Senior Backend Developer at Pepper Content · Mumbai · 5 - 8 years · ₹18L - ₹30L / yr (ESOP available) · Posted 18 May 2021

About-
We are building a global content marketplace that brings companies and content creators together to scale up content creation processes across 50+ content verticals and 150+ industries. Over the past 2.5 years, we’ve worked with companies like India Today, Amazon India, Adobe, Swiggy, Dunzo, Businessworld, Paisabazaar, IndiGo Airlines, Apollo Hospitals, Infoedge, Times Group, Digit, BookMyShow, UpGrad, Yulu, YourStory, and 350+ other brands.
We are creating high-quality remote talent workforces across Content Writers, Graphic Designers, Video Makers, Content Strategists, Audio Artists, and eventually aim to cover each and every creative professional involved in the marketing domain. Imagine us being able to build virtual marketing teams for any company globally, by providing them a product that solves for content operations and gives the customer the ability to strategize, create, distribute and manage all their content projects at one place. At the same time, they have the ability to be able to extend their team by being matched with high-quality creators from our talent marketplace for different projects that they have. It isn’t long before content becomes so fundamental to individuals and brands alike, that there is a need for buying and selling content on-demand. We want to be that force of change!
Responsibilities: -
- We are looking for solid senior back-end developers who are well-versed with NodeJs.
- The tech stack on the back end side - MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Node, TypeScript, Express, Knex.
- We are looking at folks who have a minimum of 6-7 years of experience in back-end development and have been strong experience.
- The mindset is very different and we are looking for folks who have evolved fast in terms of skills and in terms of working on their own projects.

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Core AI Backend Engineer – LLM Fine-Tuning
You know that moment when you don’t just debug code — you train a model, fine-tune it, and suddenly it understands your domain better than you expected? That’s the kind of magic we’re looking for.
We’re building something that turns chaotic social video data into crystal-clear business intelligence. Not just another API — but AI-backed architecture fine-tuned to our world. Systems that marketing teams thank you for, because they feel the intelligence, not just the infrastructure.
Either you feel the craft when you read this, or you don’t. This isn’t just another backend role. This is where you bring together scalable systems and cutting-edge LLMs to build something the world hasn’t seen before.
Who We Are
We’re a small, global team that ships fast. Every line of code and every model choice affects millions of video analysis requests.
Our engineers don’t just build APIs — they architect solutions, they optimize at scale, and now, they fine-tune models to make AI work in the real world. Our CPTO still codes. Our senior engineers make complexity look effortless. Our backend team sets a standard that others ask how we move so fast.
What We Need
We need someone who’s lived both sides of this life:
- Backend excellence: building high-scale, high-performance systems.
- LLM fine-tuning: hands-on with open-source models, not just calling APIs.
Someone who can sit with a requirement at 2pm and by 6pm not only has endpoints working, but also has a fine-tuned model running behind them — customized to our use case.
Your Craft
- JavaScript/TypeScript & NodeJS as core backend tools.
- Next.js for full-stack where needed.
- Rust when performance is non-negotiable.
- Golang/Python as comfortable tools of choice.
- MySQL/Postgres/Redis — wielded with intention.
- AWS ecosystem — your playground, not your puzzle.
- LLM/AI integration you’ve actually shipped.
- Open-source LLM fine-tuning experience:
- Bringing in open-source models (LLaMA, Mistral, Falcon, etc.).
- Fine-tuning/adapting them for specific domains.
- Optimizing for inference cost, latency, and accuracy.
The Reality
The work is beautifully complex. The scale is real and growing. The problems are the kind that wake you up at 3am with solutions.
If you get your energy from building backend systems and adapting LLMs to make them smarter for real-world use, you’ll probably fall in love with what we do. If you’re only interested in APIs without touching models, this won’t be your thing — and that’s completely okay.
How to Apply
If you’re reading this thinking “finally, a team that actually cares about real AI engineering” — we’d love to see something you’ve built.
Not just a resume. Show us your craft:
- An LLM fine-tuning repo.
- A domain-adapted model you worked on.
- A system design where you combined backend and AI.
- Or even a short write-up or voice note explaining what you’ve fine-tuned.
We’re genuinely excited to see what you’ve done and have a meaningful conversation about whether this could be magic for both of us.
Job Description
This is a remote position.
Requirements
- You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
- Should have excellent command over designing systems with a minimum experience of 4 years.
- Should have experience with various database flavors and writing complex queries. We work with Postgres, Redshift, ElasticSearch, TimescaleDB, and Redis.
- Additional knowledge in Golang will be an advantage
- Strong Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge
- Should have created APIs from scratch which is being used in Production
- Should be comfortable with creating systems handling up to 100k requests per minute, and have a mindset that understands scale
- Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
- Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
- Ability to pick and work on adjacent technologies if and when required (Eg: If the best performance monitoring solution needs a basic firebase setup, that should not be a blocker for you to go ahead and do so)
- Knowledge of how to set up relevant test cases
- You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Good internet connection and availability on phone is required)
- App Development experience
- Experience in Test Driven Development
- Ability to tell Product what creates better User Experience, ability to tell frontend what API responses will help the user get a faster load time
- Inquisitiveness to understand the system as a whole, and not only be stuck to your domain of expertise (Eg: Figure out why excessive APIs calls are being made, brainstorm with Product and Frontend team to reduce the same without harming the UX )
- Experience in working on a Social Media Product
- Good knowledge of Graphs, and their applications
- Data-Driven Approach to monitoring
Benefits
- Work timings - You are the master of your time. However, with great freedom comes great responsibility. If you have committed something to the team, we expect that you will give it your best to make sure that commitment is done and is done on time.
- Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. You don't need to explain yourself to us
- Health insurance for you and your family
Job description:
Full Stack Asp.net developer essential knowledge in:
1) Asp.net MVC with C#.net, Asp.net Webforms added advantage,
2) Sql Server 2014 or above with strong hold on joins, stored procedures and handling larger database tables
3) Javascript/Jquery with skills on html and css.
4) Making and consuming RESTful web apis through Asp.net MVC application and jquery.
5) IIS management knowledge is the added advantage.
6) Loyalty Domain experience or knowledge is added advantage.
(OR)
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Developer – Golang
Responsibilities:
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An individual contributor who will be part of the Software R&D team working on the following areas
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Backend work in Golang, Micro services architecture
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Work with internal team and customers to deliver solutions that will meet the customer needs with respect to the performance security, scalability and functionality.
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Implementation of API and authentication methods using JWT
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Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
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Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software
Skills
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2-5 years of experience in Go programming language
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Strong experience in working with Goroutine and channel patterns
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Experience in Go framework for DB, JSON, Sockets, Web Frameworks and tools
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Knowledge of logging and configuration packages like Zap, Viper
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Experience in writing unit tests for Golang code
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Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git or Azure Repo
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Should have knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL, or any RDBMS
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Good knowledge of Linux / Ubuntu
About Prêtture
We are India’s coolest SaaS ERP for Fashion, Lifestyle and Home Decor brands. Currently working across 100 brands like House of Masaba, Rahul Mishra, Raw Mango, Anamika Khanna and many others across India, helping them organise their end to end business workflow through our application.
We are currently working on new development and enhancement in the application and are hence looking forward to senior software developers.
The ideal candidate is a creative problem solver who understands the requirement and comes up with the solution keeping in mind the impact of the solution on existing code
Responsibilities
- Understand the problem statement and get the code done for the server side programming of our software including the database and other internal/external micro services communication
- Maintain the quality of code
- Impact analysis before actually writing any code
- Use the optimised SQL queries only
Qualifications
- At least 2-3 years' of experience using NodeJS and MySql/PostgreSQL (This is mandatory. Please do not apply in case of lesser experience in either NodeJS or MySQL/PostgreSQL)
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science
Office Location
Navi Mumbai
quality delivery
● Estimate engineering effort during multiple stages of the product life cycle
● Coach engineering teams in accomplishing architecture, design and implementation
goals Focus on details of software development, design, implementation and
debugging
● Have high technical competence, strong technical background with track record of
individual technical accomplishments
● Ability to play the role of the architect for the team
● Strong sense of ownership/ can do attitude and high attention to detail
● Work with designers, business analysts, and product managers to estimate and
plan projects in an Agile environment
Skills & Experience:
● Hands-on experience in developing, designing & scaling complex
systems Backend: Primarily Node.js and Python
● Databases: Elastic search, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL and Redis
(cache) Web: React, Vue
● Strong Experience in REST API based Microservices development & integration that
includes long running orchestration services
● Preferred AWS Services experience across - S3, DynamoDB, EC2, AWS Lambda, ECS,
ElasticSearch Service, Route 53, API Gateway, CloudFront, CloudFormation, etc.
● Experience with continuous integration and deployment automation tools such as
Jenkins, Salt, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Travis CI etc
● Experience with gRPC protocol and graphQL frameworks
● The ideal candidate should be willing to commit fully to the company and drive the
company forward
Primary Skills
● Ruby on Rails
● JavaScript, JQuery, HTML5
● Database knowledge (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres)
● Web technology and security, REST framework
● Unit testing frameworks (Rspec)
● Version Control (Eg., Git)
Good To Have Skills
● ReactJS and other UI technology
● Cucumber Selenium
● Shell Scripting
● Java / Python
Key Responsibilities
● Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
● BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
● Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
● Write well designed, testable, efficient code
● Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
● Prepare and produce releases of software components
● Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and
presenting these for architectural review
Requirements
● 2 to 3 years of work experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
● Proven hands-on Software Development experience
● Proven working experience in
Rails
Ruby on Rails / Java
development
● Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using
Ruby on
● Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
● Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies
● Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web
framework
● Experience with test-driven developmen
Skills Required for Back-End (NodeJS) JR Developer (2-4 Yrs) /Sr Developer (4-8 Yrs) /Lead Developer (8-10 Yrs) /Architect (10-12 Yrs):
- Must: Strong experience and understanding of NodeJS and JavaScript Programming, Good at Native Cloud or AWS
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Good understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience working with AWS or other cloud providers
- Experience in service-oriented and/or microservice architectures
- Good to have knowledge with stream processing applications, Event-driven Architecture, Identity management (OAuth) - Not Mandatory
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases along with a server-side framework
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Good to have an understanding of low-level Kafka inner workings and partitioning schemes - Not Mandatory
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- Design, build, review and evolve durable, highly scalable event-driven infrastructure
- Architect and lead the development of backend services.
- Work with REST APIs and integrating them with our software platform
- Develop front end capabilities such as dashboards, visualizations, features
- Work on building best performance UI features and linking with backend
- Integrate all the front end features with a backend pipeline
- Integrate our AI models with the platform pipeline
- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Own new initiatives, Debug production issues
- Help define the way we work in the future including coding and design standards
- Work effectively in an agile development process
- Research cutting edge technology that can be applied to accelerate business growth
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