Senior Software Engineer (Back-End/Node.js/ AWS) | Holofy London

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop backend components and sub-systems for large-scale platforms under guidance from senior engineers.
• Contribute to building and evolving the next-generation customer data platform.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code with a focus on scalability and performance.
• Explore and experiment with modern technologies—especially open-source frameworks—
• and build small prototypes or proof-of-concepts.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, and learning while adhering to engineering best practices.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and continuous improvement of the platform.

Qualifications:

• 0–2 years of experience (or strong academic/project background) in backend development with Java.
• Good fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and basic performance optimizations.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or IT (B.E / B.Tech / M.Tech / M.S) from premier institutes.

Technical Skill Set:

• Strong aptitude and analytical skills with emphasis on problem solving and clean coding.
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks and writing testable code is a plus.
• Basic understanding of distributed systems, messaging, or streaming platforms is a bonus.

AI-Assisted Engineering (LLM-Era Skills):

• Familiarity with modern AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Opencode, or similar.
• Ability to use AI tools for code generation, refactoring, test creation, and learning new systems responsibly.
• Willingness to learn how to combine human judgment with AI assistance for high-quality engineering outcomes.

Soft Skills & Nice to Have

• Appreciation for technology and its ability to create real business value, especially in data and marketing platforms.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to execute in fast-paced environments.
• Prior internship or startup experience is a plus.

Lead Software Engineer

Bidgely is seeking an exceptional and visionary Lead Software Engineer to join its core team in Bangalore. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be working closely with EMs and org heads in shaping the roadmap and planning and set the technical direction for the team, influence architectural decisions, and mentor other engineers while delivering highly reliable, scalable products powered by large data, advanced machine learning models, and responsive user interfaces. Renowned for your deep technical expertise, you are capable of deconstructing any system, solving complex problems creatively, and elevating those around you. Join our innovative and dynamic team that thrives on creativity, technical excellence, and a belief that nothing is impossible with collaboration and hard work.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, scalable web services, APIs, and backend data modules.
• Define and drive adoption of best practices in system architecture, component reusability, and software design patterns across teams.
• Provide technical leadership in product, architectural, and strategic engineering discussions.
• Mentor and guide engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, product management, data science, and UX) to translate business requirements into scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Champion and drive continuous improvement initiatives for code quality, performance, security, and reliability.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies to ensure competitive advantage.
• Present technical concepts and results clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders; influence organizational direction and recommend key technical investments.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in designing and developing highly scalable backend and middle tier systems.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field from a leading institution.
• Demonstrated mastery of data structures, algorithms, and system design; experience architecting large-scale distributed systems and leading significant engineering projects.
• Deep fluency in Java, Spring, Hibernate, J2EE, RESTful services; expertise in at least one additional backend language/framework.
• Strong hands-on experience with both SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis) databases, including schema design, optimization, and performance tuning for large data sets.
• Experience with Distributed Systems, Cloud Architectures, CI/CD, and DevOps principles.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and communication skills; proven ability to drive technical vision and alignment across teams.
• Track record of delivering solutions in fast-paced and dynamic start-up environments.
• Commitment to quality, attention to detail, and a passion for coaching others.

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll contribute to frameworks that enable flexible/scalable customer journeys and tying them with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners.

Responsibilities:

1. Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
2. Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation
7. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 4 years experience as an SDE, building large scale services
2. Extensive experience in at least one programming language and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
3. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
4. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
5. Passion for solving complex problems
6. Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
7. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
8. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
9. Experience with team management
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience working with node.js, MongoDB and Google Cloud
2. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

• Build campaign generation services which can send app notifications at a speed of 10 million a minute
• Dashboards to show Real time key performance indicators to clients
• Develop complex user segmentation engines which creates segments on Terabytes of data within few seconds
• Building highly available & horizontally scalable platform services for ever growing data
• Use cloud based services like AWS Lambda for blazing fast throughput & auto scalability
• Work on complex analytics on terabytes of data like building Cohorts, Funnels, User path analysis, Recency Frequency & Monetary analysis at blazing speed
• You will build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.
• As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.
• You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.
• Collaborating various highly-functional teams in the company to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.

