Python Developer

Our Mission

To make video as accessible to machines as text and voice are today.

At lookup, we believe the world's most valuable asset is trapped. Video is everywhere, but it's unsearchable—a black box of insight that no one can open or atleast open affordably. We’re changing that. We're building the search engine for the visual world, so anyone can find or do anything with video just by asking.

Text is queryable. Voice is transcribed. Video, the largest and richest data source of all, is still a black box. A computer can't understand it, and so its value remains trapped.

Our mission at lookup is to fix this.

About the Role

We are looking for founding Backend Engineers to build a highly performant, reliable, and scalable API platform that makes enterprise video knowledge readily available for video search, summarization, and natural‑language Q&A. You will partner closely with our ML team working on vision‑language models to productionize research and deliver fast, trustworthy APIs for customers.

Examples of technical challenges you will work on include: distributed video storage, a unified application framework and data model for indexing large video libraries, low‑latency clip retrieval, vector search at scale, and end‑to‑end build, test, deploy, and observability in cloud environments.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and build robust backend services and APIs (REST, gRPC) for vector search, video summarization, and video Q&A.
• Own API performance and reliability, including low‑latency retrieval, pagination, rate limiting, and backwards‑compatible versioning.
• Design schemas and tune queries in Postgres, and integrate with unstructured storage.
• Implement observability across metrics, logs, and traces. Set error budgets and SLOs.
• Write clear design docs and ship high‑quality, well‑tested code.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate and productionize VLMs and retrieval pipelines.
• Take ownership of architecture from inception to production launch.

Who You Are:

• 3+ years of professional experience in backend development.
• Proven experience building and scaling polished WebSocket, gRPC, and REST APIs.
• Exposure to distributed systems and container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes).
• Hands‑on experience with AWS.
• Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., Cassandra), including schema design, query optimization, and scaling.
• Familiarity with our stack is a plus, but not mandatory: Python (FastAPI), Celery, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Weaviate, React.
• Ability to diagnose complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective fixes.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced startup environment.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on work with LLM agents, vector embeddings, or RAG applications.
• Building video streaming pipelines and storage systems at scale (FFmpeg, RTSP, WebRTC).
• Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS) and responsive UI design.

Location & Culture

• Full-time, in-office role in Bangalore (we’re building fast and hands-on).
• Must be comfortable with a high-paced environment and collaboration across PST time zones for our US customers and investors.
• Expect startup speed — daily founder syncs, rapid design-to-prototype cycles, and a culture of deep ownership.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Work on the frontier of video understanding and real-world AI — products that can redefine trust and automation.
• Build core APIs that make video queryable and power real customer use.
• Own systems end to end: performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• Work closely with founders and collaborate in person in Bangalore.
• Competitive salary with meaningful early equity.

Description:

We are looking for a highly capable NodeJS developer to optimize our web-based application performance. You will be collaborating with our front-end developers, designing back-end components, and integrating data storage and protection solutions.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Extensive web services development with RESTful interfaces
• Integration of data storage solutions, Solution for MongoDB, API Integration
• Responsible for the development and maintenance of applications target for the range of any kind of web application API development and Solidity experience is better if candidate has knowledge.
• Primary focus will be development of React based web applications and their integration with back-end API services.
• Independent practitioner and advanced programmer and will be working alongside cross platform engineers and testers on different layers of the infrastructure.
• Commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and bug fix.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Engagement in client communication, requirement collection, analysis, and documentation activities, in case if it would require.
• Design and Implement Architecture solutions
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Able to make sure that the platforms keep up with high standards of scalability, stability, security, and performance.
• Convey effectively all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues.
• Troubleshooting bug reports and help to establish ambitious goals to improve our codebase in general

Requirements:

• Minimum 2 years of experience in Node JS
• Should have worked on at least one Node JS framework
• Must have worked on Agile development methodologies.
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies
• In-depth knowledge of Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Postman, REST API
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written (English)
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools

How we work:

• We use Microsoft Teams for daily communication, conduct daily standups and team meetings over Teams.
• We value open discussion, ownership, and a founder mindset.
• We prioritize design, amazing UI/UX, documentation, to-do lists, and data-based decision-making.
• We encourage team bonding through bi-weekly town halls, destressing sessions with a certified healer, and fun company retreats twice a year.
• We offer a 100% remote workplace model, health insurance, top performers eligible for attractive equity options, mental health consultations, company-sponsored upskilling courses, growth hours, the chance to give back with 40 hours for community causes, and access to a financial advisor.
• Wobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer

• 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Position Overview:

We seek a talented and experienced professional to serve as the Head of Engineering and a Senior Backend Developer with expertise in Go (Golang). In this dual role, you will lead our engineering team and contribute hands-on to developing our B2B SaaS platform, which aims to revolutionize blue-collar worker training in India. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, set engineering standards, and ensure the successful execution of our technology initiatives.

As Head of Engineering:

• Oversee the recruitment, mentoring, and performance management of engineering team members.
• Define and maintain engineering best practices, coding standards, and development methodologies.
• Manage project timelines, resources, and budgets
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
• Drive technical decisions and architecture discussions to ensure scalability, security, and maintainability.

As Senior Backend Developer (Go):

• Design the architecture and implement high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend services in Go.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while ensuring the security and integrity of the platform.
• Optimize and fine-tune the backend components for maximum speed and scalability.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs for seamless integration with frontend and external systems.
• Implement asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture for handling concurrent requests efficiently.
• Work on data modelling and integration with databases for data storage and retrieval.
• Write unit tests and perform code reviews to maintain code quality and ensure robustness.

·       3+ yrs of experience in product development (Preferring SaaS based)

·       Must have experience in Java web-based application development

·       Hands on development experience on Java/J2EE, Springboot, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, REST Services

·       Experience on HTML, JavaScript, JQuery

·       Hands on experience on database-writing queries/procedures

·       Experience on SVN,GIT,

·       Knowledge of Server configuration

·       Knowledge of cloud preferably AWS