
SSE - Serach Specialist - Looking for Immediate joiners or 15days NP
at Seed funded product start-up
Job Description
We are looking for a passionate Search Specialist Backend Engineer to join our team. This role will focus on improving and optimizing our search capabilities to enhance user experience, scalability, and relevancy.
Location - Bangalore
Designation - Senior Software engineer - Search Specialist
Responsibilities:
● Design, develop, and maintain the search application, ensuring performance, and scalability.
● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement search features and improvements.
● Ensure search results are relevant by employing techniques like ranking, personalization, and recommendation.
● Work on complex problems related to search algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
● Implement logging, metrics, and monitoring for search services.
● Optimize search by tuning the underlying algorithms, experimenting with new techniques, and leveraging tools like Elasticsearch, Solr, etc.
● Maintain and improve existing search functionalities while ensuring backward compatibility.
● Stay updated with the latest advancements in search technology and industry best practices.
Basic Qualifications:
● Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
● Experience with search engines like Elasticsearch, Solr, or similar technologies.
● Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
● Proficiency in Python and Django.
● Familiarity with RESTful APIs and backend services.
● Preferred Qualifications:
● Experience with natural language processing (NLP) or machine learning as applied to search.
● Knowledge of various search relevance techniques and ranking algorithms.
● Experience in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure). ● Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
● Strong analytical and debugging skills. Personal Attributes:
● Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting.
● A keen interest in improving user experience through search.
● Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work in a fast-paced environment

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Shortened version:
- 5+ years experience in Python with strong core concepts (OOP, data structures, exception handling, problem-solving)
- Experience with FastAPI (preferred) or Flask/Django
- Strong REST API development & authentication (JWT/OAuth)
- SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL) & NoSQL (MongoDB/Firestore) experience
- Basic cloud knowledge (GCP or AWS)
- Git, code reviews, clean coding & performance optimization
- Good communication and teamwork skills
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain scalable backend apps and REST APIs
- Work with databases, third-party integrations, and cloud deployments
- Write clean, testable, optimized code
- Debug, troubleshoot, and improve performance
- Collaborate with team on technical solutions
Good to have:
- GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Functions)
- Microservices, Redis/Kafka/RabbitMQ
- Docker, CI/CD
- Basic Pandas/Numpy for data handling
Perks & Benefits
- 5 Days Working
- Family Health Insurance
- Relaxation Area
- Affordable Lunch
- Free Snacks & Drinks
- Open Work Culture
- Competitive Salary & Benefits
- Festival Celebrations
- International Exposure Opportunities
- 20 Paid Leaves per Year
- Marriage Leave & Parental Leave Policy
Sal: Upto 30LPA+ESOPs
Location: Bangalore and Mumbai
Hybrid work mode
EXP: 3-6y
Roles & Responsibilities
Cashflo, true to its name, is on a mission to unlock $100+ billion of trapped working capital in
the economy by creating India’s largest marketplace for invoice discounting to solve the
day-to-day cashflow problems faced by businesses. Founded by ex-BCG and ISB / IIM
alumni, and backed by General Catalysts and Elevation Capital, Cashflo helps democratize
access to credit in a fair and transparent manner.
Awarded Supply Chain Finance solution of the year in 2019, Cashflo creates a win-win
ecosystem for Buyers, suppliers and financiers through its unique platform model. Cashflo
shares its parentage with HCS Ltd., a 25 year old, highly reputed financial services company
has raised over Rs. 15,000 Crores in the market till date, for over 200 corporate clients.
Our leadership team consists of ex-BCG, ISB / IIM alumni with a team of industry veterans
serving as the advisory board. We bring to the table deep insights in the SME lending space,
based on 100+ years of combined experience in Financial Services. We are a team of
passionate problem solvers and big thinkers and are looking for like-minded people to join
our team.
We are looking for someone who loves a challenge, is ambitious, super tenacious and
persistent. S/he is a self-starter, thrives in a dynamic, small start-up environment, has a
knack for understanding customer needs, and loves to get sh*t done! If you check these
boxes - we want to talk to you!
