
Infrastructure
Pocket Gems wants to build the greatest games and interactive entertainment in the world.
That’s the mission our founders began within an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009
and we continue it today.
Pocket Gems has grown to over 250 people in San Francisco. With $155 million in backing from
Sequoia Capital and Tencent, we’re constantly breaking new ground with graphically rich mobile
games, fun new genres of mobile entertainment, and innovative technologies like our mobilefirst Mantis Engine.
Our products have been downloaded over 325 million times by players around the world. We
have several flagship products including the most recent - Adventure Chef Merge Explorer, a
casual merge and explore game. Some of our other ongoing hits include Episode, a mobile
storytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy
game.
Pocket Gems is home to some of the most massive and delightful mobile-first games, like War
Dragons and Episode. Those games need a solid backend platform, to function critical tasks to
delight our players, and is supported and optimized by our Central Engineering team. As a Sr.
Software Engineer on the Central Infrastructure Team, you will build microservices that acts as
the core of all our games, facilitate the processing and recording of billions of events per day,
support critical systems for marketing, finance. You will be responsible for some of our biggest
projects as you build APIs and infrastructure that scales to millions of players in real-time
games.
What You’ll Do:
• Implement flexible, reusable, and scalable solutions to improve our data pipeline
• Develop microservices for critical infrastructure like A/B tests, Offer recommendation, etc
that is mission-critical to the business
• Develop microservices for our games such as real-time communication platforms,
leaderboard, etc
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party APIs that you suggest or write yourself
• Build scalable web tools (including open source tools) to support data analysis and
visualization for the company and influence what we build for our games’ players
What You Bring to the Central Infrastructure Engineering team:
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience (including 3+ years backend experience)
• A degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant field
• Experience leading complex projects, preferably involving distributed systems
• Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Hadoop, and related backend technologies is a
plus
• Strong skills in data structures, algorithms, software design, and OOP
• A love for delighting users, both internal and external, with reliable tools, data, and
creative and highly technical solutions to their problems
Extra Gems for:
• Experience in working with microservices

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Location: Hyderabad
Work Mode: Hybrid (2 days WFO)
Experience Required: 4.5+ years
Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Preferred
Employment Type: Full-Time
Mandatory Requirements:
- 4.5+ years of experience in Java Development
- Hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment
- Must be available to join immediately
- Must be willing to work in Hybrid mode from Hyderabad
Technical Skill Requirements:
- Strong hands-on experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices
- Solid understanding of OOP concepts, Multithreading, and REST APIs
- Practical knowledge and experience working with AWS services like EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, SNS, etc.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools and version control systems (Git)
- Good knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
- Ability to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based backend applications
- Implement and integrate AWS services to ensure scalability and reliability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including QA, DevOps, and Front-end developers
- Optimize application performance and troubleshoot issues in a timely manner
- Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and team discussions
- Ensure best practices in code quality, security, and documentation
- Handle deployments and production support if needed
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Technologies/Frameworks – · Core Java, J2EE, · Spring Core and Spring MVC, Sprint Boot, Spring Security, · JDBC, Hibernate, RESTful APIs, SOAP WebServices · Knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3, Angular is added advantage · Junit or Mockito frameworks · Maven, Git · Knowledge Data Structures, · SQL, MySQL · Designing relational database schemas · Basics of AWS, Cloud, Microservices
· BFSI, FinTech |
Job Description: Backend Developer – Design Qandy
Who are we?
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We are a lean team of high performing go-getters, we take ownership in our roles and lead with knowledge. Debates and discussions are an important part of our culture and we encourage people to bring unique perspectives to their conversations. Most importantly, we love solving problems.
Each day is inspiring and we encourage you to apply for this role and experience it for yourself.
What would you be required to do?
· Write code and tests, build prototypes, solve issues, profile, and analyze bottlenecks
· Design performance gauging, building robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients
· Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the cloud
· Optimization of web applications for performance and scalability
· Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing
· Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
· Write clean code to develop functional web applications
· Troubleshoot and debug applications
· Perform UI tests to optimize performance
· Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
· Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
· Gather and address technical and design requirements
· Provide training and support to internal teams
· Build reusable code and libraries for future use
What skills we are looking for?
· Good communication skill to communicate with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, Regularly and other developers regarding progress on the long-term technology roadmap
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· Through analytical skills to Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives
Skills Needed:
· PHP Laravel Framework, PHP Design Patterns.
· Proficient in MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
· APIs, REST API, SOAP API, API Security, Open APIs
· Push Notifications, Laravel Events, Queue, Observers
· Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and web design
· Experience writing highly secure web applications
· Experience with core AWS web-enabling technologies
· Growth mindset, challenging status quo to find new solutions and out-of-the-box ideas
· Experience designing RESTful APIs, specifically for mobile apps
· Computer science degree or equivalent experience
· Experience leading a team
· 3-6 Years’ experience in back-end development.
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• Hands on experience in Springboot and good knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB
• Hands on experience in building RESTful based APIs
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability•
• Implementation of security and data protection
Requirements & Responsibilities:
- 3+ years of experience developing web applications using J2EE.
- 3+ years of experience in Spring Boot.
- Understanding of MicroServices.
- Experience working with tools like Git, Maven, and AWS.
- Expertise in developing RESTful APIs.
- Experience writing Unit and Integration tests.
- Background working with Linux/UNIX environments.
