Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to design, build, and integrate AI-driven systems that automate and enhance real-world business workflows. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys full-stack ownership — from backend AI architecture to frontend user experiences — and can align engineering decisions with measurable product outcomes.

You will begin as a strong individual contributor, independently architecting and deploying AI-powered solutions. As the product portfolio scales, you will lead a distributed team across India and Australia, acting as a System Integrator to align engineering, data, and AI contributions into cohesive production systems.

Example Project

Design and deploy a multi-agent AI system to automate critical stages of a company’s sales cycle, including:

• Generating client proposals using historical SharePoint data and CRM insights
• Summarizing meeting transcripts
• Drafting follow-up communications
• Feeding structured insights into dashboards and workflow tools

The solution will combine RAG pipelines, LLM reasoning, and React-based interfaces to deliver measurable productivity gains.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement AI workflows using LLMs, vector databases, and automation frameworks
• Act as a System Integrator, coordinating deliverables across distributed engineering and AI teams
• Develop frontend interfaces using React/JavaScript to enable seamless human-AI collaboration
• Design APIs and microservices integrating AI systems with enterprise platforms (SharePoint, Teams, Databricks, Azure)
• Drive architecture decisions balancing scalability, performance, and security
• Collaborate with product managers, clients, and data teams to translate business use cases into production-ready systems
• Mentor junior engineers and evolve into a broader leadership role as the team grows

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience Requirements

• 5+ years in full-stack development (Python backend + React/JavaScript frontend)
• Strong experience in API and microservice integration
• 2+ years leading technical teams and coordinating distributed engineering efforts
• 1+ year of hands-on AI project experience (LLMs, Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI/Azure AI frameworks)
• Prior experience in B2B SaaS environments, particularly in AI, automation, or enterprise productivity solutions

Technical Expertise

• Designing and implementing AI workflows including RAG pipelines, vector databases, and prompt orchestration
• Ensuring backend and AI systems are scalable, reliable, observable, and secure
• Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SharePoint, Teams, Databricks, Azure)
• Experience building production-grade AI systems within enterprise SaaS ecosystems

About Us

21 Knots is a design, engineering, and consulting firm providing services to the global maritime and oil & gas industry. In an industry constantly evolving due to dynamic regulations, economic fluctuations, and climate change mandates, we strive to deliver cutting-edge solutions with an unwavering commitment to excellence. Our comprehensive services are designed to create value for our esteemed clients while enabling them to achieve their business goals.

The Role

We’re looking for a skilled and motivated Software Developer to join our team at 21 Knots. Someone with backend development with a working knowledge of frontend technologies. The ideal candidate will have a strong command of backend frameworks such as Django, FastAPI, or Flask, and familiarity with frontend tools like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and optionally React, Angular, or Vue. You will play a key role in building, maintaining, and optimizing scalable software solutions while collaborating with a team

Responsibilities

• Develop,test, and maintain backend services using Django, FastAPI, or Flask.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs for web and internal tools.
• Work with relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Optimize application performance and implement backend security best practices.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, designers, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Support basic frontend development tasks using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Work with modern frontend frameworks like React.js, Angular, or Vue (good to have).

What You’ll Need

Experience:

• 1–4 years of hands-on experience in backend development.
• Exposure to full-stack development environments.
• Experience working with RESTful APIs, databases, and cloud integration is a plus.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Tools & Software Proficiency:

• Proficiency in Django, FastAPI, or Flask.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Basic knowledge of frontend technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Exposure to Bootstrap or Tailwind CSS for responsive UI design.
• Good to have: experience with React, Angular, or Vue.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Agile/Scrum methodologies is an added advantage.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Understanding of RESTful architecture and secure coding practices.
• Ability to collaborate in a cross-functional environment.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

• Role: Senior .NET Developer – Lead
• Work Mode: On-site (WFO), Full-Time
• Experience: 5 – 7 Years
• Location: Pune
• Working Hours: 4 PM – 1 AM IST
• Benefits: Drop & Dinner Facility Provided 

Job Overview:

• This is a hands-on leadership role involving full-stack .NET development and team mentorship. The candidate should be experienced in building scalable applications and working across web and desktop environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of developers
• Design and maintain scalable, secure applications using ASP.NET, MVC, WinForms, and Angular
• Optimize SQL Server databases and implement RESTful APIs
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery

Required Technical Skills:

• ASP.NET Core & Framework, MVC, WinForms, C#
• Angular, JavaScript, HTML/CSS
• SQL Server, Stored Procedures, Indexing, Query Optimization
• RESTful APIs, Entity Framework, LINQ, DI

