Python Fullstack/ Backend Developer

About The Role

Location: Remote / Hybrid (India Preferred)

Experience: 03–10 years of relevant experience

Reports to: CEO/Co-founder

Type: Full-Time

Tech Stack: Python, Frappe, LangChain, Neo4j, FAISS, React.js, AWS/GCP/Azure

What You’ll Do

● AI/ML Development

○ Build AI-powered student learning insights using Graph Databases (Neo4j), FAISS,

Sentence Transformers, and OpenCV (ResNet-50).

○ Develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and reinforcement learning models to

personalize content and assessment.

○ Research and implement multi-modal generation (text, image, voice) for highly

personalized learning interactions.

○ Fine-tune and optimize transformer-based models (e.g., GPT, BERT) to deliver contextual,

culturally relevant learning experiences.

● Backend & API Development

○ Architect and build scalable backend using Frappe, FastAPI, or Django.

○ Develop REST and GraphQL APIs to connect PAL with TAP’s LMS, Glific, and content

repositories.

○ Integrate Redis and Celery to manage background inference processes.

○ Connect with Glific APIs to power our AI-driven WhatsApp learning chatbot.

● Frontend & User Experience (Optional)

○ Develop a React.js-based student dashboard for real-time learning insights and content

delivery.

○ Collaborate closely with our UX team to ensure intuitive and accessible design.

● Cloud & Deployment (DevOps)

○ Deploy and scale models across cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, or Azure.

○ Implement CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Cypress.io) to ensure continuous delivery and testing.

○ Use Docker and Kubernetes for managing containerized deployments.

● AI-Driven Security & Automation

○ Ensure data privacy and compliance by embedding AI-powered security checks.

○ Automate personalized content delivery through NLP chatbots and AI workflows.

Who You Are

● You’ve worked on AI/ML systems at scale, especially in EdTech, SaaS, or social impact settings

● You’ve built or fine-tuned models with GPT/BERT, FAISS, LangChain, or custom embeddings

● You know how to move between backend complexity and real-world deployment

● You’ve used tools like Zapier, N8N, or FastAPI in production

● You don’t just write code — you write roadmaps, define structure, and love cross-functional

collaboration

● Bonus: You’ve dabbled in adaptive learning, NLP in regional languages, or multimodal AI

What You Can Expect?

● Real ownership – You’ll lead architecture, experimentation, and rollout

● Deep learning – Work with experienced leaders across product, pedagogy, and AI

● Remote flexibility – Work from anywhere, build for everywhere

● Bold pace, clear values – We move fast, think big, and always center the child

● Future leadership track – Opportunity to grow into a Tech/AI Lead role as we scale

● Full transparency – Competitive salary, equity potential, and clarity on what’s next

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Full Stack Software Developer with expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, React, and JavaScript. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), software engineering methodologies, and Agile practices. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced, continuous deployment environment and have a passion for building scalable, high-performance applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Test-Driven Development (TDD): Write tests before implementation to ensure code quality.
• Clean & Maintainable Code: Develop self-explanatory, efficient, and well-structured code.
• Frequent Releases: Deploy small, incremental updates frequently.
• Pair Programming: Work collaboratively in pairs to improve efficiency and code quality.
• Peer Reviews: Conduct and participate in code reviews for continuous improvement.
• Full-Stack Development: Handle both frontend and backend, including infrastructure and DevOps pipelines.
• Product Development: Collaborate closely with the product team to roll out new features and fixes.
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the latest technologies and best practices.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong proficiency in:
• Node.js, TypeScript, React, and JavaScript
• Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript
• Data structures, algorithms, and software engineering methodologies
• Experience in Agile & Extreme Programming (XP)

• Familiarity with:
• Web server ecosystems
• Relational DBMS
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Hudson, and Bamboo
• Web frameworks and frontend technologies
• Complexity analysis and performance optimization
• Server configuration and deployment infrastructure

• Experience using:
• Source control and bug tracking systems
• Writing user stories and technical documentation
• Bonus: Experience with Swift or iOS development is a plus.

• 6+ years of experience in software development with strong expertise in Java (8+), JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PL/SQL.
• Hands-on expertise in frameworks and tools: Spring Boot, ReactJS, NodeJS, REST, SOAP.
• Version Control: Proficient in Git.
• Backend & Databases: Experience with Oracle and Postgres DB (Shining Stars).
• CI/CD Tools: Skilled in Jenkins, GitHub, TDD/BDD.
• Testing Tools: Practical experience with ReadyAPI, Postman, Jest, JUnit.
• Cloud Technologies: Exposure to OCI, Azure, AWS.
• AI Tools: Familiar with GitHub Copilot.
• Containerization & Architecture: Proficient in Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), Microservices, Microfrontend.
• Nice to Have: Test automation experience with Selenium, Java Cucumber, and Kafka

• 2 years of strong development background building complex applications.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Experience building applications using NodeJS and frameworks such as Express.
• Thorough understanding of React.js and NodeJS including its core principles.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial).
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Strong experience with MongoDB, Postgres
• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Thorough understanding of React.js & popular Workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use

Require a confident person who can manage a team can also hire good candidates if required anyone having experience in fintech will be prefered

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Cloud app development experience
• Strong Django and ReactJS experience
• Advanced knowledge of Python and relational databases
• Understanding of APIs, pagination, searching, sorting 
• Experience with building, modifying and extending API endpoints (REST or

GraphQL) for data retrieval and persistence.

• Creating high performance UI etc.
• Experience with SQL and NOSQL databases

• Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements

collection, design, implementation, testing, and operational support.

• Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and

influencing skills.

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

Merkle|Sokrati, a leader in Paid Search & Social Advertising, provides a sophisticated technology solution to efficiently manage Digital Marketing campaigns for several brands in India. The technology developed takes a beating of serving and tracking 20M+ impressions a day. It runs crunching algorithms and keyword discovery routines using distributed computing, housing the entire data in distributed caches and sharded MySQL databases.

To be a geek at Merkle|Sokrati you need to know how to build scalable and high-performance systems. Nothing at Sokrati is small. We start with a proof of concept that demands a traffic rate of 10M+! To achieve any of this you need to understand Distributed Systems, Distributed Caching, High-scale Databases. And we possess the skills to create software that makes this entire heterogeneous system function together even if it runs on 100 boxes. A system that is so widely used cannot sustain any downtime and hence it uses elegant high-availability techniques to survive an outage. Not many startups can say “been there, done that”!

@Merkle|Sokrati, you will:

• Implement solutions for broadly defined problems
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence
• Be involved in the development of code in object-oriented languages like Java etc and build large scale robust distributed systems
• Be involved in full fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.

You'd fit right in if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in building successful production software systems
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Computer Science)
• Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++) and open-source technologies (Linux, Spring)
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile and in an ownership and results oriented culture

If you are excited about:

• Having an unmatched startup experience that allows you to work on bleeding-edge technologies.
• Making a splash in a multi-billion dollar Digital Advertising industry
• Learning & Growing far beyond your current horizon
• A place full of like-minded & ridiculously smart folks
• A start-up culture that you'd cherish forever in your work life

Feel like you are a good fit? We would love to hear from you!