Who Are We?
Pibit is a Y Combinator-backed, insurtech startup co-founded by IIT Roorkee alumni, focused on transforming the underwriting landscape with Generative AI. Our SaaS offering helps insurance companies in the US make smarter, faster decisions by leveraging advanced AI to optimize underwriting processes, reduce risk, and improve premiums. As we continue to expand, we're looking for an ambitious, results-driven Senior Software Engineer to join our Engineering team.
Position Overview:
We are looking for a seasoned Backend Developer with a strong background in building scalable SaaS applications and expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure. This is an onsite role where you'll take ownership of the entire product lifecycle, contribute to system design, mentor team members, and thrive in a dynamic startup environment.
Key Responsibilities
Code Quality and Development:
- Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable, and maintainable codebases.
- Establish and enforce coding standards, perform code reviews, and ensure adherence to best practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production bugs efficiently.
System Design:
- Lead and contribute to Low-Level Design (LLD) and High-Level Design (HLD) for complex system architectures.
- Drive technical discussions to define the technical roadmap for the product.
API Integration:
- Design, develop, and integrate APIs to ensure seamless functionality with third-party systems.
- Ensure security, scalability, and performance in API implementations.
AWS Expertise:
- Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Implement robust CI/CD pipelines and monitor systems using AWS services.
Mentorship and Team Collaboration:
- Mentor interns and freshers to build their technical capabilities and confidence.
Ownership and Management:
- Take full ownership of the product lifecycle, from ideation to deployment.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of business goals with technical deliverables.
- Exhibit a proactive, managerial ownership attitude in delivering results.
Startup Journey:
- Be an integral part of scaling products from 1 to 10, contributing to product-market fit and growth strategies.
- Adapt and thrive in fast-paced, dynamic startup environments.
What We're Looking For
Must-Have:
- Strong proficiency in Python with hands-on experience of 4+ years in building SaaS applications.
- In-depth knowledge of AWS services and cloud infrastructure with hands-on experience of 2+ years.
- Expertise in LLD and HLD for designing scalable and reliable systems with hands-on experience of 2+ years.
- Proven track record of API integration and troubleshooting production bugs.
- Experience in managing code quality, performing reviews, and adhering to development best practices with hands-on experience of 2+ years.
- Understanding of frontend-backend integration for delivering seamless user experiences.
Good-to-Have:
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices architecture.
- Exposure to observability tools for performance monitoring and debugging.
- Basic to intermediate knowledge of frontend development, with experience in JavaScript frameworks like React.
Attitude:
- Self-enabled: Demonstrates autonomy in problem-solving and decision-making.
- Proactive: Takes initiative to resolve challenges without supervision.
- Collaborative: Works effectively with cross-functional teams and fosters a team-oriented environment.
- Resilient: Thrives in a startup setting embracing agility and adaptability.
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive base salary.
- Career growth opportunities in a fast-growing, YC-backed startup.
- Work with a passionate, forward-thinking team who work hard & party hard.
Onsite Opportunity (No Remote work available).
About Pibit.ai
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Pibit transform loss run files into comprehensive reports with actionable insights, helping carriers and MGAs enhance underwriting efficiency and make better, more accurate decisions.
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- Closely collaborate with marketing and product teams to build innovative, robust and easy-to-use features that serve.
- Developing high quality code based on detailed designs that cater to the product requirements.
- Responsible for troubleshooting, testing and maintaining the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimisation and functionality
Required Skills:
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
- Minimum 3+ years experience in software development.
- Expertise in Python 3.7, Django 2.2+ and REST APIs.
- Willingness to learn and ability to flourish in a dynamic, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment
- Hands-on, self-starter, capable of working independently
- True love for technology and what you do
- Maniacal attention to detail
About Sun King
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About the role
The Senior Software Developer - Backend will work as part of the Digitization and Automation team to support Sun King design, develop, and implement intelligent, tech-enabled solutions to help solve a large variety of our business problems. We are looking for candidates with an affinity for technology and automations, curiosity towards advancement in products, and strong coding skills for our in-house software development team.
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- Design and develop coherent and physical data models to meet application requirements.
- Identify and correct bottlenecks/bugs according to operational requirements.
- Focus on scalability, performance, service robustness, and cost trade-offs.
