Senior Software Engineer -Backend (Python,C++)

Salary (Lacs): Up to 22 LPA

Required Qualifications

•   4–7 years of total experience, with a minimum of 4 years in a full-time DevOps role

•   Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI), more than one will be a plus

•   Proficient in Kubernetes administration and container technologies (Docker, containerd)

•   Strong Linux fundamentals

•   Scripting skills in Python and shell scripting

•   Knowledge of infrastructure as code with hands-on experience in Terraform and/or Pulumi (mandatory)

•   Experience in maintaining and troubleshooting production environments

•   Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts with hands-on experience in tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Devtron, GCP Cloud Build, or Bitbucket Pipelines

If Interested kindly share your updated resume on 82008 31681

Our Mission

To make video as accessible to machines as text and voice are today.

At lookup, we believe the world's most valuable asset is trapped. Video is everywhere, but it's unsearchable—a black box of insight that no one can open or atleast open affordably. We’re changing that. We're building the search engine for the visual world, so anyone can find or do anything with video just by asking.

Text is queryable. Voice is transcribed. Video, the largest and richest data source of all, is still a black box. A computer can't understand it, and so its value remains trapped.

Our mission at lookup is to fix this.

About the Role

We are looking for founding Backend Engineers to build a highly performant, reliable, and scalable API platform that makes enterprise video knowledge readily available for video search, summarization, and natural‑language Q&A. You will partner closely with our ML team working on vision‑language models to productionize research and deliver fast, trustworthy APIs for customers.

Examples of technical challenges you will work on include: distributed video storage, a unified application framework and data model for indexing large video libraries, low‑latency clip retrieval, vector search at scale, and end‑to‑end build, test, deploy, and observability in cloud environments.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and build robust backend services and APIs (REST, gRPC) for vector search, video summarization, and video Q&A.
• Own API performance and reliability, including low‑latency retrieval, pagination, rate limiting, and backwards‑compatible versioning.
• Design schemas and tune queries in Postgres, and integrate with unstructured storage.
• Implement observability across metrics, logs, and traces. Set error budgets and SLOs.
• Write clear design docs and ship high‑quality, well‑tested code.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate and productionize VLMs and retrieval pipelines.
• Take ownership of architecture from inception to production launch.

Who You Are:

• 3+ years of professional experience in backend development.
• Proven experience building and scaling polished WebSocket, gRPC, and REST APIs.
• Exposure to distributed systems and container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes).
• Hands‑on experience with AWS.
• Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., Cassandra), including schema design, query optimization, and scaling.
• Familiarity with our stack is a plus, but not mandatory: Python (FastAPI), Celery, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Weaviate, React.
• Ability to diagnose complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective fixes.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced startup environment.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on work with LLM agents, vector embeddings, or RAG applications.
• Building video streaming pipelines and storage systems at scale (FFmpeg, RTSP, WebRTC).
• Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS) and responsive UI design.

Location & Culture

• Full-time, in-office role in Bangalore (we’re building fast and hands-on).
• Must be comfortable with a high-paced environment and collaboration across PST time zones for our US customers and investors.
• Expect startup speed — daily founder syncs, rapid design-to-prototype cycles, and a culture of deep ownership.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Work on the frontier of video understanding and real-world AI — products that can redefine trust and automation.
• Build core APIs that make video queryable and power real customer use.
• Own systems end to end: performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• Work closely with founders and collaborate in person in Bangalore.
• Competitive salary with meaningful early equity.

Responsibilities:

• Take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams.

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which include: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support

• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules that handle the interaction between multiple components.

• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions

• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable

• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions

• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to the outage

• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.

• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results

Requirements:

• Experience: 3+ years

• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science

• Software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms

• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications

• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus

• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms

• Experience with web technologies, Go/Java/Python

• Language: GO or Python

• Strong expertise in DS and Algo

• Strong leadership skills - have experience mentoring, building products from scratch or incumbent in design and architecture.

• Have worked in the scaling of the system right from scratch.

• Someone worked in small user base to a large user base and wrote optimized code

• Both HLD and LLD

Requirements:

• Should be a go-getter, ready to shoulder more responsibilities, and shows enthusiasm and interest in work.

• Excellent core Python skills including threading, dictionary, OOPS Concept, Data structure, and Web service.

• Should have work experience on the following stacks/libraries: Flask

• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries

• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code

• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance

• Experience in both RDBMS(MySQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, HDFS, HIVE etc) or in-memory caching technologies such as ehcache etc is preferable.

Kindly do not apply if you have less than 4 Yrs of Experience in Python

Position(6 Months Contract in Gurugram, India) :

Sr. Software Engineer

Experience:

4+ years of relevant exp

Location:

Gurugram, India

(Note: FREE accommodation can be given in Gurgaon, India for the 6 months & 'work from home' is not allowed)

About Company:

The company for which you will be working is an online insurance provider that operates a B2C platform as well as a B2B2C platform. They are working to revolutionize the way insurance is bought in India by not only offering an online platform but also providing every customer a touchpoint with its partners. The company has been a platform for Motor, Health, Travel, & Life Insurance.

Key Competencies:

• A strong technical solutioning sense.
• Excellent experience in writing code using the following technologies: Python and Django.
• Can write elegant and performant SQL queries.
• Understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases and come up with effective solutions.
• Strong problem-solving, data structures, and algorithm design skills.
• Good understanding of REST APIs and web technologies in general.
• Very good understanding of any RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases.
• Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion.
• A willingness to learn and choose new technologies with a strong justification for the choices made.

Roles/Responsibilities:

• Be involved in all aspects of development: playing a critical role in the design, planning, development, testing, and deployment.
• Help develop best practices for future development.
• Thinks and implements in the right way instead of cutting corners.
• Conceptualize, Design, and Develop new features in the product.
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications, test & debug programs
• Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application.
• Use technical knowledge and creative thinking to provide the most innovative solutions.
• Optimizing the performance of the components and keeping up to date with the latest industry trends
• Doing effective peer reviews where your peers learn from you every time.
• Be a great team player

If interested, please share your CV with kuldeep[dot]pandey[@]benchkart[dot]com

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• Excellent communication skills
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