- Strong working knowledge with RDBMS like MySql, Postgres and NoSQL databases like Mongo
- Passion to stay on top of the latest happenings in the tech world and an attitude to discuss and bring those into play.
- Experience with agile/scrum development
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Information Technology or another related field or Equivalent
About Gobillion
Gobillion is a YCombinator backed IIM-NIT alumni co-founded social commerce startup headquartered in San Francisco, USA with offices in New Delhi, Bangalore and Guwahati. We are bringing e-commerce 2.0 to the next 400 million online customers across India, through a community and social driven approach. Our co-founding has diversified experience with prestigious organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe and SAP Labs.
Gobillion has been rapidly scaling and is backed by some of the world’s most prestigious investors from US, Europe, SE Asia and India including - YCombinator, Justin Mateen (Founder - Tinder), Pioneer Fund, Soma Capital, Venture Souq, Goodwater Capital, LetsVenture, Vikalp Sahni (Co-Founder- Gobibibo) amongst others.
We have been selected for and globally validated by the world’s leading investors/accelerators including YCombinator, Founder Institute Silicon Valley, NASSCOM 10000 Startups - India and Assam Startup. We have been named as the Top 10 Global startup for YCombinator S21 by Alex Mitchell.
Summary of role: As a Developer, you will be working alongside our product team in the conceptualization, design and development of server side components. You will be doing the following on the job
- Write clean, manageable code and maintain proper documentation
- Create, test and deploy and maintain the applications on production servers
- Continuously discover, analyze, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximize development efficiency
- Lead team in crafting solutions in different areas and ensure timely delivery
- Ensure secure architecture for Servers
Why Join Us?
- You will have a chance to be a leader and have the responsibility to scale Gobillon across India's most fast growing cities
- The opportunity to join one of India’s fastest growing companies at an early stage - We are giving our early team members to benefit from a strong ESOP pool and be part of our growth journey
- Joining an amazing team of Gobillion rockstars from colleges like IIMs, IITs, NITs etc. and from organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe, SAP Labs, Urban Company, Udaan, Amazon, Delivery, Ninjacart, Accenture etc.
- Wear the Gobillion badge with pride - We are looking for owners with a founder’s mindset - not just employees. If you are passionate about our mission about making e-commerce social for the next 400M customers in India and serve as culture carriers - we are the right place for you!
Key Responsibilities of this Role:
- Experience with DevOps and writing REST APIs & Micro services architecture
- Strong programming expertise in Node js, Nest Js
- Good understanding of Mongo databases and other NoSql Databases and SQL Database
- Solid hold on Data structures and Algorithm
- Good understanding of System Design
- Development expertise in AWS services like Lambda, SQS, SNS
- Good understanding of DevOps and Server security
- Exposure to Cloud Platforms like AWS (preferred), Azure or Google Cloud
- Unix command line experience
- Well-versed with Software Development Life Cycle
- Demonstrate the ability to be a self-starter and learn quickly
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Passion for learning and implementing new technologies
- Excellent understanding of software Architectures
Ditto is a new offering from Finshots. We want to help millennials make better financial decisions. And we are starting with Insurance.
With Ditto, you don’t just compare insurance. You understand it. Narrow down choices. Avoid pitfalls and make better decisions.
Finshots is one of the leading financial newsletters with over 500K subscribers.
What do we do at Ditto?
● We explain health insurance and term(life) insurance in a language you can understand.
● We are an insurtech company primarily selling Health and Term Life Insurance policies.
Who’s backing us?
● We are funded by Zerodha- India’s largest stockbroker
Roles and Responsibilities :
● Architect and build end to end backend services.
● Integrate services from various stakeholders - Insurers, payment gateways.
● Build for high observability, high performance and remove bottlenecks within the application.
● Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
● Should be comfortable with writing tests, targeting 100% coverage.
● Should be comfortable managing database migrations, scripting, setup and Administration.
Experience and Skills
● For this role we expect you to have 2+ years of experience in Backend development.
● Proficiency in Python (2+ years)
● Proven experience in building scalable backend systems (security, middleware, caching, APIs)
● Hands-on experience with Low level & high-level software design
● Must have relevant experience with Django or Flask or similar web app frameworks.
● Knowledge of writing restful APIs.
● Developer experience with AWS or any major cloud provider is a plus.
● Strong sense of ownership and leadership quality
Perks
● Comprehensive Health Insurance
● Compensation as per industry standards
Our Interview Process:
We would like to help you minimize your time and efforts.
There are 4 rounds & we will be working towards completing all the rounds within a maximum of 2 weeks.
Please find the schedule here:
1. Introductory Call
2. Assignment Round
3. Live Coding Round
4. Final Managerial / Technical Round
Job Location:
JP Nagar Bangalore, India
Your Responsibilities would be to:
- Architect new and optimize existing software codebases and systems used to crawl, launch, run, and monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
- Deeply own the lifecycle of software, including rolling out to operations, managing configurations, maintaining and upgrading, and supporting end-users
- Configure and optimize the automated testing and deployment systems used to maintain over 1000+ crawlers across the company
- Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
- Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements
Basic Qualifications:
- Extremely effective, self-driven builder
- 2+ years of experience as a backend software engineer
- 2+ years of experience with Python
- 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
- Should have managed a team of software engineers
- Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
- Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
- Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
- Excellent communicator, both written and verbal
Additional Requirements
- Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
- Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
- Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
- Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.










