Lead Engineer

📍 Position : Java Architect

📅 Experience : 10 to 15 Years

🧑‍💼 Open Positions : 3+

📍 Work Location : Bangalore, Pune, Chennai

💼 Work Mode : Hybrid

📅 Notice Period : Immediate joiners preferred; up to 1 month maximum

🔧 Core Responsibilities :

• Lead architecture design and development for scalable enterprise-level applications.
• Own and manage all aspects of technical development and delivery.
• Define and enforce best coding practices, architectural guidelines, and development standards.
• Plan and estimate the end-to-end technical scope of projects.
• Conduct code reviews, ensure CI/CD, and implement TDD/BDD methodologies.
• Mentor and lead individual contributors and small development teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, Product, and QA.
• Engage in high-level and low-level design (HLD/LLD), solutioning, and cloud-native transformations.

🛠️ Required Technical Skills :

• Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices architecture
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging/event streaming platforms
• Proficiency in cloud platforms – AWS and Azure (must-have)
• Exposure to frontend technologies (nice-to-have)
• Solid understanding of HLD, system architecture, and design patterns
• Good grasp of DevOps concepts, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Agile/Lean development, Pair Programming, and Continuous Integration practices
• Polyglot mindset is a plus (Scala, Golang, Python, etc.)

🚀 Ideal Candidate Profile :

• Currently working in a product-based environment
• Already functioning as an Architect or Principal Engineer
• Proven track record as an Individual Contributor (IC)
• Strong engineering fundamentals with a passion for scalable software systems
• No compromise on code quality, craftsmanship, and best practices

🧪 Interview Process :

1. Round 1: Technical pairing round
2. Rounds 2 & 3: Technical rounds with panel (code pairing + architecture)
3. Final Round: HR and offer discussion

Build AI Systems That Change How Industries Operate

Tailored AI is not just another tech company. We’re building the McKinsey of AI systems a new kind of firm, made up of engineers who understand business deeply and use AI as a force multiplier.

As an SDE 2, you’ll lead and own the engineering for an entire product track, often working directly with clients and stakeholders. You’ll be the architect, the executor, and the problem-solver-in-chief. You’ll take vague problem statements, turn them into elegant solutions, and bring them to life in production.

What You’ll Do

• Architect and build AI-powered software solutions from scratch
• Own a full engineering track—backend, infra, integrations, and LLM workflows
• Interface with customers to align on specs, iterate fast, and deploy with confidence
• Mentor SDE 1s and Interns, conduct code reviews, and guide engineering quality
• Stay on top of AI trends, contribute to internal tooling and shared best practices

What You’ll Gain

• Leadership opportunties and fast progression to Senior SDE roles
• Deep knowledge of how AI is transforming industries while actually building it
• High ownership, zero bureaucracy, and direct influence on product direction
• Exposure to multi-agent AI systems, enterprise integrations, and scalable infra

Who You Are

• 2–3 years of strong backend engineering experience
• Proven track record of owning software modules and delivering in production
• Skilled in Python, Django/FastAPI, Postgres, AWS
• Exposure to system design and performance optimization
• Interest in AI tools like Langchain, OpenAI, vector DBs, etc.
• Strong analytical and communication skills

Tech Stack You’ll Work With

• Python, Django, FastAPI
• Postgres, Redis, S3
• EC2, Lambda, Cloudwatch
• Langchain, LLM APIs, Vector DBs
• REST APIs, Microservices, GitHub Actions

Some Real Problems You Might Work On

• Building a multi-agent career coaching assistant that guides users and automates job hunting
• Deploying a chatbot that generates employee performance reviews on-demand from HR data
• Designing an LLM pipeline to help Indian lawyers access precedents, statutes, and case law in seconds

Interview Process

1. Screening – A quick call with a Co-Founder to align on fit
2. CV + Puzzle + Programming – 1 hour round to gauge problem-solving and fundamentals
3. Live Coding – Solve a coding task using Python + docs
4. System Design – For SDE 2, a take-home problem and a detailed discussion round

• Experience in API development using Java will be a plus.

• Excellent knowledge and experience in writing testable, scalable, flexible, robust and efficient web applications using JavaEE 6/7 technologies, specifically, Spring core, Spring Boot Spring Data, spring batch and JPA
• Experience in successfully deploying Java-based applications in production and understanding load-balancing, authentication, and fault tolerance through Tom Cat.
• Experience in database modeling (MySQL/NoSQL databases such as Mongo DB)

• Knowledge of integrating with Ant, Maven, GIT and Shell scripting.
• Strong backend experience to develop Data Layer using at least one of the ORM frameworks like Hibernate, JPA etc.
• Strong RDBMS Skills and SQL skills. Experience in MySQL, Teradata and warehousing databases.

• Experience in Analytics frameworks and visualization products.

