Lead Product Developer

Description

Job Description:

Company: Springer Capital

Type: Internship (Remote, Part-Time/Full-Time)

Duration: 3–6 months

Start Date: Rolling

Compensation:

About the role:

We’re building high-performance backend systems that power our financial and ESG intelligence platforms and we want you on the team. As a Backend Engineering Intern, you’ll help us develop scalable APIs, automate data pipelines, and deploy secure cloud infrastructure. This is your chance to work alongside experienced engineers, contribute to real products, and see your code go live.

What You'll Work On:

As a Backend Engineering Intern, you’ll be shaping the systems that power financial insights.

Engineering scalable backend services in Python, Node.js, or Go

Designing and integrating RESTful APIs and microservices

Working with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Redis for data persistence

Deploying on AWS/GCP, using Docker, and learning Kubernetes on the fly

Automating infrastructure and shipping faster with CI/CD pipelines

Collaborating with a product-focused team that values fast iteration

What We’re Looking For:

A builder mindset – you like writing clean, efficient code that works

Strong grasp of backend languages (Python, Java, Node, etc.)

Understanding of cloud platforms and containerization basics

Basic knowledge of databases and version control

Students or self-taught engineers actively learning and building

Preferred skills:

Experience with serverless or event-driven architectures

Familiarity with DevOps tools or monitoring systems

A curious mind for AI/ML, fintech, or real-time analytics

What You’ll Get:

Real-world experience solving core backend problems

Autonomy and ownership of live features

Mentorship from engineers who’ve built at top-tier startups

A chance to grow into a full-time offer

We're looking for AI/ML enthusiasts who build, not just study. If you've implemented transformers from scratch, fine-tuned LLMs, or created innovative ML solutions, we want to see your work!

Make Sure before Applying (GitHub Profile Required):

1. Your GitHub must include:

- At least one substantial ML/DL project with documented results

- Code demonstrating PyTorch/TensorFlow implementation skills

- Clear documentation and experiment tracking

- Bonus: Contributions to ML open-source projects

2. Pin your best projects that showcase:

- LLM fine-tuning and evaluation

- Data preprocessing pipelines

- Model training and optimization

- Practical applications of AI/ML

Technical Requirements:

- Solid understanding of deep learning fundamentals

- Python + PyTorch/TensorFlow expertise

- Experience with Hugging Face transformers

- Hands-on with large dataset processing

- NLP/Computer Vision project experience

Education:

- Completed/Pursuing Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

- Strong foundation in ML theory and practice

Apply if:

1. You have done projects using GenAI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning.
2. You must have strong Python coding experience.
3. Someone who is available immediately to start with us in the office(Hyderabad).
4. Someone who has the hunger to learn something new always and aims to step up at a high pace.

We value quality implementations and thorough documentation over quantity. Show us how you think through problems and implement solutions!

DUKAAN - Create Your Online Store in 30 Seconds

Dukaan is an app that allows offline businesses to sell their products and services online. On our app, the users can make beautiful product catalogues (catalogs) right from a smartphone and share with their customers easily on different social media apps such as Whatsapp Business, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram etc. Praised by users all over India, this app has saved declining businesses by helping them transfer their shop online. The journey has just begun and we are on a mission to make India truly Digital.

Dukaan is currently powering over 5M ecommerce stores built by indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.  

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team who will be part of our new innovations team.

Requirements:

1. Strong knowledge of Django, Django Rest Framework and their design principles.
2. Strong knowledge of Django ORM, should be able to leverage it to write complex and optimized queries (E.x Q queries, Case, When, Select related, prefetch related, Subqueries, Annotations, Aggregations, Filtering, etc.) .
3. Should be able to override DRF serializers, filters and viewsets completely according to needs.
4. Should have good experience in Class Based Views to write the backend API’s.
5. Sound knowledge of database design patterns and modelling them to Django models.
6. Sound knowledge of how to write test cases for the APIs.
7. Should be able to write optimized pythonic code adhering to python PEP standards.
8. Strong knowledge of python packaging and how to architect a code base that should be easily scalable and not get cluttered.
9. Strong knowledge of REST API design patterns.
10. Ability to write RAW sql queries and further database level coding will be a plus.
11. Good Understanding of python’s asyncio, threading and multiprocessing library, their benefits and limitations along with their appropriate use cases.
12. Hands on knowledge of celery and its corresponding message broker such as RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
13. Experience with building a CDC(Change Data Capture) pipeline will be a plus.
14. Experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka connect and Debezium will be a plus.
15. Experience with open source will be a plus.
16. Good knowledge of Algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities:

1. Understand the ins and out of existing codebase and have a good grasp over it.
2. Write clean, stable and scalable code.
3. Write unit test cases for the APIs.
4. Do whitebox and blackbox testing for your own code and as well as others if required.
5. Understand and implement fast prototype solutions for the business needs.

Job Description

We are looking for Advance Java developers who want to help us design cutting edge scalable products to meet our rapidly growing business. We are building out a team and looking for multiple levels but you should have at least 4-6 years of programming experience.

Key Responsibilities

         Build high availability and extreme reliable high volume transactional systems.

         Deliver reliable solutions that handle massive data and high traffic.

         Complete ownership of problem-free execution of owned modules and solutions.

         Focus on code optimization, code quality, maintainability etc.

         Team Handling.

Skills required

         MS or BS/B.Tech / MCA in computer science.

         Hands-on experience in Core J2EE or Core Java (collection, multithreading).

         Proficiency in Struts 2.0 & Springs, Hibernate, JDBC, JSP, Servlets , JMS / Radius, Redis , Microservices , 

         Strong working knowledge of Databases – MySQL, OS - Linux.

         Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge          technologies around server side development.

         Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.

         Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and able to multi-task.

         Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.

         Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.

Note: Must have worked on Payment Gateway Development.

Must be willing to work in a startup fast paced environment.

Joining : Immediate

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 8 to 13 years of software development experience 
• Demonstrates broad and deep expertise in any programming languages(Java, GoLang) and open source frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot, Micronut).
• Designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure and microservices.
• Must have exposure to at least one cloud product/platform development.
• Working knowledge of any one client side framework like ReactJS or Angular, etc.
• Should have exposure to one or more databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Graph, Redis, Elastic Search and Postgres.

Applicant must have a min of 4 years of experience as a Java Developer and a Min of 2 years on Spring boot, Augular knowledge must, having an experience in Angular would be an added advantage.

Detailed JD

Resources with below skill sets :

- Angular JS

- Spring MVC

- Spring Boot

- Hibernate

- PostgreSQL

- Drools

- SVN

- Jenkins

- SonarQube

- Foresighted & good judgement in problem solving.

- Capable of paying attention to detail.

- Good analytical and logical thinking.

- Prioritizing and organizing

- Team Player with positive attitude.

- Process knowledge/Technical expertise

- Good Written and Verbal communication Skills

- Analyse & understanding of the SRS.

- Report queries on the SRS/Requirement.

- Prepare low level design document

- Prepare Unit test cases