
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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Must Have Skills:
- Overall 10+ years of experience in application development using Golang.
- Experience in designing and developing REST based services / Microservice development.
- Ability to design scalable, robust, and error-tolerant systems.
- Understanding of software architecture and distributed systems.
- Proficient in writing efficient and optimized algorithms under time constraints.
- Skilled in developing solutions that balance performance, readability, and maintainability.
- Ability to effectively communicate coding decisions and rationale during problem-solving discussions.
- Hands-on experience with queuing mechanisms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Candidates should be adaptable and eager to quickly learn and integrate into the existing tech stack if they lack direct experience.
- Candidate should have good communication skills (written and verbal).
- Experience with delivering projects in an agile environment using SCRUM methodologies.
Good to have:
- Experience to AWS, CI/CD, DevOps.
- Experience using container management tools such as Kubernetes, Docker and Rancher.
- Any one of these data store Cassandra, Postgres, Couchbase, or other NoSQL servers.
Experience: 6+ Years
Location: Chennai & Pune
Work Model: Hybrid
Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Preferred
Role Overview
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Python Engineer to design, develop, and scale robust backend systems and data-driven applications. The ideal candidate should have strong problem-solving skills, experience with modern Python frameworks, and exposure to cloud and emerging technologies like Generative AI and LLMs.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications using Python
- Build and optimize RESTful APIs using Flask or FastAPI
- Work on data manipulation, processing, and transformation using Python libraries
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver high-quality solutions
- Develop efficient, reusable, and reliable code with strong attention to performance
- Implement containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
- Ensure application security, data protection, and compliance best practices
- Manage code versioning using Git and follow CI/CD best practices
- Contribute to cloud-based deployments and infrastructure
- Explore and implement solutions using Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in Python development
- Strong understanding of Python fundamentals and problem-solving skills
- Experience with data manipulation libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy)
- Expertise in building REST APIs using Flask or FastAPI
- Solid understanding of ORM frameworks (e.g., SQLAlchemy, Django ORM)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong knowledge of application security principles
- Proficiency in Git and version control practices
- Exposure to Generative AI concepts and working with LLMs
About Tarento:
Tarento is a fast-growing technology consulting company headquartered in Stockholm, with a strong presence in India and clients across the globe. We specialize in digital transformation, product engineering, and enterprise solutions, working across diverse industries including retail, manufacturing, and healthcare. Our teams combine Nordic values with Indian expertise to deliver innovative, scalable, and high-impact solutions.
We're proud to be recognized as a Great Place to Work, a testament to our inclusive culture, strong leadership, and commitment to employee well-being and growth. At Tarento, you’ll be part of a collaborative environment where ideas are valued, learning is continuous, and careers are built on passion and purpose.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled and self-driven Senior Java Backend Developer with strong experience in designing and deploying scalable microservices using Spring Boot and Azure Cloud. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in modern Java development, containerization, messaging systems like Kafka, and knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and deploy microservices using Spring Boot on Azure cloud platforms.
- Implement and maintain RESTful APIs, ensuring high performance and scalability.
- Work with Java 11+ features including Streams, Functional Programming, and Collections framework.
- Develop and manage Docker containers, enabling efficient development and deployment pipelines.
- Integrate messaging services like Apache Kafka into microservice architectures.
- Design and maintain data models using PostgreSQL or other SQL databases.
- Implement unit testing using JUnit and mocking frameworks to ensure code quality.
- Develop and execute API automation tests using Cucumber or similar tools.
- Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and other teams for seamless CI/CD integration and deployment pipelines.
- Work with Kubernetes for orchestrating containerized services.
- Utilize Couchbase or similar NoSQL technologies when necessary.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and contribute to best practices and standards.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Strong experience in Java (11 or above) and Spring Boot framework.
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture and deployment on Azure.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, and exposure to Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in Kafka, with real-world project experience.
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL (or any SQL DB) and data modeling principles.
- Experience in writing unit tests using JUnit and mocking tools.
- Experience with Cucumber or similar frameworks for API automation testing.
- Exposure to CI/CD tools, DevOps processes, and Git-based workflows.
