
Lead Software Engineer - Backend
at helps travellers discover & book the most incredible tours
Lead Software Engineer - Backend
It is evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences in their city at the push of a button. We are building a magical platform that gets everyone to head out and have fun in a matter of seconds; no matter where you are and what you want to do. We are combining a delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations to solve a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time?
We’re growing rapidly with over $200M in annualized sales, 150,000 monthly transactions and profitable unit economics. We are backed by some of the finest investors in Silicon Valley & India.
We like to solve real-world problems in the simplest, most elegant manner possible. We’re looking for a QA Lead with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. You should also be capable of building and mentoring a fast-growing passionate, young, and talented team. We love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun.Dream, build and iterate. That's our mantra. Because good just isn't good enough.
👩💻 The Role
- Full responsibility of designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer.
- Lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
- Solve challenging architectural and design problems.
- Get your hands dirty with clustering, replication, databases, build systems and infrastructure automation etc.
- Be responsible for building concurrent, performant and scalable services which will power the entire Headout ecosystem.
- Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.
🌟 Our Dream Engineer
- A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
- You love working with people and have worked in a lead position in the past.
- A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
- No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
- You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
- You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.
💝 We like
- Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures.
- 2+years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
- Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
- Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and databases.
- Experience with setting setting up systems and infrastructure.
- Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
- People who can't live without solving that algorithm problem that they just stumbled upon.
- People who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit-level performance.
- Anything else than can surprise us.
- Nice to Haves: An interest in travel, local experiences & hospitality.

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Experience - 7+ yrs
About Wekan Enterprise Solutions
Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.
Job Description
We are looking for passionate software engineers eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?
You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customers technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.
Location - Chennai or Bangalore
- Relevant experience of 7+ years building high-performance back-end applications with at least 3 or more projects delivered using the required technologies
- Good problem solving skills
- Strong mentoring capabilities
- Good understanding of software development life cycle
- Strong experience in system design and architecture
- Strong focus on quality of work delivered
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Required Technical Skills
- Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance web back-ends using Node.Js and Javascript/Typescript
- Min two years of hands-on experience in NestJs
- Strong experience with Express.Js framework
- Implementation experience in monolithic and microservices architecture
- Hands-on experience with data modeling on MongoDB and any other Relational or NoSQL databases
- Experience integrating with any 3rd party services such as cloud SDKs (Preferable X), payments, push notifications, authentication etc…
- Hands-on experience with Redis, Kafka, or X
- Exposure into unit testing with frameworks such as Mocha, Chai, Jest or others
- Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation
Good to have skills:
- Experience working with common services in any of the major cloud providers - AWS or GCP or Azure
- Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies
Experience: 3-7 Years
Qualification- Graduation: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) / Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) / Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
Post-Graduation: Master of Science (M.Sc) /Master of Technology (M.Tech) / Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Must have experience in Microservice architecture with the ability to collaborate effectively with team members and build positive working relationships.
- Design and build and deploy APIs to meet business requirements.
- High level of commitment to business satisfaction and agility.
- Strong work ethic and a passion for the role, with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn.
- Communicate effectively with the tech lead to thoroughly understand the requirements and highlight any blockers immediately.
- Handle programming and software development, including requirement gathering, bug fixing, testing, documenting, and implementation.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Understand and implement Security, Logging, Auditing, Policy Management, and Performance Monitoring.
- Familiarity with relational databases (E.g.: Oracle), non-relational databases (E.g.: MongoDB), MSK Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and CICD Technologies (Jenkins, GitHub, Maven)
We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Developer with expertise in Core Java, Java 8, and Data Structures. The ideal candidate should have experience in Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, and Microservices architecture. If you are passionate about backend development and want to work in a dynamic environment, we’d love to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain backend applications using Core Java and Java 8.
- Design and implement RESTful and SOAP web services.
- Work with Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and JPA/Hibernate for backend development.
- Build and optimize microservices-based architectures.
- Manage databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.
- Write clean, efficient, and scalable code while following best practices.
