Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

At Techjays, we build production-grade AI systems for global clients. We are looking for a Solution Architect who can bridge the gap between client needs and technical delivery — someone who can walk into a client room, understand their business challenges, and walk out with a compelling, technically sound AI solution.

This role sits at the intersection of pre-sales, solutioning, and delivery governance.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end solutioning from client discovery to architecture design
• Partner with pre-sales teams on RFPs, proposals, and client presentations
• Define architectures for LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows
• Conduct architecture reviews and technical assessments for ongoing projects
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise clients during pre-sales

Key Skills

• Python, REST APIs, Microservices, Distributed Systems
• AWS / Azure / GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
• LLM Integrations, RAG Pipelines, AI Agents, Vector Databases
• Enterprise data architecture and integration patterns
• Strong client communication and presentation skills

Who You Are

• Client-first mindset — listens, understands, and translates business pain into technical clarity
• Strong communicator comfortable with C-level stakeholders
• High ownership — accountable for every solution you sign off on
• Collaborative across sales, delivery, and engineering

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment
• Paid holidays & flexible time off
• Medical insurance (Self & Family up to ₹4 Lakhs)
• Exposure to global clients and high-impact pre-sales engagements
• A culture of clarity, integrity, and continuous growth

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Developer to design and build scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Python/Django, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies, along with strong problem-solving skills and leadership capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

•Design and develop backend services using Django and Python.

•Architect and implement microservices-based solutions for scalability and maintainability.

•Work with PostgreSQL and Redis for efficient data storage and caching.

•Build and maintain RESTful APIs and ensure robust API design principles.

•Implement system design best practices for high availability and fault tolerance.

•Containerize applications using Docker and manage deployments with Kubernetes.

•Integrate with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) for hosting and infrastructure management.

•Apply security best practices to protect data and application integrity.

•Collaborate with frontend, QA, and DevOps teams for seamless delivery.

•Mentor junior developers and conduct code reviews to maintain quality standards.

Required Skills & Expertise

•Django/Python – Advanced proficiency in backend development.

•Microservices Architecture – Strong understanding of distributed systems.

•PostgreSQL & Redis – Expertise in relational and in-memory databases.

•Docker/Kubernetes – Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration.

•API Design & System Design – Ability to design scalable and secure systems.

•Cloud (AWS/Azure) – Practical experience with cloud services and deployments.

•Security Best Practices – Knowledge of authentication, authorization, and data protection.

Preferred Qualifications

•Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

•Familiarity with message queues (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka).

•Exposure to monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana).

What We Offer

•Competitive salary and benefits.

•Opportunity to work on cutting-edge backend technologies.

•Collaborative and growth-oriented work environment.

Engineering Manager – Backend

Opportunity in this role / Why should you join us?

Series D funded supply chain startup.

Requirements

• Software engineering experience of greater than or equal to 7 years
• Experience managing a technical team of at least 3 people
• Exposure to consumer facing products
• Strong technical background and ability to contribute to design and review
• Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack

Technologies Used

• Web application frameworks : Ktor, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, AWS Lambda
• Languages : Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python
• Datastores : PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift
• Communication : HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
• Server management : Amazon ECS, Docker
• Design frameworks : Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture

Roles and Responsibilities

This role requires a person to drive the engineering of a set of products by aligning with business and product

stakeholders and building and upskilling a team to aid in this. The responsibilities include:

Business and product alignment and planning

• Work closely with business and product stakeholders to understand and align with product initiatives and iterations.
• Help shape the engineering requirement by aligning with the product manager and fleshing out concepts and user flows.
• Formalize business requirements into roadmaps and sprints.

1. Product and system development

• Drive high level modeling and design for projects, also focusing on non-functional aspects, including but not limited to database design, communication protocols, deployment systems, etc.
• Drive adoption of design frameworks like domain driven design, clean architecture, etc., resulting in a robust layered architecture.
• Drive good code review practices, using the review process as a mentoring tool to upskill people.
• Ensure test coverage of systems, partly through unit and integration testing, and partly through blackbox testing by collaborating with the Quality Assurance team, via good testing practices.

1. Project Management

• Drive the execution of the project by delegating tasks effectively.
• Resolve blockers through technical expertise, negotiation and delegation.
• Estimate timelines and ensure adherence to them through effective sync-ups and course corrections.

1. Maintenance

• Formulate SLAs and oversee their adherence for the various systems, effectively tracking issues and performance inefficiencies.
• Performance monitoring and optimization for systems.
• Drive technical re-design, remodeling and refactoring of systems for robustness and sustainability.

1. Team Management

• Typically manage a team of 3 - 6 members and a portfolio of 3 - 6 products.
• Do periodic assessment of reportees, chart their career growth paths and train them.
• Recruit members into the team by collaborating effectively with the recruitment team.

Product Overview

You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers. Product sectors

include:

• Growth : You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry bestdriver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead managementmmodels.
• Lifecycle Management : Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
• Transaction Experience : You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
• Fulfilment : As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
• Enterprise Solutions : You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

• 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

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs 
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc. 

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter. We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred. 
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.