● Leads a project end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning,
estimation and execution.
● Understands requirements well and comes up with efficient design
● Develops complex, well backed and bug-free products. Estimates accurately.
● Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
● Becomes a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
● Communicates clearly, gets clarifications and establishes expectations for all parties
● Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
● Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
● Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design and code
● Contributes in tech recruitment efforts
Ideal Candidate Profile
● Solid experience in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
● Should have experience in cloud computing
● Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase
● Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
● Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
● Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
● Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
● Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
● Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/tools for a given job
● Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data
Structures, Algorithms
● 8+ years of experience in product driven organization
● A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably
IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)

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Position: Software Development Engineer - 2
Location: Bangalore/Remote
Role Overview
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer - 2 with 4-6 years of experience who is passionate about writing clean, scalable code and enjoys solving complex backend challenges. As part of the engineering team, you’ll work on designing, developing, and maintaining backend services, primarily in Python, with exposure to other backend technologies like Node.js and Go. You'll contribute to our microservices architecture, APIs, and cloud-native solutions, ensuring security and performance at scale.
Responsibilities
- Write, test, and maintain scalable and efficient backend code in Python (FastAPI or similar frameworks).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement APIs and microservices.
- Ensure code quality by writing and reviewing test cases, and conducting code reviews.
- Handle bug fixing and troubleshooting for backend systems as needed.
- Build and optimize backend systems to positively impact business outcomes.
- Design and implement cloud-native solutions with a focus on performance and security.
- Monitor system health and continuously improve performance and reliability.
- Contribute to process and code improvements, focusing on best practices.
Must-Have Technical Skills
- 4-6 years of experience working with Python (preferably FastAPI or other frameworks).
- Strong understanding of OOP principles and best coding practices.
- Experience in designing and releasing production APIs.
- Proficiency in RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with microservices and event-driven architecture.
- Experience in cloud-native application development (SaaS).
- Knowledge of cloud services such as GCS, AWS, or Azure.
- Strong focus on security in design and coding practices.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with NoSQL DBs.
- Exposure to working in a cloud environment and familiarity with infrastructure management.
- Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills for collaborating with global teams.
About Us
Scrut Automation is an information security and compliance monitoring platform, aimed at helping small and medium cloud-native enterprises develop and maintain a robust security posture, and comply with various infosec standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and the like with ease. With the help of the Scrut platform, customers reduce their manual effort for security and compliance tasks by 70%, and build real-time visibility of their security posture.
Founded by IIT/ISB/McKinsey alumni, the founding team has over 15 years of combined Infosec experience. Scrut is built out of India for the world, with customers across India, APAC, North America, Europe and the Middle East. Scrut is backed by Lightspeed Ventures, MassMutual Ventures and Endiya Partners, along with prominent angels from the global SaaS community.
Why should this job excite you?
- Flat-hierarchy, performance-driven culture
- Rapid growth and learning opportunities
- Comprehensive medical insurance coverage
- A high-performing action-oriented team
- Competitive package, benefits and employee-friendly work culture
Note: Due to a high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your understanding.
Hands-on experience with RESTful services, API design are must.
Knowledge of microservices architecture is must.
Knowledge of design patterns is a must.
Strong knowledge of Exception handling and logging mechanism is a must.
Agile scrum participation experience. Work experience with several agile teams on an application built
with microservices and event-based architectures to be deployed on hybrid (on-prem/cloud)
environments.
Good knowledge of Spring framework (MVC, Cloud, Data and Security. Etc) and ORM frameworks like JPA/Hibernate.
Experience in managing the Source Code Base through Version Control tools like SVN, GitHub,
Bitbucket, etc.
Experience in using and configuration of Continuous Integration tools Jenkins, Travis, GitLab, etc.
Experience in the design and development of SaaS/PaaS-based architecture and tenancy models.
Experience in SaaS/PaaS-based application development used by a high volume of
subscribers/customers.
Awareness and understanding of data security and privacy.
Experience in performing Java Code Reviews using review tools like SonarQube, etc.
Good understanding of end-to-end software development lifecycle. Ability to read and understand
requirements and design documents.
Good Analytical skills and should be self-driven.
Good communication with interpersonal skills.
Open to learning new technologies and domains.
A good team player and ready to take up new challenges. Active communication and coordination with
Clients and Internal stakeholders
Requirements: Skills and Qualifications
6-8 years of experience in developing Java/J2EE-based Enterprise Web Applications
Languages: Java, J2EE, and Python
Databases: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redshift, MongoDB
DB Script: SQL and PL/SQL
Frameworks: Spring, Spring Boot, Jersey, Hibernate and JPA
OS: Windows, Linux/Unix.
Cloud Services: AWS and Azure
Version Controls/ DevOps tools: Git, Bitbucket and Jenkins.
Message brokers: RabbitMQ, and Kafka
Deployment Servers: Tomcat, Docker, and Kubernetes
Build Tools: Gradle/Maven
Managing & mentoring a team of 5+ people
Ability to deliver projects/sprints on time
Obsessed with quality: Design reviews, code reviews, testing (system/performance)
Spending at least 50% time with hands-on coding while doing the above
Programming
Hands on experience with design and implementation of of WebApps and APIs using a PHP based framework (such as Laravel, Code Igniter, Cake or similar)
In addition to PHP, hands-on with a Python or node.js based framework
Good understanding of SQL (mySQL, postgres or similar. including clustering)
Good understanding of one no-SQL
Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance
Understands different major language paradigms (object oriented / functional /reactive)
Can reason about complexity of algorithms (time and space)
Basic CI/CD and DevOps
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
- Past experience in NodeJs, Redux and other advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks.
- Hands-on experience in NodeJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
- Knowledge of SPAs and build tools like Npm, Webpack, Grunt, Bower etc
- Should have good knowledge of Mobile friendly web application development
- Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Flexbox.
- Should have the knowledge of Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX framework.
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs
- Hands-on experience in server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as SASS or LESS
- Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, Github
Responsibilities :
- Perform all aspects of the software development such as requirements and specifications, design and development, coding and debugging.
- Should be able to come up with strategies to speed up the iterative process of software development.
- Analyse and enhance efficiency, stability, and scalability of system resources
- Have proven experience of working on back-end web frameworks like RoR (preferable) or Python/Django or Node.js
- A good command over at least one JavaScript frameworks like React.js, Vue.js or Angular
- Be excellent in understanding of relational database structures, have knowledge of unstructured databases (NoSQL) will be an added advantage
- Possess expertise in object-oriented design, unit testing, integration testing, data structures, algorithms, scalable APIs, etc.
- Have knowledge of working on cloud technologies and exposure of AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, etc)
- Have the ability to work in a fast-paced environment and make pragmatic engineering decisions in a short amount of time
- Have an Understanding of the - Agile- behavior and reflection of the same









