Lead Software Engineer - App Crawling at Anakin · Remote only · 3 - 10 years · ₹20L - ₹30L / yr (ESOP available) · Raised funding · Remote only · Posted 26 May 2022

Your Responsibilities would be to:
- Architect new and optimize existing software codebases and systems used to crawl, launch, run, and monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
- Deeply own the lifecycle of software, including rolling out to operations, managing configurations, maintaining and upgrading, and supporting end-users
- Configure and optimize the automated testing and deployment systems used to maintain 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:
- Extremely effective, self-driven builder
- 2+ years of experience as a backend software engineer
- 2+ years of experience with Python
- 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
- Should have managed a team of software engineers
- Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
- Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 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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Review Criteria
- Strong Senior Backend Engineer profiles
- Must have 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems
- Must have strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks (FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), Express (Node.js).
- Must have deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework
- Must have strong experience with databases, including SQL and NoSQL, along with efficient data modeling and performance optimization
- Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems, including system design and clean code practices
- Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)
- (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D
- (Education) – Candidates from top engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, or equivalent Tier-1 colleges) are preferred
Role & Responsibilities
As a Founding Engineer at company, you'll join our engineering team during an exciting growth phase, contributing to a platform that handles complex financial operations for B2B companies. You'll work on building scalable systems that automate billing, usage metering, revenue recognition, and financial reporting—directly impacting how businesses manage their revenue operations.
This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a dynamic startup environment where requirements evolve quickly and problems need creative solutions. You'll work on diverse technical challenges, from API development to external integrations, while collaborating with senior engineers, product managers, and customer success teams.
Key Responsibilities-
- Build core platform features: Develop robust APIs, services, and integrations that power company’s billing automation and revenue recognition capabilities
- Work across the full stack: Contribute to both backend services and frontend interfaces, ensuring seamless user experiences
- Implement critical integrations: Connect company with external systems including CRMs, data warehouses, ERPs, and payment processors
- Optimize for scale: Build systems that handle complex pricing models, high-volume usage data, and real-time financial calculations
- Drive quality and best practices: Write clean, maintainable code while participating in code reviews and architectural discussions
- Solve complex problems: Debug issues across the stack and work closely with teams to address evolving client needs
The Impact You'll Make-
- Power business growth: Your code will directly enable billing and revenue operations for fast-growing B2B companies, helping them scale without operational bottlenecks
- Build critical financial infrastructure: Contribute to systems handling millions in transactions while ensuring accurate, compliant revenue recognition
- Shape product direction: Join during our scaling phase where your contributions immediately impact product evolution and customer success
- Accelerate your expertise: Gain deep knowledge in financial systems, B2B SaaS operations, and enterprise software while working with industry veterans
- Drive the future of B2B commerce: Help create infrastructure powering next-generation pricing models from usage-based to value-based billing.
Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable, and efficient Java codebase for our ad-serving platform.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and other developers to
understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
Design and implement new features and functionalities in the ad-serving system, focusing on performance
optimization and reliability.
Troubleshoot and debug complex issues in the ad server environment, providing timely resolutions to ensure
uninterrupted service.
Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and enforce coding best practices to maintain code quality
and consistency across the platform.
Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends in ad serving and digital advertising, and integrate
relevant innovations into our platform.
Work closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams to deploy and maintain the ad-serving platform in a cloud- based environment.
Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, define technical specifications, and estimate development
efforts for new projects and features.
Mentor junior developers, sharing knowledge and best practices to foster a culture of continuous learning and
improvement within the development team.
Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for production issues as needed, ensuring maximum uptime
and reliability of the ad-serving platform.
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
- 5-8 years of experience with software development, preferably in Agile environment.
- Advanced knowledge of in software development tools, programming languages, databases, and environments, including but not limited to:
- Python 3.x, Django, functional Python, procedural Python, object oriented Python, Asynchronous Design, Micro Services, memcache, REDIS, Celery, ElastiSearch, RESTful web services, Relational (Oracle & MySQL) and Non-Relational (NOSQL & DynamoDB) databases, AWS.
Skills:
- Expertise in Python 3 on AWS serverless
- Experience in AWS serverless stack Appsync, Lambda, Cognito, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, SQS, S3, Code commit & Code Deploy.
- Proficient in modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies.
- Experience in a database technology, preferably No-SQL such as AWS DynamoDB.
- Build human-centric UX with us using technologies like React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and CSS-in-JS.
- Experience building data processing pipelines (SQS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, or similar)
- Deep technical hands-on experience developing in REST/JSON or SOAP/XML, combined with strong knowledge of concepts such as CORs (Cross Origins Resources), headers, security, JSON and http concept.
- Experience with Github and advanced Github features (good to have).
- Must have worked as a part of Agile Teams and DevOps practices such as continuous Integration tools (e.g. Jenkins), code repository, creating CI/CD pipelines is required.
