SDE 2 Backend Developer

Required Skills: 

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing enterprise-level, n-tier, software solutions.  
• Proficiency with Microsoft C# is a must.  
• In-depth experience with .NET framework and .NET Core.  
• Knowledge of OOP, server technologies, and SOA is a must. 3+ Years Micro-service experience .  
• Relevant experience with database design and SQL (Postgres is preferred).  
• Experience with ORM tooling.  
• Experience delivering software that is correct, stable, and security compliant.  
• Basic understanding of common cloud platform. (Good to have)
• Financial services experience is strongly preferred.  
• Thorough understanding of XML/JSON and related technologies.  
• Thorough understanding of unit, integration, and performance testing for APIs.   
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action. You love to build new things and thrive in fast-paced environments.  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on strong writing and analytical problem-solving. 

Responsibilities

1. Design, develop, test, and deploy Java-based backend services and APIs.
2. Collaborate with front-end developers, DevOps, and QA to deliver high-quality software.
3. Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices.
4. Participate in system design, code reviews, and architectural discussions.
5. Optimize application performance and scalability.
6. Ensure secure and compliant backend services.
7. Troubleshoot and debug production issues as part of the on-call rotation.
8. Contribute to CI/CD and infrastructure automation efforts.

RazerTech Consulting is mandated to hire a Technical Lead for a US based Tech Company that offers a cloud-based, AI?powered image editing and automation platform for leading brands in ecommerce, fashion, marketplaces & photo studios. The platform helps creatives and marketers produce stunningly consistent imagery and video content at scale.

Role Overview :

Were looking for a hands-on engineering lead to own the delivery of our GenAI-centric product from the backend up to the UI while integrating visual AI pipelines built by ML engineers. Youll be both a builder and a leader : writing clean Java and TypeScript/Node.js, scaling AWS-based systems, mentoring engineers, and making architectural decisions that stand the test of scale. Ideally, youre also familiar with Python for deploying ML pipelines.

(Note : This role requires both technical mastery and leadership skills - we're looking for someone who can write production code, make architectural decisions, and lead a team to success.)

What Youll Do :

• Lead development of the Java, Node.js and Python (FastAPI) backend services on AWS
• Build high-performance image processing pipelines using ImageMagick, SharpJS, and SVG manipulation
• Implement automated visual content generation using Headless Chrome and Puppeteer or similar tools.
• Deploy ML pipelines (built by the ML team) into containerized inference workflows using FastAPI, Docker, and GPU-enabled ECS EC2.
• Deploy and manage services on AWS ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, and GPU-powered EC2
• Contribute to React/TypeScript frontend when needed to accelerate product delivery
• Work closely with the founder, product, and UX teams to translate business needs and PRDs into features that drive productmarket fit.
• Make architecture and infrastructure decisions from media processing to task queues to storage
• Own the performance and cost-optimization of our AWS platform
• Hire and mentor junior/mid engineers over time
• Drive technical planning, sprint prioritization, and trade-off decisions

Must have Skills :

• Backend Development (57 years) : Java, Node.js, TypeScript, RESTful API, Docker
• AWS Expertise (5+ years) : AWS Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, roles
• Image Processing & Media Technologies : ImageMagick, SharpJS, SVG manipulation and programmatic generation, Headless Chrome, Puppeteer
• System Optimization & Middleware (35 years) : AWS cloud cost optimization, Celery, BullMQ, AWS Step Functions
• Frontend Development (23 years) : React, TypeScript, Redux, Context API, CI/CD pipelines.
• System Design & Architecture (46 years) : Event-driven architectures using queues, microservices-based systems, caching strategies (e.g., Redis, CDN edge caching)
• Leadership & Communication (23 years) : Lead engineering teams and drive project delivery

Company and Founders
Egregore Labs (http://www.egregorelabs.com/" target="_blank">www.egregorelabs.com) is a financial software company founded in 2017 by Prashant Vijay (ISB, Tulane) & Hari Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras) both of whom have spent over a decade each in Financial Services, with a majority of their experience at Goldman Sachs across New York, Hong Kong & Singapore in roles across Trading, Quant & Technology. More about the founders is available here and here

We operate at the intersection of Unstructured Data and Finance. We run multiple products, including Romulus (http://www.romulus.co/" target="_blank">www.romulus.co) and Robana (http://www.robana.ai/" target="_blank">www.robana.ai) - all our products work on the same underlying principles and set of technologies.