The opportunity:
-Solve a complex $300+ billion problem at the cutting edge of Fintech innovation, and make
a tangible difference to the small business landscape in India
-Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment that throws new
challenges on a daily basis
-Be part of the early founding team and be directly responsible for driving the company's
success
Key Responsibilities
-As an early team member, you will get a chance to set the foundations of our engineering
culture. You will help articulate our engineering principles and help set the long-term
roadmap.
-Making decisions on the evolution of Cashflo's technical architecture
-Building new features end to end, from talking to customers to writing code
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have
● 3+ years of full-time software engineering experience
● Experience building scalable backend platforms (you've owned & built features from start
to
finish before)
● Thorough knowledge of SDLC
● Extensive knowledge of any of Python, Go, NodeJS
● Expertise on any RDBMS or NoSQL databases
● Understanding of messaging systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka and protocols
● Understands CI/CD pipelines
● Exposure to cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure
● Seen extensive scale and understands the evolutionary technical challenges
About You
-Product-minded. You have a sense for great user experience and feel for when something
is off. You love understanding customer pain points and solving for them.
-Get a lot done. You enjoy all aspects of building a product and are comfortable moving
across the stack when necessary. You problem solve independently and enjoy figuring stuff
out.
-High conviction. When you commit to something, you're in all the way. You're opinionated,
but you know when to disagree and commit. Mediocrity is the worst of all possible outcomes.
What’s in it for you
● Gain exposure to the Fintech space - one of the largest and fastest growing markets in
India
and globally
● Shape India’s B2B Payments landscape through cutting edge technology innovation
● Be directly responsible for driving company’s success
● Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment that throws new
challenges on a daily basis
● Fast track your career with trainings, mentoring, growth opportunities on both IC and
management track
● Work-life balance and fun team events
Build AI Systems That Change How Industries Operate
Tailored AI is not just another tech company. We’re building the McKinsey of AI systems a new kind of firm, made up of engineers who understand business deeply and use AI as a force multiplier.
As an SDE 2, you’ll lead and own the engineering for an entire product track, often working directly with clients and stakeholders. You’ll be the architect, the executor, and the problem-solver-in-chief. You’ll take vague problem statements, turn them into elegant solutions, and bring them to life in production.
What You’ll Do
- Architect and build AI-powered software solutions from scratch
- Own a full engineering track—backend, infra, integrations, and LLM workflows
- Interface with customers to align on specs, iterate fast, and deploy with confidence
- Mentor SDE 1s and Interns, conduct code reviews, and guide engineering quality
- Stay on top of AI trends, contribute to internal tooling and shared best practices
What You’ll Gain
- Leadership opportunties and fast progression to Senior SDE roles
- Deep knowledge of how AI is transforming industries while actually building it
- High ownership, zero bureaucracy, and direct influence on product direction
- Exposure to multi-agent AI systems, enterprise integrations, and scalable infra
Who You Are
- 2–3 years of strong backend engineering experience
- Proven track record of owning software modules and delivering in production
- Skilled in Python, Django/FastAPI, Postgres, AWS
- Exposure to system design and performance optimization
- Interest in AI tools like Langchain, OpenAI, vector DBs, etc.
- Strong analytical and communication skills
Tech Stack You’ll Work With
- Python, Django, FastAPI
- Postgres, Redis, S3
- EC2, Lambda, Cloudwatch
- Langchain, LLM APIs, Vector DBs
- REST APIs, Microservices, GitHub Actions
Some Real Problems You Might Work On
- Building a multi-agent career coaching assistant that guides users and automates job hunting
- Deploying a chatbot that generates employee performance reviews on-demand from HR data
- Designing an LLM pipeline to help Indian lawyers access precedents, statutes, and case law in seconds
Interview Process
- Screening – A quick call with a Co-Founder to align on fit
- CV + Puzzle + Programming – 1 hour round to gauge problem-solving and fundamentals
- Live Coding – Solve a coding task using Python + docs
- System Design – For SDE 2, a take-home problem and a detailed discussion round
Python. Django Rest Framework experience would be great, but not essential! We prioritise
quality over quantity.
Postgres with InfluxDB, Oracle, MySQL and Redis experience a plus.
Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift and associated tooling.
AWS, especially ECS, Lambda, RDS and DynamoDB. Performance and uptime are super
important to us.
The challenge of scaling a global, distributed API to 10,000+ requests per second.
We have SDKs in a bunch of languages, so the more polyglot you are the better.
If you like writing JS and React that would be awesome too.
- Design and build user-facing products, owning the entire process from gathering functional requirements from teams, through testing and staging, to deploying in a Python based stack
- Guide the team in making technical trade-offs
- Proactively identify bottlenecks, areas for improvement and put forth a plan to course-correct
- Design and implement maintainable backend services, including data processing pipelines, APIs and internal tools
- Coordinating with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions
- Experience with Django/Flask Framworks
- Worked on web app and mobile app
- Understanding of DevOps tools - Jekins/Kubernetes/Azure/AWS/Docker will be a plus
• 3+ Years of experience as a Go Developer
• Experience in ReactJS (most preferred) or AngularJS similar front end frameworks
• Experience with the Python or/and Golang (preferably both), SQL, and design/architectural
patterns
• Experience in Java or dotnet or other opensource technologies is an added advantage
• Hands-on experience on SQL, Query optimization, DB server migration
• Preferably experience in Postgre SQL or MySQL
• Knowledge of NOSQL databases will be an added advantage
• Experience in Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure with knowledge of containerization, Kubernetes is an
added advantage
• Knowledge of one or more programming languages along with HTML5/CSS3,Bootstrap
• Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC)
• Understanding of Agile methodologies
• Experience with Threading, Multithreading and pipelines
• Experience in creating RESTful API’s With Golang or Python or Java in JSON, XMLs
• Experience with GitHub, Tortoise SVN Version Control
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong knowledge of asynchronous programming with the latest frameworks
• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills
• Strong knowledge of unit testing frameworks
• Proven knowledge of ORM techniques
• Skill for writing reusable libraries Understanding of fundamental design principles for building a scalable
applicatio
About Recko:
Recko was founded in 2017 to organise the world’s transactional information and provide intelligent applications to finance and product teams to make sense of the vast amount of data available. With the proliferation of digital transactions over the past two decades, Enterprises, Banks and Financial institutions are finding it difficult to keep a track on the money flowing across their systems. We are building products which enable them to handle and monitor massive volumes of transactional data without writing a single line of code and ensure the right amounts are flowing between the right beneficiaries, with the right deductions at the right time. Over the last few months, we have grown to a point where we are processing more than 25 million transactions monthly for our customers.
Recko is a Series A funded startup, backed by marquee investors like Vertex Ventures, Prime Venture Partners and Locus Ventures. Traditionally enterprise software is always built around functionality. We are reimagining enterprise software to be built around the user. We believe software is an extension of one’s capability, and it should be delightful and fun to use.
Working at Recko:
We believe that great companies are built by amazing people. At Recko, We are a group of young Engineers, Product Managers, Analysts and Business folks who are on a mission to bring consumer tech DNA to enterprise fintech applications. The current team at Recko is 50 members strong with stellar experience across fintech, e-commerce, digital domains at companies like Flipkart, PhonePe, Ola Money, Belong, Razorpay, Grofers, Jio, Oracle etc. We are growing aggressively across verticals.
About the Role:
What are we looking for:
1. 2+ years of experience with Java MVC frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard / Play and with
MySQL / Oracle / PostgreSQL.
2. Experience building at least one application from scratch.
3. Understanding of at least one test frameworks and basic system administration.
4. Experience with cache store / message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ / Kafka.
5. Good to have: Experience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDb, Neo4j, ElasticSearch. etc and Understanding of different concurrency models used in Akka, node.js, Go, RxJava etc
6. Interest in learning new languages / framework as needed.
7. A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most
importantly, you should be fun to work with.
As a backend developer at Recko, you will:
1. Design and implement microservices with high reliability and scalability.
2. Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle.
3. Define and communicate technical and design requirements.
4. Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
5. Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
6. Collaborate with multi-disciplinary team of designers, developers and system administrators.