Requirements:
✅ Strong hands-on experience in Java (Core Java, Java 8) and Data Structures.
✅ Proficiency in Spring, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate.
✅ Experience in developing and consuming RESTful & SOAP APIs.
✅ Knowledge of Microservices architecture and best practices.
✅ Database expertise in PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle.
✅ Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
We're looking for highly skilled experienced engineers to design and build high-scale, cloud-based data processing systems that can handle massive amounts of data with low latency. You'll work with a team of smart, motivated, and diverse people and be given the autonomy and support to do your best work. This is a rare opportunity to make a meaningful impact in society while working in a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree required
- Significant experience with distributed systems.
- Experience with modern programming languages such as Java, C#, C/C++, or Ruby.
- Experience with container platforms such as DC/OS, Kubernetes
- Fluency in technologies and design concepts around Big Data processing and relational databases, such as the Hadoop ecosystem, Map/Reduce, stream processing, etc.
- Experience with production operations and good practices for putting quality code into production and troubleshooting issues when they arise.
- Effective communication of technical ideas verbally and in writing, including technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams, and presentations.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with the team and other stakeholders.
- Preferably, production experience with Cloud and data processing technologies.
Responsibilities:
As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
- Design and build distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant software systems.
- Build cloud services on top of the modern OCI infrastructure.
- Participate in the entire software lifecycle, from design to development, to quality assurance, and to production.
- Invest in the best engineering and operational practices upfront to ensure our software quality bar is high.
- Optimize data processing pipelines for orders of magnitude higher throughput and faster latencies.
- Leverage a plethora of internal tooling at OCI to develop, build, deploy, and troubleshoot software.
Key Responsibilities:
- Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
- Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
- Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
- Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
- Write unit tests for API Testing.
- Automate the code testing and deployment process.
Skills Required:
- At least 2 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
- Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
- Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
- Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
- Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
- Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
- Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
- Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
- Experience building a large scale social or location-based app.
Looking for enthusiastic tech driven individuals who can architect a web application, push pixels, design a web API, design a UI and optimize the backend for scalability. Should be thrilled to deep dive into the field of Location Intelligence.
Hiring for the role of Backend Developer for our Development team. Apply if you are keen to explore how data-tech is changing the decision intelligence landscape.
About the organization
Sociometrik is a geospatial data intelligence start-up based out of New Delhi, India - founded in 2019 with the mission of redefining data-backed executive decision making. We measure and quantify physical earth, built structures and human activity using multi-channel data sources like satellite imagery, smartphone mobility, web records and administrative data to power alternative data-based decision support systems for our clients.
Responsibilities And Duties
- Write effective, scalable and reusable code
- Participate in system design and architecture discussions
- Collaborate with Product Owner to identify optimal ways to implement new features & product enhancements.
- Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions.
- Create UI mock-ups and transform them into quality product features consistent with the Product Owner’s vision.
Frontend Web Developer
- Minimum 3 years of work experience as a backend developer
- Minimum 3 years experience in Node.js
- Must have Experience working in a Typescript codebase
- Experience with Leaflet.JS, Google Maps API, or Geospatial projects are a "Nice to Have"
- Exposure to deck.gl is “Good to Have”.
- Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery
- Must have Experience collaborating in a team environment
Soft Skills
- An analytical bent of mind
- Good time management skills
- Curiosity for learning
- Creative vision
- Team spirit and good problem-solving skills
Hiring Process
Below is our hiring process for this position. We will reach out or send a rejection notice to most candidates within 1-5 business days of applying. Sociometrik promises to value your time and professionalism in every step of the process.
- Quick Screening
- Interview with Technical Lead
- Final Interview with Leadership
About us:
Siply helps underserved masses inculcate savings behaviour to build a more productive and financially secure country. Our Vision is to build the Digital Bank for 40 Crore Underserved Indians.