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Azure/AWS
• CI/CD & DevOps familiarity
• Agile/Scrum methodology

Qualifications: Bachelor’s/master’s in computer science or related field

• Design and build applications for the iOS platform
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• (Add other responsibilities here that are relevant)

• Proficient with Objective-C or Swift (depending on project requirements), and Cocoa Touch
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
• Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries is preferred
• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools (such as Instruments and Shark, depending on project needs)
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, Mercurial or SVN)
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• (Make sure to mention any frameworks, libraries, or any other technology relevant to your project)
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• Developing front end website architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Developing back-end website applications.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

Expected Skills :-

• Knowledge/Application of data structures and algorithms.-
• Problem-solving attitude : This means when you face a problem (not necessarily technical), your natural reaction is "How can I solve it best" rather than "How can I get out of it/avoid it/overlook it"-
• Working knowledge in Java(SpringFramework) is a must.
• Working knowledge in ReactJs is a plus.- Working knowledge in Python, MongoDB is a plus.
• The founding team has extensive experience in launching and scaling up fintech products & New business verticals. The founders have rich leadership experience across Consulting, fintech and payment companies

As a senior full-stack developer, you will contribute to our end-to-end supply chain platform. You'll work with all key stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable code and deliver amazing user experiences. We are building a design and process-centric culture where you'll play a key role in the implementation of the foundation of all our systems. Up for a challenge?

You are:

• A self-starter with a sense of what it takes to be successful as a team
• An agile - welcome change, do as little as possible and embrace continuous delivery
• Conscious about how quality is carried through from the UI to all layers underneath
• Passionate about design as a foundation of great user experience
• Opinionated, but flexible to accommodate the big picture

• Analyze requirements, provide estimates and deliver code in an agile setup
• Stay on top of all owned work and raise red flags as early as possible
• Define the architecture, best practices, and coding standards for a full-stack development
• Support continuous technical improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and present them for architectural review 
• Motivate team members, coach junior members, and extend goodwill to other employees

Must have

• Prior startup experience, preferably with war stories to share
• 3-5 years of software industry experience
• Solid understanding of software design, development, testing, and problem-solving 
• Expertise in coding efficient, high quality, and modularized software 
• Expertise in React.js and related ecosystem
• Experience with GraphQL and other modern JS ecosystems
• Expertise in common design patterns and anti-patterns Javascript
• Experience with service-oriented architecture and microservices
• Expertise in relational and non-relational databases and expertise in at least one database system
• Experience with planning, execution, and maintenance of test infrastructure for backend workflows
• Knowledge of AWS
• Knowledge of Unix shell and source control systems and tools such as git 
• Strong technical leadership skills
• Strong communication skills
• Technical mentoring skills

Great to have

• Experience with CI/CD and setting up a monitoring infrastructure
• Experience with Flutter
• Interest in blockchain and computer vision-related ML systems
• Experience working on high traffic systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline

Looking for a Application Engineer - Fullstack. 

Job type – Full time employment

Job location – Pune

Work schedule – Monday to Friday, 10am to 7pm

Minimum qualification – Graduate.

Years of experience –  3 to 8 years
No of position - 3

Reporting to –  Technical Architect

Travel opportunities - On need basis within/outside India. Candidate should have valid passport

Roles and responsibilities:

• Work across the stack from a code commit to running it in production, with the end goal of delivering the best possible experience for the user
• Design, develop and test features from inception to rollout
• Write high quality code that is scalable, testable, maintainable and reliable
• Independently own and drive new features from scratch
• Work in an Agile environment and facilitate agile practices
• Champion best practices and cross-functional skill development
• Mentor and guide junior team members
• Cultivate talent and bring out the best in your team members
• Continuously improve by working on and providing feedback

• Experience working with NodeJS on the backend and ReactJS on the frontend
• Strong knowledge of creating scalable REST APIs
• Some experience with alternative protocols like GraphQL, GRPC, etc is preferred
• Experience with Typed programming languages like TypeScript or Flow is preferred
• Experience with frameworks like ExpressJS, NestJS, Redux, Redux Saga, Storybook etc is preferred
• Practices TDD
• Experience writing test automation
• Working experience with databases like MongoDB, Redis and Relational databases
• Strong understanding of Object Oriented Programming and/or Functional Programming concepts
• Experience with setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of containerization technologies like Docker
• Experience practicing Agile software development methods is preferred.