- Create prototypes and proof-of-concepts for iterative development.
- Take complete ownership of projects (end to end) and their development cycle.
- Mentoring and guiding team members.
- Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
- Integrate existing tools and business systems (in-house tools or business tools like ticketing software and communication tools) with external services.
- Coordinate with Product Manager, development team, & business analysts.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:
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- Deep knowledge of OOPS concepts and programming skills in Core Java, Spring Framework.
- Experience in web service development and integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML).
- Should be very strong in problem solving, data structures, and algorithms.
- Strong experience in SQL.
- Experience in the AWS suite (Ec2, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway).
- Experience in scripting languages like Python.
- Experience in Microservice Architecture.
- Prior managing/mentoring experience.
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Good to have:
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What Sun King offers:
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
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lending products to simplify education payments. Jodo’s suite of products make education payments convenient & affordable for parents while simplifying & streamlining fee collections for educational institutes. Jodo aims to be a category-defining company with a mission to be a
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(IIT/IIM) and professional background (Nomura, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Matrix Partners).
🎬Job Description:
We are looking for an Engineering Leader with a focus on building maintainable and scalable applications. The Lead will be responsible for the design and development of Jodo’s fee payments platform and be owning one of the products/verticals. Leads will be closely working
with Product Managers and Founders to execute projects from ideation to completion. As a hands-on Team Lead, you will take ownership of services/systems and guide a team of
developers.
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● 6+ years of hands-on experience in application development
● 1+ years of leading a team
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● Proficient in building Microservices/RESTful APIs with any modern tech stack
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● Prior working knowledge of Python/Django is a big plus
● Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools
● Knowledge of AWS or any other Cloud Platform services
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● Self-starter and ability to take the ownership
● Prior experience working in a startup environment is great to have
● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
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● Bias for action → Have the temperament to experiment and execute in uncertainty
● Hustler → Ability to generate resources to solve a problem
● Intellectual honesty → Always seeking and presenting truth irrespective of personal
POV or beliefs
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● Role: Engineering Lead
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● Compensation: Negotiable based on candidate profile (structured as Fixed + ESOPs)
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- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science.
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Benefits
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As a senior software engineer, you will work on our python based ORM and applications that scales to handle millions of transactions every hour. This is mission critical software and your primary focus will be building robust and scalable solutions that are easy to maintain.
In this role, you will be collaborating closely with the rest of the team working on different layers of infrastructure in an international environment. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product are important.
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- Own definition and implementation of API interfaces (REST and GraphQL). We take pride in our 100% open API with over 600 endpoints.
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- Build reusable components and packages for future use.
- Translate specs and user stories into reviewable, test covered patches.
- Peer review code and refactor existing code.
- Integrate with our eCommerce partners (Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon), shipping partners (UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL) and EDI.
- Manage Kubernetes and Docker based global deployment of our infrastructure.
Requirements We’re Looking for Someone With:
- Experience working with ORMs like SQLAlchemy or Django (2-3 years)
- Experience with SQL and databases (Postgres preferred)
- Experience in developing large server side applications and microservices
- Ability to create high quality code
- Experience with python testing tools (pytest) and test automation
- Familiarity with code versioning tools like GIT
- Strong sense of ownership and leadership quality
- Experienced in the tools of our web stack- Python, Celery, Postgres, Redis, RabbitMQ
Nice to Haves:
- Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/Software company
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Why you should join us
- You will join the mission to create positive impact on millions of peoples lives
- You get to work on the latest technologies in a culture which encourages experimentation - You get to work with super humans (Psst: Look up these super human1, super human2, super human3, super human4)
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- You will provide deep technical expertise to your team in building future ready systems.
- You will collaborate in a highly cross functional team, providing engineering perspective to non technical members of the team
- You will help develop a robust roadmap for ensuring engineering operational excellence
- You will establish clean and optimised coding standards that are well documented
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You should apply if
- You have a strong foundation in Computer Science concepts and programming fundamentals
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- You’re experienced in building and running cloud-native platforms & distributed systems
- Extensive experience in any web stack (we use Typescript / AWS / DynamoDB / PostgreSQL)
- You understand the hustle of a startup and are good with handling ambiguity
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- You insist on highest standards of quality, maintainability and performance
- You work well in a team to enhance your impact
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