

Senior Web Backend Developer
Company Overview:
It is a US based startup founded in 2018 to build an edge data platform for the autonomous world.Rich data in large volumes is getting collected at the edge (outside a data center) in use cases like autonomous vehicles, smart manufacturing, satellite imagery, smart retail, smart agriculture etc.These datasets are characterized by being unstructured (images/videos), large size (Petabytes per month), distributed (across edge, on-prem and cloud) and form the input for training AI models to get to higher degrees of automation. It is engaged with building products that solve these unique challenges and be at the forefront of this edge data revolution.
The company is backed by prominent VCs and has it’s entire software engineering team based out of India and provides ample opportunities for from-scratch design and development.
Role:
This role is an individual contributor role with key responsibilities in developing web server backends for Akridata management plane software that provides a ‘single pane of glass’ for users to manage assets, specify and monitor large volume data pipelines at scale involving 10s of petabytes of data.
This role involves:
- Working with tech leads and the rest of the team on the feature design activities and picking appropriate tools and techniques for implementation.
- Be a hands-on developer able to independently make correct implement choices, follow sound development practices to ensure an enterprise grade application.
- Guide and mentor junior team members.
What we are looking for:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science with strong CS fundamentals and problem-solving.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with software development with 3+ years on web backend development.
- A good understanding of backend application interactions with relational databases like MySQL, Postgres etc
- Knowledge of web server development frameworks preferably on Python.
- Enthusiastic to work in a dynamic, fast paced startup environment.
Good to have:
- Hands-on experience with designing database schema and implementing and debugging SQL queries for optimal performance for large datasets
- Experience working with applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters.
- Experience with working on a product from early stages of it’s development typically in a startup environment.

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A BIT ABOUT US
Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.
The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.
Our business includes Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, Japan, US, and expanding rapidly.
The Opportunity:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join our dynamic software development team. In this role, you will contribute to key backend projects, collaborate across teams, and play a vital part in delivering robust, scalable, and high-performance software solutions. As a senior engineer, you will work independently, make impactful technical decisions, and help shape the backend architecture while collaborating with a passionate, high-performing team.
You will work hands-on with products primarily built in Python, with opportunities to contribute to Golang. These technologies are at the core of our development stack, and your focus will be on building, scaling, and maintaining distributed services. Distributed systems are integral to our architecture, providing a chance to gain hands-on experience with maintaining and optimizing them in a fast-paced environment.
As a Senior Engineer, you are expected to:
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code while following best practices.
- Architect solutions, address complex problems, and deliver well-thought-out technical designs.
- Take ownership of assigned modules and features, delivering them with minimal supervision.
- Contribute to code reviews and technical discussions, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
We highly value open source contributions and encourage you to check out our work on GitHub at Appknox GitHub. While no prior experience in security is required, our experienced security professionals are available to support you in understanding the domain.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology, drive impactful solutions, and grow within a collaborative environment that values autonomy, innovation, and technical excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Drive backend development for a disruptive product in the Security domain, focusing on innovation, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Take ownership of the software design process, including designing workflows, system architecture, and implementation plans.
- Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design, making independent decisions to ensure efficiency and scalability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend and security teams, to deliver cohesive and high-quality solutions.
- Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices, maintainability, and coding standards.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code using Django and Python, adhering to industry best practices.
- Design and implement scalable software components, frameworks, and APIs using Django and Django REST Framework (DRF).
- Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize existing systems to improve functionality and performance.
- Create detailed technical documentation, including flowcharts, layouts, and system requirements, to ensure clarity and alignment.
- Develop and enforce robust software verification plans, quality assurance procedures, and deployment strategies.
- Ensure timely delivery of software updates while addressing user feedback to enhance solutions.
- Provide technical expertise to solve backend challenges and participate in critical decision-making processes.
- Support team growth by sharing knowledge, fostering collaboration, and mentoring junior engineers informally as needed.
Requirements:
- 5–6 years of professional experience in backend development with a strong focus on Django and Python.
- Proficiency in Django REST Framework (DRF), relational databases, SQL, and ORMs (e.g., Django ORM, SQLAlchemy).
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to make independent technical decisions regarding system design and implementation.
- Hands-on experience in designing and developing scalable, maintainable, and high-performing backend systems.
- Deep understanding of software engineering practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to document and present technical specifications and workflows clearly.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and microservices architectures is a bonus.
- Self-motivated and capable of working independently in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision.
