
You’ll be joining the engineering team responsible for delivering SaaS and on-premise solutions that orchestrate case data workflows and provide data driven legal insights for our clients. You will be leading the development, maintenance and scaling of our strategic initiatives - using a variety of distributed systems and cloud-technology stacks, driving our next level of growth. As an early member of our small team, you will have ample opportunity to lead and scale the product and the team.
Responsibilities
- Work with product management to understand customers' case data workflows to translate their pain points to requirements.
- Gain a solid understanding of customer backend pipelines and integration surfaces.
- Breakdown large projects into potentially shippable incremental units within a timeframe.
- Understand the current system architecture and design sub systems.
- Be hands-on and build end-to-end new features and support existing features.
- Engage in all stages of the product development life cycle.
- Adopt a customer-centric and iterative mindset.
- Promote engineering best practices such as API design standards, coding standards, code test coverage, code reviews, CI/CD, and documentation.
- Work with lead engineers and mentor junior engineers to deliver on large initiatives.
- Our tech stack is varied - you will start with Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/React, Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq, Heroku, AWS, and more.
Required Skills:
- Exposure to a variety of stacks building SaaS platforms and/or on-premise solutions.
- Experience with building sub-systems or services in a distributed system.
- Exposure to one or more backend architectures such as event-driven, micro services, and cloud architectures.
- Experience troubleshooting performance and/or scale issues.
- Strong in RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases.
- Proficient in one or more scripting languages - experience in Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React is a plus.
- Strong in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and design patterns.
- Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with both technical and nontechnical team members.
- Prior experience in the legal tech industry is a plus.
Years of Experience : 5+ years
Educational Qualification: BE or BCA or MCA OR Msc IT

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2) Strong DB concepts , and hands on knowledge on MongoDB , REDIS
3) Experience working with micro-services will be a plus
4) Experience working with JWT and IAM systems will be a plus
5) Experience working with Postman , Swagger will be a plus
6) TDD knowledge is an advantage and also working with Unit Test code and familiar with test code coverage concepts.
7) Strong operating system knowledge is a plus with knowledge of how to manage threads.
8) Working experience with RabbitMQ , Kafka will be a plus
9) Strong knowledge of JS internals is a must.
💥 What will you do?
As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will
- Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers
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Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements
- Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
- Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
- Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
- Actively participate in code reviews
- Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites
🙋 What are we looking for?
While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are
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Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.
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You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.
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You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.
- You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.
📢 Other information you may want to consider
- We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
- Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
● Design and deliver scalable web services, APIs, and backend data modules.
Understand requirements and develop reusable code using design patterns &
component architecture and write unit test cases.
● Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to elicit &
understand their requirements & challenges and develop potential solutions
● Stay current with the latest tools, technology ideas, and methodologies; share
knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key decision-makers.
Requirements
● 3-6 years of strong experience in developing highly scalable backend and
middle tier. BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent from premier institutes
Strong in problem-solving, data structures, and algorithm design. Strong
experience in system architecture, Web services development, highly scalable
distributed applications.
● Good in large data systems such as Hadoop, Map Reduce, NoSQL Cassandra, etc.. Fluency in Java, Spring, Hibernate, J2EE, REST Services Ability to deliver code
quickly from given scenarios in a fast-paced start-up environment.
● Attention to detail. Strong communication and collaboration skills.
If you are looking for a change this is what we can promise you:
You will have challenging problems to solve
You will have flexibility and autonomy to solve problems and deliver solutions
We will provide a highly collaborative environment with skilled and super friendly teammates
We will fully support you in developing software the right way
We won't burden you with useless policies and procedures
We will provide you the tools you need to do your job right
If that sounds attractive please apply! We'd love to talk to you.
Here are some more details about the position:
You will be hands-on writing code, unit tests, and performing peer code reviews. You will work with a project manager, software development engineers, user experience and interface designers, quality assurance engineers and customer stakeholders to deliver high quality, scalable and maintainable software solutions.
Required Qualifications
4+ years experience developing web applications using PHP
Ability to work effectively with offshore and nearshore team members
Experience performing peer code reviews
Experience writing unit tests
Experience with Git and merge conflict resolution
JavaScript and HTML, CSS
Ajax, Restful APIs and JSON
SQL (MSSQL, MySQL or similar)
Scalable Architectural Patterns
API Integrations
Asynchronous Processes and Multithreading
Desired Qualifications
5+ year of experience developing web applications.
Experience in Codeigniter PHP framework
Experience with React and Flux
frameworks like Angular, React, Bootstrap, Ember or similar
Experience working with offshore and nearshore development teams.
HTML 5 and CSS 3
Caching Technologies
Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, or Heroku)
Serverless technologies
IoC / Dependency Injection
Continuous Integration
Continuous delivery
Git
SourceTree and Bitbucket
Scrum
Project management software - Jira, Rally or similar
Virtual Machines
Postman
Server Side skills:
Should have handson experience on JS technologies more than 3+ years
Building interactive dasboards from multiple systems and RESTfully
abstract to the UI through a Node.js backend
In depth knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJS and Restify
Knowledge of authentication using PassportJS, AuthO or JWT.
Knowledge of media content uploading using any cloud
Should have good understanding of request validation, schema
validation and Error handling
Good understanding of Promises, Async/Await and Callbacks
Should have knowledge of Socket, Pubsub.
Payment gateways integration using Braintree, Stripe or any other
would be a good skills to have.
Should have good understanding of scheduled tasks in NodeJS and
CronJobs
In depth knowledge of ORM like Mongoose, Sequalize or KnexJS.
Hands on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript Development on
server side.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering.
- 8+ years of experience in software development in an object-oriented language such as Java, .NET or Node.Js
- Exceptional design, coding, and problem-solving skills, with a bias for architecture at scale.
- Experience with HTML5, JavaScript, TypeScript, front-end technologies like AngularJS, Redux / React and upcoming web technologies.
- Real-world experience developing large scale commercial services with robust performance, resiliency, and telemetry, delivered both Online and OnPrem.
- Strong knowledge of computer science, algorithms, and design patterns.
- Ability to appreciate complex problems with a thorough design.