Company Link - https://siply.in/">https://siply.in/
About the Role:
This is the Senior role where you will build systems and infrastructure to enable seamless user experience across all our offerings in the space of Micro-Savings, Micro-Credit, Micro-Insurance, and associated Value-Added Services. You will power the user experiences on the App and translate complex technical issues into Business opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Build the architecture for our Product platforms and take ownership for deliverables.
- Good Understanding of all stage of software development and also mentoring team.
- Design some of the most advanced & complex software systems / products in the industry.
- Determine technical feasibility of medium to low complexity features or solutions by evaluating problem, possible solutions and technology requirements.
- Exercise judgement in prioritizing tasks and selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
- Collaborate and work closely with Engineering, Product and Design team.
Requirements:
- 4 to 7 years of experience in software product development.
- Degree in Computer Science or related field from top tier universities is preferred.
- Excellent abstraction, coding and system design skills.
- Strong hands-on technology experience building and running large scale systems handling multi-million sessions/transactions per day.
- Strong experience in large scale Database systems like rdbms & NoSQL stores.
- Excellent programming skills in Java/GO/NodeJS and expertise in multi- threading and performance-oriented programming.
Join us to be a part of our Growth Journey!
Key Responsibilities:
1. Write clean, structured code and develop back-end components that are scalable and reusable which aligns with the existing architecture.
2. Own and manage team processes, releases, and systems and integrate user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
3. Design, build, test, and document code and databases
4. Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions
5. Make architecture decisions that contribute to maintainable systems
6. Architect and build the backend for the corresponding web service (Django)
Skills Required:
1. 2+ years of experience with Django, Experienced & expertise in Python framework - Django and Rest
2. Strong systems, architecture and database fundamentals, experience with scaling web technologies
3. Should have basic knowledge of Front End
4. Should have good database design knowledge
5. Should be able to write good quality code with good documentation
6. Experience in creating REST API's
7. Basic understanding of tech stacks - Postgres and Git
8. The ability to work independently is a must
- Ability to write APIs including Restful APIs.
- Able to consume 3rd party API's
- Familiarity with SQL (MySQL, POSTGRESQL) and NoSQL(MongoDB) databases designing, query optimization techniques and their declarative query languages.
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
- Experience in Micro-services development will be an added advantage.
- Composer / NPM / Webpack.
- Laravel forge server deployment and management
- Laravel Dusk Testing
- PHP Unit Testing
- Good command of problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Must be technically strong in logical thinking
Addon Front-End Frameworks knowledge:
- Other Front-end frameworks like as Vue.js (Vue CLI, Vuex, Vue Router, and Nuxt.js).
- Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript programming.
- Aware about JavaScript basics and Modern JavaScript (ES6 – ES7 – ES8)
- Understanding of server-side rendering and its benefits and use cases
- Working knowledge of npm or Yarn
- Knowledge of Bootstrap, Framework 7
- Working knowledge of HTML5 code template and CSS3 styling (Sass or Less depending on your technology stack)
Addon Server knowledge will be added advantage:
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GitHub, GitLab
- Working knowledge of cloud servers (AWS) related services and server administration like setting up
Apache/Nginx, php-fpm etc.. (Nice to have but not mandatory).
- Experience working with Docker (Nice to have but not mandatory)
- Experience with CI/CD tools and processes(Nice to have but not mandatory)
Role - Backend Developer
Experience:- 2+
Qualification:- BE Computer Engineering/MCA
Programming Language - Python & framework Django
Responsibilities
- Building REST API's & Services In Django Framework
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Design and implementation of the database schema
- Design and implementation of data storage solutions
- Implementing CI/CD pipeline
- Proficient knowledge of a back-end programming language Python
- Hands-on experience with Python Frameworks like Django
- Proficient knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes (Relational & NoSQL)
- Understanding of queueing systems like Redis/AWS SQS
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Data migration, transformation, and scripting
- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Brownie Points
- Experience in Docker
- HandsOn Knowledge with implementing CI/CD pipelines
- Experience in managing applications on AWS
- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling application to support load changes
- Product wide application-level thinking on API and data modeling











