
About the role
Checking quality is one of the most important tasks at Anakin. Our clients are pricing their products based on our data, and minor errors on our end can lead to our client's losses of millions of dollars. You would work with multiple tools and with people across various departments to ensure the accuracy of the data being crawled. You would setup manual and automated processes and make sure they run to ensure the highest possible data quality.
You are the engineer other engineers can count on. You embrace every problem with enthusiasm. You remove hurdles, are a self-starter, team player. You have the hunger to venture into unknown areas and make the system work.
Your Responsibilities would be to:
- Understand customer web scraping and data requirements; translate these into test approaches that include exploratory manual/visual testing and any additional automated tests deemed appropriate
- Take ownership of the end-to-end QA process in newly-started projects
- Draw conclusions about data quality by producing basic descriptive statistics, summaries, and visualisations
- Proactively suggest and take ownership of improvements to QA processes and methodologies by employing other technologies and tools, including but not limited to: browser add-ons, Excel add-ons, UI-based test automation tools etc.
- Ensure that project requirements are testable; work with project managers and/or clients to clarify ambiguities before QA begins
- Drive innovation and advanced validation and analytics techniques to ensure data quality for Anakin's customers
- Optimize data quality codebases and systems to monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
- Configure and optimize the automated and manual testing and deployment systems used to check the quality of billions of data points of over 1000+ crawlers across the company
- Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
- Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience as a backend or a full-stack software engineer
- Web scraping experience with Python or Node.js
- 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
- Should have managed a team of software engineers
- Should be paranoid about data quality
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
- Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity
- Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
- Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
- Excellent communicator, both written and verbal
Additional Requirements:
- Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
- Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
- Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
- Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.

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We're looking for a hands-on AI Architect to lead the design and delivery of AI-native applications. You will define the AI stack, establish engineering standards, and drive adoption of AI-assisted development across teams.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build production-grade AI applications.
- Evaluate and standardize AI frameworks, tools, and platforms.
- Design agentic systems, RAG pipelines, and AI workflows.
- Establish AI evaluation, testing, guardrails, and observability practices.
- Drive AI-native development and delivery acceleration initiatives.
- Partner with engineering and product teams on technical roadmap decisions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, and agent frameworks.
- Experience with LangGraph, AutoGen, MCP, or similar ecosystems.
- Hands-on experience with AI evaluations (DeepEval, Ragas), guardrails, and structured outputs.
- Strong Python and TypeScript/Java skills.
- Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC, observability, and event-driven architectures.
- Proven experience shipping AI applications to production.
Role overview
1) Overall 5 to 7 years of experience. Node.js experience is must.
2) At least 3+ years of experience or couple of large-scale products delivered on microservices.
3) Strong design skills on microservices and AWS platform infrastructure.
4) Excellent programming skill in Python, Node.js and Java.
5) Hands on development in rest API’s.
6) Good understanding of nuances of distributed systems, scalability, and availability.
What you'll do:
· Perform complex application programming activities with an emphasis on mobile development: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, RESTful APIs and related backend frameworks
· Assist in the definition of system architecture and detailed solution design that are scalable and extensible
· Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, and other engineers on different permutations to find the best solution possible
· Own the quality of code and do your own testing. Write unit test and improve test coverage.
· Deliver amazing solutions to production that knock everyone’s socks off
· Mentor junior developers on the team
What we’re looking for:
· Amazing technical instincts. You know how to evaluate and choose the right technology and approach for the job. You have stories you could share about what problem you thought you were solving at first, but through testing and iteration, came to solve a much bigger and better problem that resulted in positive outcomes all-around.
· A love for learning. Technology is continually evolving around us, and you want to keep up to date to ensure we are using the right tech at the right time.
· A love for working in ambiguity—and making sense of it. You can take in a lot of disparate information and find common themes, recommend clear paths forward and iterate along the way. You don’t form an opinion and sell it as if it’s gospel; this is all about being flexible, agile, dependable, and responsive in the face of many moving parts.
· Confidence, not ego. You have an ability to collaborate with others and see all sides of the coin to come to the best solution for everyone.
· Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities, as necessary
· Demonstrable passion for technology (e.g., personal projects, open-source involvement)
· Enthusiastic embrace of DevOps culture and collaborative software engineering
· Ability and desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced, and agile team environment
· Enthusiasm for cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure
Basic Qualifications:
· Minimum B.S. / M.S. Computer Science or related discipline from accredited college or University
· At least 4 years of experience designing, developing, and delivering backend applications with Node.js, TypeScript
· At least 2 years of experience building internet facing services
· At least 2 years of experience with AWS and/or OpenShift
· Exposure to some of the following concepts: object-oriented programming, software engineering techniques, quality engineering, parallel programming, databases, etc.
· Experience integrating APIs with front-end and/or mobile-specific frameworks
· Proficiency in building and consuming RESTful APIs
· Ability to manage multiple tasks and consistently meet established timelines
· Strong collaboration skills
· Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Preferred Qualifications:
· Experience with Apache Cordova framework
- Demonstrable knowledge of native coding background in iOS, Android
· Experience developing and deploying applications within Kubernetes based containers
Experience in Agile and SCRUM development techniques
Experience: 5-10 Years.
Skills: Python, Django, Restfull API.
Passionate coder with 5+ years of application development experience with python based web servers.
Backend & Frontend API creation using Tornado / Django / Flask. Strong experience working with RESTful APIs.
Hands on experience with any SQL database with schema creation and SQL queries
Strong debugging, problem solving and investigative skills.
Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology.
Self-starter who can work independently.
Strong consulting and communication skills.
Ability to work effectively with various organizations in pursuit of problem solutions. Problem Solving Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
- Be proficient in server-side development and optimization of data, including database creation and management and debugging
- Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
- Create and maintain software documentation
- Create user-friendly and intuitive interfaces
- Create and analyze reliable and secure back-end functionality
- Maintain, expand, and scale our website
- Remain knowledgeable of emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities
- Collaborate with front-end developers and web designers to match visual design intent
- Bachelor of Engineering/Technology in computer science, software engineering, programming, or equivalent
- Proficiency with languages such as Python, Golang, and Javascript (Node.js, Vue.js)
- Proficiency with MongoDB and MySQL
- Understanding of object-oriented programming
- Experience with the design and implementation of APIs
- Understanding of code versioning and management with Git
- Understanding of code deployment tools such as Jenkins, Capistrano, and ElectricFlow
- Track record of successfully managing multiple company or customer websites
- Excellent time-management and communication skills
- 8+ years of relevant work experience
- Well-versed in data structures, algorithms, and software design. Programming experience with at least one of
- Java or Python and object-oriented design
- Knowledge on SQL, NoSQL databases, Messaging/Caching technologies and AW deployments is a plus
- Exposure to the architecture and design (design patterns, security, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems. Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows involving multiple third-party integrations
- Prior startup experience is a plus









