marketplace for invoice discounting
to solve the day-to-day cashflow problems faced by businesses. Founded by ex-BCG
and ISB / IIM alumni, and backed by SAIF Partners, Cashflo helps democratize access
to credit in a fair and transparent manner. Awarded Supply Chain Finance solution of
the year in 2019, Cashflo creates a win-win ecosystem for Buyers, suppliers and
financiers through its unique platform model. Cashflo shares its parentage with HCS
Ltd., a 25-year-old, highly reputed financial services company has raised over Rs.
15,000 Crores in the market till date, for over 200 corporate clients.
Our leadership team consists of ex-BCG, ISB / IIM alumni with a team of industry
veterans from financial services serving as the advisory board. We bring to the table
deep insights in the SME lending space, based on 100+ years of combined experience
in Financial Services. We are a team of passionate problem solvers, and are looking for
like-minded people to join our team.
The challenge
▪ Solve a complex $300+ billion problem at the cutting edge of Fintech
innovation, and make a tangible difference to the small business landscape
in India.
▪ Find innovative solutions for problems in a yet to be discovered market.
Key Responsibilities
▪ As an early team member, you will get a chance to set the foundations of our
engineering culture. You will help articulate our engineering principles and
help set the long-term roadmap.
▪ Making decisions on the evolution of Cashflo's technical architecture
▪ Building new features end to end, from talking to customers to writing code
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have
▪ 3+ years of full-time software engineering experience
▪ Experience building scalable backend platforms (you've owned & built
features from start to finish before)
▪ Thorough knowledge of SDLC
▪ Extensive knowledge of any of Python, Go, NodeJS
▪ Expertise on any RDBMS or NoSQL databases
▪ Understanding of messaging systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka and protocols
▪ Understands CI/CD pipelines
▪ Exposure to cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure
▪ Seen extensive scale and understands the evolutionary technical challenges
About You
Product-minded. You have a sense for great user experience and feel for when
something is off. You love understanding customer pain points and solving for them.
Get a lot done. You enjoy all aspects of building a product and are comfortable
moving across the stack when necessary. You problem solve independently and enjoy
figuring stuff out.
High conviction. When you commit to something, you're in all the way. You're
opinionated, but you know when to disagree and commit. Mediocrity is the worst of all
possible outcomes.
What’s in it for me
▪ Gain exposure to the Fintech space - one of the largest and fastest growing
markets in India and globally
▪ Shape India’s B2B Payments landscape through cutting edge technology
innovation
▪ Be directly responsible for driving company’s success
▪ Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment
that throws new challenges on a daily basis
▪ Fast track your career with trainings, mentoring, growth opportunities
on both IC and management track
▪ Work-life balance and fun team events
Founder’s LinkedIn profile
Dheeraj Pandey
(Founder, Investor, & Then-CEO of Nutanix / One of the Indian origin guy out of 10 Board Member of- Adobe / Alumni- IIT, Kanpur & University of Texas, Austin)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpandey/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpandey/
&
Chandra Nath
(Vice President- Nutanix/ Vice President, Head of International- Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd) – Alumni- IIT, Kanpur, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandranath/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandranath/
&
Manoj Agarwal
(Co-Founder at Stealth Startup, Previously SVP Engineering & GM Hybrid Cloud at Nutanix/ Alumni- IIT, Kanpur)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/devreveler/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/devreveler/
- Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States
- Year founded: 2020.
- Work Location: Bangalore
- Team size: 35-40 (In US from companies like Google, Airbnb, Blizzard, Facebook, Palantir, Microsoft, CapitalOne, Nutanix and Confluent)
- Funding: 50 M USD (raised the largest seed round in the history of Silicon Valley)
Note:
We already have a team of 30-35 people in San Jose, California, United States, now we are building a new team in india and they are hiring 0-5 years of rock stars from top notch colleges (Top 5 ranked IIT’s only & BITS) & companies only.
Note:
Basically, I did not have the exact JD with myself, but I can arrange an Exploratory call for you with above senior and core members of a company (Dheeraj/Chandra/Manoj).
Job Role – Backend developer.
If you think, you are one of them then please reply with your interest and we will take your candidature ahead for next level of evaluation. (No Bar of budget for strong candidate).
Looking forward to taking you to the next level of technology.
Warm Regards,
Rahul Rajput
Senior talent acquisition
• Should have a B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA in CS / IT / IS from premier college with 6+
years of experience in software development.
• Strong OOPS and OOD Fundamentals.
• E-commerce domain experience of 2-3 Years is mandatory.
• Good Coding, Problem Solving Skills, algorithms and data structures.
• Knowledge of My SQL database or any other RDBMS with a good understanding of
SQL language.
• Prior experience in web technologies is a plus.
• Ability to work on UNIX / Linux platform.
• Good Communication & Interpersonal Skills.
Job Description :
• You will be involved in all phases of development : architecture & design,
prototyping, implementation & testing, analysis & documentation, deployment.
• Capable of independent full systems design, including requirements gathering,
specifications, and coding.
• Knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and
engineering best practices.
• Take the product/feature idea from the conceptualization phase to delivery with all
the relevant high-quality artifacts during the cycle.
• Flexibility and collaboration, coupled with strong object-oriented design & software
development skills are keys to success in this position.
As an SDE, you will develop a deep understanding of our business, work closely with development teams and own the architecture and end-to-end delivery of software components.
Requirements:
- Exp: 3 - 8 years.
- 4 + years' experience building successful production software systems.
- A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field).
- The ability to take convert raw requirements into good design while exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.
- Expertise in System design (design patterns, LLD, HLD, Solid principle, OOAD, Distributed systems etc. ), Architecture (MVC/Micro services).
- Excellence in technical communication.
- Has experience in mentoring other software developers.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Experience developing service oriented architectures and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers to maintain architectural vision and software quality.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
- Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative application.
- Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
- Strong organisational and problem solving skills with great attention to detail.
- Ability to triage issues, react well to changes, work with teams and ability to multi-task on multiple products and projects.
- Experience building highly scalable, high availability services.
- The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader, builder and operator.
- He/she should have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and initiatives.
- He/she needs to balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
- He/she needs to be constantly striving for simplicity, and at the same time demonstrate significant creativity, innovation and judgme.
- Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language.
- Experience in SQL or Non-SQL database.
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
- Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills.
- Good understanding of at least some of the modern programming languages (Java) and open-source technologies
Software Development Engineer – SDE 2.
As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.
Top Skills
You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C#
You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
Roles & Responsibilities
You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.
Skills & Experience
Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
Excellent programming skills in any object-oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.
At BACQ, our mission is to build financial services that are simple, accessible and affordable.
BACQ is founded by Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal to build consumer-centric and technology-driven businesses in the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services & Insurance) space.
Responsibilities:
- Work on the development backend systems for our first product
- Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
- Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
- Mentor and provide feedback to teammates
Requirements:
- 2+ years of software development experience
- Strong computer science fundamentals
- Good knowledge of Java ecosystem
- Can write code that is readable, maintainable and performant
- Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
- Good understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
- Comfortable writing multi-threaded programs
Bonus:
- Understanding of domain-driven design concepts like ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, aggregates and domain events
- Know how to use test driven development as a design tool
- Good intuition for the principles underlying object-orientation, particularly encapsulation
- Understand the importance of immutability and of reducing the state-space of objects
- Seek to identify key underlying ideas and use those as building blocks before reaching for shiny new tools
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