
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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Xoxoday is looking for a candidate who has a strong background in the design and implementation of scalable architecture and a good understanding of Algorithms, Data structures, and design patterns. Candidates must be ready to learn new tools, languages, and technologies
Basic Qualifications:
- At least 4 -7 years of experience as a software developer.
- At Least 3 years of experience in .net core C#, aws stack, ms sql server, mvc, nodejs experience is a plus
- Strong working knowledge in distributed event-driven messaging architecture/platform
- Strong knowledge in data access layer especially ability to work with stored procedure
- Established and stimulated software development standards and processes along with best practices for delivery of scalable and high-quality software.
- Production experience with AWS stack
- Fluent English speaker
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with OOP languages.
- Experience designing and developing Microservices and SOA.
- Experience working with AWS Kinesis, Lambda, SQS, S3, ElastiCache, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, EventBridge, RDS, CloudWatch, APIGateway
- Experience designing and building high-performance scalable web services.
- Experience in REST API design and implementation.
- Experience in unit testing, test automation, and continuous delivery.
- Experience with stream-processing and message-broker software.
Nice to have:
- Experience working with distributed teams.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to work quickly toward tight deadlines, and make smart tradeoffs between speed, accuracy, and maintainability.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science (or equivalent professional experience).
What can you look for?
A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact, and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.
We are
Xoxoday is a rapidly growing fintech SaaS firm that propels business growth while focusing on human motivation. Backed by Giift and Apis Partners Growth Fund II, Xoxoday offers a suite of three products - Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with more than 2000 clients across 10+ countries and over 2.5 million users. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Xoxoday is a 300+ strong team with four global offices in San Francisco, Dublin, Singapore, New Delhi.
Way forward
We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.
About Us:
Tradelab Technologies Pvt Ltd is not for those seeking comfort—we are for those hungry to make a mark in the trading and fintech industry. If you are looking for just another backend role, this isn’t it. We want risk-takers, relentless learners, and those who find joy in pushing their limits every day. If you thrive in high-stakes environments and have a deep passion for performance. driven backend systems, we want you.
What We Expect:
• We’re looking for a Backend Developer (Python) with a strong foundation in backend technologies and
a deep interest in scalable, low-latency systems.
• You should have 3–4 years of experience in Python-based development and be eager to solve complex
performance and scalability challenges in trading and fintech applications.
• You measure success by your own growth, not external validation.
• You thrive on challenges, not on perks or financial rewards.
• Taking calculated risks excites you—you’re here to build, break, and learn.
• You don’t clock in for a paycheck; you clock in to outperform yourself in a high-frequency trading
environment.
• You understand the stakes—milliseconds can make or break trades, and precision is everything.
What You Will Do:
• Develop and maintain scalable backend systems using Python.
• Design and implement REST APIs and socket-based communication.
• Optimize code for speed, performance, and reliability.
• Collaborate with frontend teams to integrate server-side logic.
• Work with RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis, and Elasticsearch for robust backend design.
• Build fault-tolerant, multi-producer/consumer systems.
Must-Have Skills:
• 3–4 years of experience in Python and backend development.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, sockets, and network protocols (TCP/UDP/HTTP).
• Experience with RabbitMQ/Kafka, SQL & NoSQL databases, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
What are the Key Responsibilities:
- Responsibilities include writing and testing code, debugging programs, and integrating applications with third-party web services.
- Write effective, scalable code
- Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
- Integrate user-facing elements into applications
- Improve functionality of existing systems
- Implement security and data protection solutions
- Assess and prioritize feature requests
- Creates customized applications for smaller tasks to enhance website capability based on business needs
- Ensures web pages are functional across different browser types; conducts tests to verify user functionality
- Verifies compliance with accessibility standards
- Assists in resolving moderately complex production support problems
What are we looking for:
- 3+ Years of work experience as a Python Developer
- Expertise in at least one popular Python framework: Django
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Elastic search, MongoDB)
- Familiarity with front-end technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Familiarity with Apache Kafka will give you an edge over others
- Good understanding of the operating system and networking concepts
- Good analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Graduation/Post Graduation in Computer Science / IT / Software Engineering
- Decent verbal and written communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel, and management
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and efficient Python applications
- Lead technical projects from conception to deployment
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement new features
- Write clean, testable code with appropriate documentation
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to their professional growth
- Participate in technical architecture discussions and decision-making
- Troubleshoot and debug complex software issues
- Contribute to continuous improvement of development practices and processes
- Design and implement AI/ML solutions using LLMs and related technologies
- Optimize and maintain AI model deployment pipelines
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency in Python and its ecosystem (Django/Flask, FastAPI)
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Solid understanding of software design patterns and principles
- Experience with version control systems (Git)
- Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
- Proficiency in writing unit tests and understanding of TDD practices
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
AI/ML Technical Skills
- Experience with LLM frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex)
- Knowledge of working with large language models (GPT, Claude, etc.)