- Ability to handle ambiguity and adapt to rapidly changing business needs while maintaining focus on delivering quality solutions.
Work Expectations:
Within 1 month-
- Attend KT sessions conducted by the engineering and product teams to gain a deep understanding of the product, its architecture, and workflows.
- Learn about the team's development processes, tools, and key challenges.
- Work closely with the product team to understand product requirements and contribute to the design and development of features.
- Dive deep into the existing backend architecture, including database structures, APIs, and integration points, to fully understand the technical landscape
- Begin addressing minor technical challenges and bugs, while understanding the underlying architecture and tech stack.
- Begin to participate in creating action plans for new features, ensuring that design and implementation are aligned with product goals.
Within 3 months-
- Achieve full autonomy in working on the codebase, demonstrating the ability to independently deliver high-quality features from design to deployment.
- Take complete ownership of critical modules, ensuring they are optimized for performance and maintainability.
- Act as a technical resource for the team, offering support and guidance to peers on complex issues.
- Collaborate with DevOps to optimize deployment pipelines, debug production issues, and improve backend infrastructure.
- Lead discussions for technical solutions and provide recommendations for architectural improvements.
- Contribute to the design of new features by translating functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.
- Prepare regular updates on assigned tasks and communicate effectively with the engineering manager and other stakeholders.
Within 6 months-
- Be fully independent in their development tasks, contributing to key features and solving critical challenges.
- Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and the ability to take ownership of technical modules.
- Actively participate in code reviews and technical discussions, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
- Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business requirements.
- Establish themselves as a reliable and proactive team member, contributing to the team’s growth and success.
Personality traits we really admire :-
- Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
- Has attention to details and helps identify edge cases.
- Highly motivated and coming up with ideas and perspective to help us move towards our goals faster.
- Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.
Interview Process
- Round 1 Interview - Profile Evaluation (EM)
- Round 2 Interview - Assignment Evaluation & Technical Problem Solving Discussion (Tech Team)
- Round 3 Interview - System Design (Sr. Architect)
- Round 4 Interview - Engineering Team & Technical Founder (CTO)
- Round 5 Interview - HR
Compensation
- Best in industry
We prefer that every employee also holds equity in the company. In this role, you will be awarded equity after 12 months, based on the impact you have created.
Please be aware that all your customers are Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies.
Why Join Us :-
- Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
- Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
- Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
- Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first hand.
- Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage upto 5 Lacs for you and your family including parents.


Our client has a B2C startup in the Fintech space building the payment system for the
subscription economy. We have raised pre-seed funding from some of the leading
investors in the country. A small brief about their product - To build the payment
system for the subscription economy and make it easier to discover and manage
subscription payments in India and abroad. To give subscription merchants the
power to increase their offering by providing user subscription data, multiple login
authentication, distribution and one click subscription checkouts. To enable users to
participate in the subscription economy & increase adoption of new subscriptions.
The core team come from strong backgrounds having been alumni of IIT Madras,
IIM Calcutta as well as having worked with some of the top startups in the
ecosystem including Swiggy, Mckinsey, Barclays, etc..
What we're looking for
We are looking for an experienced Python developer to join our engineering team
and help us develop our mobile application. In this role, you will be responsible for
writing and testing scalable code, developing back-end components, and integrating
user-facing elements in collaboration with front-end developers.
To be successful as a Python developer, you should possess in-depth knowledge of
object-relational mapping, experience with server-side logic, and above-average
knowledge of Python programming.
As one of the earliest members in engineering, you will have the flexibility to design
the application and systems from ground up. As any early-stage start-up, we expect
you to be comfortable wearing various hats, and be proactive contributor in building
something truly remarkable.
Responsibilities
Coordinating with development teams to determine application requirements.Python Backend Developer
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Writing scalable code using Python programming language.
Developing back-end components.
Implement business logic in the backend
Integrating user-facing elements using server-side logic.
Create restful APIs for a seamless integration with our mobile front end
Testing and debugging applications.
Assessing and prioritizing client feature requests.
Integrating data storage solutions.
Coordinating with front-end developers.
Reprogramming existing databases to improve functionality.
Developing digital tools to monitor online traffic.
Qualifications
4+ years of experience in Python, Django, Mongo, Express, MySQL, etc
Have built applications capable of serving high volume with low latency in
production
Following practices of agile development with continuous integration/deployment
A deep understanding and multi-process architecture and the threading
limitations of Python.