The Role:
You are a Backend Engineer passionate about building world-class mobile and web applications with performant backend and glitch-free experience. You will be part of a team which will be delivering technology that enhances the in-app experience for our users and enables our development teams to build mobile apps easier, faster and more efficient. You will build compelling and engaging applications for Web and Mobile platforms. Employing your experience in latest Nodejs frameworks like Express.js,Hapi.js, Yarn, PM2 and proficiency in Elasticsearch, in building RESTful APIs, in integrating with databases like MongoDB and MySQL/Postgres with discipline in collaboration and pair programming. Our clientele majorly comprises of BFSI companies, so experience in Financial Applications and enterprise data security will be a big-plus.
Responsibilities:
• Contribute to an Agile team to build web and mobile applications, APIs, SDKs and other tools as required
• Collaborate with various teams within IORTA to realize the requirements for the project and Rapidly deliver iterative solutions
• Provide task plans and follow trends in technology and suggest new approaches to application design and development
• Review and evaluate designs for compliance with development guidelines
•. Implement best practices and methods to improve the development process within the
team and organization
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Company |
Photon Commerce (http://www.photoncommerce.com">www.photoncommerce.com)
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Title |
Senior engineer
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Commitment |
Full-time. Remote. Starting as soon as possible.
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About the company |
Photon Commerce is the AI platform for finance, invoices, and payments. Photon empowers financial services and eCommerce businesses with computer vision to automate invoices and receipts. Photon turns paper and pdf invoices, receipts, POs, and packing slips into a modern collaboration platform for commerce, preventing problems before they become costly. Backed by the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, its leadership brings experience from eCommerce and SaaS unicorns, Google AI, Y Combinator, Stanford, and 4 exits and an IPO.
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What you will do |
· Build a python/flask app that processes PDFs, images, invoices, and receipts for Quickbooks and Shopify using OCR · Lead a team of 8+ engineers and interns · Create integrations, APIs, webhooks, and payments for the captured structured data · Build a document and invoice collaboration app with embedded chat, like Slack for documents/invoices · Deploy the app into production and own AWS devops · Own the shipped product, including QA
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Experience |
· 5-10 years of experience having launched apps in production with real users in Python, Flask, Django, Javascript, SQL, AWS, and full-stack web development · 1+ years of engineering leadership, including as a team lead, tech lead, or manager · Have repos and/or demos to show your previous work · Knowledge in and/or passion for enterprise SaaS, and AWS devops · Excellent communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, and team skills
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What you’ll receive |
· Join an exciting, high growth startup led by serial entrepreneurs and backed by top tier Silicon Valley investors and billionaire industry leaders in tech · Competitive compensation commensurate with experience and performance
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Role: Technical Lead
Location: Mumbai/Kolkata
Years of Experience - 9 to 15 years
Qualifications:
- Required person as .net core, team Management,Good communication,Plus Rest API,AWS Lambda,mySql
- AWS API Gateway .
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
- 9 to 12 yrs years’ experience in technology related roles including relevant work as technical architect.
- Experience working with latest software technologies (.Net core 3.1+, MVC/WCF/Web API, cloud hosted (AWS) , mobile ready software products (Angular 6+/React.js)
- Experience in AWS cloud.
- Experience working with GIT/TFS, CI/CD setups, Application Monitoring, Logging and Analysis tools
- Experience working with Service Oriented Architecture
- Experience working in an Agile-SCRUM environment using tools like Jira or equivalent
- Experience working with international customers (US and UK preferable)
- Experience in customer interaction and ability to present solutions and consult clients on technology solutions.
- Ability to effectively communicate with various levels of employees ranging from entry level to senior leadership.
- Proven strong relationship-building and communication skills with team members and business users. Ability to coach and mentor internal teams and customers.
- Highly motivated with excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, facilitation, negotiation and problem solving skills.
- Self-starter with strong organizational and time management skills, self-directed and able to handle multiple priorities with demanding timeframes.
- Willingness and ability to work flexible hours and with minimal supervision.
- Willingness and ability to travel domestic and occasional international across US and Europe.
- Proficient using standard software, such as MS Office applications, Google Apps, and communication and diagramming/presentation tools.
Designation: Database Developer
Job Description
As a Database Developer at our company, you will be responsible for designing, testing, planning, implementing, protecting, operating, managing and maintaining our company's databases.Communication and organization skills are keys for this position,along with a problem-solution attitude. Ultimately, you should be able to ensure our database systems run effectively and securely on a daily basis
Requirement:
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4 - 8 years of relevant experience in database management in Postgresql and at least 1 year of working experience in an AWS environment.
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Hands on experience in database development working with PostgreSQL including stored procedures, functions, triggers, and views.
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Experience working with Windows and Linux systems in a production setting.
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Working knowledge of handling batch bulk data loads.
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Proactively adopt new cloud infrastructure and technology.
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Manage environments in AWS to ensure optimal capacity, performance, security, and availability.
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Exposure to ElasticSearch, Snappy data is a plus.
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Must have working knowledge of handling Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity in the AWS cloud.
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Knowledge of JSON and PostgreSQL support for JSON.
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Ability to efficiently write database code without compromising data quality, privacy or security.
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Knowledge of database design principles,queryoptimization,index management,integrity checks, statistics and isolation levels
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Experience with DB migration projects added advantage