- Understanding of prompt engineering and LLM fine-tuning concepts
- Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, or similar)
- Familiarity with AI model deployment and serving (BentoML, Ray Serve)
- Experience with machine learning libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar)
- Knowledge of AI/ML observability and monitoring tools
- Understanding of AI safety practices and responsible AI development
- Experience with embedding models and semantic search implementations
- Familiarity with AI application development patterns and best practices
Role Overview:
The AI Research Intern will focus on natural language processing (NLP) and working with large language models (LLMs). They will assist in refining and testing the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system for CopilotGTM.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist in developing and refining NLP models to answer customer queries.
- Research and implement improvements to minimize hallucinations in the LLM.
- Test RAG model configurations and provide feedback to improve accuracy.
- Work with the engineering team to improve real-time product recommendations and responses.
- Analyze datasets and fine-tune models for specific use cases (e.g., sales, compliance).
Skills Required:
- Strong understanding of NLP and familiarity with LLMs (GPT, BERT, etc.).
- Basic coding experience in Python.
- Knowledge of data handling, data processing, and model training.
- Problem-solving ability and eagerness to experiment with new techniques.
Preferred:
- Experience with libraries like Hugging Face, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
- Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
- 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
- Working knowledge of XML, JAVA, REST, SOAP etc
- Basic knowledge of SQL, including the ability to author ad-hoc database queries.
- Is comfortable writing code in Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and Java and enjoys learning new languages and technologies.
- Has experience integrating APIs (major plus)
- Experienced integrating RESTful APIs into web applications (a plus)
- Is experienced with Github or the likes.
- Should have worked on Payment Gateway Applications.
- Has a technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Mathematics (MBA is an asset)
- Technical Product/Software certifications an asset
- Has 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar client-facing role
- Has previous experience in a traditional software engineering or Implementation role.
- Has strong analytical and debugging skills.
- Experienced with Salesforce is a plus
- Solution-driven, able to grasp new concepts quickly and efficiently, able to work alone or in a team, able to work with no supervision and under pressure
- Excels in a collaborative and cross-functional environment.
- Demonstrates professional communication skills on technical and business-related subjects
- Experience working with payment gateways a major plus including ecommerce and Retail Experience with continuous integration and test-driven development methodologies a plus
- Excellent time management, organization, and planning skills are essential
- Flexibility to travel as required to meet with clients
- Ability to comprehend and translate complex technical issues and apply to business solutions
- Demonstrate ability to articulate complex technical terms or processes into business language
- Ability to synthesize technical information and apply to business solutions
- Able to set priorities, influence others, and manage customer and partner expectations
- Demonstrated success in customer and partner relationship management
- You are motivated, think outside of the box, and understand the purpose of process and procedures
Kunato.AI is a NY-based IT firm helping to create the first marketplace that monetizes digital content on the internet (i-commerce). We have patented our technology - a quantitative deep tech system that predicts, assigns, and updates the value of any digital content in real time without the need for human intervention. Our system has the potential to create a new digital goods marketplace that will revolutionize the way we consume, create and search for content on the Internet.
We are looking for a Rust Developer (with 2-6years of experience) to join our cutting-edge development team as it grows. The candidate must be comfortable working in an agile environment and has the ability to take the lead when necessary.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for developing the product as per the product specification defined by the product managers
- Responsible for preforming research on the best methods of implementing the requirements
- Author and curate technical documentation to support delivery, maintenance, and adoption
- Work with programmers, engineers, and management heads to identify process improvement opportunities, propose system modifications, and devise governance strategies to optimize the overall performance
- Design and develop automated deployment and maintenance mechanisms
- Solving development challenges and making architectural decisions by understanding the larger picture of the projects goals
- Expanding your existing skill-set, and picking up on various rust dependent frameworks
- Confidently communicating and collaborating with your fellow developers in a remote team environment
Essential skills:
- Must have experience in Rust programming language
- Have excellent knowledge of different data structures and algorithms
- Working knowledge of any other programming language Python, Java, or JavaScript is good to have
- Experience with, or understanding of, Kafka or Redis, Cloud infrastructure services, Docker is an added advantage
- Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Experience in Backend and APIs development
- Experience in analysing and optimizing the platform’s performance
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- 5 years experience with the Django framework
- Experience with building APIs (REST or GraphQL)
- Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
- React.js knowledge would be an added bonus
- Understanding on how to use a database like Postgres (prefered choice), SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL.
- Sound knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis.
- A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.
Experience:
- Min 5 year experience
- Startup experience is a must.
Location:
- Remote developer
Timings:
- 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone. Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.
Position:
- Full time/Direct
- We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
- We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods. You will stay here because you love the company. We have only a 15 days notice period.