Nice to Have:
- Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Developer Associate)
- Familiarity with Couchbase or other NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with other cloud providers (AWS, GCP)
- Knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
Soft Skills:
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Ability to work in an agile environment and contribute to continuous improvement.
Why Join Us:
- Work on cutting-edge microservice architectures
- Strong learning and development culture
- Opportunity to innovate and influence technical decisions
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment
JioTesseract, a digital arm of Reliance Industries, is India's leading and largest AR/VR organization with the mission to democratize mixed reality for India and the world. We make products at the cross of hardware, software, content and services with focus on making India the leader in spatial computing. We specialize in creating solutions in AR, VR and AI, with some of our notable products such as JioGlass, JioDive, 360 Streaming, Metaverse, AR/VR headsets for consumers and enterprise space.
Mon-Fri, In office role with excellent perks and benefits!
Key Responsibilities:
1. Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js or Python, or Java.
2. Build and implement scalable and robust microservices and integrate API gateways.
3. Develop and optimize NoSQL database structures and queries (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB).
4. Implement real-time data pipelines using Kafka.
5. Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure seamless integration of backend services.
6. Write clean, reusable, and efficient code following best practices, including design patterns.
7. Troubleshoot, debug, and enhance existing systems for improved performance.
Mandatory Skills:
1. Proficiency in at least one backend technology: Node.js or Python, or Java.
2. Strong experience in:
i. Microservices architecture,
ii. API gateways,
iii. NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB),
iv. Kafka
v. Data structures (e.g., arrays, linked lists, trees).
3. Frameworks:
i. If Java : Spring framework for backend development.
ii. If Python: FastAPI/Django frameworks for AI applications.
iii. If Node: Express.js for Node.js development.
Good to Have Skills:
1. Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
2. Familiarity with in-memory databases like Redis or Memcached.
3. Frontend skills: Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or frameworks like React.js.
Engineering Lead (Backend/Full stack)
About
It is a mission-oriented high-growth fintech startup building payment &
lending products to simplify education payments. Jodo’s suite of products make education payments convenient & affordable for parents while simplifying & streamlining fee collections for educational institutes. Jodo aims to be a category-defining company with a mission to be a
trusted partner to parents in fulfilling their aspirations for their kids’ education.
We are backed by marquee VC investors – Tiger Global, Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners – to realize this mission. It is started by three co-founders who have a pedigreed education
(IIT/IIM) and professional background (Nomura, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Matrix Partners).
🎬Job Description:
We are looking for an Engineering Leader with a focus on building maintainable and scalable applications. The Lead will be responsible for the design and development of Jodo’s fee payments platform and be owning one of the products/verticals. Leads will be closely working
with Product Managers and Founders to execute projects from ideation to completion. As a hands-on Team Lead, you will take ownership of services/systems and guide a team of
developers.
📈Key Responsibilities
● Own and drive the development of one or more of Jodo’s products
● Take the lead in the design and development of the backend platform
● Mentor a team of developers, promote collaboration and engagement, and promote practices that improve the developer experience
● Work closely with Product Managers and Founders to brainstorm requirements and prioritize
● Own quality - actively participate in code reviews
● Own reliability - continuously monitor Production Health, proactively fix production issues
● Own execution - Plan and delegate work for the team, optimize for speed of development and incremental delivery
📃Requirements
● 6+ years of hands-on experience in application development
● 1+ years of leading a team
● Experience in working with distributed systems
● Proficient in building Microservices/RESTful APIs with any modern tech stack
● Working knowledge of relational and nonrelational databases
● Prior working knowledge of Python/Django is a big plus
● Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools
● Knowledge of AWS or any other Cloud Platform services
● Champion code quality and drive best practices
● Ability to analyze and convert business requirements into technical requirements
● Self-starter and ability to take the ownership
● Prior experience working in a startup environment is great to have
● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
🤩Benefits
● Becoming a part of the early core team
● Competitive salary
● Work with colleagues from strong backgrounds & hungry to succeed
● Opportunity to interact with and learn from high-pedigree investors & mentors -
○ VCs: Elevation Capital (erstwhile SAIF Partners), Matrix Partners
○ Select angel investors: Kunal Shah, Nithin Kamath, Amit Ranjan
🔎What are we looking for?
