Senior Software Developer

Job Title : Perl Developer

Experience : 6+ Years

Engagement Type : C2C (Contract)

Location : Remote

Shift Timing : General Shift

Job Summary :

We are seeking an experienced Perl Developer with strong scripting and database expertise to support an application modernization initiative.

The role involves code conversion for compatibility between Sybase and MS SQL, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability of mission-critical systems.

You will work closely with the engineering team to enhance, migrate, and optimize codebases written primarily in Perl, with partial transitions toward Python for long-term sustainability.

Mandatory Skills :

Perl, Python, T-SQL, SQL Server, ADO, Git, Release Management, Monitoring Tools, Automation Tools, CI/CD, Sybase-to-MSSQL Code Conversion

Key Responsibilities :

• Analyze and convert existing application code from Sybase to MS SQL for compatibility and optimization.
• Maintain and enhance existing Perl scripts and applications.
• Where feasible, refactor or rewrite legacy components into Python for improved scalability.
• Collaborate with development and release teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment.
• Follow established Git/ADO version control and release management practices.
• (Optional) Contribute to monitoring, alerting, and automation improvements.

Required Skills :

• Strong Perl development experience (primary requirement).
• Proficiency in Python for code conversion and sustainability initiatives.
• Hands-on experience with T-SQL / SQL Server for database interaction and optimization.
• Familiarity with ADO/Git and standard release management workflows.

Nice to Have :

• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools.
• Familiarity with automation tools and CI/CD pipelines.

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.

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

• Back-end software development
• Software engineering and designing data models and write effective APIs
• Working together with engineers and product teams
• Understanding business use cases and requirements for different internal teams
• Maintenance of existing projects and New feature development
• Consume and integrate classifier/ ML snippets from Data science team

What we are looking for:

• 2+ years of industry experience with the Python and Django framework.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Good analytical skills with strong fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
• Experience building backend services with hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle. 
• Ability to write optimized codes,debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs
• Experience with Databases.
• Experience with writing REST-APIs.
• Prototyping initial collection and leveraging existing tools and/or creating new tools
• Experience working different types of datasets (e.g. unstructured, semi-structured, with missing information)
• Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
• A positive attitude, and a growth mindset

Bonus:

• Experience with relevant Python libraries such as Requests, sklearn, Selenium
• Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
• Good Humor

• Well versed in Core Java, OOPs concepts, collections, multi-threading, concurrency, lambdas, and streams.
• Hands-on knowledge of Spring Core, MVC, JPA, Security, transaction
• Working knowledge of REST API designing as well as development, using Spring.
• Exposure to Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift for the microservices environment.
• Savvy with SQL and database concepts.
• Ability to use frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, etc., for implementing unit testing.
• Sound understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/bit bucket with Maven.
• Should have worked in a CI/CD environment with TeamCity/Jenkins.

We are seeking talented, motivated engineers who will be part of a dynamic global team delivering and supporting technology infrastructure to meet the growth needs of the business. 

As a Product Support Engineer, you will collaborate with the Engineering, Product and Support teams to ensure the designed product and service is fully operational with streamlined processes and procedures for addressing reported bugs and anomalies. Production Support Engineers will take ownership of resolving product issues through its life cycle and communication to multiple stakeholders. 

This is a programming role which requires a good understanding of Java along with solid debugging skills so complex workflows can be debugged and solved. You will own the code you push to production

To be successful, you must be an excellent team player and self motivated person who can carry out duties with minimal supervision.

Skills you need to have:

• A good understanding of SQL

• An understanding of Java and Java design patterns

• L4 support

• Good debugging and problem solving skills

• Excellent communication

Bonus Skills:

• An understanding of SpringBoot and ORM's