Program Manager BC

Lead API Engineer - IND

Engineering - Hyderabad, Telangana

About Gradera

At Gradera, we’re defining a new category of enterprise transformation called Software-Orchestrated Services™ (SoS™) — a governed blend of human expertise and digital intelligence that transforms how enterprises operate.

Our mission is to build intelligent digital workers that augment teams and automate work across the value chain, helping organizations become more efficient, agile, and resilient.

We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Every engagement is tailored to the unique needs of each enterprise — grounded in governance, security, and reliability. By aligning technology with strategy, we empower our clients to achieve measurable outcomes and lead with confidence in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Lead – API Engineer

Overview

Key Responsibilities

•Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the API engineering team

•Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of API architecture and backend services

•Champion API-first development, ensuring clear contracts and comprehensive documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger)

•Lead the implementations of APIs conforming to all NFRs including security, scalability, and performance.

•Ensure robust authentication, authorization, and data protection for all endpoints

•Drive adoption of best practices in API design, versioning, and integration

•Optimize API performance for low-latency, high-frequency interactions

•Oversee observability, monitoring, and alerting for all APIs and backend services

•Collaborate closely with product, UI, and runtime teams to deliver integrated solutions

•Collaborate with the SDET to ensure comprehensive test coverage and effective test data creation

•Lead the adoption of modern API tools, frameworks, and best practices

•Ensure engineering rigor, code quality, and documentation standards are met

•Facilitate clear communication, knowledge sharing, and effective documentation within the team

•Support team growth through coaching, feedback, and skills development

Core Qualities & Skills

•Proven experience leading API or backend engineering teams and delivering complex API projects

•Deep expertise in API architecture, design, and implementation (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC etc.)

•Strong programming skills in relevant backend languages (e.g., Node.js, Python, Java, Go, etc.)

•Experience with API security, authentication, and authorization (OAuth, JWT, RBAC, PKCE, define fine-grained access controls using ReBAC)

•Experience with API documentation and standards (OpenAPI/Swagger, Use Case, JSON Schemas, etc.)

•Familiarity with data serialization with Protofbuf

•Experience with some API gateway is a must

•Strong understanding of performance optimization, scalability, and reliability for APIs

•Experience with observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting for backend services

•Strong collaboration and alignment skills across disciplines

•Willingness to learn, share knowledge, and adapt to evolving technologies

•System design skills and awareness of technical debt and tradeoffs

•Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management abilities

•Comfort with ambiguity, discovery, and rapid change

•Commitment to engineering excellence, security, and responsible practices

Preferred Qualifications

•7+ years of hands-on API or backend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role

•Track record of architecting and delivering scalable, reliable API systems

•Experience with modern development practices (CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews)

•Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers

•Experience working in cross-functional, agile teams

Highly Desirable

•Experience with API gateways (e.g., Envoy, Kong, Apigee) and service mesh patterns (e.g., Istio)

•Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures (pub/sub, callbacks, Kafka, etc.)

•Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and automated provisioning (e.g., Terraform)

•Experience building developer portals and self-service onboarding for APIs

•Experience with API Gateways (Apache APISIX, KrakenD, …)

•Ability to perform API Domain Modelling with a strong product orientation, aligning technical design with user and business needs

•Experience thriving in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and balancing rapid delivery with technical excellence

•Experience leading or working with distributed, multidisciplinary teams

Success Metrics

•API response time (median and p95)

•Uptime and reliability of critical services

•Test coverage for API and backend logic

•Developer velocity and time from API design to production

•Time to First Prototype (TTFP)

•Integration lead time for API consumers

•Technical debt reduction and architectural alignment

•Team growth, engagement, and retention

•Stakeholder satisfaction and cross-team collaboration

About the Role: EA- PST Hours- (9:00 PM- 5:00 AM IST) -Remote

We are seeking a highly experienced, proactive, and exceptionally organized Executive Assistant to support executive leadership team based in US. This role goes far beyond basic administrative tasks — we’re looking for someone who can own core EA responsibilities while also taking initiative on projects, operations, and executive-level priorities.