• 2-5 years of experience in backend development and must have worked on Java/shell/Perl/python scripting.
• Solid understanding of engineering best practices, continuous integration, and incremental delivery.
• Strong analytical skills, debugging and troubleshooting skills, product line analysis.
• Follower of agile methodology (Sprint planning, working on JIRA, retrospective etc).
• Proficiency in usage of tools like Docker, Maven, Jenkins and knowledge on frameworks in Java like spring, spring boot, hibernate, JPA.
• Ability to design application modules using various concepts like object oriented, multi-threading, synchronization, caching, fault tolerance, sockets, various IPCs, database interfaces etc.
• Hands on experience on Redis, MySQL and streaming technologies like Kafka producer consumers and NoSQL databases like mongo dB/Cassandra.
• Knowledge about versioning like Git and deployment processes like CICD.

Position Overview: We are looking for a senior developer who must be capable of building services using modern microservices architecture with NodeJS & serverless frameworks. Should have strong knowledge of ObjectOriented Concepts, and Node. Js frameworks like loopback, RDBMS, and microservice patterns. The candidate should be comfortable with application coding based on design and specifications, and also be comfortable working with JSON and RESTful services. The candidate must be a top-notch developer committed to keeping learning new things and becoming an integral part of and fostering growth within our development team.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining the backend systems that support the application
• Designing and implementing APIs and Microservices architecture to handle the application workload
• Developing and optimizing queries for RDBMS (MySQL) to manage data and ensure performance and scalability
• Managing and deploying the application on AWS using Lambda, ECS and other related services
• Collaborating with front-end developers to ensure smooth communication between front-end and back-end systems and back-end systems
• Writing clean, neat and reusable code that follows coding standards and best practices.
• Participating in code reviews and ensuring that coding standards are maintained
• Troubleshooting and debugging issues that arise in production environments
• Optimizing the application for performance, scalability, and security
• Continuously learning and staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and best practices in software development
• Documenting technical specifications, processes, and system design

• Must have experience in either of JavaScript frameworks: Angular (Preferred) / ReactJS/Node.
• Must have experience in either of backend software development in NODE Js or [J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring core, JPA]
• Must have experience in designing/implementing Hibernate/ORM, Restful web services, Micro Services using Java or Node Js
• Knowledge with relational/ NoSQL databases (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Knowledge with versioning (Git or SVN) /build tools (Maven/Ant/Gradle/Junit), Unit testing & code coverage tools is desired
• Knowledge of App / Web servers (NGINX / Tomcat / Jboss Wildfly)
• Understands the process of new application development and has the ability to apply these concepts with minimal mentoring and supervision.
• Advanced knowledge experience using any of IDE (e.g., Eclipse, SonarQube, STS, VS Code)
• Knowledge on Cloud platform, technologies & deployments is an added advantage
• Resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and
• Must have experience with Agile tools

• Good knowledge in product development domains
• Knowledge in Finance and Insurance domain preferred
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of
• Complete application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities contributing to team meetings;
• Troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features
• Understanding and implementation of security and data
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications and standards and best industry
• Usage of Process tools – JIRA, TFS, HP QC or any other agile tools, also knowledge of CMM Level 3 development process.
• Self-motivated & working independently with minimal
• Maintain code integrity and
• Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual
• Follow the coding standards for java/node and angular

• Usage of troubleshooting tools like J Profiler, J Meter or application performance tuning
• Exposure to Non-web-based developments, for both mobile and
• Development experience using Docker, Kubernetes, Containerization etc in AWS or other cloud platforms
• Willing to take up proof of concepts and showcase the technical capability
• Usage of design tools Visio or draw io