● Self-starter with a high sense of ownership → Comfortable to work with minimal
supervision
● Hungry to learn and grow → Passion to learn & be a better version of oneself; motivated to succeed
● Bias for action → Have the temperament to experiment and execute in uncertainty
● Hustler → Ability to generate resources to solve a problem
● Intellectual honesty → Always seeking and presenting truth irrespective of personal
POV or beliefs
● Mission-oriented → Deeply care about delivering value and making an impact on customer’s lives
✅Key Details
● Role: Engineering Lead
● Location: Bengaluru
● Compensation: Negotiable based on candidate profile (structured as Fixed + ESOPs)
● Date of Joining: ASAP
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
- Experience working with ruby on rails as well as libraries like Resque and RSpec.
- Ability to write clean ruby code.
- Proficiency with code versioning tools including Git, Github, SVN, and Mercurial.
- Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, RESTful, and ORM.
- Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.
- Knowledge of server-side templating languages including Slim and Liquid.
- Familiarity with testing tools.

Senior .NET Cloud (Azure) Practitioner
Job Description Experience: 5-12 years (approx.)
Education: B-Tech/MCA
Mandatory Skills
- Strong Restful API, Micro-services development experience using ASP.NET CORE Web APIs (C#);
- Must have exceptionally good software design and programming skills in .Net Core (.NET 3.X, .NET 6) Platform, C#, ASP.net MVC, ASP.net Web API (RESTful), Entity Framework & LINQ
- Good working knowledge on Azure Functions, Docker, and containers
- Expertise in Microsoft Azure Platform - Azure Functions, Application Gateway, API Management, Redis Cache, App Services, Azure Kubernetes, CosmosDB, Azure Search, Azure Service Bus, Function Apps, Azure Storage Accounts, Azure KeyVault, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Active Directory, Application Insights, Azure SQL Database, Azure IoT, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Data Factory, Virtual Networks and networking.
- Strong SQL Server expertise and familiarity with Azure Cosmos DB, Azure (Blob, Table, queue) storage, Azure SQL etc
- Experienced in Test-Driven Development, unit testing libraries, testing frameworks.
- Good knowledge of Object Oriented programming, including Design Patterns
- Cloud Architecture - Technical knowledge and implementation experience using common cloud architecture, enabling components, and deployment platforms.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, along with the proven ability to work as a team with other disciplines outside of engineering are a must
- Solid analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Desirable Skills:
- Certified Azure Solution Architect Expert
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- Good understanding of software architecture, scalability, resilience, performance;
- Working knowledge of automation tools such as Azure DevOps, Azure Pipeline or Jenkins or similar
Roles & Responsibilities
- Defining best practices & standards for usage of libraries, frameworks and other tools being used;
- Architecture, design, and implementation of software from development, delivery, and releases.
- Breakdown complex requirements into independent architectural components, modules, tasks and strategies and collaborate with peer leadership through the full software development lifecycle to deliver top quality, on time and within budget.
- Demonstrate excellent communications with stakeholders regarding delivery goals, objectives, deliverables, plans and status throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Should be able to work with various stakeholders (Architects/Product Owners/Leadership) as well as team - Lead/ Principal/ Individual Contributor for Web UI/ Front End Development;
- Should be able to work in an agile, dynamic team environment;
- Designing and developing server-side logic using Laravel
- Defining and maintaining the database.
- Creating reusable, effective, and scalable PHP code
- Ensuring HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across related applications.
- Designing the different layers of the web application
- Implementing security and data protection measures.
- Developing components of the database such as storage, queries, and triggers.
What you need to have:
- 5+ years of professional experience in Laravel web framework within PHP programming language.
- Proficient in SQL schema design, SOLID principles, and REST API design.
- Proficient understanding of software testing using one or more related frameworks (e.g. PHPUnit, PHPSpec, Behat, etc).
- Good understanding of one or more popular front-ended languages (e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc).
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.