This is a remote position with non-traditional hours. You must be comfortable working late nights and early mornings (IST), in alignment with Pacific Time (PST). You’ll be a critical partner in keeping the executive team focused, informed, and operating at peak efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage complex and dynamic calendars across multiple time zones
• Organize and coordinate high-stakes meetings, calls, and international travel
• Prioritize and manage a high volume of emails; act as the primary gatekeeper
• Take full ownership of administrative workflows and executive task tracking
• Proactively flag and resolve scheduling conflicts or urgent priorities
• Own select operational or strategic projects from start to finish
• Track and follow up on key deliverables, deadlines, and ongoing initiatives
• Prepare briefing documents, meeting agendas, notes, and action items
• Maintain confidentiality with the highest level of professionalism
• Support with personal or ad hoc tasks as required

What We’re Looking For:

• Demonstrated ability to go beyond admin support and take initiative on broader priorities
• Exceptional organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills
• Mastery of tools such as Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, Notion, and project tracking platforms
• Resourceful, reliable, and calm under pressure
• Highly flexible and responsive, especially during late PST hours (up to 5:00 AM IST)
• Able to work independently in a remote setup while staying tightly aligned with the team
• Discreet and trustworthy when handling sensitive information

Why This Role?

• Work directly with high-impact leadership at a fast-moving California-based company
• Fully remote setup – flexibility to work from anywhere
• High-ownership role with the opportunity to contribute beyond the traditional EA scope
• Join a collaborative, high-trust environment where your contribution truly matters
• Long-term opportunity with potential for growth into broader strategic roles

Roles and Responsibilities:

·        Must have at least 1 year of experience in Android Studio, Java/Kotlin.

·        Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code.

·        Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.

·        Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.

·        Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as “touch”
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with continuous integration.

Required Skills:

• Designing and developing test automation scripts.
• Using test automation guidelines.
• Researching issues in software through testing.
• Collaborating with QA Analysts and Software Developers to develop solutions.
• Keeping updated with the latest industry developments.

Is software engineering your passion? Are you always hungry for challenges? Do you like to take risks?  Do you always crave to learn more and more? Do you like to help others solve their problems? Do you like to solve complex problems by simple methods?

• Culture to promote learning and growth by relentless focus on innovation.
• A team of aces to work with
• Streamlined engineering processes woven around Agile methodology with the help of tools
• Design led engineering focus
• Opportunity to work on B2B and B2C products in various domains like healthcare & education

• Opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies 

You have:

• Proficiency in Angular 4+, Typescript, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML/CSS
• Thorough understanding of OOJS & commonly used design principles and design patterns
• Working knowledge of State management using NgRxState management & custom npm packages
• Hands on ES6 features to reduce code and keep code clean
• Working knowledge of RxJS
• Working experience in writing automated unit tests using Jasmine, Mocha or any other similar framework.
• Experience of integrating RESTful Web APIs in Web Application.
• Written efficient and production ready code
• Working experience building high performance and scalable applications
• Ability to troubleshoot and debug application for functional and common problems
• At least 6 years of experience in software development 
• Knowledge of databases - NoSQL or RDBMS. 
• Experience working with version control like Git / Bitbucket
• Experience working in Agile Scrum Methodology
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

• Experience working on Web APIs
• Working knowledge of modern programming/scripting languages and runtime environments including node.js, Python/Ruby/Java, and experience in mid-tier web services development.
• Experience building proof of concepts, architecting new systems, and improving existing systems to solve business problems and support scaling
• Exposure to various tools that help in maintaining code quality like SonarQube
• Exposure with Atlassian JIRA application lifecycle management tool
• Exposure to Cloud Platforms like Azure or AWS or GCP

• Work with the RTL and System design teams to drive the physical design of the device in the early design cycle.
• Design, implement and verify suitable methodology that meets the QoR goals.
• Resolve design and flow issues related to the physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive

• Deliver physical design of entire SoC, complete with specification, flow and automation.
• Interface with the RTL design team to drive design modifications to resolve physical design issues and

• Use EDA tool-based programming and scripting techniques to automate and improve throughput and quality.
• Interact with tool vendors to drive tool fixes and flow improvements. Perform tool evaluations of new

• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) in Electrical Engineering or comparable engineering discipline.
• 5 to 8 years of relevant experience is required.
• Experience in physical design and timing closure for advanced nodes.
• Experience in Cadence EDA tools for physical design and verification.
• Experience in floor planning, power planning, CTS specification, place & route, and timing closure.
• Experience in UPF specs design and implementation.
• Be able to work with cross-functional teams, IP, and EDA vendors

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and debugging responsive web applications for the company. Using Angular / React / JavaScript this candidate will be able to translate user and business needs into functional frontend design.

Responsibilities

• We use React for web application.
• Designing, developing, and testing UI for mobile and web applications
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Accurately translate user and business needs into functional frontend code

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience in frontend development
• Experience building mobile/web applications using Angular or React or JavaScript.