• Excellent knowledge and experience of Maven, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery with Jenkins.
  • Experience with JavaScript frameworks, especially Angular is a definite plus.

Java 8, J2EE , Spring Boot, Microservices, Apache Spark, DevOps, Advanced SQL, preferably with

expertise in Data engineering/Data analytics,

ELK(Elastic Search, Logstash , Kibana) stack, Teradata, any No SQL database, Hands on experience in

maintaining products on Cloud Technologies like PCF, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, etc, NodeJS,

Angular 2x, GitLab with CI/CD, Hands on experience in Unix server, Shell scripting, Large data

processing, Performance tuning, Experience in working in various Test Automation frameworks like

Selenium, Test NG, Python, Cucumber, Karma, Karate/ Jasmine, etc

Experience in using Eclipse, Spring tool suite, Project building tools - Maven, Gradle, etc, JIRA for ALM.

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

We’re looking for a Lead Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience in building web services to join our engineering team to help architect, build and run our growing list of products. You should have prior experience being responsible for building sufficiently complex products/services and mentoring software engineers.

Responsibilities: 

• Lead a team of engineers working on our product roadmap. You are expected to contribute to feature development with hands-on development tasks
• Oversee software architecture, source control workflows, and CI/CD processes and perform code reviews to ensure exceptional code quality
• Improve the development experience and the quality of the codebase. You will define and uphold best practices and coding standards for the team
• Responsible for architecture and design decisions
• Own stability and performance of the service that you work on
• Work with the Engineering Manager to ship stable software on time
• Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy in your area of expertise

Requirements: 

• 2+ years of experience in a technical lead role designing and building complex backend systems
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Excellent knowledge of best practices and coding patterns
• Deep knowledge of backend programming languages like Python and web application frameworks like Django
• Solid experience in building web services using relational databases like PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Proficiency with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform or Azure
• Extensive experience with Linux/UNIX production environments
• Strong sense of quality in terms of both program architecture and code style
• Passion to dig into technically complex problems to troubleshoot and figure out a solution
• Desire to continuously improve and ship the best quality product
• Pragmatic approach to make sure technical decisions align with actual business needs. 
• Good understanding of the trade-offs when building for product value, reliability, or performance
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to discuss and explain your point of view clearly and effectively
• An engineering degree is a must(B.E. CS preferred)

CoreStack, an AI-powered multi-cloud governance solution, empowers enterprises to rapidly achieve Continuous and Autonomous Cloud Governance at Scale. CoreStack enables enterprises to realize outcomes such as 40% decrease in cloud costs and 50% increase in operational efficiencies by governing operations, security, cost, access, and resources. CoreStack also assures 100% compliance with standards such as ISO, FedRAMP, NIST, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, AWS CIS & Well Architected Framework (WAF). We work with many large global customers across multiple industries including Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Education, Telecommunications, Technology and Government.

CoreStack closed a $8.5 million Series A financing recently. CoreStack was recognized as IDC Innovator in Cloud Management Solutions and in the Gartner Magic quadrant for Cloud Management Platforms in 2020. Earlier in 2019, Gartner named CoreStack as a Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing. CoreStack is a Microsoft Azure Gold & Co-Sell Partner and Amazon AWS Advanced Technology Partner.

CoreStack Offers

• Competitive salary
• Competitive benefit package with appreciable equity
• Exciting, fast-paced and entrepreneurial culture
• Health insurance and other company benefits

• Building scalable web applications
• Integrating UI elements with server-side
• Handling Security and Data Protection
• Integrating front- end with SQL and NoSQL databases and ensuring its consistency
• Building reusable code and libraries
• Optimizing the code to improve its quality and efficiency

• 2+ yrs of Backend development experience
• You have excellent programming skills in python, ORM libraries and Django
• You have experience inbuilt tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Rundeck
• You have experience in cross-browser/cross-platform front-end development with HTML/CSS/Javascript in Angular or similar frameworks
• You are an expert in SQL (Redshift, PostgreSQL, MySql, or similar) and NoSQL (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• You design, build and test RESTful web services.
• You have experience with Apache HTTP, NGINX, Tomcat or Jetty.

• Strong programming skills in Javascript/TypeScript, Python or Go.
• Hands-on experience in API development and frameworks such Express, Loopback, Hapi.
• Good Understanding of SQL and NoSQL database.
• Experience in test driven development. (writing unit test and API test).
• Understanding of basic cloud computing concepts and experience in using any of the major cloud service providers(AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Ability to build and deploy the application in a containerized environment.
• Understanding of application logging and monitoring systems like Prometheus or Kibana.

Qualification: 

• B.E/B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech/M.S. from a reputed university with a good academic record.
• Curiosity to explore the cutting edge technologies and bake them in the products.
• Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.