
Lead Software Engineer - Backend
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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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Job Summary:
We are looking for a hands-on Java Application Engineer with 4–5 years of solid development experience to take ownership of a business-critical application currently in business continuity mode. While the application is not in active feature expansion, it is functionally essential and requires regular code enhancements, performance tuning, and reliable production support.
The role involves contributing to ongoing development work, fixing issues, implementing functional improvements, and supporting smooth operations. Looking ahead after couple of years, this role will be central to modernizing and re-architecting the application to align with cloud-native and scalable architecture patterns.
Key Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of an existing Java-based application, ensuring it runs smoothly in production.
- Implement functional enhancements, refactoring, and performance improvements as needed.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues with a focus on long-term stability and root cause elimination.
- Collaborate with DevOps, QA, and cross-functional teams to deploy safe, incremental changes.
- Participate in planning for the future modernization of the application - including architectural improvements and cloud readiness.
- Provide occasional support during US business hours to address critical issues or coordinate with global stakeholders when needed.
Required Skills:
- 5–8 years of hands-on Java development experience using Core Java, Spring, JSP/Servlets, and SQL
- Strong understanding of backend application design, debugging, and production support
- Working knowledge of WildFly and/or Apache Tomcat application servers is an asset
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, and modern build tools
- Clear understanding of REST APIs, SOAP APIs, logging frameworks, and error-handling patterns
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive ownership mindset
common man. We are on a mission to deliver institutional-grade financial advice through
technology – no more missed opportunities and no more regrets.
The division has, within a tenure of less than 2 years, built the capability to manage as much as
200 Crores and is now en-route to triple it by the end of this year.
Thrive is therefore fulfilling the company’s vision to use Creativity and innovation to bring simple
solutions to complex problems of the common people.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR
We are inviting extraordinary people to solve ordinary problems, by breaking from routine and
building innovative products for our customers. An ideal candidate will:
● have mastered NodeJS (TypeScript), with at least 5 years of experience
● have good experience building large scale products on a No SQL database (MongoDB
preferred)
● know about building and scaling a product to handle large volumes of financial data and
transactions using Microservices architecture
● have experience working with and integrating 3rd party applications using RESTful APIs
● have seen the startup journey through business pivots and be willing to partner with the
business teams to drive engineering and product decisions
● have worked with large teams of engineering and product team members
● be able to advise the engineering team and enforce good coding and collaboration
practices making use of Object Oriented Programming, while ensuring the highest code
quality
● constantly strive to optimize the application from an efficiency, scalability and security
perspective and actively own the code reviews for the team
● conform to the agile development framework and own up to quality and reliability of the
deliverables
● have some exposure to front end technologies like React
● have worked with multiple hosting and service infrastructures including Azure and have
dabbled with the infra using Kubernetes, Docker,Pager Duty, New Relic, Data Dog, etc.
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.


Job Description
- 5- 8 yrs IT industry experience preferably Banking domain
- Strong Python Skills and good understanding of Java and Microservices
- Should have handled banking customers and exposure to Production support processes
- Good in database and Pl/SQL – Ability to write SQL as and when needed
- Good attitude and communication
- WFH not allowed – Working from Bank premises as per bank calendar in Saifabad or Hitech City – Saifabad Flexibility must


We are hiring!!
JOB TITLE: Back-end Developer
EXPERIENCE: 3 - 7 years
LOCATION: Mumbai (Borivali East)
TIMINGS: Indian Shift Timings
TYPE OF WORKING: Work from office
NOTICE PERIOD: 1 month
Responsibilities
- Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
- Must have a clear understanding of Database
- Write clean code to develop functional web applications
- Troubleshoot and debug applications
- Perform UI tests to optimize performance
- Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
- Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
- Gather and address technical and design requirements
- Provide training and support to internal teams
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
- Follow emerging technologies
Requirements
- Proven work experience as a Back-end developer
- Experience in Node.js language
- Familiar with building REST API
- In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
- Hands on experience with programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP and Python
- Working knowledge of CMS framework
- Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS)
- Excellent analytical and time management skills
- Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude

Skills/Requirements:
- Python
- Django
GEITPL is looking for Python Developer Please find below the JD- 1-6 years Ambitious, hardworking and self-motivated optimistic individual Eager to learn diverse open source technologies and work in dynamic work environment requiring constant learning Good understanding of OOPs concepts Should have clear understanding of classes, functions and data types in Python Knowledge of advanced Python concepts like decorators and memory management Should have knowledge of Django framework and Flask framework Should have working knowledge of ReactJS Good analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to work in groups Good communication skills Fast paced self-learning individual with clear thinking and analytical-logical approach to intellectual work Open source contributions would be considered as a plus point So, if you have 1+ years of experience developing applications with Python Developer, apply today! We will love to talk! Please submit Your complete application with salary expectations



Role- Software Development Engineer-2
As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.
Top Skills
You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C#
You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
Roles & Responsibilities
You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.
Skills & Experience
Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
Excellent programming skills in any object-oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.


Looking for a Python Backend Developer to join our client’s award-winning, talented team,
building the next generation automated drone applications for our global customers.
Some Roles/Responsibilities
● Designing, implementing and deploying updates, features to the company’s cloud
backend system. The work typically requires writing RESTful APIs.
● Derive key metrics from the system to estimate system health and performance.
● Prepare automated test suites for continuous health monitoring of the backend
systems.
● Perform load testing to understand potential scale issues and take corrective
measures.
● Integrate tools for incidence report and response, to ensure high availability of
the backend system.
● Drive Security practices implementation. (Troubleshoot incidents, identify root
cause, configuration, fix and document problems, patching systems for
vulnerabilities, and implement preventive measures)
● Maintain codes, users and API documentation.
● Setting up the CI/CD automation environment for web applications using
Jenkins/ECS.
● Manage Linux Virtual machines on EC2 ensuring correct VPC, Security Group
settings.
● Integrate automated data pipelines to enable analysis of usage patterns on 3rd
party analytics platforms.
Experience required: 3+ years relevant experience
Must Haves Skils-
Flask/Django, Python Backend Exp, Exp in Websockets, Async IO
Notice Period- Immediate/1months/ 2 months negotiable