Ideal Background

• At least 2 years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Sound understanding of computer science principles
• Exposure to any of the following
  • Financial services
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Robotic Process Automation
  • Intelligent Document Processing
  • Document Management and Repositories

Opportunity
We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
• Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
• Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (2+ years)
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
• Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms
• A computer science education would be great, but other engineering disciplines are ok as well

Desirables
We are looking for a person who has :

• Resourcefulness- - we're looking for versatile developers who are good at figuring out what they need to use, learn, build, re-purpose to get the job done quickly and efficiently.
• Ownership- - We like to be directive and not prescriptive in our management. We- d love for you to take ownership of what you work on, and tell us what to do, rather than the other way round.
• Work Ethic- - We've grown up on Wall Street. We work hard and have aggressive goals. We want our teammates to be focused, goal-oriented, and consistent high achievers.
• Execution Focus- - Our business is about getting things done and getting things done right. We want outcome-focused colleagues who can multi-task, and execute quickly and elegantly.

Interested?
We are an early-stage company. Working here is not for the faint-hearted. An intense and unstructured work environment, lots of excitement, and a group of motivated colleagues are what we bring to the table. We ask you to bring your undivided attention, strong worth ethic & resourcefulness. We are Delhi-based and work 6 days a week. Currently, due to the pandemic, we are operating remotely since Feb 2020.

Technical specifications/Skill Set:

• Minimum of 5+ years of significant experience in application development.
• Proficient with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, Test- driven development
• Knowledge of system architecture, object-oriented design, and design patterns.
• Required technical skills: Strong Core Java, J2EE, Spring boot, Akka, API development & distributed application development experience.
• Desirable technical skills: Micro-services pattern, Kafka, Knative Eventing, Camel-K, Container Technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, NoSql preferably Cassandra.
• Experience working with high volume data and computationally intensive system.
• Domain knowledge in Financial Industry and Capital Markets is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills are essential, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies.

• Building components for the company's advanced health tech platform using Java, Solr, SpringBoot, DialogFlow
• Communicating effectively in a cross-functional product development team and present ideas and solutions effectively
• Participating in technical planning and requirements gathering phases including design, code, test, troubleshoot, and document engineering software applications
• Developing the Code as per the requirements
• Working with product team and constructing the tech roadmap
• Designing, building and scaling the company's backend microservices
• Maintaining code integrity and organization
• Applying all quality requirements to make the code production ready
• Developing and deploying new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary
• Developing documentation related to technical aspects and to facilitate current support, development, upgrades, or migrations
• Designing and building efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Pro actively catching and fixing bugs, and providing support for the back end services
• Managing servers and infrastructure by keeping the lights on and refining the deployment architecture

What you need to have:

The Solution Architect plays a critical role in the architecture design and development of globally consistent Liquidity and Cash Management solutions and is a key contributor to the overall delivery in a fast-paced and challenging environment.

Responsibilities:

• Develops technology road maps, while keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies, and recommends business directions based on these technologies
• Provides technical leadership and is responsible for developing components of, or the overall systems design.
• Translates complex business problems into sound technical solutions.
• Provides integrated systems planning and recommends innovative technologies that will enhance the current system.
• Contribute to ongoing architecture governance and reviewing proposed solutions.
• Lead integration of new and existing components with ICG Platforms.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years relevant experience
• Experience as Full-Stack Developer and Experience as Architect Desired
• Understanding of integration technologies concepts like Webservices, REST API etc
• Familiar with DevOps tools like Maven, Jenkins, Bitbucket etc
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Management and prioritization skills
• Ability to develop working relationships
• Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities
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Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree

Job Summary:

• Willingness to work on highly scalable cloud-native solutions based on microservices.
• Quickly learn the technologies and deliver using the same.
• Take complete ownership of the customer requirements.
• Motivated to deliver world-class quality.
• Inclined to bring new ways of thinking, working and providing solutions.
• Drive the concept of quality into everybody and have a zero-tolerance towards bad quality.

• Understand requirements from product management, customer and able to comprehensively break this down to manageable tasks.

Experience:

● 3-9 years of development experience.

Technical Skills:

Mandatory:

• Java - Advanced concepts concurrency, reflection, lambda, Java Springboot, Spring security,
• Actuator/Prometheus/Grafana/Servo (metrics),
• EFK/ELK stack (log analysis)
• OpenAPI/Swagger (documentation)
• RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Maria or any other)
• NoSQL (Anyone of Mongo DB, Redis, Cassandra, Neo4J or other DBs)
• Automated unit tests/e2e tests (JUnit, TestNG, RestAssured etc)
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Sonar, Maven/Gradle etc)

Optional: (But highly recommended)

• NewSQL DB (TiDB, CockroachDB)
• AMQP/RabbitMQ
• Kafka
• Docker
• Kubernetes