
Hiring For SDE II - Python (Remote)
The Impact you will create:
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Build campaign generation services which can send app notifications at a speed of 10 million a minute
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Dashboards to show Real time key performance indicators to clients
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Develop complex user segmentation engines which creates segments on Terabytes of data within few seconds
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Building highly available & horizontally scalable platform services for ever growing data
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Use cloud based services like AWS Lambda for blazing fast throughput & auto scalability
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Work on complex analytics on terabytes of data like building Cohorts, Funnels, User path analysis, Recency Frequency & Monetary analysis at blazing speed
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You will build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.
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As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.
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You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.
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Collaborating various highly-functional teams in the company to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.
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Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.
Primary Responsibilities
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End-to-end ownership of product development, from design, through implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
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Translating high-level requirements and end-user use cases into design proposals, decomposing complex features into smaller, short-term deliverable tasks
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Maintaining constant focus on scalability, performance and robustness of architecture
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Designing and implementing logging, monitoring and alerting systems for existing and new infrastructure
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Documenting API's and architecture design
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Mentor and guide juniors on their path to become solid developers
What we look for?
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4+ of industry experience in technical leadership roles
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Solid knowledge of Python, SQL, NoSQL, shell scripting and Linux operating environment
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End-to-end experience in design and development of highly scalable enterprise and cloud data products
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Ability to challenge and redefine existing architecture to create robust, scalable and reliable products
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Hands-on experience with design and troubleshooting of scalable web services, queue based systems, distributed databases and streaming services
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Experience with modern DevOps technologies such as kOps, Kubernetes and Docker, CI/CD, monitoring and autoscaling

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Your job: • Develop and maintain software components, including APIs and microservices
• Optimize backend systems on Microsoft Azure using App Services, Functions, and AzureSQL
• Contribute to frontend development as needed in a full-stack capacity
• Participate in code reviews, unit testing, and bug fixing to ensure high code quality
• Collaborate with the development team, product owner, and DevOps team in agile projects
• Maintain clear and comprehensive technical documentation for all feature and APIs
Your qualification:
• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science
• 5 to 8yearsofexperienceinbackendwebapplicationdevelopment
• Expertise in backend technologies such as C#/.NET Core and in databases, including SQL and NoSQL (AzureSQL, Cosmos DB)
• Experience with Microsoft Azure services (App Services, Functions, SQL) and familiarity with frontend technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript and/ or Angular) would be an added advantage
• Proficiency in cloud-based backend development, full-stack development, and software optimization
• Experience with agile methodologies, unit testing, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines would be beneficial
• Excellent written and spoken English communications kills
Core Responsibilities:
- Design & Development: Architect and implement scalable backend services and APIs using Python or Golang, ensuring high performance, resilience, and extensibility.
- System Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of critical modules, from design and development to deployment and support.
- Technical Leadership: Conduct design and code reviews, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers to raise the team’s technical bar.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, architects, and other engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Performance & Reliability: Troubleshoot complex issues in production systems, identify root causes, and design sustainable long-term solutions.
- Innovation: Evaluate new technologies, contribute to proof-of-concepts, and recommend tools that can improve developer productivity.
- Process Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing practices.
- Knowledge Sharing: Document designs, create technical guides, and share insights with the broader engineering team.
Experience and Expertise:
- 4–7 years of backend development experience with Python or Golang.
- Strong expertise in designing, developing, and scaling microservices and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of concurrency, multi-threading, and performance optimization.
- Proficiency with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Linux development, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and related services.
- Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills for production-grade systems.
- Experience with AI-powered development tools is a strong plus; familiarity with concepts like 'agentic coding' for workflow automation or 'context engineering' for leveraging LLMs in system design is highly desirable.
Skills:
- Strong problem-solving ability, with experience handling complex technical challenges.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and articulate trade-offs.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and able to operate independently while aligning with team goals.
- Passionate about engineering culture, quality, and developer productivity.
Your responsibilities will include:
Designing, implementing and maintaining Java-based applications
Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
Writing testable, scalable and efficient code
Test and debug new applications and updates
Maintain up to date code documentation
Participating in code reviews
Key Requirement:
- You have prior experience in Core Java.