Experience in deploying applications in AWS cloud
Ability to collaborate on projects and work independently when required.
Knowledge in building applications for Fintech/payments domain is a bonus
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common man. We are on a mission to deliver institutional-grade financial advice through
technology – no more missed opportunities and no more regrets.
The division has, within a tenure of less than 2 years, built the capability to manage as much as
200 Crores and is now en-route to triple it by the end of this year.
Thrive is therefore fulfilling the company’s vision to use Creativity and innovation to bring simple
solutions to complex problems of the common people.
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We are inviting extraordinary people to solve ordinary problems, by breaking from routine and
building innovative products for our customers. An ideal candidate will:
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● have good experience building large scale products on a No SQL database (MongoDB
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● know about building and scaling a product to handle large volumes of financial data and
transactions using Microservices architecture
● have experience working with and integrating 3rd party applications using RESTful APIs
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business teams to drive engineering and product decisions
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practices making use of Object Oriented Programming, while ensuring the highest code
quality
● constantly strive to optimize the application from an efficiency, scalability and security
perspective and actively own the code reviews for the team
● conform to the agile development framework and own up to quality and reliability of the
deliverables
● have some exposure to front end technologies like React
● have worked with multiple hosting and service infrastructures including Azure and have
dabbled with the infra using Kubernetes, Docker,Pager Duty, New Relic, Data Dog, etc.
Roles and responsibilities:
Actively participate in requirement analysis and ensure all scenarios/use cases are captured
Good verbal and written communication skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Coordinate with QA and Product Management to ensure proper delivery and execution of product/feature deliverables
Prior experience in Agile-Scrum software development environment
Perform effective code reviews submitted by peers
Perform Unit testing (tools – JUnit, Mockito)
Well-versed with code coverage concepts and tools
Familiar with continuous integration tools
Well-versed with refactoring concepts and Code-smell concepts Propose and implement technical solutions
Deliver relevant technical artifacts based on standard practices.
Deliver a program on time with high quality
Understand and Review requirements w.r.t. the business needs to Participate regularly in project meetings with the customer
Skillset
Must-Have Java 7, 8, Spring, SpringBoot, Microservices JPA/Hibernate Rest Web Services
AWS – Usage of at least any of SES / SQS / SNS / S3 / Lambda / DynamoDB Jenkins Bitbucket, GIT
Basic Knowledge of Javascript, HTML Struts, EJB
Experience with SQL and No-SQL technologies is required (e.g. Mongo DB, Dynamo DB)
Prior experience in an Agile-Scrum software development environment is required
Experience with Jira and Confluence preferred
Good to have AWS EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Docker Swings Datadog/Splunk
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Mixing technology, data, and first-in-class innovation, EagleView® is not only leading the property data analytics market, but also changing lives along the way. Come join us and make great things happen!
EagleView is a fast-growing technology company driving game changing innovation in multibillion- dollar markets such as property insurance, energy, construction, and government. Leveraging 17 years of the most advanced aerial imaging technology in the world, along with the most recent advances in machine learning and AI, EagleView is fundamentally transforming how our customers do business.
At EagleView, we believe that making our culture engaging and empowering are keys to success.
Job Description
We are looking for a talented Software Engineers to join our agile development team. As an experienced member, you will participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle: scoping, design, coding, testing, implementation and support. You will help in the development of highly available, scalable, secure and flexible solutions for our ecommerce platform. In this role, you must be able to multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult and complex problems. You take pride and ownership in your work as well as the overall contributions of the team. You must also have the ability to take a system-wide understanding, recognize use of system components and disparate technologies and be able to diagnose and debug components across an entire system. Your ability to communicate clearly and concisely (both written and verbal) is also key as is being a self-starter.
* Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or related field
* 1+ years of software development experience using Java/C++/Golang/Python or any of the object oriented programming language
* Experience working on JavaScript would be an added advantage
* Experience using Linear Algebra, 3D Scene model, Cairo - 2D Drawing Framework will be an added advantage
* Working experience using any of these: POV-RAY, GeoTiff, WGS 84 and Web Mercator projection will be a added advantage
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* Strong programming fundamentals and ability to produce high quality code
* Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem-solving skills
* Solid understanding of Agile (SCRUM) Development Process required

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• You will take ownership to run and maintain the services in Cloud infrastructure
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You must have
• Strong desire to work at an early stage startup
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• Strong hands-on development experience
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• Experience with ElasticSearch, Solr
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