- Strong knowledge of Java Application Frameworks
- Hands-on experience working in SQL
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.
Django Python framework
PostgreSQL database
- Coordinating with development teams to find out the needs of the application.
- Using the Python programming language to create scalable code.
- Application testing and bug fixing.
- Creating the back-end elements.
- Utilising server-side logic to incorporate user-facing components.
- Integrating storage methods for data.
- Design and implementation of high-performance, low-latency applications.
- Working in concert with front-end programmers.
- Upgrading the functionality of current databases.
- Creating digital technologies to track online activity.
autonomous world.Rich data in large volumes is getting collected at the edge (outside a datacenter) in use cases like autonomous vehicles, smart manufacturing, satellite imagery, smart retail, smart agriculture etc.These datasets are characterized by being unstructured
(images/videos), large size (Petabytes per month), distributed (across edge, on-prem and
cloud) and form the input for training AI models to get to higher degrees of automation.
Akridata is engaged with building products that solve these unique challenges and be at the forefront of this edge data revolution.
The company is backed by prominent VCs and has it’s entire software engineering team
based out of India and provides ample opportunities for from-scratch design and
development.
Role:
This role is an individual contributor role with key responsibilities in developing web server
backends for Akridata management plane software that provides a ‘single pane of glass’ for users to manage assets, specify and monitor large volume data pipelines at scale involving 10s of petabytes of data.
This role involves:
1. Working with tech leads and the rest of the team on the feature design activities and
picking appropriate tools and techniques for implementation.
2. Be a hands-on developer able to independently make correct implement choices, follow
sound development practices to ensure an enterprise grade application.
3. Guide and mentor junior team members.
What we are looking for:
1. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science with strong CS fundamentals and
problem solving.
2. 5+ years of hands-on experience with software development with 3+ years on web
backend development.
3. A good understanding of backend application interactions with relational databases like
MySQL, Postgres etc
4. Knowledge of web server development frameworks preferably on Python.
5. Enthusiastic to work in a dynamic, fast paced startup environment.
Good to have:
1. Hands-on experience with designing database schema and implementing and debugging SQL queries for optimal performance for large datasets
2. Experience working with applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters.
3. Experience with working on a product from early stages of it’s development typically in a
startup environment.
- Design the architecture of new services to deliver timely communication from server to
- client and server to server, while still functioning alongside existing server components
- Describe and implement the communications across multiple network layers, considering
- performance, reliability, and flexibility with respect to the underlying infrastructure
- Enhance and expand the ORM layer of the studio’s in-house web framework
- Craft software solutions for supporting flexibility in resource allocation, from compute to storage
- Consult with technical operations on appropriate Kubernetes-based infrastructure design
- Design for performance, and measure the effects
- Review your colleagues’ code, and learn from their reviews as well
- Identify, document, and communicate best practices for the engineers who use the fruits of your labour
- Requirements:
- 7+ years professional work experience
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Must be proactive, self-directed, detailed and organized
- Proficient in PHP, C++, or Go
- Knowledge of relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
- Experience with in-memory NoSQL databases, such as Redis
- Ability to debug issues within custom code quickly
- Passion for developing scalable and maintainable software systems
Must Haves
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
- 4+ years’ work experience in software development
- BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- Understanding of operating system fundamentals (Linux)
- Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms
- Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical skills, with excellent problem solving abilities
- Working experience with Kubernetes
- Experienced working with distributed databases at scale
Good to haves
- Experience in developing software using AWS native services & technologies.
- Experience taking a lead role in building and operating scalable distributed systems
- Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development
- Familiar with building secure software using modern security principles
- Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
Why us
We're hiring a set of highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate people who thrive in a high-growth environment. We believe the best way to grow is to give everyone the opportunity to pursue their interests. At Lucidity, you have complete freedom to work on projects that interest you. Plus, with benefits like flexible hours, company offsites, unlimited leaves, we ensure you enjoy the journey as much as we do. We are also offering healthy founding team ESOP's.









